The Lok Sabha is the lower house of India’s Parliament and its primary legislative body. States were initially allocated electoral constituencies (which translate to seats for MPs in the Lok Sabha) based on their current populations.

However, the 84th Amendment froze this allocation to 1971 levels to prevent penalizing states that successfully implemented the Centre’s family planning initiatives after that year. Consequently, southern states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala, which effectively executed these programs, now have more MPs than their present populations warrant, while northern states such as Madhya Pradesh have fewer MPs.

But starting in 2031, this freeze will expire, and India will resume redistricting every ten years, ensuring that states get Lok Sabha seats that reflect states’ current populations.

Since 2000, China has committed $160 billion in loans (often at favorable terms) to African economic development, focused on infrastructure projects (such as Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway, built with the help of a $3.2 billion loan). In addition, it has become a major trading partner of many countries across Africa, being the largest source of imports in Egypt, South Africa, Madagascar, Sudan, Kenya, and Tanzania, among others.

“Recovery from religion” organizations are nonprofit organizations that offer support to people who are trying to leave a religion. For example, they organise support groups, operate call centres where people can get support over the phone, and organize events that promote atheism and secularism.

An artificial general intelligence (AGI) is an AI system capable of performing any task a human can more efficiently. The majority of computer scientists believe that we will eventually succeed in building an AGI, and many believe it will happen in the 21st century.

South America and the Caribbean are the primary centers of cocaine production and distribution. This is because the vast majority of coca cultivation (which is required to make cocaine) occurs in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. However, cocaine production remains illegal in all these countries.
About 2% of North Americans currently use cocaine, but the United States engages in substantial efforts to reduce cocaine production abroad (e.g., paying local armed forces in South America to spray coca plantations with herbicide, engaging in military intervention and providing aid to local forces to combat gangs that distribute cocaine).

Currently, most funding of advocacy for the welfare of farmed animals goes to Western organizations, and most major animal advocacy organizations are located in Western liberal democracies.