1 Lakshmi has 3 daughters and all of them stay in the U.S. When her eldest daughter was pregnant, she sponsored her visa. 2  Lakshmi got a 10-year multiple entry visa. 3  Lakshmi stayed in the U.S. for exactly 6 months and then went back to India.
However, if a mid-estimate of 30 million deaths is accepted, the Great Leap Forward was the deadliest famine in the history of China and in the history of the world. This was in part due to Chinaâs large population; in the Great Irish Famine, approximately 1 million of a population of 8 million people died, or 12.5%.
According to news reports, Chinese officials cut out sections of a 2007 report called âCost of Pollution in Chinaâ that discussed premature deaths. The reportâs authors had concluded that 350,000 to 400,000 people die prematurely in China each year because of outdoor air pollution.The study was done by the World Bank in cooperation with the Chinese State Environmental Protection Administration, the precursor to the Ministry of Environmental Protection. version of this article appears in print on April 2, 2013, on page A9 of the New York edition with the headline: Early Deaths Linked to Chinaâs Air Pollution Totaled 1.2 Million in 2010, Data Shows.