Viral Kumbh mela girl Monalisa appears to be an adult: Kerala High Court, husband gets one-month reliefThe Kerala High Court granted transit bail to Mohd Farman, husband of the viral Kumbh Mela girl, for one month to seek anticipatory bail in...
03 Jun, 2026, 03.04 PM IST
Sebi eases nomination rules for demat accounts, mutual funds. Check full detailsSEBI has relaxed nomination norms for demat accounts and mutual funds starting September 1, 2026. Nomination is mandatory for single holder...
29 May, 2026, 07.23 PM IST
Birth certificate now sole proof for admissions, jobs in NagalandNagaland now requires birth certificates for school admissions and government jobs. This new rule applies to all official services. The Nag...
21 Jan, 2026, 10.49 PM IST
New Aadhaar rule: Can you get two Baal Aadhaars using same birth certificate? Here's the latest government amendmentUIDAI has amended Aadhaar regulations to prevent duplicate Baal Aadhaar enrolments using the same birth certificate. With parental consent,...
25 Aug, 2025, 05.14 PM IST
No 'arbitrary changes' allowed in birth, death certificates: West Bengal health deptWest Bengal's Health Department has implemented strict guidelines to prevent unauthorized modifications to birth and death certificates. In...
03 Aug, 2025, 04.13 PM IST
Aadhaar deactivated due to this reason? Step-by-step procedure to reactivate Aadhaar numberUIDAI has introduced a reactivation procedure for Aadhaar numbers wrongly deactivated due to incorrect death records. Individuals can submi...
11 Jul, 2025, 12.57 PM IST
Soon, use birth certificate as single document to avail host of servicesA new law in India will allow the use of birth certificates as a single document for various purposes, including admission to educational i...
14 Sep, 2023, 04.21 PM IST
Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill gets President's assentThe law will help create a national and state-level database of registered births and deaths which eventually would ensure efficient and tr...
12 Aug, 2023, 07.31 PM IST
Maternal Mortality Ratio dips to 97 in 2018-20 from 130 in 2014-16According to World Health Organization, "Maternal death is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnanc...
29 Nov, 2022, 10.27 PM IST
Aadhaar enrolment for newborns with birth certificates to be expanded to all states in few monthsMore than 1,000 state and central government schemes today leverage Aadhaar for identification and authentication of beneficiaries, transfe...
15 Oct, 2022, 04.48 PM IST
Now, online auto approval for name addition in birth certificate up to 4 years after childbirth: MCDEarlier, the online process took seven to 10 days, a senior official said on Tuesday. "The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has taken an impo...
12 Oct, 2022, 10.19 AM IST
RBD Act changes to make it easy for adoptees, kids of single parentsCritics of the amendments have questioned the need to centralise the data, and the overwhelming importance placed on birth certificates, bu...
16 Nov, 2021, 12.01 AM IST
Beware of fake death, birth papers: Registrar General of IndiaHome ministry officials said the advisory was sent by the RGI to states in the wake of reports of fake birth and death certificates issued ...
06 Oct, 2021, 09.06 AM IST
Aadhaar no. not needed to register births and deathsThe report, however, said that Uttar Pradesh and Haryana have started Aadhaar-linked birth registrations.Officials said that the move by th...
19 Jun, 2021, 08.16 AM IST
First National Population Register, then National Register of CitizensThe nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be notified after the Registrar General of India (RGI) updates the National Populat...
21 Dec, 2019, 08.46 AM IST
No data on sex ratio at birth from UP, Bihar, BengalThe reasons given by these states for not supplying the data are lack of computerisation and governance issues.
24 Aug, 2019, 08.37 AM IST
CIC asks Registrar General of India to change its data collection procedureInformation Commissioner Yashovardhan Azad, in an important order, issued directives to make changes in the software and practices of the R...
19 Nov, 2018, 04.08 PM IST