Undercounting of Covid deaths: New birth & death records strengthen parents' legal caseNew government data reveals a significant undercounting of deaths during the pandemic in India, offering hope to parents who believe their ...
11 May, 2025, 12.15 AM IST
"Erroneous": Health Ministry on media reports highlighting excess mortality in 2020The Ministry said that the study is erroneous and the methodology followed by the authors has critical flaws; the claims are inconsistent a...
20 Jul, 2024, 02.56 PM IST
Government not thinking any legislative measures for population control: MinisterPawar said the Total Fertility Rate reduced to 2.0 in 2019-21, according to the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS 5), -- which is below...
20 Jul, 2022, 10.28 AM IST
View: Hands on Healthy DataOne of the key concerns about the data pertaining to India is that it has been collected outside the regular data-collection machinery of t...
21 Apr, 2022, 11.25 PM IST
India's life expectancy improves marginallyWomen expected to live for 70.4 years and men for 67.8 years, according to latest data.
09 Sep, 2019, 07.49 AM IST
Sex ratio at birth up 13 points at 931 in four years, says Smriti IraniA NITI Aayog report in June showed an alarming decline in SRB in 12 out of 21 states.
07 Sep, 2019, 09.03 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
Andhra Pradesh records highest number of married people: SRS surveyThe national average for those who “never married” was 49.5% with 54% males and 44.6% females.
16 Jul, 2019, 08.23 AM IST
Alarming gap between Lancet & NCRB suicide dataExperts mainly attribute the lower figures provided by NCRB to under-reporting and the fact that NCRB draws its data from First Information...
14 Sep, 2018, 08.46 AM IST
Helping states pay 'hard area' allowance to doctors in remote areas: GovernmentTo make postings at public health facilities in rural and remote areas "attractive" to doctors, states are being provided financial support.
26 Feb, 2016, 04.11 PM IST
40 per cent of city slum children yet to be immunised: SurveyThe immunisation of children in the city's slums has been found to be way below at 60 per cent of the target of complete cover, according t...
06 Nov, 2015, 02.00 PM IST
Maharashtra government to zero in on societies that exist 'only on paper'"The survey will be conducted from July 1 to September 30," Divisional Joint Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Mumbai Vikas Rasal said toda...
26 Jun, 2015, 11.01 AM IST
- Government plans to bring law for welfare of domestic workers
The government has also enacted the Unorganised Workers Social Security Act, 2008 for providing social security benefits to unorganised wor...
20 Apr, 2015, 01.23 PM IST
No database available on the number of food business operators in Punjab: CAGThe audit of Commissioner's records showed that neither was any survey conducted nor was any database with regard to total number of FBOs i...
22 Mar, 2015, 05.08 PM IST
- Government not in favour of unemployment allowance as social security measure
The Central government does not favour provision of umemployment allowance to unemployed persons as a social security measure, Kharge told ...
04 Aug, 2011, 11.30 AM IST
- Best Companies To Work For 2011: Methodology of picking the best
The study conducted in India is based on the same model and methodology that is followed in carrying out similar studies elsewhere, includi...
24 Jun, 2011, 02.49 AM IST
- 86% services companies are self-sufficient
About 90% of the units surveyed were proprietary enterprises and 7% were coop societies and self-help groups.
28 Feb, 2009, 12.57 AM IST