Is India winning the wrong battle on infant mortality?India's infant mortality rate has significantly dropped to 24 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. This progress is largely due to a surge...
02 Jun, 2026, 04.16 PM IST
Gurugram traffic police seize Toyota Fortuner for illegal modifications and unpaid challansGurugram Traffic Police seized a Toyota Fortuner. The vehicle had unpaid fines totaling Rs 83,500. This action followed a special enforceme...
30 May, 2026, 09.17 PM IST
India makes significant progress in reducing maternal mortality decline, on course to meet SDG targetIndia's maternal health has seen a remarkable transformation, with maternal deaths having fallen significantly, a global achievement. This ...
29 May, 2026, 10.34 PM IST
India’s fertility rate falls below replacement level; highest in Bihar, lowest in DelhiIndia's birth rate has fallen below the replacement level. Most states now have fewer than 2.1 children per woman. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh ...
24 May, 2026, 12.18 PM IST
Nearly two-fifths of stillbirths missed if only late gestation counted: AnalysisNew data analysis shows stillbirth rates are higher than previously thought. Focusing only on late-gestation stillbirths misses almost 40 p...
06 Apr, 2026, 04.21 PM 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
Citing WHO data, Centre says India has 'lowest' 374 COVID-19 deaths per million populationThe minister was responding to a question on recent reports showing India having the highest number of deaths during the Covid pandemic and...
29 Mar, 2022, 04.53 PM IST
A coming-of-old-age story: Do people need to become 'senior citizen' at 60 and retire?All too often, India is spoken of as a young society and economy, with the expected demographic dividend. A demographic dividend is not ope...
22 Aug, 2021, 11.26 PM IST
How Licious is attempting to change the way Indians buy meat and seafoodThe brand made the consumer the products’ hero. Through a social media property called ‘Facehunt’, Licious picks consumers who share their ...
23 Nov, 2019, 10.47 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
India’s infant mortality rate falls but pace of change slowsThe global average IMR is 29 and that for low and middle income countries, the category that India belongs to, is 34.
01 Jun, 2019, 10.56 AM IST
Over 1 million children under 5 die in India every year: GovernmentHe said the government has initiated an SMS based electronic vaccine intelligence network (e-VIN) to enable real time monitoring of vaccine...
26 Apr, 2016, 03.49 PM IST
3.66 lakh infant births in Delhi in 2013The infant mortality rate in Delhi in 2013 stood at 24 per 1,000 live births while the number of children born in the city was 3.66 lakh
11 Aug, 2015, 05.37 PM IST
Government rolls out 3 agri-portals to improve transparencyThe government today launched three agri-portals to make the process of organic farming certification, fertilisers' quality checking and is...
15 Jul, 2015, 07.05 PM IST
Population Foundation of India wants to include family planning in SDGsThe country needs to do much more to promote reproductive rights of females, which is critical for sustainable development said the NGO.
10 Jul, 2015, 04.47 PM IST
- 51% of elderly population will be women by 2016: Union health ministry
Overall, nearly 7.5% of India's population is aged 60 years and above. In rural India, 7.5% of the population is above 60, and the correspo...
02 Apr, 2012, 11.42 AM IST
- Pomegranates come under Apeda lens
In an effort to regulate pomegranate exports, the Agricultural and Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda) is planning to monito...
18 Dec, 2006, 03.40 AM IST