Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra governments have issued new directives. Aadhaar cards will no longer be accepted as proof of date of birth. D...

A woman in Uttar Pradesh has spent three years proving she is alive. A clerical error by the Chamar Nagaria gram panchayat issued her own d...

West Bengal's Health Department has implemented strict guidelines to prevent unauthorized modifications to birth and death certificates. In...

Masithokoze Moyo wawa accidentally declared dead by her bank. The mistake came to light when all four of her credit cards were declined as ...

Latest Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana interest rate: The SSY is a government-backed small deposit savings scheme to benefit a girl child.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has introduced a centralised procedure for reporting and verification in the event of an ...

The father sought the name alteration based on the advice of an astrologer, who recommended the change for the child's well-being. Initiall...

Spotify has been rocked in recent weeks by the controversy engulfing its most popular podcaster, Joe Rogan.

In its defence, the Thane civic authorities used the oldest trick in the Indian book — buck-passing — by stating that it ‘got the list from...

Today’s counterpart is registration of deaths (issuance of death certificate), and medically certifying the cause of death. Every plague ha...

The fourth death row convict, Akshay Kumar Singh (31), did not file a review petition against the apex court's May 5, 2017 judgement.

Bhagat Singh's father Sardar Kishan Singh had filed a petition in court in 1930 against the death sentence of his son and his comrades - Ra...

The counsel for the accused promptly picked on the dead-man-talking blunder to cast doubts on the entire investigation when it pointed this...

Final goodbye to a parent is a hard thing. Yet, it is critical to take a financial reality check and you, as progeny, are the best suited t...

A Harvard University study in 2013 estimated that 52 lakh injuries occur across India each year (out of the 430 lakh globally) due to medic...

The beginning of the programme would be made from Punjab to tackle the malice of duplicate and invalid voters, the Chief Election Commissio...

Party's local unit secretary, A Anbalagan, in a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner yesterday alleged that the rolls were defectively...