India's inter-state migrant workers gain significant protections under new labour code rules notified on May 8, 2026. The Occupational Safe...

SBI Card has revised its late payment charges, effective May 1, 2026, impacting lower outstanding amounts. A new Rs 100 penalty now applies...

A man's desperate act to claim his sister's money highlights a stark reality. India's digital progress leaves many behind. Marginalized cit...

Official data reveals India's excess mortality during 2020-2021. The figure is lower than several high and middle-income countries. The Civ...

To enhance the integrity of electoral rolls, the Election Commission will now receive death registration data electronically from the Regis...

The Ministry said that the study is erroneous and the methodology followed by the authors has critical flaws; the claims are inconsistent a...

The number is, however, an improvement from 2019 when the percentage of medically certified deaths stood at 20.7%, the latest report on Med...

The minister was responding to a question on recent reports showing India having the highest number of deaths during the Covid pandemic and...

The govt said that the media report related to LIC IPO has mentioned the details of policies and claims settled by the insurer to make a “s...

As compared to April, the number of death certificates is about 204% higher in May because of the COVID-19 second wave. While the figure in...

The Covid-19 death registrations in local bodies of the state had gone up astronomically by over 2,500% during the second wave, from 404 in...

The registration of deaths is done in two parts in local bodies; legal and statistical. The cause of death is recorded in the register for ...

On current data release schedules, the data for 2021 will come out only in 2023 in most states. Many other countries have moved to a daily ...

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

“Vital registration systems that record births and deaths are unrivaled health surveillance tools that are particularly valuable in respond...

Information Commissioner Yashovardhan Azad, in an important order, issued directives to make changes in the software and practices of the R...

As much as a third of all registered deaths did not precede with medical attention in 2009 at 27 per cent, this reduced to just over a four...