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ITR filing 2026: 9 key checks every taxpayer must make for AY 2026–27India's income tax administration has become increasingly data-driven, with information from TDS/TCS reporting, SFT filings and other sourc...
Earth Could Have Billions More People Than We Think, New Study SuggestsNew research suggests global population figures, like the UN's 8.2 billion, might significantly undercount rural populations. A study compa...
India's super rich are hiding their income, pay less tax than you thinkRich Indians' tax: A recent study reveals a concerning trend in India: the wealthiest individuals report significantly lower incomes relati...
India's student suicide rate has surpassed overall trend, population growth rate: ReportStudent suicides in India are rising alarmingly, outpacing both population growth rates and overall suicide trends. The report notes that m...
Covid cases in China touch 900 million, claims studyAccording to the report by Peking University, approximately 900 million people are infected by coronavirus till January 11.
EXPLAINER-Shanghai death numbers raise questions over its COVID accountingShanghai had reported no COVID-19 deaths for more than a month after the current outbreak began in early March. But deaths suddenly started...
Media reports claiming under-reporting of Covid deaths ill-informed, baseless & misleading: GovtIn a statement, the ministry refuted some media reports alleging a "significant undercount" of the actual number of people who have died in...
India’s chronic disease burden helped fuel Covid’s brutal wavesThe findings from one of the few large-scale studies of Covid-19 in India showed patients from the southern district of Madurai had a highe...
India close to achieving universal civil registration goalThe report said a higher birth registration rate was seen compared to deaths as 81% births were institutional against 34.5% deaths, with th...
Forty years of population policy in China: A timelineThe decades under one-child rule led to under-reporting of female births, as well as a high rate of abortions of female foetuses, skewing t...
Why India's pandemic data is vastly undercountedAs daily case counts soar far beyond what other countries have reported, experts caution the official COVID-19 numbers from the world's sec...
Global coronavirus cases to soon surpass 30 million as pandemic shows no signs of slowingIndia was firmly in focus as the latest epicentre, although North and South America combined accounted for almost half of the global cases.
India far away from peak, much better positioned in COVID-19 fight than other nations: GovtLav Agarwal said it is wrong to just look at the total number of cases and state that India has the seventh highest number of cases as the ...
West Bengal’s fatality rate 10%, MP’s and Gujarat’s 6%West Bengal's fatality rate is thrice the national average of 3.3%. The ministry data also showed incidence of Covid-19 was the highest in ...
Mathematical modelling gives more accurate picture of COVID-19 cases: StudySuch models can include information reported about the coronavirus, including the clearly underreported numbers of cases, and factor in kno...
View: Govt and NSSO should not hide data, but make them public to improve themNow, the Modi government has announced not to release the 2017-18 NSSO survey. These are bad practices.
What crime stats don’t sayCrimes against women contribute to about 10% of all crimes.
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...
- Kalyanis of Bharat Forge set up a research and diagnostics centre for prostrate cancer
Prostrate cancer, considered the second highest cancer among males in India with a reported incidence of 1.5 people per 1 lakh population, ...
- UP has lowest rape rate among all states: NCRB
The five best states or UTs in 2009, among those with a population of 100 lakh or more, were Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, UP and Bihar i...