Student suicides in India are rising alarmingly, outpacing both population growth rates and overall suicide trends. The report notes that m...

According to the report by Peking University, approximately 900 million people are infected by coronavirus till January 11.

Shanghai had reported no COVID-19 deaths for more than a month after the current outbreak began in early March. But deaths suddenly started...

In a statement, the ministry refuted some media reports alleging a "significant undercount" of the actual number of people who have died in...

The 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...

The report said a higher birth registration rate was seen compared to deaths as 81% births were institutional against 34.5% deaths, with th...

The 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...

As daily case counts soar far beyond what other countries have reported, experts caution the official COVID-19 numbers from the world's sec...

India was firmly in focus as the latest epicentre, although North and South America combined accounted for almost half of the global cases.

Lav 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 is thrice the national average of 3.3%. The ministry data also showed incidence of Covid-19 was the highest in ...

Such models can include information reported about the coronavirus, including the clearly underreported numbers of cases, and factor in kno...

Now, the Modi government has announced not to release the 2017-18 NSSO survey. These are bad practices.

Crimes against women contribute to about 10% of all crimes.

Experts mainly attribute the lower figures provided by NCRB to under-reporting and the fact that NCRB draws its data from First Information...

Prostrate cancer, considered the second highest cancer among males in India with a reported incidence of 1.5 people per 1 lakh population, ...

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...