In India, 11.9 lakh excess deaths occurred in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, 17 per cent higher compared to 2019, an international study has found. IMAGE: Mass cremation of COVID-19 victims......
The government is not contemplating any legislative measures for population control, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Image used for......
India on Thursday strongly objected to the use of mathematical models by the World Health Organization for projecting excess mortality estimates linked to the coronavirus pandemic in view of the......
India's under 5 mortality rate has significantly declined by from 35 per 1,000 live births in 2019 to 32 per 1,000 live births in 2020, with the highest decline recorded in Uttar Pradesh and......
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that India is unequivocally against forcing family planning on its people and any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter-productive and leads......
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday allocation for health sector during the 12th Plan period has been enhanced by three times over the previous Plan with the aim to address the complex......
The government is looking to plug loopholes in the Indian customs law provision that allows tax exemptions for gifts up to Rs 5,000 and trade samples up to Rs 10,000 sent to India from abroad.......
While players in the financial ecosystem are opening up to the idea of receivables funding for the sector, this market needs a regulator, which a Parliament panel feels only RBI can provide.......
R Vignesh, a member of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of India in Chennai, practises indirect taxation. He also addresses GST related issues on various platforms. He......
Early this month, Anirudh Krishna, social scientist delivering the inaugural Krishna Raj Memorial Lecture, used a telling phrase to capture the dynamics of poverty. He pointed out that millions of......