In a reply to a question by parliamentarian Ashok Chavan in the Rajya Sabha, the government said that the annual requirement of blood in the country is 14.6 million units, and a total of 14,601,147 ...

Jharkhand’s blood banks scarcely organise blood donation camps, lack manpower and adequate testing facilities, records have ...

Pune: One in four water samples collected from India’s household tap connections did not meet microbiological standards, ...

India has about 2.5 million people living with cancer and around 100 million people with rare diseases, many of whom require medicines that fall outside insurance coverage and price control ...

While the release of key datasets marks progress, experts caution that deeper problems persist—methods that break comparability with past data, delayed census weakening survey estimates, and selective ...

The proportion of undertrials has reduced from 76% in 2022 to 74%, the NCRB report shows. By April 2025, the number of undertrials had reduced by 2.5% but the proportion remained the same, indicating ...

Bengaluru: Dowry-related crimes in India are routinely underreported and undercounted, an IndiaSpend analysis of government data and various studies shows. This reflects in official data as well.

Noida: India’s consumption gap appears to shrink, but income inequality is rising fast, as per analysis of India’s consumption data by the World Bank. India’s consumption‑based Gini coefficient--a ...

NiV infection is a zoonotic illness that is transmitted to people from animals--an event termed as a ‘spillover’. The state of Kerala has reported 10 spillovers of Nipah virus since 2018, of which ...

Mumbai: Indian women disproportionately bear the burden of unpaid domestic and care work, and this burden is especially acute for urban working women, with domestic responsibilities clashing with ...