That India is a deeply unequal society is not a secret. As a rule, an Indian’s gender, caste and religion carry a strong correlation with their educational and economic attainments. It turns out...

A related but independent study by researchers at the International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai, based on more recent data from 2015-16, too has revealed large differences in life expecta...

With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, normal life — in India and across the world — has been fundamentally disrupted. More worrying is the fact that the virus has also adversely affect...

  India's air pollution levels have expanded geographically over time and increased so much in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh that an average person is now losing an additional 2.5 to 2.9 ye...

The coronavirus pandemic was largely responsible for shaving a year and a half from the life expectancy of Americans in 2020, the steepest drop in the US since World War II, according to federal stati...

The key to living a long life can be found not in philosophy but in hard data. Life expectancy has been a vital part of the discourse on health in India, with markers such as health coverage and hospi...

Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday said no Indian study has shown any correlation between pollution and shortening of lifespan.'Let us not create a fear psychosis among people,' he told Lok Sa...

Caste, education, religion and wealth appear to significantly influence life expectancy in India, according to new research that has found that non-Hindus, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communit...

What is the secret to living a long life? This question might sound rather philosophical, but the answer to it can actually be mapped with hard data. Longevity, or the life span of human beings, has b...

India is far unhappier in 2019 than it was in 2018, the UN’s seventh annual World Happiness Report has revealed, ranking the country 140th out of 156 on six key variables that support well-being: in...