Official counts of "heatstroke deaths" are often low, sometimes just a few hundred in a bad season, because many heat-related ...

India recorded 5,737 dowry deaths in 2024, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data.

A 47-year-old autorickshaw driver from Royapettah, who had received a full course of vaccination after being bitten by a stray dog in July 2025, died of rabies at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General ...

The somewhat worrying trend in the crude death rate is that it remains above the level of 6 seen in 2019 and 2020.

Nine police officers have been sentenced to death in India over the deaths in custody of a father and son in 2020. P Jeyaraj, 58, and his son Benicks, 38, both died in jail in the southern state of ...

Faizuddin is still traumatised from the lightning strike that killed his three friends as they took selfies atop a 400-year-old fort in India, where climate change is making lethal strikes more common ...

A family in India who died after eating watermelon were actually killed by rat poison, forensic investigators said on Friday, two weeks after the deaths caused widespread concern about the possible ...

Oct 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed on Friday that toxic cough syrups linked to children's deaths in India had not been shipped to the United States. The World Health ...

Hazy skies laden with harmful particulates settle in every winter over vast areas of India such as this congested road in New Delhi.Credit...Vani Bhushan for The New York Times Supported by By Anurag ...

NEW DELHI/CHENNAI, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Indian authorities advised the public to avoid two more brands of cough syrup on Wednesday following the deaths of 17 children aged under five linked to a toxic ...