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In two months, India is projected to become the world's most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. But for at least a year, and possibly longer, the country won't know how many people it has because it hasn't been able to count them.

"People feel too rushed to go to university."

The daughter of a woman who lay dead for more than two hours on the ground of a supported residential service calls for changes to the system that "failed" her mother, after giving devastating evidence at the disability royal commission.

Victorian facility did not breach legislation for failing to afford woman dignity by declaring she was no longer technically a resident because she had died

A report prepared for the state teachers union says the government has spent hundreds of millions extra on wealthy schools while scrimping on public classrooms.

Death rate is higher among female babies and in rural areas

Three weeks after the health ministry claimed to have achieved 99.99 percent death registration in 2020, the Registrar General of India has indirectly confirmed the figure. This, then, is the first time that India claims to have registered every death – in a pandemic-hit year, no less.

Facts do not support the argument that India has a robust system of registering births and deaths

The health and family welfare ministry issued a statement on May 5 disputing the World Health Organisation’s estimate of Covid deaths in India. The WHO had said that India lost 47.4 lakh people to Covid in 2020 and 2021, several times the Indian government’s tally of 5.24 lakh. The ministry…