'Given that 95 per cent of rapes are committed by adults and only 5 per cent by juveniles, these 95 per cent of rapes will continue to take place, so what women's safety are we talking about?'......
'Revision of the base year for both CPI and GDP are long overdue.''The basic data that went into the 2011-2012 series were mainly from surveys done in 2011 or earlier.''We have since seen the......
A task-force headed by NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya will soon come up with a new methodology to estimate the number of poor in the country. The task force held its first meeting on......
Renowned economist Suresh Tendulkar, 72, has died of a cardiac failure in a Pune hospital.A former director of the Delhi School of Economics, where he was a colleague of Prime Minister Manmohan......
The country's industrial growth rate shrunk by more than half to 6.3 per cent during April, mainly on account of a poor showing by the manufacturing and mining sectors, a development that the......
When T C A Anant took over as India's chief statistician, he had thought that base revisions for key indices would keep him busy. Four months later, he has a much longer and far more complex to-do......