'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?'......
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......
The final word on the controversy over the revised gross domestic product is about to be pronounced. An experts committee headed by National Statistical Commission chairman Pronab Sen has decided......