'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......
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......
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......
About 30 crore people still live in extreme poverty in India even as the Millennium Development Goal (MGD) programme will expire in December, a United Nations report has said. "Still nearly......
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......