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Borderlands 4: Release date, time, where to play, editions and more

Borderlands 4 release date, time and more
Published on Sept 08, 2025 09:20 pm IST

India's retail inflation falls to 3.61% in Feb: What got cheaper & costlier?

India's Retail Inflation: Food inflation in India in February fell by a massive 222 points to 3.75%.
Updated on Mar 12, 2025 05:03 pm IST

Karnataka registers 10.2% GSDP growth in 2023-24

Initial estimates were revised from 4% to 13.1%, despite challenges like drought and global IT slowdown.
Published on Oct 21, 2024 06:03 pm IST

Centre mulling monthly jobs survey, change in PLFS frequency

Currently, the PLFS issues quarterly data on key indicators but with a lag. (Reuters Photo)
Published on Aug 12, 2024 08:42 pm IST

JNU professor quits govt panel on data citing ‘situation’ in university

JNU professor CP Chandrasekhar.
Updated on Jan 08, 2020 05:40 am IST

Use statistics to shape stimulus

Even if the CES findings show a bad picture, holding them back would only delay a coordinated response to the present slowdown
Published on Aug 19, 2019 09:08 pm IST

UP’s malnutrition fight needs more steam

Uttar Pradesh failed to spend almost half of the allocated funds for setting up AWCs in 2017-18 while Rs. 90cr remained unspent in 2016-17.
Updated on Jun 27, 2019 01:21 pm IST

Maharashtra Budget: Govt to spend Rs. 300 crore to set up 50 industrial parks in tehsils

(From left) Congress’ Prithviraj Chavan, NCP’s Ajit Pawar with Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat and NCP leader Jayant Patil showing the tweets on the Maharashtra budget.
Updated on Jun 19, 2019 12:02 pm IST

PM advisory body’s caustic rebuttal on GDP rate row, says more coming

The Economic Advisory Council said will examine in detail the estimates made in Arvind Subramanian’s paper.
Updated on Jun 12, 2019 05:32 pm IST

Data gaps in GDP calculation will be resolved: Govt

India’s new GDP series, which was published in January 2015 and moved the base year from 2004-05 to 2011-12, uses the MCA-21 database to calculate the country’s economic output.
Updated on May 09, 2019 08:44 am IST

GDP calculation: Data gaps will be resolved, says govt

The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) has downplayed the controversy around India’s gross domestic product (GDP) data after a National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report raised serious questions on the quality of the MCA-21 database, which is used in India’s GDP calculations, triggering political accusations of data manipulation.
Published on May 09, 2019 05:07 am IST

Effect of a heatwave is not just physical, it has economic impact too

A mirage forms at Rajpath as temperature soared to 44.6 degrees, New Delhi, June 5, 2017. Heat waves and cold waves in the country have increased greatly over the past two years, according to the ministry of statistics and programme implementation.
Published on Apr 29, 2019 08:17 am IST

Education, jobs can stop population growth

Education, jobs can stop population growth
Updated on Apr 14, 2019 12:20 pm IST

After exits from statistics body, govt clarifies on job report, GDP data

Acting chairman PC Mohanan and external member J Meenakshi both had terms lasting until June 20 next year, according to the website of the NSC.
Updated on Jan 30, 2019 03:57 pm IST

In poll year, 1.25 million new jobs to map informal sector

Soon, a network of up to 1.25 million people will embark on an ambitious exercise across India’s 250,000 village panchayats or administrative units — mapping the so-called informal or unorganised sector, which accounts for almost 400 million jobs in India according to some government data.
Published on Jan 10, 2019 07:47 am IST

Back series GDP figures not official estimates, formal data to be released later: Statistics ministry

The National Statistical Commission (NSC) too said the methodology for back-casting GDP series is “work in progress” and yet to be finalised.
Updated on Aug 19, 2018 09:59 pm IST

Solo women travellers are a valuable segment of the tourism sector

Is it fun to travel alone for women? It would seem so. Google trends show that last year alone, 10 million women searched sites for solo travel. According to Pinterest, there has been an astounding 350% increase in women looking for solo travelling options
Published on Jul 14, 2018 05:25 pm IST