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Women hold 20.8% money in bank accounts, rural women hold more than urban women

Only 20.8% or around a fifth of the total amount of bank deposits in India belongs to women account holders (Representational Image/Pixabay)
Updated on Aug 17, 2024 12:35 pm IST

‘India among nations that hacked phones’: Global media investigation

NSO Group, in a response to Forbidden Stories and its media partners, said the interpretations from the leaked dataset were misleading.
Updated on Jul 19, 2021 08:25 pm IST

Indian economy to rebound with 8.9% growth in FY22: Report

Workers stitch garments at a factory of an apparel shop in Jaipur.
Published on Jan 08, 2021 06:25 pm IST

Hacking company NSO faces legal battle from Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Dell

NSO’s spyware was also been linked to the slaying of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
Updated on Dec 22, 2020 05:55 am IST

Land under forest shrunk between 2011 and 2016, contrary to FSI’s findings

The NSO land use change matrix shows a reduction in forest area may be because of diversion to built-up area, agriculture and wasteland.
Updated on Oct 01, 2020 11:45 am IST

Issues facing online education

A student takes note while attending an online class at her home in Srinagar.
Updated on Aug 17, 2020 02:13 am IST

As science gains ground, fewer students opting for MBA, engineering

General courses such as humanities, sciences and commerce are now becoming more popular, a trend experts attribute to a growing gap between the skills professional degrees impart and what is needed in the job market.
Updated on Aug 02, 2020 08:23 am IST

Mapping education inequalities

A New Education Policy was announced earlier this week after a gap of 34 years
Updated on Aug 01, 2020 09:23 am IST

A reality check of the health sector

An average hospitalisation case in India cost Rs 16,676 and Rs 26,475 in rural and urban areas, respectively. The average monthly wage of a regular worker — the best employment category in India — was Rs 15,504
Updated on Jul 22, 2020 07:34 pm IST

Inflation rises, food prices ease: Data

Vegetable price inflation grew at 1.9%, the lowest in fifteen months according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy database.
Updated on Jul 14, 2020 12:10 am IST

Why Q4 GDP numbers will be crucial

On 29 May, the National Statistical Office (NSO) will release GDP data for the quarter ending March 2020. Normally, this data would not have attracted much interest.
Updated on May 29, 2020 08:17 am IST

Industrial production falls 16.7% in March

Manufacturing sector output fell by 20.6 per cent compared to a growth of 3.1 per cent in the same month a year ago.
Published on May 12, 2020 06:20 pm IST

Industrial production grows 4.5 % in February

Electricity generation grew at 8.1 per cent as against a growth of 1.3 per cent in February 2019. Mining sector output grew by 10 per cent compared to a growth of 2.2 per cent earlier. (Photo by Sakib Ali /Hindustan Times)
Updated on Apr 09, 2020 06:09 pm IST

The new challenge for data collection | Editorial

All policies rely on the official statistics for both design and implementation. The government needs to do more to rebuild trust with citizens, and restore integrity of the data-collection process
Updated on Feb 23, 2020 10:29 pm IST

GDP growth for fiscal year 2019 revised downward

Chief Economic Advisor KV Subramanian during press conference on Economic Survey 2019 - 2020 at Media Centre, in New Delhi on Friday.
Updated on Feb 01, 2020 08:11 am IST

Economic Survey projects 6%-6.5% growth for 2020-21, hints economy bottomed out

The Economic Survey 2019-20 tabled in the Parliament on Friday has projected a 6%-6.5% growth for 2020-21
Updated on Jan 31, 2020 02:36 pm IST

Long-awaited FDI protection provision expected in Budget

Budget 2020-21 may have a provision that foreign investors in India have long sought.
Updated on Jan 31, 2020 05:38 am IST

HT Editorial| In defence of affordable education, for all

If India seeks to become a knowledge economy, enjoy the fruits of demographic dividend, and create aware citizens, it will need to make education accessible to more people
Published on Jan 12, 2020 07:34 pm IST

Affordable education still out of reach for Indians | Opinion

The NSO survey shows that only 10.6% of the Indian population aged above 15 years has successfully completed a graduate degree.
Updated on Jan 12, 2020 01:47 pm IST

IIP grows 1.8 percent in Nov, turns positive after 3 months of decline

The IIP growth during April-November period of the current fiscal came in at 0.6 per cent, down from 5 per cent in the same period of 2018-19.
Updated on Jan 10, 2020 06:04 pm IST

GDP seen dropping to 5 per cent in 2019-20, indicates Govt data

India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 5% in the quarter ended June.
Updated on Jan 07, 2020 06:17 pm IST

Agenda for 2020: Growth

Policies should be specifically focused on generating mass demand and employment. Fiscal policy has to play an important role in achieving this
Updated on Dec 31, 2019 08:27 pm IST

Engineering, management studies losing steam: Data

Engineering, information technology and management; the most sought after professional courses seem to be losing their popularity among students in India.
Updated on Nov 26, 2019 02:15 am IST

Reviving faith in India’s statistics

It is time to give statutory status to the National Statistical Commission
Published on Nov 20, 2019 07:18 pm IST

Shooting the messenger

The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) numbers would have provided much needed clarity in devising policies to address the economic slowdown
Published on Nov 19, 2019 11:55 am IST

Why there cannot be any national security without individual privacy | Analysis

The Pegasus spyware of the nso group can hack both iOS and Android devices by targeting vulnerabilities in the operating systems. It is capable of running in the background without the targeted user ever knowing about the hack
Published on Nov 04, 2019 06:00 am IST

WhatsApp sent second alert in September, informed 121 Indians may have been targeted

Several human rights activists, lawyers and journalists in India came forward on Thursday to say that they had been identified as targets of Whatsapp hack.
Updated on Nov 03, 2019 07:53 am IST

Facebook sues Israel’s NSO on alleged WhatsApp malware hack

The WhatsApp messaging application is seen on a phone screen.
Published on Oct 30, 2019 02:55 pm IST

Gov jobs, competitive exams after 12th, entrance exams and their preparation strategy

Understanding the basic requirements for the preparation of any competitive examination shall be kept at a priority and then head on to start the journey to accomplish the goal.
Published on Feb 07, 2019 11:29 am IST

UK hate crime policy ignoring Islamophobia: British Sikhs

Despite being subject to violence and hostility since the 9/11 attacks in the US, the UK government’s National Hate Crime Plan has marginalised British Sikhs, says the Network of Sikh Organisations.
Updated on Oct 24, 2018 09:53 am IST