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Statsguru: Coal reigns supreme as India's clean energy remains elusive

The share of coal in India's total final energy consumption (TFEC) inched up from 31.08 per cent in FY23 to 33.01 per cent in FY24

Lead role changes in cinema business: Bollywood makes way for South India

Hindi cinema has lost steam with its share in nationwide film revenue dropping from 44% in 2023 to 40% in 2024

Datanomics: A helping hand to its neighbours in times of disaster

In this backdrop, it is an opportune moment to look at the quantum of aid provided by India to different countries

Datanomics: R&D spends by India Inc lag global peers despite improvement

India has improved its ranking in the frontier technologies readiness index from 48th in 2022 to 36th in 2024 out of a total of 170 economies

Datanomics: MPC meets to spur economic growth amid heightened uncertainty

The Economic Survey has projected economic growth at 6.3-6.8 per cent for FY26 against 6.5 per cent for FY25, as pegged by the second advance estimates

Statsguru: Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs present a mixed bag for India

India is not a major player in the US market - 10th-biggest with a share of just 2.68 per cent in the US' total imports in 2024

Smart Cities Mission deadline ends on March 31; targets remain unmet

Among the cities that have fully implemented their projects are Agra, Varanasi, Madurai, Coimbatore, Udaipur, Pune, Surat, and Vadodara

Statsguru: How literate are Indian legislators? Here's what data reveals

Of the six states with the highest number of MLAs, in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, formed in 2022, more than 75 per cent members are at least graduates - 34.24 per cent postgraduates

Datanomics: Legislator paychecks remain fatter than average citizens'

The decision to adjust the salaries of MPs every five years, based on the cost inflation index, was taken for the first time in 2018. In that same year, their salaries doubled from ₹50,000 to ₹1 lakh

Delhi to prudently handle social welfare schemes, capex to widen fisc

The Rekha Gupta government proposed a 32 per cent rise in expenditure to Rs one trillion in FY 26 with the share of capital expenditure expected to rise to 28 per cent from 21 per cent in FY 25 (RE)

Statsguru: Are luxury homes fuelling the surge in home loan growth?

More than 58 per cent of the IHLs that HFCs disbursed in 2023-24 were more than ₹25 lakh in size, up from 54.34 per cent in 2021-22

Delhi's 'satisfactory' air was temporary, pollution crisis continues

Year after year, India cities are failing to breathe easily due to hazardous levels of pollutants

India ranks below Pakistan on global happiness index; Finland on top

Pakistan's healthy life expectancy (at birth) was 56.9 years, while that of India was 58.1 in 2021

Are we a lot happier: Mapping India's position in global happiness index

The World Happiness Report 2025 is scheduled to be launched on 20 March globally to celebrate the event

Statsguru: Obesity, a pandemic in the making, may hit India hard by 2050

The number of Indian obese adults increased from 5.76 million in 1991 to 46.78 million in 2021; it is poised to reach 173.73 million by 2050

State of the police: Situations vacant, from West Bengal to Mizoram

India is one of the most under-policed nations in the world as state governments fail to recruit personnel

Speed of digital penetration at individual level needs to be stepped up

The State of India's Digital Economy Report 2025 says that India is the third largest digitised country in the world at an aggregate level

Datanomics: India needs to innovate, cut debt to become developed by 2047

From 2020-21 to 2024-25 (2020-2024 in case of the rest of the world), India's economic growth slowed to 5.4 per cent but was higher than any other major country including China

Statsguru: A shift from bank deposits to real estate and securities

It is high time to assess the preference of Indian households towards different investment streams as Trumponomics affects their valuation

Cricket still a religion as fan engagement revenues set to jump in 5 yrs

With increasing digital penetration and smartphone usage in the country, Indian live sports consumers have flocked to digital means like smartphones and laptops to watch live sports