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Uttar Pradesh plans to buy 43,000 acres of land for Rs 7.3 trillion

According to estimates, the state requires about 6.4 million new housing units in the urban and suburban centres in the next five years to meet the target

India lacks adequate community level data for hypertension control: Lancet

More than 50 per cent of patients in India are unaware of their high blood pressure, finds a study published in Lancet Regional Health Journal

Key role for banks in offering best intermediation services: RBI's Patra

Calls for world-class financial intermediation services with Indian economy poised to surpass Germany and Japan a few years and nation's population set to become world's largest and youngest

Retirement planning not topmost priority for urban India, says report

Retirement planning is not the topmost priority for urban India but they worry that savings will not be enough to cover for old age life, with only one in three actively working to meet retirement goals, according to a study. Max Life Insurance in partnership with marketing data firm Kantar conducted a survey to assess the urban salaried class' readiness for content and financially independent retired life. About 90 per cent of people above the age of 50 years in the survey regretted not starting early enough in life to save for retired life. In its second edition, the survey finds the India Retirement Index Study (IRIS) remaining at 44, pointing there is a lag in preparedness over the last one year among the urban salaried class for retired life planning. Conducted through a self-administered digital manner, the survey involved 3,220 male as well as female respondents across 28 cities, of which 6 were metro cities and 12 tier I and 12 tier II cities. Life expectancy is consistent

Significant rural-urban divide in fertility rate in India: GFR estimates

A significant rural-urban divide in the fertility rate could be seen in the country in a latest data that says the fertility rate varies from 53.7 in urban areas to 73.7 in rural areas

A flooded Bengaluru reminds us of Indian cities' lack of preparation

The money spent by the cities for flood is often far less than needed and since the buy-in from the public is weak, the effectiveness of the projects is shallow

Poverty ratio 32.75% in rural areas against 8.81% in urban: NITI report

The report surveyed 175,946 households in urban areas and 425,563 households in rural parts

Shimla, Coimbatore, Chandigarh top Niti Aayog's first SDG Urban India Index

The statement said the index highlights the strengths and gaps of ULB-level data, monitoring, and reporting systems

Urban sales still not in line with pre-Covid growth: Dabur India CEO

The sales network of Dabur India covers around 83,500 villages and the company aims to cover 90,000 villages directly by next year.

Delhi moves five places down to 37th spot on Global prime cities index

Mumbai and Bengaluru dropped to 40th and 43rd rank in Q2 of Calendar 2021, from 36th and 40th rank, respectively

Covid-19 impact is among growing complexities cities need to prepare for

A decalogue is needed to promote policies to transform our cities into healthier and protective living environments.

Early signs of recovery in rural India

Betw­een March and May, consumer sentiments in rural India fell more than twice as much as in urban India

Govt launches National Urban Digital Mission for creating digital infra

The Central government Tuesday launched National Urban Digital Mission' to create a digital infrastructure for cities in the country, a statement stated

Consumer confidence among urban Indians improves in February

Consumer confidence among urban Indians has moved up slightly, by 0.9 percentage point, in February so far, a report said

Small towns outpace tier-1 cities for shopping as Covid pushes e-commerce

E-commerce grew by 36% and 30% YoY in terms of volume and value respectively in Oct-Dec 2020, according to a report by Unicommerce and Kearney

FMCG firms start seeing growth in urban India after months of Covid grief

December quarter shows improvement in sales from cities

Bharat spurs growth of FMCG companies, but Urban India not far behind

Urban growth could stage a comeback by June quarter next year, say analysts; firms concur, saying growth divide could narrow in the future

More hospitals, fewer schools: India's population trends require solutions

There will be more people in the north, but wealth will be in the south: good governance can manage such rifts, write T N Ninan

Most cities in India are turning into 'urban heat islands', finds study

A team of researchers from the IIT Kharagpur has found that most cities in the country are turning into "urban heat islands" in all seasons during day and night, officials said. In their study, researchers from the Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) of the IIT-KGP and its Architecture and Regional Planning department showed that most big cities in the country with population more than one million have recorded rise in mercury level during daytime while showing an increasing trend in the night hours. The study, 'Anthropogenic forcing exacerbating the urban heat islands in India', noted that the relatively warmer temperatures in urban areas, compared to suburbs, have potential health hazards due to heat waves apart from pollution, an IIT KGP statement said on Friday. "Our research is a detailed and careful analysis of urban heat islands of India, which is the difference between urban and surrounding rural land surface temperatures, across a

Banking sector under stress, govt can't bail it out, says Abhijit Banerjee

Banerjee also said that demand slowdown in the automobile sector also shows that people are lacking confidence in the economy.