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Jobless rate eases to 5.1% in Sept quarter

New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- India's headline unemployment rate was 5.1% in the quarter ended September, compared with 5.2% in the same quarter a year ago, according to the quarterly bulletin of the Periodic... Read More


Delhi records 3rd worst Diwali pollution since 2021, data gaps cloud full picture

India, Nov. 9 -- Many of the city's air quality stations going dark on Diwali night does not help in answering this question consistently. And the warmer night perhaps helped despite firecrackers bein... Read More


Delhi records 3rd worst Diwali pollution since '21, data gaps cloud full picture

India, Nov. 9 -- Many of the city's air quality stations going dark on Diwali night does not help in answering this question consistently. And the warmer night perhaps helped despite firecrackers bein... Read More


Logical discrepancies in SIR: Decoding the data | Number Theory

India, Oct. 23 -- The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which started with Bihar last year, follows a two-step process: publication of a draft roll and then a final roll. The former... Read More


The West Asia war shook up India's petroleum trade | Number Theory

India, Oct. 21 -- The first part of this series explained how Russia was a marginal source in India's energy trade until the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, and how India's switch to buying Russian oil ac... Read More


Breaking down the share of social groups among religions | Number Theory

India, Oct. 16 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Madras high court decision that barred the Tamil Nadu government from providing reservation to those who convert to Islam on the basis of their... Read More


How does police in India approach policing? | Number Theory

India, Oct. 15 -- The protests in Delhi this July and earlier this month sparked a raft of allegations against police and paramilitary personnel - from not wearing name tags to surveillance using faci... Read More


Weather Bee: El Nino's impact on global rainfall in four maps

India, Oct. 3 -- The 2026 El Nino that started in May has now been in place for five full months. This is also the period when its impact on global weather is not expected to be very strong because it... Read More


Weather Bee: Bay of Bengal depressions rescue eastern India from monsoon dryness

India, Sept. 26 -- A storm originating in the Bay of Bengal brought surplus rain to eastern India this week and is now moving towards north-west India, where it is expected to bring more rain to Chhat... Read More


The two-horse AI talent race | Number Theory

India, Sept. 24 -- Artificial intelligence, when it reaches its full potential, might replace humans at work. But the race to build AI of that potential is being run with an extremely small pool of hu... Read More