MoSPI unveils draft National Industrial Classification 2025The statistics ministry has drafted the National Industrial Classification (NIC)-2025, revising the NIC-2008 to incorporate economic change...
10 Sep, 2025, 11.33 PM IST
Trump seeks to change how census collects data, wants to exclude immigrants in US illegallyU.S. President Donald Trump said he has directed the Commerce Department to exclude undocumented immigrants from Census data, aiming to res...
07 Aug, 2025, 10.48 PM IST
DOGE targets Census Bureau, worrying data users about health of US data infrastructureElon Musk's group aims to cut federal spending. They are targeting US Census Bureau surveys. This raises concerns about data collection. So...
23 May, 2025, 11.46 AM IST
DOGE targets Census Bureau, worrying data users about health of US data infrastructureA group linked to Elon Musk is targeting Census Bureau surveys for budget cuts, raising concerns among data users about the integrity of th...
23 May, 2025, 11.33 AM IST
US government shutdown would delay release of key economic data, official saysThat means delays in the release of key data, including the retail sales, housing starts and new home sales reports for September. Dependin...
26 Sep, 2023, 08.17 AM IST
Sri Lanka's economy shrinks 11.8% in second-worst quarterly performanceEconomic mismanagement and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have left Sri Lanka short of dollars for essential imports including food, f...
15 Dec, 2022, 06.03 PM IST
Sri Lanka's key inflation rate eases to 61% in NovemberSri Lanka's key inflation rate eased to 61% in November from 66% in October, the crisis-struck country's statistics department said on Wedn...
30 Nov, 2022, 03.27 PM IST
Sri Lanka inflation jumps to a record 60.8% in JulySri Lanka inflation jumps to a record 60.8% in July.
29 Jul, 2022, 03.53 PM IST
In a first, Bengal to count big herbivores during tiger censusEarlier, the tiger census was done solely focussing on the big cats but from this year, the population of big herbivores will be included i...
22 Sep, 2021, 11.55 AM IST
Govt appoints GP Samanta as new Chief StatisticianThe CSI’s responsibilities include coming out with key economic data such as national accounts that encompasses gross domestic product alon...
10 Mar, 2021, 03.54 PM IST
Larsen & Toubro’s IT arm to create India’s one-stop digital repository of official dataThe five-year project entails the creation of a digital repository -- the National Integrated Information Portal (NIIP) -- of all official ...
28 Aug, 2020, 12.41 PM IST
Union Home Ministry may release religion-based census data soonThe latest religion-based census data, compiled till 2011 but not released by the previous UPA government, may be now be made public shortl...
21 Jan, 2015, 05.05 PM IST
- Camera trap to be used for wildlife census
The Haryana wildlife department, for the first time, will use the camera trap method to get the exact number of animals in its sanctuaries.
21 Jun, 2014, 01.33 AM IST
- Gold gains on signs of demand in China
Gold today rose for a second day on signs of increased demand in China before the country's Lunar New Year that starts next month.
09 Jan, 2013, 05.23 PM IST
- Economic census delayed again due to lack of personnel
The economic census, which provides basic data on the number of enterprises and people employed, was planned to begin in February 2011.
18 Feb, 2012, 06.24 AM IST
- China to count foreigners in next census
Foreigners domiciled in China will be surveyed for the first time in the national census beginning Nov 1.
29 May, 2010, 12.16 PM IST
- Second strayed tiger from Sunderbans caged
A tiger, prowling a forest near Sunderbans in South 24-Pargans district for the past 24 hours, was caged by forest department.
22 Feb, 2008, 11.40 AM IST