Chetan Ghate succeeds Ajit Mishra as director of Institute of Economic GrowthChetan Ghate, who was a member of the Reserve Bank of India’s first monetary policy committee between 2016-2020, is the winner of the 2014 ...
Govt working on one-stop platform for all official data: Statistics ministerThe project, National Integrated Information Portal (NIIP), assumes significance as data related to macro-economy and other sectors are rel...
How to be a tiger: Seize historic opportunity for labour reform: We must leap forward, not backIn the process, they also created jobs for masses that paid decent and rising wages. The end result was elimination of abject poverty withi...
Shaktikanta Das cautions against cherry-picking of data by expertsHis remarks come in the backdrop of recent controversies over GDP data after former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian in a research...
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis: India's first Big Data manPCM is popularly known among Indians for his draft of the Second Five-Year Plan which he submitted to the National Development Council in 1...
Google honours statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis with doodle on 125th birth anniversaryMahalanobis was an Indian scientist and the founder of Indian Statistical Institute.
Country set for good Rabi season due to late rains: Agriculture SecretaryMost parts of northwest and central India received deficit rainfall, but farmers in Punjab and Haryana have access to canal irrigation that...
My last visit to Kolkata as president, says Pranab MukherjeenullHe talked about the reforms undertaken by the previous Congress government in 1991 and specifically referred to the working of the publ...
New crop insurance will be more attractive: Radha Mohan SinghThe government will launch a new crop insurance scheme next month, which aims to keep the premium burden on farmers below 3 per cent, Agric...
Haryana government launches statistical software 'e-vishleshak'Capt Abhimanyu said departments could make schemes effective on the basis of statistics, adding that any department could examine the stati...
Good policies call for good data standards: PresidentHe said data mining and statistical techniques had been used to initiate counter terrorism programes.
- Programme to provide pre-harvest crop estimate
The government has developed a system for pre-harvest crop production forecast using satellite data, Tariq Anwar said
Is excellence possible in India?The outcome of the vandalism and violence in Presidency University earlier this week has had a significant outcome.
- Government to use satellite technology for crop and drought assessment
The government will use inputs of the recently set up Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre to prepare multiple in-season crop forecast...
- Indian Statistical Institute, a key policymaking player: Mukherjee
Founded by professor PC Mahalanobis in Kolkata on December 17, 1931, the institute gained the status of an institution of national importan...
- Kaushik Basu appointed eco advisor to FM
Cornell University professor Kaushik Basu on Tuesday took over as the chief economic advisor in the finance ministry, replacing Arvind Virm...
- PM for more statistics-backed decision making
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says the country should evolve national quality standards for statistics.