India to remain global growth driver in foreseeable future: IMF executive directorKrishnamurthy V Subramaniam, Executive Director of the IMF, predicts India will remain a key driver of global growth, citing consistent 7%+...
17 Apr, 2024, 11.43 AM IST
Spotty economic data in India jeopardizes a fast-growing marketFor years, the South Asian nation has relied on outdated surveys to quantify everything from gross domestic product to inflation. Most of I...
14 Jul, 2023, 03.23 PM IST
Government reconstitutes National Statistical CommissionIndian Institute of Management Bangalore professor Pulak Ghosh is also a member of the three-member commission.
23 Aug, 2019, 09.15 PM IST
National Statistical Commission to get more teeth in 100 daysChanges likely in the institutional and legal framework of the statistics body after govt faced flak over GDP data quality.
27 May, 2019, 11.21 PM IST
A statistician bemoans India's apathy toward data collectionNSC's acting head P. C. Mohanan, along with another colleague, had resigned in January in protest.
25 Feb, 2019, 01.39 PM IST
Is India really out of work? The row over missing jobs decodedThe government says that 1-12% nominal economic growth can’t happen if employment didn’t grow.
09 Feb, 2019, 06.22 AM IST
Report that says unemployment at 45-year high in 2017-18 not verified, says Niti AayogNiti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said the data is being collected in a new manner.
31 Jan, 2019, 08.32 PM IST
2 more members of NSC quit on feeling sidelinedP C Mohanan and JV Meenakshi sent their resignation citing lack of involvement in some key decisions.
30 Jan, 2019, 09.09 PM IST
LS polls 2014: Kannur set to witness a fierce battle of ballotsThe political hotspot of Kannur in north Kerala is set to witness a fierce Lok Sabha poll contest between the sitting Congress and the CPI(...
28 Mar, 2014, 01.07 PM IST
- Karunanidhi, Achuthanandan: Gearing up for another round of polls
If Muthuvel Karunanidhi, born in 1924, and Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan, born in 1923, are re-elected Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu ...
06 Apr, 2011, 10.57 PM IST
- For Southern leaders, careers blossom at 87
Karunanidhi began his political life in 1938, at the age of 14, and Achuthanandan made his political debut at age 15, in the same year.
06 Apr, 2011, 05.18 PM IST