UPI most preferred mode for transactions now; targeted interventions needed to boost RuPay debit card: ReportThe era of digital payments is upon us, with UPI now the preferred method, leaving cash transactions behind. A fresh report calls attention...
16 Feb, 2026, 04.07 PM IST
Apex body urges Lingayats to seek separate religious identityAhead of Karnataka's socio-economic survey, the Lingayat community's apex body urges its members to identify as Veerashaiva-Lingayat, pushi...
08 Sep, 2025, 11.57 PM IST
Karnataka Caste Survey: Lingayats asked to identify themselves as separate religious group, distinct from HindusAs Karnataka prepares for a socio-economic survey, the Lingayat community's apex body urges its members to identify as Veerashaiva-Lingayat...
07 Sep, 2025, 07.53 PM IST
Another caste count for...?India debates the need for a new caste census. Existing data from NFHS and NSS already provide caste demographics and socioeconomic indicat...
05 May, 2025, 10.57 PM IST
NSO begins process to empanel survey institutionsThe National Statistics Office (NSO) has initiated a Request for Proposal (RFP) to empanel private survey institutions for conducting socio...
31 Dec, 2024, 01.41 PM IST
MoSPI gears up for 80th national sample surveyThe 79th round of the survey, started in July last year, was termed a comprehensive annual modular survey to create a database of “high-fre...
25 Sep, 2023, 12.47 AM IST
Muslim population in India is nearly 20 crore in 2023: Govt in Lok SabhaThe Muslim population in India is estimated to be 19.7 crore by 2023, according to Smriti Irani, Union Minister of Minister of Minority Aff...
21 Jul, 2023, 03.17 PM IST
Government to conduct first ever AYUSH surveyThe National Statistical Office and the State Directorates of Economics & Statistics will carry out the survey programme jointly for a peri...
08 Mar, 2022, 05.49 PM IST
View: The many bold and refreshing perspectives of Economic Survey 2021The Survey seems to indicate that the government can stay with higher fiscal deficit to push growth. It suggests that growth leads to debt ...
30 Jan, 2021, 10.32 AM IST
Ethical wealth creation is way forward: Economic Survey“Given India’s stage of development, India must continue to focus on economic growth to lift the poor out of poverty by expanding the overa...
30 Jan, 2021, 07.13 AM IST
India needs to focus on growth to alleviate poverty: Economic SurveyThe Survey said that unlike in advanced economies, in India, economic growth and inequality converge in terms of their effects on socio-eco...
29 Jan, 2021, 09.36 PM IST
Multiple indicator surveys extended due to Covid-19 pandemicThe data collection for India’s first multiple indicator survey, which seeks to develop various socio-economic indicators of growth such as...
06 Jan, 2021, 11.50 AM IST
India lowest among APAC nations in women's advancement: ReportAcross the region, New Zealand had the highest overall Index score of 77, followed by Australia (76), the Philippines (72.6) and Singapore ...
07 Mar, 2015, 03.47 PM IST
India lags on women’s advancement in Asia-Pacific: SurveyIndia has the lowest overall score of 44.2 of the 16 Asia-Pacific markets surveyed as part of The MasterCard Index of Women’s Advancement.
06 Mar, 2015, 03.31 AM IST
- Socio-economic and caste census launched in Delhi
The socio-economic and caste census exercise was launched in the national capital with the enumeration of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
18 Jan, 2012, 08.32 PM IST
- Indian women slip in advancement index
Indian women's status in the socio-economic order has slipped to 37.8 from 39.4 in 2008 in the mastercard worldwide survey.
17 Mar, 2009, 12.00 AM IST
- Rich-poor divide stays in Maharashtra
A survey of families living below the poverty line (BPL) in rural Maharashtra has revealed that some of the poorest districts of the state ...
12 Oct, 2006, 02.22 AM IST