(21 November 2022) Government Data Roundup: CPI Numbers, Estimates of IIP, Report on Municipal Finances by RBI, Among the Data/Reports Released Recently.
The sixteenth edition of the fortnightly government data roundup covers Quick Estimates of Index of Industrial Production and Use-Based Index…
A 2018 video from Maharashtra of workers vandalising solar panels over unpaid wages is falsely shared as from Rajasthan, driven by Religious beliefs
https://youtu.be/_W3htA8vXu0 A video going viral on social media (here, here, and here) shows a group of men and women vandalising…
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What is new with the NCRB’s ‘Crime in India – 2020’ report?
The NCRB recently released its 2020 edition of the annual ‘Crime in India’ report, which…
