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Aakar Patel | Why India’s Rank Has Been Falling In Global Indices… But Do We Bother?

Aakar Patel | Why India’s Rank Has Been Falling In Global Indices… But...

On the Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index, India fell from 140 in 2014 to 151 today. RSF says that...

17 Nov 2025 11:54 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Differences among India’s states acute: For real answers, hold early Census

Aakar Patel | Differences among India’s states acute: For real...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement: a long and healthy life, knowledgeable...

25 Feb 2025 7:26 AM IST

According to the last World Bank report 2017, Indias ranking improved by just one notch to 130 from a revised rank of 131 previous year.

Getting the right indexes right

In the real India, it takes 123 days to get a building plan sanction, and 1,445 days in court to get a judicial verdict...

2 Nov 2017 12:35 AM IST

Samajwadi Party President and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav addresses a press conference at the party office, in Lucknow. (Photo: PTI)

Govt should apologise: Akhilesh Yadav on Niti Aayog CEO's comments

The Samajwadi Party president said the comments were a gross disgrace to the residents, for which the govt should also...

25 April 2018 1:43 PM IST

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant

States like UP, Bihar keeping India backward, says NITI Aayog CEO

CEO Amitabh Kant said the southern and western part of India was doing reasonably well and growing rapidly.

24 April 2018 12:20 PM IST

Niti CEO says 10 pc growth not possible without improving HDI

In 2016 UN Human Development Report, India had slipped one place to rank 131st among 188 countries in HDI.

29 July 2018 10:18 AM IST

Assams human development index (HDI), which is an average of the subnational values of three dimensions, mainly education, health and standard of living, has slipped in this period.

Assam fails to better its Human Development Index

Though its social expenditure has increased by 15.1 per cent in the past 27 years.

10 March 2019 1:57 AM IST

Assams human development index (HDI), which is an average of the subnational values of three dimensions, mainly education, health and standard of living, has slipped in this period.

Backward districts didn't feature in MLAs' questions

The MLA further said, I don't like to ask one or two-line questions. We just get answers but no implementation is...

29 Aug 2019 2:09 AM IST

A rapid GDP growth which involves faster growth in agriculture, and especially in rain-fed areas where most of the poor live, will be much more inclusive than one driven entirely by mining for exports.

Focus on growth process that is most inclusive

GDP simply totals up everything made within an economy in a year, from widgets to whizzy financial products, at their...

14 Aug 2019 1:27 AM IST

Though the GDP numbers grew with low base effect, there are also other significant reasons which suggest a recovery in the economy. (Twitter)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | The other side of life in the 5th largest...

India has 1.4 billion people against the UK's 68 million. Even a low per capita income adds up to an impressive total

28 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Can the whole of South Asia work as one to develop...

We have not opened ourselves to each other and returned to the sort of geography and economy that we had before 1947

20 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Anita Anand | India, at 2047, as a developed nation: It'll just be a...

It is a sovereign state with a high Human Development Index (HDI) compared to other countries

19 July 2023 12:00 AM IST