Best Of 2024 Plain Facts

India’s massive shadow economy lost output in the last decade, which saw back-to-back economic shocks, an analysis of a new government survey shows. The losses for India may have mounted to ₹11.5 trillion in seven years.

India’s unemployment rate stood steady at 3.2% in 2023-24. But the overall jobless figure masks many problems present in the labour market from employment structure to earnings to work hours. Mint explores the latest data and longer trends

In Delhi, Haryana and Odisha, an average Lok Sabha constituency faced 5-8 hours of dangerous levels of ‘heat stress’ in the roughly 12-hour voting window during the recently concluded election. As the heatwave continues, power demand is also on the rise.

India's growing import dependence on China is a challenge for policymakers, yet China remains a key supplier of raw materials and intermediary goods due to limited domestic alternatives. How should India navigate this?

The 2024 Lok Sabha election verdict threw up an element of surprise, going against most exit polls. Mandate 2024 also marked the return of coalition politics to India after a decade of absolute majority. Here are some strands that defined the general election this year

Over 88% of urban Indians identify themselves as middle class—and the trend does not change much across income groups. Here’s what we found when we asked them their threshold for feeling rich.

The quarterly exercise of estimating India’s economic output is riddled with issues, with little to no solution possible without a structural overhaul.

The concept of pay-and-ride on Indian roads has been on the rise, a case in point being the new Mumbai sea bridge. It is expected to rise further.

The tumult over the changes in the capital gains tax regime has been disproportionate, since relatively few taxpayers actually declare capital gains income in the first place. Here are the numbers.