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A security personnel stands guard during the release of Shah Rukh Khan's movie Pathaan, at the Kashmir's INOX Cinema in Srinagar, Wednesday. (PTI)

Data recap: Women’s IPL auctions, ‘Pathaan’

3 min read . 26 Jan 2023

The latest PLFS has put urban unemployment at 7.2% in the September-ended quarter, lower than CMIE’s 8.4% for the same period (Photo: HT)

Data vs Politics: Will unemployment set the course for 2024 polls?

3 min read . 26 Jan 2023

Understanding the Indian IT slowdown, in 5 Charts

3 min read . 25 Jan 2023

How Indian banking is changing, in 5 charts

4 min read . 24 Jan 2023

India will save dollars by paying in rupees for its imports, but it will forgo dollars by receiving rupees for exports.

India’s rupee trade bid and the math behind it

4 min read . 23 Jan 2023

India’s merchandise exports has seen a decline of 12% year-on-year in December 2022.

Data recap: Decline in exports, ASER survey

3 min read . 20 Jan 2023

Pratham’s Annual Status of Education Report is a large-scale rural survey that tracks children’s reading and numerical abilities.

How covid hit basic reading and maths skills

3 min read . 19 Jan 2023

India has still a long way to go, given its low levels of vehicle ownership.

India is 3rd biggest auto market now. What do the numbers reveal?

1 min read . 18 Jan 2023

Between 2011 and 2021, the share of the manufacturing sector in India’s GDP has shrunk from 18.4% to 15.1%.

How growth stories of India and China stack up

3 min read . 17 Jan 2023

Social media is abuzz with claims that Mamaearth would seek a P/E ratio of over 1,600 times its last fiscal year’s profit.

Mamaearth’s plans put risky new-age IPOs in focus

1 min read . 16 Jan 2023

Telugu film RRR got India’s first-ever Golden Globe award. (Twitter | RRR movie)

Data recap: Q3 results, Golden Globe, GDP data

3 min read . 20 Jan 2023

By 2030, a million four-wheelers and nearly 13 million two-wheelers sold annually are expected to be EVs.

How EVs in India zipped past 1 million mark in 2022

1 min read . 12 Jan 2023

Swiggy’s higher revenues in 2021-22 were partly a construct of market share in food delivery and it preceding Zomato in quick commerce.

What's cooking at Swiggy and Zomato?

3 min read . 11 Jan 2023

The lack of transparency around China’s stats hasn’t helped.

How covid is keeping the world on edge

1 min read . 10 Jan 2023

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman could set its fiscal deficit target for 2023-24 at 6% of GDP, but it could be difficult to achieve.

What will be the math behind Budget 2023?

4 min read . 09 Jan 2023

The headwinds the US tech sector is facing amid a slowing economy have led to thousands of layoffs already.

Data recap: Growth in PMI, layoffs at Amazon

3 min read . 20 Jan 2023

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Bengaluru and Hyderabad lead in cybercrime

4 min read . 05 Jan 2023

Almost 84% of the investment proposals announced during the quarter came from the manufacturing space.

Capex stirs in Q3, but yet to stretch to a broad base

4 min read . 04 Jan 2023

Within personal loans, all nine segments for which the RBI releases data have grown more than 10% in the past year.

Rise in retail loans — what could go wrong?

3 min read . 03 Jan 2023

UVs have been the growth anchor among personal cars, which the government is now looking to tax more.

How SUV and MUV makers may avoid tax bump

4 min read . 02 Jan 2023

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