A recent World Bank report placing India among the most equal countries globally may present a limited view of inequality, with economists suggesting that broader data sets could tell a different story. According to the report, India's Gini index (or coefficient/ratio), a key measure of inequality, stood at 25.5 in 2022-23, placing the country fourth globally in terms of equality, behind only the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Belarus.
While other backward classes had a share of 9 per cent, there were no scheduled tribe billionaires.
Bihar has fertile grounds for caste to emerge as an electoral issue.
Nearly 50 pc children under five years of age in India have stunted growth mainly because of zinc, iron and vitamin A deficiencies, according to a new study.
Delhi and Mumbai alone account for a fifth of the country's total surplus income. The country's top 20 cities, including both Delhi and Mumbai, account for just 10 per cent of the country's population but 20 per cent of its savings, 30 per cent of its income and as much as 60 per cent of its surplus income
From middle-class it is middle-income India, marketers are chasing for volumes. The 166 million households in this category is the new focus.
Eating fish may help prolong life says study.
Pharma Link, a joint venture of leading pharmaceutical support service provider Interpharma Asia-Pacific
China's Xiaomi to unveil its first India-made phone on Monday
I think it would be good if phase one trials were totally freed up.
The centre pays only an insulting Rs 200 per pensioner each month at a tight-fisted 0.04 per cent of GDP, among the lowest in the world. Instead, as illustrated by Jean Drze, one option is for NYAY to provide individual rather than household entitlements to all pensioners of at least Rs 1200 per month.
The report also points out that a larger section of the poor and vulnerable households achieve middle-class status in urban areas in India despite the presence of a large urban informal sector.
'Sexual violence against women is not something unique to India but in our parts the victim must also have to contend with other burdens. Such as the notion of 'honour' and its loss,' says Aakar Patel.
According to the 2011 census, 67 per cent of rural households and 13 per cent of urban households defecate in the open.
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