Many individuals filing tax returns declare zero tax liability. They accounted for two-thirds of the total individual returns filed.
Government announcements for the building of new roads, railways, and other capital expenditure (capex) projects may have hit an all-time low, according to numbers for the December quarter.
As the total number of bank frauds increased from 6,800 in FY19 to more than 13,500 in FY23, the share of private banks in the occurrence went from 34 per cent to 66 per cent.
Nearly 80% of the inmates are undertrials; UP district jails have twice the numbers they were built for.
Cruelty by husband or his relatives accounted for 38.3 per cent of all crimes against women.
Manufacturing's share in the profit pool of companies had declined before the pandemic.
There is a rise in the number of women elected to the state legislatures in 2023 compared to 2018, except in Rajasthan.
Cruelty by the husband (or his relatives) accounted for about 40 per cent of these cases. Delhi reported the highest number of cases of crimes against women (12,552) followed by Mumbai with over 5,000 cases.
A large part of the productive time in Parliament is spent on non-legislative matters such as discussion on motion of thanks by the President, conduct of fellow MPs and so on.
Bihar has fertile grounds for caste to emerge as an electoral issue.
Wilful defaulters owe SBI Rs 80,000 crore. 10 nationalised banks are owed another Rs 1.5 trillion.
The number of companies had touched a low of 792 in July 2020 amid heightened uncertainty because of COVID-19.
The next government in these states may find it tough to push economic growth through long-term reforms, which would be necessary.
India's trade ties with Israel have only strengthened in the years after 2019. The total value of trade rose to $10.5 billion on a rolling four-quarter basis in June 2023 from $5.5 billion in the same month in 2019, shows a Business Standard analysis of data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). A rolling four-quarter number provides a comparable figure across different time periods.
People are availing far more of certain kinds of unsecured loans than was the case before the pandemic. Bank lending for buying consumer durables and funding of credit cards and other personal loans have risen by Rs 6.9 trillion between August 2019 and August 2023, shows a Business Standard analysis of data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). These loans are typically unsecured, which means they are provided without collateral.
Seven journalists were incarcerated in India in 2021 and 2022, the highest in three decades.
Like, Share, Subscribe, Vote: The 2024 polls may be dubbed 'YouTube election'.
The stock exchange on which they are traded boasts higher profits than most of the companies whose shares are hitting new highs. Only 37 of approximately 2,000 listed companies with comparable data for 2022-23 (FY23) reported higher profits, while the rest had lower profits. Despite rising corporate profitability, the universe of companies that outperform the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in terms of profitability has been shrinking of late, according to an analysis of companies with comparable data over the past seven years.
Meaningful market share would go to those who have the distribution strength to push their products, such as banks.
Unemployment has been rising among the young, with authorities suspending data disclosures after youth unemployment crossed 20 per cent.
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