Urban unemployment fell again. The fine print is more interesting
The headline rate is at a survey-era low, but the composition of new work — self-employment versus salaried jobs — tells a subtler story.
Meera Kulkarni
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Society
How Indians live, spend, move and connect, tracked through data.
UPI's next hundred million users live in small-town India
Transaction data shows the fastest growth in payments is no longer in the metros. Tier-3 towns and rural districts are driving the curve.
Ishita Rao
How SIP money changed who owns the Indian market
Systematic investment plans now channel over ₹26,000 crore a month into equities. Domestic investors, not FIIs, set the marginal price.
Arjun Nair
Global capability centres are rewriting white-collar India
Over 1,700 GCCs now employ close to two million people. The data shows they are climbing the value chain faster than the IT services giants did.
Arjun Nair
Survey vs satellite: the new ways India is being measured
Night-time lights, GST invoices, FASTag pings — administrative and remote-sensed data are filling gaps the surveys leave. With new blind spots of their own.
Dev Patel
What two-wheeler sales say about rural demand
Motorcycle registrations are the closest thing India has to a real-time rural income indicator. They are finally accelerating again.
Ishita Rao