Packaged food, drinks unhealthiest in India: Survey
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) A global survey has found that when it comes to having the healthiest packaged food and drinks, India ranks the …
Haryana CM conducts aerial survey of flood-affected areas
Chandigarh, Aug 21 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday conducted an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas in the state. However, with …
Recession likely in 12 months, says BofAML survey
Mumbai, Aug 19 (IANS) After Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) has on Monday on the basis of a survey of fund managers …
42% firms struggling with finding tech talent globally: Survey
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Nearly 42 per cent of organizations globally are struggling with sourcing quality tech talent globally, while 20 per cent cited …
Indians get best good night’s sleep in the world: Survey
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) When it comes to quality sleep, India has astonishingly come on top — followed by Saudi Arabia and China — …
Survey launched to rank cities, districts over sanitation
New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) To inculcate behavioural change in rural areas, Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Wednesday launched a survey to …
52% banks report fall in bad loans in January-June: Survey
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The proportion of banks citing reduction in non-performing assets (NPAs) stood at 52 per cent in the January-June period as …
Indians prefer long, straight hair on women: says Survey
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) When it comes to marriage, every two in three Indians believe that women with long, straight hair have an edge …
Doval joins J&K police for Eid bara khana, does aerial survey of Srinagar
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, who has been keeping a close watch on security for over a week in Jammu …
80% working people made ill at work: Australian survey
Canberra, Aug 12 (IANS) Four in five working people in Australia are exposed to unsafe work practices as they have been injured, become ill, or …
Shah carries out aerial survey in Karnataka, Maharashtra
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday carried out an aerial survey of flood-affected areas in Karnataka and Maharashtra, and …
Andhra CM makes aerial survey of flood-hit areas
Rajahmundry, Aug 8 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday conducted an aerial survey of flood-affected areas of East Godavari district …
IT managers inundated with cyber attacks: Survey
Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS) Phishing emails impacted one in two Indian organisations that were hit by a cyber attack and IT managers are inundated with …
Intelligence above looks for millennials, finds survey
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Do you think looks precede intelligence? Well, millennials find intelligence way more appealing than looks, according to a survey. According …
Survey finds parents helping kids make rent payments
Not only are parents increasingly under pressure to help their kids buy their first home, a survey commissioned by FP Canada now finds that a …
81% children in Delhi slums have no toilets: Survey
New Delhi, Aug 1 (101Reporters/IANS) After a minor from a Delhi slum was raped when she ventured out to use a community toilet last year, …
40% Britishers wow loyalty to Huawei after US ban: Survey
London, July 25 (IANS) Over 40 per cent of British people who were interested in Huawei before the US ban, are still considering Huawei and …
India, China to pip US in tech innovations: Survey
There is strong global consensus that if there is another world war, then it is likely to be a cyber war, said the survey by …
Women hold themselves back at work: Survey
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) While most young Indian women feel that women can pursue careers that were not previously available to them, only half …
80% firms in India facing leadership talent shortage: Survey
New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) Around 80 per cent of the organisations in India are currently facing a leadership talent shortage either because the present …
No survey to ascertain job losses due to mining ban: Goa CM
Panaji, July 16 (IANS) Though successive governments have claimed that thousands of people have been rendered unemployed due to the Supreme Court ordered ban on …
53% people interested in travelling to space: Survey
New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) Around 53 per cent people will like to travel to space, says a new survey ahead of the 50th anniversary …
Housing affordability worsened in past 4 years: RBI survey
Mumbai, July 11 (IANS) Although there has been emphasis and hype over affordable housing since the past few years, an RBI survey released on Thursday …
53 per cent smokers between 20-30 years: Survey
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) A whopping 53 per cent of smokers belong to the age group of 20 to 30 years, a survey has …
MGNREGS can be used to gauge rural distress: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Demand for work under MGNREGS may be used to develop a real-time indicator of distress at the granular district or …
‘Dwarfs’ responsible for holding back jobs: Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Dwarfs are defined as small firms that do not grow beyond their small size, yet they dominate the Indian economy …
Quotes, anecdotes, mythology drive Economic Survey 2018-19
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Phenomenon related to Behavioural Economics to Mahatma Gandhi’s quotes as well as anecdotes from religion and mythology were tastefully woven …
Economic Survey calls for turning data into public good
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The government may create data as a public good within the legal framework of data privacy and use it to …
Low climate finance from developed nations: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Although the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) mandates developed nations to provide financial resources to take actions …
Economic Survey recommends single code across the country for fixing minimum wages
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Economic Survey of India for the financial year 2018-19 which was tabled in Parliament on Thursday has recommended the …
Zero train collisions reported in 2018-19: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who on Thursday presented the Economic Survey in Parliament and said incidents of train collisions has …
Need additional resources to achieve NDCs: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) International public finance and private sector resources would have to be mobilised for the “unprecedented” investment required to implement India’s …
India’s services exports’ growth eases in 2018: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The growth of India’s exports of commercial services decelerated in 2018 but remained above the world growth rate, the Economic …
Need to double down on reducing policy uncertainty: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Noting that policy uncertainty in India had declined over the last few years, the Economic Survey 2019-20 has called for …
Economic Survey only shows government’s ‘pessimism’: Chidambaram
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday slammed the Modi government, saying its first Economic Survey has “no sector-wise growth …
FDI inflow into services down 1.3% in last fiscal: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflow into India’s services sector was down by 1.3 per cent during 2018-19, according to …
Adopt micro-irrigation systems: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Expressing concern over the massive extraction of groundwater for agriculture, the Economic Survey 2019 has recommended adoption of micro-irrigation systems …
Policy measures needed to cut EV ownership costs: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) To promote electric vehicles (EVs) in India, the Economic Survey 2018-19 has recommended that the government frame appropriate policy measures …
Economic Survey: India’s external debt not unsustainable
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The key external debt indicators reflect that India’s external debt is not unsustainable, the Economic Survey 2018-19 said. According to …
Solution to job crises is capital investment: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July (IANS) The solution to the job crisis boils down to capital investment, the economic survey has said, as evidence from across the …
Scale up NCLT infra for timely resolution: Economic Survey
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The National Company Law Tribunal’s (NCLT) infrastructure needs to be scaled up for timely resolution of debt recovery, the Economic …