Analysis

Meghalaya holds ₹5,490 crore in mutual-fund assets. Only 4.2% of its households participate in securities markets. The SEBI Investor Survey...

Meghalaya holds the largest mutual-fund pool among the seven northeastern states outside Assam, yet the moment the same money is...

A customer haggles a ₹10,000 item down to ₹9,500. The merchant agrees. The payment goes through UPI, and on the...

Twenty-five years later, the date still arrives with the same weight. On the morning of 11 September 2001, nineteen men...

Nagaland’s 95.7% literacy rate is an extraordinary statistical achievement. It is also a number that deserves closer examination because the...

SHIMLA – Two government datasets, both current, both official, and they disagree on Himachal Pradesh's literacy rate by more than...

The government's best argument for its rising debt is also the one it least wants examined closely. Borrowing to build...

KOHIMA – Nagaland Police's minimum educational qualification for Constable (GD) recruitment is Class 8 for most Indigenous Naga candidates and...

Every government facing an uncomfortable debt number reaches for the same trick: put it next to a bigger number. Meghalaya's...

The argument over India’s debt has become noisier than it is precise. One large rupee figure is treated as proof...