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15 stories for “Reports & Indices” · May 2026
Clear filtersUN-Habitat released the World Cities Report 2026 at the World Urban Forum held in Baku, Azerbaijan.About 40% of the world's population, roughly 3.4 billion people, face a housing crisis because of unaffordable homes, poo...
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) has released a report titled “A New Geopolitics of Food”. It says trade wars, military conflicts and weakening multilateral institutions are resh...
The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2026 states that 82.2 million people were internally displaced across 104 countries by the end of 2025. It was released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre tog...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the World Health Statistics Report 2026, its yearly compilation of global health indicators published since 2005. The report finds that progress on health-related Sustaina...
Jharkhand reported a 0% dropout rate at the primary school level in 2024-25, according to Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) data and a NITI Aayog report. The primary dropout rate had stood a...
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figures for 2024 place Odisha at the top for violent crime rate, with 161.6 victims per lakh population; Bihar came second with 83. Odisha registered 75,403 violent crime cases, the f...
According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2024, Telangana registered 423 human trafficking cases, the highest in the country and nearly one-fifth of the national total. Cases in the State grew by 25.9% o...
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data show that juvenile crime in India went up in 2024. Cases rose to 34,878 from 31,365 in 2023, and the juvenile crime rate climbed from 7.1 to 7.9. In all, 42,633 juveniles were ap...
Bengaluru has been ranked the world's fastest-growing major city up to 2035 in the Growth Hubs Index released by real estate consultancy Savills. The index studied 245 cities worldwide on the basis of GDP growth, migrati...
Times Higher Education (THE) has released its Asia University Rankings 2026. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, is the top-ranked Indian institution, placed 43rd in Asia. India has the largest number of r...
India has been ranked 157th out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index 2026 published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The country fell from 151st place in 2025 and is placed in the 'very serious' category....
In the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) Executive MBA Rankings 2026, IIM Bengaluru emerged as the highest-ranked Indian institute with a global rank of 64. It is the only Indian institution in the global top 100 in the Executiv...
