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Clear filtersNational 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...
NITI Aayog has released the report 'Moving Towards Effective City Government: A Framework for Million-Plus Cities'. India's 47 million-plus cities hold about one-third of the urban population and contribute nearly 60% of...
The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has released the Panchayat Advancement Index (PAI) 2.0 for 2023-24. PAI measures Gram Panchayat progress by converting the 17 SDGs into 9 Localised SDG themes. Version 2.0 used over 150 ind...
The 10th Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) was released by the Global Network Against Food Crises with European Union support. In 2025, 266 million people across 47 countries faced high acute food insecurity, or 22.9%...
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) has released its Economic Survey 2026, warning of rising energy and food costs.Regional inflation: Expected to climb to 4.6% in 2026 f...
The report "Spotlight on the Top 25 Methane Plumes in 2025: Landfills", released by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), names the world's top methane-emitting waste sites.Scope: 25 landfills in 18 countries...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has released the 'Household Social Consumption: Health' survey conducted under the 80th round of the National Sample Survey (NSS).Illness: About 13.1% of pe...
The Ministry of Textiles has released a report mapping India's textile waste value chain to promote recycling and sustainability. The country produces about 70.73 lakh tonnes of textile waste each year from manufacturing...
