Tomato prices are up through the roof. Retail prices are in the range of Rs 120-150 per kilogram in most mandis across India, making the household vegetable more expensive than petrol. Prices, which at the beginning of the year were in the range of Rs. 25 a kg, have increased by an order of between 500-600 percent.   What does the data show? The National Horticultural Board is a body under the...

The high dropout RATes in schools in several states, including Karnataka, during 2020-21, as revealed by data from the Ministry of Education, is a matter of concern when the education sector is considered to be recovering from the damage caused by the damage caused by the Covid pandemic. Karnataka, with a dropout RATe of 14.6%, is in the company of states like Bihar and GujaRAT, which had dropout RATes higher...

Wholesale price-based inflation RATe declined by (-) 3.48 per cent in May, a 3-year low, on easing prices of food, fuel and manufactured items. The wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation RATe has been in the negative territory for the second straight month. In April it was (-) 0.92 per cent. In May, 2022 WPI inflation was at 16.63 per cent. The May, 2023 data print of (-) 3.48 per cent...

The Wire “When the internet is shut down, I have no work, do not get paid, cannot withdraw any money from my account and cannot even get food RATions.” This statement by a Dalit woman daily wage worker from Rajasthan begins a joint report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) scrutinising India’s record as the world’s internet shutdown capital. In No Internet Means No Work, No Pay,...

The Periodic Labour Force Survey for the January-March quarter of 2023 has revealed that the all India unempolyment RATe has declined to 6.8 percent from 8.2 percent in the same quarter a year ago. The unemployment RATe for males stood at 6 percent in Jan-Mar 23 (from 7.7 percent a year ago) and for females the RATe was 9.2 percent (from 10.1 percent). The report was released yesterday by the...