The urban unemployment rate rose to 10.09% in December from 8.96% in the previous month, while the rural unemployment rate slipped to 7.44% from 7.55%, the data showed.

Industrial output growth in Asia's third largest economy has sharply slowed, expanding 5.3% during the April to October period compared to 20.5% a year before.

While falls in global crude oil and commodity prices have eased pressure on companies facing a rise in input costs, prices rose for a broad range of food items.

As a film was planned, made, released and distributed, hand-painted posters also lived simultaneous lives of their own.

In 2021, the average fertility of the world’s population stood at 2.3 births per woman over a lifetime, having fallen from about 5 births in 1950.

India's gross savings rate is estimated to have fallen to below 30% of GDP in the fiscal year ended March, from over 32% before the pandemic.

There was a phase, a period of wild expectation and tumult, when Progressive Writers and their inheritors ruled Hindi cinema.

While inflation is putting the heaviest burden on the poorest, the relatively well-off are coming under the sort of pressure to make cuts in household budgets not seen in years.

For much of its existence, the ideals that Indian films showcased on the silver screen conflicted quite directly with energies that sustained it as a viable commercial proposition.

The collapse of the jazz and dance club scene in Bombay coincided with the commencement of the golden period for Hindi film music.

Little remains of the thousands of silent features made in early-20th-century India. That doesn’t make the story of how they came to be – and why they disappeared – any less interesting.

It was a voice that made the violin redundant. It was a voice that a common man could identify and sing along with.

The unemployment rate rose to 7.9% in December from 7% in November, its highest since 8.3% in August.

Annual wholesale price-based inflation in October rose to 12.54% from the previous month's 10.66%, remaining in double-digits for the seventh month in a row, data showed.

Sales of the heavily brocaded silk sarees made in Varanasi are currently down 70% from the pre-pandemic period

A Reuters survey of 41 economists projected gross domestic product grew 20% in the June quarter from a year earlier, versus a record contraction of 24.4% in the same quarter a year earlier.

According to World Bank estimates, India has one of the lowest female labour force participation rates in the world.

The deal calls for a minimum tax rate of at least 15%, a key element pushed by the administration of US President Joe Biden.

It has also estimated that the number of poor people, with incomes of $2 or less each day, has gone up by 75 million as the recession brought by the virus undid years of progress.

Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to increase spending by more than 15% year-on-year in 2021-22.