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BS Number Wise: A number for the poor in India

State welfare schemes often benefit the privileged as the government puts off setting up updated measures to define poverty

BS Number Wise: The cricketing myth of 'Mauka Mauka'

Indian fans take pride in their team's performance against Pakistan in World Cup cricket matches. Outside such matches, data analysis makes a revelation

How debit, credit cards and ATM cash withdrawal are bellwether for GDP

Debit cards aren't just for the affluent--two-thirds of Indians use them. There is little reason not to track their use to predict economic growth

BS Number Wise: There are no NEET solutions

Tamil Nadu has no faith in the test to select students for medical colleges, data shows there is little reason to chuck out the system

BS Number Wise: When Sebi tries to ensure you get a piece of that hot IPO

An analysis of some trends in other markets suggests that it could be swimming against the tide

BS Number Wise: Cities leak money in supplying tap water to households

Households pay only a fraction of supply cost, and the government signs the bill for subsidies

BS Number Wise: A pandemic market phenomenon is beginning to reverse

And why it should worry you if live in certain parts of the country

BS Number Wise: Home truths about Indian real estate in the pandemic

Top tenants of commercial real estate-mostly IT companies-actually added to their office stock and demand for residential space is reviving.

BS Number Wise: Does gender affect your Covid-19 vaccination odds?

A section of the population would say yes

Down the pipeline: India's struggle with asset monetisation

Govt plan to raise Rs 6 trillion by offering roads, railway stations, airports and other assets could be hard to achieve

BS Number Wise: How common are ten-baggers in Indian markets?

As Indian stock markets hit all-time highs, Business Standard looked at how often such winners are to be found

BS Number Wise: The name's bond, oil bond!

Do you think the government will bite the bullet and cut excise duties?

BS Number Wise: Can user experience deliver Voda-Idea from its mess?

While Vi has lagged in spectrum addition and infrastructure augmentation, its 4G data experience has performed well at times

BS Number Wise: Throttling innovation due to speculation may harm Bitcoin

Bitcoin is easily influenced by governments and whims and wishes of famous personalities and companies

BS Number Wise: Tax mop up shines through fragile recovery

Direct-tax-to-GDP ratio in the first quarter of 2021-22 increased to 5.14 per cent, compared with 3.29 per cent over the last two years

BS Number Wise: How efficient is India's Covid-19 vaccination programme?

India averages 109 vaccinations per site and the UK 126. It has fully vaccinated only 6 per cent of its population, as against 53 per cent in the UK

BS Number Wise: One litre petrol takes 30% of Indians' average daily income

Fuel taxes give a bonanza to the government, but also dent the affordability for low income earners

BS Number wise: Indian power distribution companies' Ides of March

This March, discoms cleared Rs 34,150 crore worth of debt owed to power-generating companies

BS Number Wise: How good is Sebi at recovering money?

The value of notices Sebi has sent out since getting recovery powers in 2013 is more than twice Mumbai's annual municipal budget

BS Number Wise: How many years have we lost to coronavirus?

One measure is the change in gross domestic product (GDP). The pandemic chipped away 7.3 per cent of India's real GDP in 2020-21