At constant prices, daily earnings of factory floor workers in the formal manufacturing sector recorded a compounded annual growth rate of only 0.6 percent between 2002-03 and 2021-22

While cereals, particularly rice, comprise the bulk of the Indian exports of agricultural goods, edible oils comprise the dominant share of agricultural imports

Six in ten Indian households were using LPG as their primary source of fuel for cooking in 2020-21, but there was a large gap between urban and rural areas.

Hand pumps and tube wells remained the most common source of drinking water in India in 2020-21 with 39.7 percent of Indian households relying on them

While India has seen some encouraging gains on its skewed sex ratio at birth, a more complex story seems to be unfolding at the level of the states

There is only one woman among every ten police personnel in the country, and no state has achieved 33% representation yet.