A High-Level Committee to Study the Impact of NEET [National Eligibility cum Entrance Test] on Medical Admissions in Tamil Nadu, 2021, submitted its r
An up-to-date compilation of official information released by the Government of India from January 17, 2020, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) f
Data for Better Lives: World Development Report 2021, published by World Bank Group can be accessed here:
The inaugural Annual Lecture organised by The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy was delivered by P. Chidambaram, on March 13, 2017, at The M
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought governments and their policies under scrutiny. In India, daily official bulletins talk about the numbers of persons
One of independent India’s successes, improving life expectancy at birth from about 30 years in the 1950s to the 70s in the 2000s, has also exposed a
An up-to-date compilation of official information released monthwise by the Government of India and the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the year 2
An up-to-date compilation of more than 1,400 official statements by the Government of India from January 17, 2020. Links to articles published by The
An up-to-date compilation of more than 1,300 official statements by the Government of India from January 17, 2020. Links to articles published by The
India’s urban population is projected to grow to about 473 million in 2021 and to 820 million by 2051, as against only 285 million in 2001. To be able
Cities and towns in India are expected to contribute about 70 per cent of the country's GDP by the year 2030. Also, India's urban population is likely
The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India (MoUD) came out with the National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP) in 2006 to bring about comprehe
Periodically, the India Railways comes out with a database of facts and figures that include volume of traffic, freight movement, revenue from commerc
An up-to-date compilation of official information released by the Government of India from January 17, 2020, and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The National Statistical Office (NSO) in its 77th Round carried out a survey on “Land and Livestock Holdings of Households and Sit
Sector Analysis Special Edition: Community Pharmacy & COVID-19 - September 2020, can be accessed here.
The annual Crime In India reports published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) since 1953, provide country-wide data on crime. This page con
The National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, conducted the latest survey on All India Debt & Investment
Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) in India - A Statistical Profile : 2021, can be accessed here:
The full text of the report, Energy Statistics India 2021, can be accessed here:
The full text of the report, "Plans for Bridging the Learning Gap caused due to School Lockdown, as well as Review of online and offline Instructions
In July 2021, the Niti Aayog prepared a National Monetisation Pipeline "to provide a direction to the monetisation" of public assets. The two-volume
The White Paper on Tamil Nadu Government’s Finances, released by the Tamil Nadu Finance and Human Resources Management Minister, P.T.R. Palanivel Thia
One of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is the change in the way in which societies - individuals and groups, businesses and governments - op
The 2015-report by the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, to evaluate the effect of computerisation in district and subordinate
The e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India's Draft Model Rules For Live Streaming and Recording of Court Proceedings.
Rapid assessment of learning during school closures in the context of COVID-19 can be accessed here:
The full text of a compendium of practices from India on mitigating and managing COVID-19, published by the NITI Aayog, can be accessed here:
The full text of the document, Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India - A White Paper, by NITI Aayog and the University of Manitoba, can be
The full text of the India Innovation Index 2020, published by the NITI Aayog, can be accessed here:
An up-to-date compilation of official information released monthwise by the Government of India from January 17, 2020, and the World Health Organisati
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued its updated operational guidelines for COVID-19 vaccines on December 28, 2020, which can be acc
Indian Railways is the 4th largest railway network in the world by size with 121,407 kilometres (75,439 mi) of total track over a 67,368 Km
Household Social Consumption on Education in India - NSS 75th Round - (July 2017 – June 2018)
The first report by the National Statistical Office on Time Use in India, conducted between January and December 2019, measures the participation rat
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, for the month of January 2020.
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, for the month of February 2020.
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, for the month of March 2020.
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, from January 17, 2020 and the World Hea
An up-to-date compilation of official information released by the Government of India from January 17, 2020 and the World Health Organisation (WHO) fo
The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has created a sense of fear over a possible nation-wide roll-out of the National Register of Citi
The State of the Young Child in India, prepared by Mobile Creches in partnership with The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy and other organi
As The Hindu Centre has emphasised in its mission statement, we see ourselves not just as a discourse enabler or a marketplace of ideas but do intend
The National Education Policy, 2020, was announced by the Government of India on July 29. The full text of the new policy, which proposes to revise an
"The National Statistical Office has been bringing out "Women and Men in India" as an annual publication since 1995 and the current issue is the twent
The full text of the EnviStats India 2020: Vol. I – Environment Statistics [PDF] can be accessed below.
The full text of the Rural Health Statistics 2018-19 [PDF] can be accessed below.
The following is the full text of the Brief issued by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, on December 19, 201
The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA 2019), has touched a raw nerve among Indians who grew up in an India that was a melting pot of diversity. Whi
Text of a lecture delivered by Jairam Ramesh, MP, at Mysuru as part of the Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Birth Centenary Celebrations, on February 20,
"The State of India’s Birds report is the first comprehensive assessment of the distribution range, trends in abundance, and conservation status for m
Text of a lecture delivered at Janki Devi Memorial College by Jairam Ramesh, MP, at New Delhi on March 5, 2020.
The full text of the Intervention Petition filed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Citizenship Amendment Act in the Supr
The 34th C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture was delivered by Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister and Senior Visiting Fellow, The Hindu Cent
The following is full text of the inaugural address by President Ram Nath Kovind at The Huddle, organised by The Hindu in Bengaluru on February 22, 20
"Our agenda for the next year is, therefore, to ‘Transform India’ in this direction. My Budget proposals are, therefore, built on this transforma
A close look at the BJP’s election manifestoes from 1996 shows a consistent pattern of fielding the core Hindutva issues. What does the failure to pre
Former national spokesperson of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Ram Madhav, recently inducted into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a genera
Kashmir remains India’s unsolved puzzle even after six decades. Its history has thrown up strange paradoxes and challenges for policy makers in New De
The National Statistical Office (NSO) brings out a survey, once every five years, on the distribution of consumption expenditure in the rural and urba
It was common knowledge that the Supreme Court would deliver its judgment in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit before the Chief Justice of In
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pulverised the opposition in North and West India and made significant inroads into fresh electoral territory of
By an order of the President, issued on August 5, 2019, Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status under Article 370, and downgraded from a
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), focussed as it is on putting into practice long-held positions of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
The Narendra Modi Government has mounted an assault on public institutions and people’s fundamental rights and one such act is the set of amendments p
The Draft National Education Policy, 2019, which aims to reform the education system in India has evoked a mixed response. In this article, Akila R
