2023 disasters in numbers
In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses
In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses
New Delhi, 13 Feb: A government committee has recommended setting up of National Crop Statistics Centre (NCSC) for meticulous data collection on diverse crops, in collaboration with the departments of Agriculture and Space. Primary responsibility of NCSC will be to provide reliable and timely estimates at state and national levels of area under major crops, through complete enumeration of plots
<p>New Delhi: India’s industrial production fell to a 20-month low of 1.6% in December, dragged down by sluggish manufacturing but economists said it was not yet time to press the panic button. Economists attributed the decline to the statistical base effect as industrial output had risen 18% in the same yearago period and it is difficult to maintain momentum on such a high base.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee can take credit for ending 2010-11 with a fiscal deficit significantly lower than 5.5 per cent of GDP that his team estimated in the beginning of the year. A higher-than-expected GDP growth rate of 8.6 per cent will give him enough headroom to close the year with a budget deficit of under 5 per cent of GDP.
THE economy is set to expand 8.6% in the fiscal year ending March compared with 8% in the previous year, the government said on Monday.
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New Delhi: The joint family is fast disappearing from the milieu of the capital. A report labelled
<p>The expert committee set up under the chairmanship of Prof. A Vaidyanathan to suggest ways to improve agricultural statistics has called for using remote sensing and restructuring the data collectionmachinery. In its interim report, the expert committee has recommended setting up of the National Crop Statistics Centre (NCSC) to deal with all aspects of crop area and yield estimation.
The government
<p>Proceedings of the ninety eighth session of the Indian Science Congess, Chennai, 2011 (Mathematical Sciences).</p>
Rain is the only source of water on the earth and for conserving this precious resource, the base is the land. Shortage of rainfall coupled with its erratic distribution during rainy season causes severe