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Business Standard
7 days ago
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Datanomics: India's huge traffic congestion crisis in global spotlight
India has a big traffic problem. Three of its cities — Kolkata, Bengaluru, and Pune — have made it to the list of the world's top-five most traffic-congested cities, according to the TomTom Traffic Index 2024. The study analysed traffic patterns across 501 cities in 62 countries. The report showed that 76 per cent of the cities worldwide experienced increased travel times compared to 2023. Sneha Sasikumar Kolkata most congested city in India Kolkata, with an average travel time of 34 minutes and 33 seconds per 10 km, has the most-congested in India and the second-most congested worldwide, according to the index. Bengaluru and Pune are in third and fourth place, respectively. London was fifth place, while Barranquilla in Colombia topped the global rankings. New Delhi ranked 122nd globally Hyderabad, Chennai, and Mumbai were among the 50 most traffic-congested cities globally by the index. New Delhi ranked 122nd globally. Delhi had the highest number of vehicle registrations over the four years till 2024.
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Business Standard
29-07-2025
- Health
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Datanomics: Study pressure? School students account for most suicides
Both the total number and rate of suicides per 100,000 population in India have risen since 2020 Sneha Sasikumar Listen to This Article The Supreme Court on July 25 issued pan-Indian 15 interim guidelines to tackle suicides and mental health crises among students in educational institutions. This comes amid a series of student suicides reported recently. These include suicide committed by a fourth-year engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, a second-year bachelor of dental surgery student at Sharda University in Greater Noida, a 15-year-old class X student in Ahmedabad, and a 19-year-old Delhi University student from Tripura. Since 2020, both the total number and rate of suicides per 100,000 population in India have risen (Chart 1). Student suicides accounted
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Business Standard
01-07-2025
- Business
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Private capital expenditure announcements fall 81% in Q1 FY25: CMIE
Private capex fell sharply in April-June 2025 to Rs 4.1 trillion from Rs 21.7 trillion in the previous quarter, with stalling and uncertainty affecting investment flow Sneha Sasikumar Himanshi Bhardwaj New Delhi Listen to This Article Despite a slight uptick, the amount of capital expenditure announced by the private sector in the April–June quarter (Q1) of the current financial year witnessed the second sharpest sequential decline in any quarter in the past 15 years, showed latest data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). The new announcements of industrial and infrastructural capacity expansion fell by 81 per cent to Rs 4.1 trillion from Rs 21.7 trillion in the January–March (Q4) quarter of the previous financial year. Experts attribute the fall in private capex announcements to uncertainty due to tariff wars and lack of proper implementation
