Development Index

Night owls -- a person who is habitually active or wakeful at night -- tend to have a higher body mass index (BMI), larger waists, and more hidden body fat and thus are almost 50 per cent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes (T2D).

The proposed Nasdaq Bitcoin Index Options would track the CME CF Bitcoin Real-Time Index, developed by CF Benchmarks to track Bitcoin futures and options contracts available on the exchange operated by CME Group, Nasdaq said.

Global index provider MSCI has lifted its freeze on the Adani Group and its subsidiary stocks to allow fresh developments in the conglomerate's business operations.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ) on Wednesday said four of its ports have been featured in the prestigious 'Container Port Performance (CPP) Index 2023', developed by the World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Google Play Store prevented 2.28 million apps from being published in 2023 due to major policy violations. In a new report published by the tech giant, it highlighted the steps it took in the last year to ensure the security and privacy of Play Store users. The company further highlighted that it also banned 333K developer accounts from the platfor...

In 2022, average life expectancy in India increased to 67.7 years and gross national income (GNI, per capita) has increased to $6951, a United Nations report has said.

Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Goa and many other cities in India have been under severe Air Quality Index (AQI) as the pollution level is rising gradually. In order to check the AQI of your area or your city before stepping out of the house, there are a few apps that you can install in your phone. As the pollution level is on a rise, we have curated a l...

Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday questioned the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index assessment which ranked India at 135th place in terms of gender parity.

India has dropped another rank on the Human Development Index and now stands at 132, amid a general decline following the Covid pandemic

A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them COVID-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

India was on Tuesday ranked at the 54th place in a global travel and tourism development index, down from 46th in 2019, but still remained on the top within South Asia.

Researchers at the Open University of Catalonia in Spain have developed an algorithm that can identify people who are unhappy by screening the posts they share on social media. The researchers believe this tool could be useful in diagnosing possible communication problems and mental health.

51% of women in Hyderabad are either overweight or obese with Body Mass Index more than or equal to 25 kg/m2 while it was 30.1 per cent for entire Telangana, a compendium done by Council for Social Development (CSD) for 2019-20 has said.

Shimla, Coimbatore and Chandigarh have topped the Niti Aayog's first Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Urban India Index, while Dhanbad, Meerut and Itanagar are the worst performers, according to a report released by the government think tank on Tu

The General Index, created by American archivist Carl Malamud, was released on October 7 and is free to use. The index holds over 355 billion sentence fragments and words listed next to articles in which they appear.

Night owls -- a person who is habitually active or wakeful at night -- tend to have a higher body mass index (BMI), larger waists, and more hidden body fat and thus are almost 50 per cent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes (T2D).

The proposed Nasdaq Bitcoin Index Options would track the CME CF Bitcoin Real-Time Index, developed by CF Benchmarks to track Bitcoin futures and options contracts available on the exchange operated by CME Group, Nasdaq said.

Global index provider MSCI has lifted its freeze on the Adani Group and its subsidiary stocks to allow fresh developments in the conglomerate's business operations.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ) on Wednesday said four of its ports have been featured in the prestigious 'Container Port Performance (CPP) Index 2023', developed by the World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Google Play Store prevented 2.28 million apps from being published in 2023 due to major policy violations. In a new report published by the tech giant, it highlighted the steps it took in the last year to ensure the security and privacy of Play Store users. The company further highlighted that it also banned 333K developer accounts from the platfor...

In 2022, average life expectancy in India increased to 67.7 years and gross national income (GNI, per capita) has increased to $6951, a United Nations report has said.

Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Goa and many other cities in India have been under severe Air Quality Index (AQI) as the pollution level is rising gradually. In order to check the AQI of your area or your city before stepping out of the house, there are a few apps that you can install in your phone. As the pollution level is on a rise, we have curated a l...

Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday questioned the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index assessment which ranked India at 135th place in terms of gender parity.

India has dropped another rank on the Human Development Index and now stands at 132, amid a general decline following the Covid pandemic

A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them COVID-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

India was on Tuesday ranked at the 54th place in a global travel and tourism development index, down from 46th in 2019, but still remained on the top within South Asia.

Researchers at the Open University of Catalonia in Spain have developed an algorithm that can identify people who are unhappy by screening the posts they share on social media. The researchers believe this tool could be useful in diagnosing possible communication problems and mental health.

51% of women in Hyderabad are either overweight or obese with Body Mass Index more than or equal to 25 kg/m2 while it was 30.1 per cent for entire Telangana, a compendium done by Council for Social Development (CSD) for 2019-20 has said.

Shimla, Coimbatore and Chandigarh have topped the Niti Aayog's first Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Urban India Index, while Dhanbad, Meerut and Itanagar are the worst performers, according to a report released by the government think tank on Tu

The General Index, created by American archivist Carl Malamud, was released on October 7 and is free to use. The index holds over 355 billion sentence fragments and words listed next to articles in which they appear.