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Knowledge Nugget: National Statistics Day- Understanding the legacy of the father of Indian statistics for UPSC Exam

June 30, 2025 2:38 pm

Every year on June 29, National Statistics Day honours the legacy of P.C. Mahalanobis. This year, with the theme '75 Years of National Sample Survey,' data once again takes centre stage in nation-building. Also, go 'Beyond the Nugget' to know about the National Sample Survey and MoSPI.

MoSPI plans to conduct sentiment, outlook surveys using proposed business register

June 07, 2025 5:17 pm

The working group has been tasked with preparing a dynamic Statistical Business Register and developing the IT infrastructure to host, maintain, and ensure security and confidentiality of the database that will contain data on all business entities of India.

National Statistics Day 2024: Know the date, theme, history, and significance

June 28, 2024 10:18 am

As India celebrates its statistician community on June 29, here is all you need to know about National Statistics Day, why it is celebrated, and its theme for 2024. 

102-year-old Indian-American mathematician CR Rao to be conferred with International Prize in Statistics

April 11, 2023 9:18 am

Rao, who is now 102, will receive the prize, which comes with a $80,000 award, this July at the biennial International Statistical Institute World Statistics Congress in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

IIT Kanpur to offer two new courses in Statistics and Data Science from 2021-22 session

May 25, 2021 7:25 pm

The academic senate and board of the institute have approved new 4-year BS and 5-year BS-MS programmes in Statistics and Data Science from the coming academic year 2021-22. The admissions to the programmes will be through JEE (Advanced) score.

Planning to study Statistics: Here are career options for you

July 17, 2019 5:59 pm

Statistics is often confused with mathematics, but it is a field that has a variety of lucrative career options. Careers in advanced statistics are in high demand in private and the public sector.

Head of China's statistics bureau probed for corruption

January 26, 2016 9:50 pm

The announcement came just hours after Wang appeared at a press briefing in Beijing on China's economy in 2015. Last week the National Bureau of Statistics release

India vs Australia: Facts and figures from Day two of the 2nd Test match

December 18, 2014 7:23 pm

Rohit is yet to post a fifty in eight Test innings -his last half-century being 72 vs New Zealand at Auckland

Murali Vijay becomes first opener to score a ton in the first innings of Test match at Gabba

December 17, 2014 6:32 pm

After West Indies, India have became the 2nd team to manage 300 on the 1st day of a Test match at Brisbane.

Nathan Lyon records his second five-wicket haul against India

December 12, 2014 5:52 pm

In only seven Tests in 2014, Warner has completed his 1,000 runs - his aggregate being 1061 (ave.75.78).

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