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Consumer confidence among urban Indians improves in February

Consumer confidence among urban Indians has moved up slightly, by 0.9 percentage point, in February so far, a report said

Small towns outpace tier-1 cities for shopping as Covid pushes e-commerce

E-commerce grew by 36% and 30% YoY in terms of volume and value respectively in Oct-Dec 2020, according to a report by Unicommerce and Kearney

FMCG firms start seeing growth in urban India after months of Covid grief

December quarter shows improvement in sales from cities

Bharat spurs growth of FMCG companies, but Urban India not far behind

Urban growth could stage a comeback by June quarter next year, say analysts; firms concur, saying growth divide could narrow in the future

More hospitals, fewer schools: India's population trends require solutions

There will be more people in the north, but wealth will be in the south: good governance can manage such rifts, write T N Ninan

Most cities in India are turning into 'urban heat islands', finds study

A team of researchers from the IIT Kharagpur has found that most cities in the country are turning into "urban heat islands" in all seasons during day and night, officials said. In their study, researchers from the Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) of the IIT-KGP and its Architecture and Regional Planning department showed that most big cities in the country with population more than one million have recorded rise in mercury level during daytime while showing an increasing trend in the night hours. The study, 'Anthropogenic forcing exacerbating the urban heat islands in India', noted that the relatively warmer temperatures in urban areas, compared to suburbs, have potential health hazards due to heat waves apart from pollution, an IIT KGP statement said on Friday. "Our research is a detailed and careful analysis of urban heat islands of India, which is the difference between urban and surrounding rural land surface temperatures, across a

Banking sector under stress, govt can't bail it out, says Abhijit Banerjee

Banerjee also said that demand slowdown in the automobile sector also shows that people are lacking confidence in the economy.

Unemployment top worry, urban India thinks nation on right path: Survey

Poverty and social inequality are the top worries for global citizens followed by unemployment, crime and violence, financial and political corruption and healthcare, the survey pointed out

India's urban unemployment rate drops to 9.3% in Jan-Mar 2019: Govt data

For women, the UR was at 11.6 per cent during the reported period as against 12.8 per cent during April-June 2018.

The sociology of the slowdown

The last economics guy to take sociology into account was Milton Friedman, says the author

India more urban than we know? How policies fail to keep up with transition

24,000 'villages' with populations greater than towns lose out on policies for urban areas

Why urban Indian women turn down better job opportunities away from home

In over two decades preceding 2013, female labour force participation in India fell from 34.8 per cent to 27 per cent

60 per cent Indians to live in cities by 2050: Govt

Under AMRUT govt plans to strengthen big cities first and smaller cities would be in the second stage