Payal Bhattacharya

Data Journalist @Livemint I Ex-business, economy journalist @timesofindia I Data, economy and stock markets enthusiast

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India’s economic growth looks impressive on paper, but the data tells an uneven story on the ground, Payal Bhattacharya (@pbhatt1691) writes in today’s edition of Mint Evening Brief.

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India’s economy is now smaller than previously estimated. Why?

The 2011-12 GDP series was perhaps overestimating economic activity; the new 2022-23 series with improved methodology seems to have offered a course correction—after a decade of questions and criticism.

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#MintPlainFacts | A look at item-level distribution, isolated price surges, and how the revised basket reshapes state and rural–urban comparisons in the first month of the new series.

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#MintPlainFacts | Across key CPI divisions, rural–urban inflation gaps stayed narrow. Even food & beverages - the biggest rural component - didn’t diverge sharply from urban prints, signalling broadly similar cost pressures this month.

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“New GDP series will resolve data concerns”: Dr. Saurabh Garg, Secretary, MoSPI, to Mint in an interview, published on 16 February 2026.

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Despite growing numbers, women in blue-collar and grey-collar jobs face persistent challenges, including low pay, long commutes, and rigid work cultures, which lead to low work satisfaction and a high chance of attrition.

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#MintPlainFacts |☀️ UK spring 2025 sizzled with record sunshine! 🌡️ March-May saw a 43% jump in sun hours, averaging 7.1 hrs/day — beating the 2020 record of 6.8 hrs.

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#MintPrimer | The Niti Aayog CEO has claimed, citing IMF data, that India is now the world's fourth-largest economy. The reality is a little different.

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The media frenzy over the Niti Aayog CEO's "India is 4th largest economy" comment is, frankly, embarrassing.

Let's set the record straight on the data behind it 🧵👇 #Economy #GDP

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#MintPlainFacts | 🇮🇳 Despite export woes, market dips & a sliding rupee, India tops the charts as the best emerging market economy in 2024-25—for the 4th year in a row! 📈🌏

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#MintPlainFacts | Stock market dips in H2 2024, with exports hit by tariff disruptions. Yet, BSE Sensex rebounds, crossing 80,000 in April after a fall from 85,000 in September.

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#MintPlainFacts | Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal urged Indian startups to look beyond consumer-centric products and pivot toward ambitious and long-term innovations. While this has sparked a huge debate, Mint explores what data tells us about the startup space.

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@dhir022 @Firstday75 📊 In charts | The US has imposed a 26% reciprocal tariff on Indian goods, shattering the hopes of any immediate relief from his global trade policies.

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At 6.21%, #RetailInflation in October breached the upper limit of the #RBI’s target, for the first time since August 2023, thanks to an alarming rise in vegetable prices.

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#MintPlainFacts | India’s #Unemployment rate stood steady at 3.2% in 2023-24, but the overall jobless figure masks many problems present in the #Labour market

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Diet dilemma: Why
India isn’t eating right?
@pbhatt1691 writes in the @livemint
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#BangladeshProtests | As #SheikhHasina retained power, #Bangladesh experienced democratic backsliding and economic stagnation, leading to political turmoil. Here is Bangladesh's story in charts.

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#India’s #retailinflation is expected to have dipped below the #RBI’s medium-term target of 4.0% in July, marking the first time since September 2019.

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Global news wrap: Monetary policies, #CrowdStrike outage, taxing the super-rich

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Off the track: Why big budgets don't guarantee safe train rides

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