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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicIndex of Industrial Production

Topic: Index of Industrial Production

Lower manufacturing or data issues? Govt figures show some of India’s output below 2011-12 levels

Index of Industrial Production data shows production in several sectors lower than 12 yrs ago. This may be true for some sectors, but also implies data collection process needs an update.

Indians consumed less meat, fish, ice-cream in first half of this fiscal due to Covid fear

CARE Ratings data show impact of Covid fear on consumption, reduction in discretionary spends, a drop in demand from hotel, tourism & aviation industries led to a production slump.

IIP contracts by record 55% in April due to lockdown, but Modi govt says data not comparable

The data showed manufacturing contracted by 64 per cent in April, followed by mining at 27 per cent and electricity by 26 per cent.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.