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Friday, August 1, 2025
TopicIndian Statistical Institute

Topic: Indian Statistical Institute

President Murmu meets with statistical service probationers

Murmu emphasized the importance of statistical tools and quantitative techniques in effective governance.

Statistics pioneer CR Rao, ‘father’ of Indian statistical education, passes away at 102

Legendary statistician CR Rao has been a recipient of not just the Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan, but also the prestigious International Prize in Statistics, awarded in 2023.

Legendary statistician CR Rao, credited with restructuring field of statistics, turns 100

Indian-American statistician CR Rao is known for making seminal contributions to statistics such as development of Cramér-Rao Lower Bound, Rao-Blackwellization, & Lagrange multiplier test.

Tallying votes with VVPAT at one booth in every seat is more than needed, experts tell EC

Experts from the Indian Statistical Institute have opined that the EC must consider the sample size, not the sample proportion, to verify votes.

P.C. Mahalanobis: The father of Indian statistics who introduced concept of planned economy

Mahalanobis, who was a member of India's first Planning Commission, set up the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata in 1932.

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Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.