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Thursday, November 7, 2024
TopicLocalCircles survey

Topic: LocalCircles survey

Inflation raised monthly expenses of 92% Indian families in last 3 months, finds survey

A LocalCircles poll found that 70% of respondents felt their monthly household budget increased by 10% while 55% expected expenses to go up by another 10% in the next 3 months.

64% Indians are pestered by 3 or more spam calls every day, survey finds

According to the LocalCircles survey, a majority of spam calls were offering financial services (51%), real estate (29%), pathology services (8%), phone data plans and job offers (3% each).

As cooking oil prices rise, Indian households spend more, look for cheaper alternatives, survey shows

Survey by LocalCircles also found that 17% were cutting discretionary spending to afford the oil and 1 in 2 households are dipping into savings to buy it.

46% Indians likely to cancel summer plans as Ukraine crisis pushes up airfares, survey finds

Conflict has come as a dampener for those who were ready with packed bags after Covid restrictions eased; most are now looking for alternate modes of travel.

28% eligible recipients won’t take Covid booster right away, 14% won’t go for it at all: Survey

Results based on national survey of 22,000 people conducted by social media community platform LocalCircles. It sought to know why people eligible for Covid booster dose hadn't taken it.

48% Delhi parents ready to send children to school as positivity rate falls to 5%, survey finds

The survey by social media community platform LocalCircles also says 21% of parents want to send children back to schools once the test positivity rate drops to 2% or lower.

67% Indians would support if govt gives free N95 masks to all: Survey on Covid fight

LocalCircles survey also revealed that 2 in every 3 Indians who don masks wear cloth ones instead of N95s, which are considered more effective against Omicron variant.

39% Indians paid bribe for Covid treatment at hospital during 2nd wave, survey finds

Of those who paid bribe, 32 per cent paid it for 'getting an admission/bed/ventilator/medicines either for self or someone'.

43% Delhi-NCR residents say someone in their family or social network affected by dengue: Survey

LocalCircles cited findings from hospitals such as Apollo and Max which stated that the number of dengue cases in the past month has spiked by 30-60 per cent. 

80% Delhi-NCR families have at least 1 member ailing due to air pollution, new survey says

A survey of 34,000 families by LocalCircles shows how this pollution has affected families, and adds that they are considering significant lifestyle changes. 

On Camera

India-China border can’t be changed. Formalising LAC as the redline is the answer

The India-China crisis has led to a de facto delineation of the 1959 Claim Line in Ladakh. Why can’t this delineation be extended to the rest of the LAC and the McMahon Line?

US President-elect Trump vows to slash trade deficit with India. How trade fared under him vs Biden

India-US trade in first 3 yrs under Biden was $122 bn, while it was $83 bn in Trump’s first term. Average trade surplus in India’s favour grew from $18 bn under Trump to $31 bn under Biden.

India, Bangladesh Army chiefs discuss issues of ‘mutual interest’

Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.