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Monday, July 28, 2025
TopicPew Research Center

Topic: Pew Research Center

Greatest share of world’s migrants from India. Globally, Buddhist & Muslim migrants see steepest rise

India saw a rise in migrants from Nepal and China between 1990 and 2020 while there was a decline in migrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh, Pew's UN and Census data analysis shows.

3 in 4 Israelis support retaliation against Hamas or believe it hasn’t gone far enough, finds Pew

Pew survey shows Jewish Israelis & Arab Israelis see war with Hamas differently, also finds belief in peaceful coexistence of Palestine & Israel sliding over decade from 50% to 26%. 

3 survey results that tell us what Indians think about democracy — and it’s not a simple story

The search for a permanent and coherent popular meaning of democracy is futile. The Pew report underlines this ever-evolving tendency of popular democracy in the Indian context.

Two-thirds of Indians support autocratic or military rule, highest in the world, finds Pew study

US-based think tank found that 67% of Indians polled supported autocratic rule, while 72% supported military rule. Support for representative democracy too declined in India.

Modi & Rahul among most popular leaders in domestic appeal across 24 countries, finds Pew report

Indian PM is third in list of national leaders after Indonesian & Mexican presidents. 72% percent of respondents in India are satisfied with current system of democracy.

Majority of Americans hold Hamas responsible for conflict in Middle East, finds Pew survey

Pew survey also found that 41% respondents in US were concerned that ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict may lead to terrorist attack on American soil.

Majority Indians want their leaders to focus more on domestic issues than world’s, finds Pew survey

A new survey by the US think tank, however, found around 56 percent of citizens feel New Delhi should put other countries’ interests over its own when addressing international issues.

53% Indians in favour of legalising same-sex marriage, shows Pew survey

Survey of 2,611 Indian adults part of analysis across 32 countries in North America, Europe, Middle East, Latin America, Africa & Asia-Pacific region. Report published this week.

Indians believe in US’s economic power more than people in its fellow NATO countries — Pew essay

Data essay by Pew Research Center looks at differences in views of respondents in 24 countries on China and US, covering more than 10 different measures. 

Negative views of China are on the rise. Especially in India, but other emerging economies too

Analysis of Pew surveys between 2019 & 2023 shows worsening attitudes towards China in countries including Brazil & Mexico, although some like Nigeria & Kenya show opposite trend.

On Camera

Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

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.