Tanay Sukumar

In its latest update, the World Bank has revised India's poverty rate downwards. But it has also flagged issues with India's survey data, and by one measure, counts a quarter of Indians as poor. The numbers are complex, so let's unpack them.

India's young women face a sleep crisis, as they juggle household chores and childcare.Many teens and young men are glued to their phone before going to bed, and 10% of elderly are reporting poor sleep.Explore insights from India’s largest-ever sleep pattern survey of nearly 500,000 people.

In this edition of The Beat Report, Mint's Tanay Sukumar describes how he navigated a data maze to produce an analysis that highlights the acute gender gap in sleeping habits in India.

An exclusive Mint study of large-scale survey data recently revealed worrisome trends of Indian women's sleep crisis.

India's official index severely downplays the data on the days of the worst air by capping the figure at 500, howsoever big it may be.

An average Indian used UPI to make payments worth around ₹ 580 per day in November, and this has grown over 40% in the last two years.

With India's diabetes crisis, awareness about low sugar, or hypoglycemia, is essential if you want to be a caring host or a supportive friend

Richer parents adopt a stricter, more conventional, and less liberal approach to child-rearing and future career options—but also feel more worried about rising competition, showed the latest YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey.

India is facing a gender split on key questions about how a family should live, with men still preferring traditional structures and women more keen on nuclear setups, according to the 13th round of the YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey.