Abhishek Jha

5 days ago | htsyndication.com | Roshan Kishore |Abhishek Jha

India, June 2 -- Shifting workers out of agriculture is India's biggest structural transformation challenge. Headline numbers suggest that it has made some progress on this front. Official employment data shows that agriculture's employment share has fallen from 64.5% in 1993-94 to 46.1% in 2023-24. To be sure, agriculture's employment share has been relatively flat in the last few years. What exactly are the dynamics of this change?

1 week ago | htsyndication.com | Abhishek Jha

New Delhi, May 30 -- Internet usage is reaching a saturation point in India but only around 18% of the population know how to report cyber-crimes, a government survey released on Thursday indicated. Usage, driven by smartphones and mobile data, is higher for the younger age groups. However, despite regular use (most respondents reported using the internet daily), even the young are poorly equipped for tasks related to education and work, like creating a document or a presentation, says the survey.

1 week ago | htsyndication.com | Abhishek Jha

India, May 28 -- This May is, thus far, the wettest in India in 125 years, the period for which India Meteorological Department (IMD) has published gridded data, which allows detailed analysis of rainfall. An HT analysis of this data shows that the month will end up as the third wettest May since 1901 even if there is no rain in the remaining four days. While the early arrival of the monsoon has aided this trend, frequent storms across the country even before monsoon's arrival are a big reason.

1 week ago | htsyndication.com | Abhishek Jha

India, May 25 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced on May 24 that the monsoon has set in over Kerala, arriving eight days before the normal June 1 date for the southernmost region of mainland India. How often does the monsoon arrive early in India? What does an early monsoon mean for overall rainfall during the year? An HT analysis of IMD's rainfall data and existing research answers these questions. Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Hindustan Times....

3 weeks ago | techworm.net | Abhishek Jha

If you care about online privacy, you probably already know: centralized VPNs and even Tor aren’t enough anymore. Traditional VPNs require you to trust a single company with your internet activity. Even if they promise “no logs,” you’re still handing over the keys to your digital life to a third party. If they’re compromised — or forced by authorities — they can expose your information. And decentralized VPNs?