Abhishek Jha

New Delhi

Data Journalist at Hindustan Times

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Putting China's rare earth dominance in perspective | Number Theory

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha

Putting China's rare earth dominance in perspective | Number Theory Jun 20, 2025 08:52 AM IST . After the United States and China re-affirmed the truce in their trade war last week, it is expected that flow of rare earth minerals from China to the rest of the world will return to normal. China imposed export restrictions on seven rare earths – a group of 17 elements with applications from electronics to renewable energy systems – in April.
Weather Bee: How did monsoon restart after a three-week pause?

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha

After staying stationary for around three weeks, the Southwest monsoon finally started advancing beyond the peninsular and north-eastern regions on June 16. This long pause is one reason why the monsoon was almost on schedule for eastern Bihar and northern Maharashtra although it arrived on the Kerala coast eight days before schedule. What explains the long pause and the progress thereafter?
Weather Bee: How is monsoon performing this year

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha

India’s monsoon season, the country’s main rainy season, runs officially from June to September. With data for the first 12 days of the 122-days season now in, how does rain’s performance look like in the 2025 monsoon? The answer to this question has been complicated this year by the early arrival of the monsoon weather system. According to the gridded data of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the first 12 days of June have been unusually dry.
Home Ministry data shows more under-25 deaths in 2022 than in 2021

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha

The Sample Registration System (SRS) is considered to be the most authoritative statistical source on births and mortality in India, especially the latter. However, the 2022 SRS numbers on deaths, which were released on June 12, are quite perplexing, to put it mildly, for two reasons. One, they suggest that significantly more under-25 people died in 2022 than not just in 2021 but also on average in the three years before the Covid-19 pandemic.
12 states, UTs undercounted Covid deaths in 2022: Report

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha

New Delhi: India registered 8.6 million deaths in 2022, the least deadly year of the Covid-19 pandemic. This represents a 15% decline from 2021, the deadliest pandemic year, with the death rate likely returning to pre-pandemic levels. This suggests mortality was normalising as Covid-19 infections became less severe and vaccines were deployed. However, signs of health system stress persisted due to the virus.
Weather Bee: By June 3, NE states got more than 15 days worth of rain in just five

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha

To be sure, some places in north-eastern states continued to be unusually rainy even on June 4 and June 5. However, according to IMD’s gridded data, an unusually large amount of rain was widespread in the region during a five-day period. This can be seen by comparing daily rain in 2025 with the long period average (LPA) of rain for those days. LPA is the average rain during the 1971-2020 period and is used to track rain’s performance.
‘Over 3K natural disaster deaths in 2024-25’

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha

The number of people that died on account of natural disasters (including extreme weather events) was 3080 in 2024-25, the highest since 2013-14 according to a provisional estimate of the number from the Disaster Management (DM) division of the home affairs ministry, although the number is likely to be a significant underestimate, if past trend data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) is any indication.
Weather Bee: What is the southwest monsoon?

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha

This question became all important on May 26, the day the India Meteorological Department (IMD) declared monsoon onset (the monsoon at this time of the year is called the southwest monsoon) over Mumbai. As HT’s Mumbai edition reported on May 27, scientists not affiliated with the IMD debated if the monsoon had indeed arrived over the city. Without knowing what the southwest monsoon is, one cannot decide who among the two is right. So who among the IMD and non-IMD scientists is right?
Young men most likely to move out of farm sector | Number Theory

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Roshan Kishore |Abhishek Jha

Young men most likely to move out of farm sector | Number Theory Jun 02, 2025 09:03 AM IST . 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.
Just 18% internet users know how to report e-crimes

4 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha

Internet usage is reaching a saturation point in India but only 18% of Indians know how to report cyber-crimes, a government survey released on Thursday said. 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.