Abhishek Jha is a data journalist. He analyses public data for finding news, with a focus on the environment, Indian politics and economy, and Covid-19.
Articles by Abhishek Jha
Budget 2023: ₹35,000 crore outlay for growth in green energy transition
India underlined that its nationally determined contribution to fight climate change will help achieve the long-term goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2070
Updated on Feb 03, 2023 03:01 PM IST
Jayashree NandiAbhishek Jha
Economic Survey's optimism on labour markets warrants caution
Data from quarterly PLFS rounds are available till the three months ended September 2022. Rural employment numbers, however, are released in the annual PLFS reports. These reports show tangible improvement on three key labour market statistics.
Updated on Feb 02, 2023 08:14 AM IST
Abhishek Jha, New Delhi
Eco survey: Quality of life improving as rural push yields dividends
Around two-thirds of India’s population lived in rural areas in 2021, according to United Nations Population Division’s World Urbanisation Prospects, and around 47% of India’s workers were dependent on agriculture, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2020-21
Published on Jan 31, 2023 11:45 PM IST
Abhishek Jha, New Delhi
Importance of the Budget for agriculture sector
Agriculture accounts for about 15% of the GDP but employs more than 40% of Indian workers
Published on Jan 27, 2023 03:48 PM IST
Abhishek Jha, New Delhi
The great global meat-up: See where India fits in
Local surveys around the world have reflected shifts in the amounts of meat the average person consumes. What drives such dietary changes in India?
Updated on Aug 04, 2023 12:24 AM IST
Number Theory: Decoding the electoral contest in three states
The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced dates for assembly elections to three states – Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura – on January 18.
Updated on Jan 19, 2023 12:27 PM IST
Abhishek Jha, New Delhi
Number theory: Why China’s population numbers are significant
China’s economic transformation from a poor Asian country to the world’s second largest economy is perhaps the most fascinating rags-to-riches story in the history of modern capitalism.
Updated on Jan 18, 2023 02:47 PM IST
Number theory: In warm 2022, almost no place on Earth was colder than ‘normal’
While markers such as the global average of temperature shown above tend to hide regional variations, a disaggregated analysis of temperature in 2022 shows that both the northern and southern hemispheres were the sixth warmest on record.
Updated on Jan 16, 2023 03:45 PM IST
Number Theory: Bihar’s socio-economic landscape; known and unknown facts
Even though India stopped conducting a detailed caste census after 1931, the census does count the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) population separately.
Updated on Jan 11, 2023 07:25 AM IST
Number Theory: Why Jan 2023 feels colder than last year
Large parts of north India are reeling under numbing cold with the mercury remaining below the freezing point at most places in Jammu and Kashmir. Is this winter really colder than what is normally the case? An HT analysis of the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) gridded database can answer some of these questions.
Published on Jan 10, 2023 07:33 PM IST
Why the Aravallis come to die in NCR
Among the 23 districts where Aravallis exist, Delhi, Gurugram, and Faridabad are the most urban.
Published on Jan 07, 2023 04:51 AM IST
Number Theory: Four key questions that will matter for the economy in 2023
As the New Year begins amid renewed hope, what will 2023 hold for the economy — both Indian and global?
Updated on Jan 05, 2023 07:34 AM IST
Number Theory: Tracking employment data in ’22 as jobs return 2 yrs after Covid
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020, economies all around the world have learnt that they must balance lives and livelihood to survive.
Updated on Dec 30, 2022 04:12 AM IST
Max 15.6°C, min 5°C: Delhi fights biting cold as sun stays away
The night was coldest in south Delhi’s Aya Nagar, with the minimum a sharp 4°C, while the day was coolest in southwest Delhi’s Jafarpur, which saw a maximum of just 11°C.
Updated on Dec 27, 2022 04:49 AM IST
Jasjeev Gandhiok & Abhishek Jha
No sign yet of China virus surge in India Covid data
The rise in Covid-19 cases in neighbouring China now has the attention of the top authorities in India, including the prime minister and the union health minister. None of them has suggested any drastic measures yet (and rightly so), and only all advised pandemic-appropriate behaviour and more surveillance. There is good reason for this.
Updated on Dec 23, 2022 09:24 AM IST
Three reasons India will not see a Covid-wave like China’s
An HT analysis of data from China and India suggests that India is likely better protected than China. However, this analysis also shows that this fact will not remain true without dynamic action on the vaccination front.
Updated on Dec 22, 2022 04:40 PM IST
Abhishek Jha, New Delhi, Hindustan Times
If December isn’t very cold, 2022 will be one of the warmest ever years
Frost and snow gave way to a mild weather in the United Kingdom on Monday, a trend that is likely to persist up to Christmas, the country’s Met Office predicted . This has a parallel in India, where there has not been much or any snow in the Himalayas.
Updated on Dec 21, 2022 04:55 AM IST
Number theory: Tracking the dramatic temperature changes India saw through 2022
To be sure, while 2022 is in the top 20% coldest years by maximum temperature, it ends up on the warmer half when we look at the minimum temperature.
Updated on Dec 19, 2022 01:46 PM IST
India’s vaccine coverage stagnant for over a month amid surge in cases abroad
India has made remarkable progress in vaccinating people against Covid-19 since the beginning of the immunisation drive in January 2021. However, since September, when a free window for boosters was discontinued, it has faltered in this initiative.
Updated on Dec 15, 2022 04:58 AM IST
Abhishek Jha, New Delhi
Did Old Pension Scheme win Himachal Pradesh for the Congress?
Anecdotal accounts of the party’s campaign in Himachal Pradesh suggest that the Congress gained significantly because of its promise to restore Old Pension Scheme
Updated on Dec 10, 2022 04:34 AM IST
Vote split not key factor behind BJP’s win in Gujarat: Poll arithmetic decoded
Vote split alone cannot explain the results in Gujarat. It is likely the appeal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the efficient campaign the BJP ran, helped it more than vote cutting did.
Updated on Dec 10, 2022 05:18 AM IST
Congress’s dwindling fortunes, in 4 maps
In winning Himachal Pradesh back, the Congress has merely repeated a pattern that has held since 1990
Updated on Dec 09, 2022 02:27 PM IST
Vote share spoilers hit poll fortunes of 3 major parties in Gujarat
Did the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) act as a spoiler in the 2022 Gujarat elections? If it did, how much of an impact did it have on the Gujarat results? An HT analysis shows that the answer is not straightforward
Updated on Dec 09, 2022 02:18 AM IST
BJP footprint on seats it never won before in Gujarat assembly
Not only has the BJP added 29 seats to its previous all-time best of 127 seats in 2002, it has also beaten the record of 149 seats that the Congress achieved in the 1985 elections
Updated on Dec 09, 2022 05:56 AM IST
Seat share vs vote share: Congress’s victory maths in Himachal
While the Congress’s seat share to vote share ratio has increased significantly from 0.74 to 1.34 between 2017 and 2022, the BJP’s has fallen sharply from 1.33 to 0.85.
Updated on Dec 09, 2022 04:07 PM IST
Four key messages from the elections
Is there a larger takeaway from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress victories in these two states?
Published on Dec 09, 2022 12:03 AM IST
Roshan Kishore and Abhishek Jha
With 80% vote count so far, Congress takes lead over BJP in Himachal
The Congress party has established a lead over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections with around 80% of votes counted in the hill state until 12
Published on Dec 08, 2022 01:01 PM IST
Victory margins show 2022 MCD polls more closely fought
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), that won on Wednesday, has a seat share of 54%, lower than the 66% seat share for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won the elections in 2017
Published on Dec 08, 2022 01:59 AM IST
Delhi riots may have left impact on vote patterns
An analysis of the AAP’s seat share shows that in the Muslim-dominated assembly constituencies of North East Delhi and East Delhi parliamentary constituencies, the AAP has either lost seat share compared to 2017 or did not have a significant seat share to begin with
Published on Dec 08, 2022 12:47 AM IST
Significance of the MCD results — in three charts
The Aam Admi Party (AAP) has secured a simple majority in the 2022 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, winning 134 wards in the 250-ward corporation. By doing so, it has wrested the (erstwhile) three MCDs from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won 181 out of the 272 wards in the MCD polls held in 2017.
Updated on Dec 08, 2022 02:11 PM IST
Abhishek Jha and Roshan Kishore
