Official Statistics

The Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026 has been introduced in the Lok Sabha, and of every current affairs topic across three months of filtering, this is the one written most directly for you. In July we covered Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founding the Institute in 1931, and why that institution matters to anyone entering the Indian … Read more

The NFHS 6 findings give you something most current affairs topics cannot: numbers precise enough to turn a general answer into an evidence based one. There is a particular kind of answer examiners remember. A student writes about women’s empowerment and, instead of the usual sentences about awareness and education, states that the proportion of … Read more

The Civil Registration System Report 2024 records something that sounds like a straightforward success story and is actually a lesson in how to read an official statistic. India now registers almost every birth and almost every death. That is a genuine achievement. It is also a number measured against another number, and a statistics candidate … Read more

National Statistics Day 2026 is the one current affairs topic on this list that is about your own profession, and it is very likely interview material for anyone sitting the Indian Statistical Service. A board asking a Statistics candidate about Mahalanobis is not testing current affairs. It is testing whether you know the intellectual history … Read more

Census 2027 India is the country’s first population census in fifteen years, and of every current affairs topic this cycle, it is the one most likely to follow you into the interview room. If you are selected into the Indian Statistical Service, you will work inside a system where the census is the foundation of … Read more