While the likes of Eros Now and Shemaroo seem to have a clear mass market strategy, one is also going to see the big daddies of digital entertainment, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and Hotstar following suit.

There are no ifs and buts about this one. India is well and truly in the grip of a slowdown that is threatening to get worse by the day

There is a heated debate in the country not only about how the economy is performing but also the credibility of numbers that measure economic progress.

Another component of the report looked at the job losses and estimated that India might have lost 50 lakh jobs between 2016 and 2018

India's unemployed are mostly the higher educated and the young; women much worse affected than men, says a report by Azim Premji University.

CMIE report: The report mentions that that the compensation growth rate in 2017-18 was the slowest in eight years or since the Lehman Brothers crisis of 2008.

As per data compiled from CMIE and annual reports of these companies, the average rate of net addition in employee strength, for TCS has been 11.6 per cent. Whereas the same for Infosys has been 8.18 per cent, since the last 11 fiscals

The NSSO report said that Kerala continued to post the highest unemployment rate at 11.4 per cent in 2017-18 compared to 6.1 per cent in 2011-12, followed by Haryana with 8.6 per cent in 2017-18 to 2.8 per cent in 2011-12.

The fall in the employment rate was the first time in a year since 2013-14, and the steepest since the slowdown of 2011-12 when it had declined by 2.82 per cent

The CMIE report said that the rate of labour participation fell from 42.7% in February to 42.6% in March.

The good and the bad of Modi government's economic performance.

Replete with data and stories of workers across India, this book is both entertaining and disturbing.

From suppression of key statistics to fiddling with GDP and budget numbers, the Central government's data management has come under sharp attack. Economic statistics are vital to public debate and policy making. The first part of a two-part series looks at the implications of not releasing data on unemployment and farmers' suicide.

This story is a part of BusinessToday.In series on unemployment titled 'Jobs - Reality Check'. Absence of reliable data has made unemployment a highly debated topic this election season. The series will try and answer some of the most prevalent questions related to the jobs scene in the country.

The February 2019 the consumer price index (CPI) grew by 2.57 per cent against 4.44 per cent a year ago. In January this year, the CPI inflation was 1.97 per cent. The consumer inflation has been around 2 per cent in 2018-19, mainly led by muted food inflation.

Even central ministers who had cited EPFO data openly to indicate job creation by the Modi government had been left red-faced after aggregate jobs declined over the past four months.

This is the first time in several months that EPFO has declared a growth in job creation since September 2017. For the past few months, it has been revising the total job creation downwards from 79.16 lakh to 72.32 lakh in December 2018.