456,082: Passengers who flew in India on a single day  

On April 30, India’s home airways set a single-day document by carrying 456,082 individuals on 2,978 flights. Firmly indicating a post-pandemic restoration in journey, greater than 37.5 million passengers have crisscrossed the nation within the first three months of 2023, the BBC reported. This could not convey a couple of full revival of the aviation business, as GoFirst’s bankruptcy reveals. Clearly, although, there’s lots of area within the Indian skies.

$573: The common month-to-month wage in India

India ranks sixty fifth on the earth phrases by common month-to-month wage obtained by staff. On International Labor Day (May 1), World of Statistics published knowledge displaying the Indian common to be Rs 46,861 ($573). This was larger than Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Colombia, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Nigeria, Egypt, and Pakistan. Switzerland topped the checklist with $6,096.

83 million barrels: An Indian agency’s Russian oil cargo

A bit-known Indian agency has emerged as an oil-shipping large for the reason that Russian invasion of Ukraine final yr. Gatik Ship Management, a Mumbai-based firm that reportedly owned solely two chemical tankers in 2021, had by April this yr acquired a fleet of 58 vessels valued at $1.6 billion, in accordance with the Financial Times. Gatik has shipped at the very least 83 million barrels of Russian crude and oil merchandise, sufficient to fulfill the UK’s demand for greater than two months. More than half of that has come from Rosneft, the Russian vitality large whose CEO faces US sanctions.

$23 billion: GST earnings at a document excessive in April

India’s assortment of products and companies tax (GST) for April 2023 stood at $22.9 billion, 12% larger than the determine for a similar month final yr. It marks the highest-ever GST earnings for the nation. April additionally noticed the highest-ever tax assortment on a single day: greater than $8.3 billion on the twentieth, by way of practically 1,000,000 transactions, a government release mentioned. (On the identical day final yr, the gathering was a bit greater than $7 billion.) Smaller states, particularly in India’s northeast, noticed the largest enhance in GST assortment from April 2022.

47%: Indians who’ve some expertise of AI voice scams 

Nearly half of all Indians surveyed for a report by McAfee had skilled, or recognized somebody who had skilled, scams involving faux, AI-generated voice messages. The messages, purporting to be from buddies or relations in misery, solicit monetary assist, and 83% of people that obtained these messages mentioned they’d misplaced cash on this method. (Nearly half of those victims misplaced greater than $600.) Worryingly, as much as 69% of surveyed Indians had been unable to distinguish between AI-based voices and actual ones. Voice cloning has turn out to be a well-liked device amongst cybercriminals, particularly as a result of so many grownup Indians share their voice knowledge on-line. So always remember to confirm that decision out of your uncle or niece.