WORRYING! Unemployment Rises in December

The unemployment rate shot up to a record 10.9 per cent in the week that ended on December 18, points out Mahesh Vyas. IMAGE: Labourers wait for work at a market on a cold morning in Delhi. Kindly......

Russian missiles hit 'critical infrastructure' in Ukraine's Odesa

Russian missile strikes hit 'critical infrastructure' in Ukraine's southern port city of Odesa on Sunday morning, Serhii Bratchuk, spokesman of the Operational Staff of Odesa regional military......

Our forces advanced 8 miles in past 24 hrs: Russia

Units of the Russian armed forces are moving forward with the special operation, having advanced up to 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) over the past 24 hours, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor......

Putin attacked Ukraine as UNSC was appealing for peace

Just as United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres was making an appeal in the Security Council to Russian President Vladimir Putin to 'stop your troops from attacking Ukraine' and other......

March's Employment Figures Disappointing

The fall in the employment rate translated into a 2.6 million fall in absolute employment between December 2022 and March 2023.Most of this fall was in March 2023. Photograph: ANI Photo Headline......

Workforce Shrank By 3.8 Million In March

What the labour market statistics of March 2022 show is India's biggest sign of economic distress, points out Mahesh Vyas. IMAGE: A job fair on the Delhi University campus. Photograph: ANI Photo......

Indians Can't Afford To Remain Unemployed

Households with only one employed person can be considered to be somewhat vulnerable. Their proportion is rising. Also rising is the proportion of highly vulnerable households with no person......

Employment may go past pre-Covid levels in October

The week ended October 17 was remarkable as it saw a fall in the unemployment rate.We have not seen such a level in any monthly estimate of the employment rate since March 2020, Mahesh Vyas points......