Gehlot's Dilemma: 1,813,302 Jobless Workers

The state's joblessness is three times higher than the national average of 7.8 per cent. IMAGE: Ashok Gehlot being felicitated during the Congress Guarantee Yatra in Kotputli. Photograph: ANI......

Telangana Polls: KCR's Affinity With Freebies

The situation raises concerns about whether the promised freebies will once again push the state into a revenue deficit. IMAGE: Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrasekhar Rao -- who is also......

Will Jobs Be An Electoral Issue In State Polls?

Youth unemployment (ages 15 to 29) is higher than the national average of 12.4 per cent in Telangana (14.2 per cent) and Rajasthan (13 per cent), followed by Chhattisgarh (6.7 per cent) and MP (6......

Karnataka's Limited Scope To Dole Out Freebies

IMAGE: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai flashes the victory sign at a roadshow in the Bengaluru urban district ahead of the state assembly polls, April 23, 2023. Photograph: ANI Photo......

Why analysts are betting on IndiGo, SpiceJet

Airline stocks have been soaring following a steep decline in crude oil prices and sustained passenger traffic. Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters Analysts have particularly turned bullish on the......

Share of urban women with salaried jobs at 6-year low in Q2: PLFS

As more companies ask their employees to return to office after the pandemic, the share of women employed in regular salaried jobs in urban India decreased from 54 per cent in the first quarter to......

'The real GDP was captured better'

'Revision of the base year for both CPI and GDP are long overdue.''The basic data that went into the 2011-2012 series were mainly from surveys done in 2011 or earlier.''We have since seen the......

10% fewer fresh formal jobs created in April-August

While the country's unemployment rate is falling, the quality of employment seems to have taken a hit. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The pace of formalisation slowed in the five months......