'Without a poverty line, how are we to know whether poverty is the same, or it has come down or it has gone up?' IMAGE: A homeless girl asks for alms outside a coffee shop in Mumbai. Photograph:......
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......
A local courton Saturday directed the police to register a case of murder against Uttar Prasdesh dairy development minister Avadhpal Singh Yadav. The court order came in response to an application......
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court today granted bail to Madhumani Tripathi, one of the main accused in the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla.Justice N K Mehrotra today ordered......
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......
The quality of employment has deteriorated in 12 of the 21 major states and Union Territories, as the proportion of workers in regular or salaried jobs declined between July 2022 and June 2023......
India’s unemployment rate fell to a six-year low of 3.2 per cent in the July-June 2022-23 period, down from 4.1 per cent in the same period the previous year, according to the latest annual......
NITI Aayog has not said what the reasons were for having achieved or not having achieved what was sought to be achieved, or what lessons can be learned for the future, points out Aakar Patel.......
'The rebound has run out of steam.' IMAGE: A labourer loads boxes on a handcart at a market in New Delhi. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters The recently released data on India's economic......
Top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya announced his arrival with a fluent 3-0 Men's Open first round win, in the 64th CCI-Western India Open Squash Championship, co-sponsored by Lifebuoy, at the CCI on......