This gains importance in the backdrop of speculation on a second term for Raghuram Rajan.
Industry cheers while unions label the move veiled entry of a 'hire & fire' regime.
It's time we dispensed with the paper trail and shifted all labour law paper, workflows and permissions online.
It is not just about meeting performance goals, say hiring managers.
Rajasthan has taken the lead on structural reforms which could help India attract business and employ a fast-growing workforce.
The first step in your order of priority should be to pay off any high-cost debt you might have incurred.
India must first improve working condition, then it can concentrate on Make in India concept.
Whether India can create labour-intensive factory jobs instead that it needs to put millions to work in the next few years looks very unlikely.
With a rise in the clout of Muslims in western Uttar Pradesh, fearful Hindus are being radicalised.
PM Modi's China visit may strengthen ties between both the countries.
'In this resurgent India, class is the new caste. We are shaken up only occasionally, and briefly, when a battered, tribal teenager from Jharkhand looks us in the eye from our closet,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Going by the current pace, IT firms are likely to exceed the manufacturing sector in salary payouts over the next five years.
Campus placements are already in full-swing and hiring plans of many companies, whose expansion plans were stuck due to policy paralysis, are now getting green signals.
'You will see more and more people working independently -- starting beauty parlours, driving cars, etc.' This is what we call the gig economy.' 'The same people who have been laid off in India or are unable to get visas to work in the US may be part of this gig economy.' 'India needs billions of jobs, and it can only be created by self-employment or the gig economy.'
Young, ambitious workforce learns skill degrees come with no guarantees.
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