One popular strategy is to hire contract workers.
About 120 start-ups, mostly e-commerce ones, have signed up on Hirees platform to recruit candidates who are actively seeking jobs.
The Finance Commission has substantially increased the allocation of funds to panchayats, but a large part of it is apportioned by state governments.
While investment activity jumped three to four times this year over last year for e-commerce, it has shown marginal growth (five per cent) in the case of consumer and retail
'When I was young, I used to look around the village we lived in.' 'There was a lack of resources -- no proper health centres and schools.' 'I felt that becoming an IAS officer would help solve those issues.'
The minister tells Subhomoy Bhattacharjee that he wants to set up a financing corporation for the road and shipping sectors, which will throw up a business opportunity of Rs 25 lakh crore!
Pravin Rao says firms with revenue of $600-700 millon will be preferred.
Electricity generation has outperformed the industrial production index for five months in a row this financial year, even as the broader economy is struggling to grow.
The company is currently selling an average 2,000 units each month.
'If Ruttie had been alive, Jinnah would never have turned communal.'
While funds will not be a constraint, the challenge for Aasaanjobs will be to reach out to people with no internet, says M Saraswathy.
Longest period of price-earnings expansion in the index since 1996
At present, Air India offers eight first class, 35 business class and 195 economy class seats in its Boeing 777 200-LRs.
As coal stocks at thermal plants fall to critical levels, economic recovery could be hi.
'It is your government and you are running away from the people. Women's security is a big issue and one shouldn't delay in taking action.' Allegations fly against the Delhi chief minister, as the split in the Aam Aadmi Party widens. Manu Shankar reports from New Delhi.
Puja Kapoor tells us how her project partner went on to become her life partner.
A day ahead of the nationwide protests planned by the opposition against demonetisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended the move and warned unscrupulous people using the Jan Dhan accounts of the poor to launder their black money of strict action.
The shares could continue to see outperformance if the Budget assumptions are proved correct
Much of the pre-2014 peace in our hotspots is diminished. Kashmir is on the boil and the Northeast is anarchic, observes Shekhar Gupta.
As much as 73% of total income of national political parties is unaccounted for, says Association for Democratic Rights.
'The way the daredevil feats are set up, they don't have the maniacal feeling of actual gun battles, or good jazz, or a whacked-out dance performance -- they just don't provide you that giddy tingle you go looking for in such films,' feels Sreehari Nair.
Investors prefer exits with lower valuation to staying invested for a longer term
High fiscal deficits raise inflation which hits the lowest income and salaried classes.
The very design of the GST will bring in revenue buoyancy.
Green rating of thermal power plants are way behind the global best.
Given the broken balance sheet and the limited fiscal room, the government has to kick off investment: Vikas Khemani & Stephen Gallagher.
However, the budget arithmetic is slightly optimistic.
Personal health and hygiene are a pre-requisite for donating blood.
Domestic airports across the country are bursting at the seams. And new ones are stuck.
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During April-February, the index of industrial production, a measure of factory activity, declined 0.1 per cent compared with a 0.9 per cent growth in the corresponding period of 2012-13.
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The agricultural supply system has to be able to respond to this increasing demand, which it is not able to do.
Struggling, corrupt construction industry will be challenged by the prime minster's $250-billion plan
Drag-flickers Rupinderpal Singh and V R Raghunath scored hat-tricks as India extended their winning run in the Asia Cup hockey tournament, trouncing Bangladesh 9-1 in their concluding Pool B match at the Sultan Azlan Shah stadium in Ipoh, Malaysia, on Wednesday.
The film whirrs along from disjointed scene to disjointed scene, the only intriguing ones being weird B-movie moments that turn out, far too frequently, to be Batman's dreams, says Raja Sen
To address a crescendo of complaints, the state government recently created a new category of taxis that have a self-explanatory 'no refusal' blazoned on them and come in the by-now-ubiquitous blue and white colours of the Trinamool Congress.
A recent survey done by indianboards.com suggests that around 283 directors will retire by October this year.
'It is perhaps kind of easy to see why Peter and the police clash.' 'The obvious air of entitlement that emanates from him, maybe unknowingly, probably gets the goat of the policemen.'
Rediff's Love Guru has answers to all your relationship problems.
Amid concerns of bullion trade being used for routing of black money, Switzerland's gold exports to India have risen further and is fast approaching Rs 1-trillion mark for the entire 2014.
