'When manufacturing or even services cannot generate the kind of employment they are looking for, they prefer to be unemployed rather than under-employed.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
'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:......
'When you do some job for a few hours, you are hardly earning enough to survive.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com There was euphoria in social media about India becoming a $4 trillion......
25 student suicides in 2023 at India's coaching hub Kota have revealed the mindboggling stress children confront every day, reports Prakash Bhandari. IMAGE: Students at Bansal Classes in Kota. All......
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......
Geopolitical events, macroeconomic data and quarterly earnings of corporates would guide the stock market in a holiday-shortened week ahead, analysts said. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
Indian economy, dubbed the fastest growing major economy in the world, is faced with the single most important pressure point of job creation, says former RBI Governor Raghuram G Ranjan as he makes......
Fresh formal job creation cooled for the second consecutive month to decline to a six-month low in September, signalling a downturn in the labour markets this financial year. Illustration: Uttam......
Macroeconomic data announcements, global factors and trading activity of foreign investors would be the key triggers for the domestic stock markets this week, analysts said. Illustration: Uttam......
Macroeconomic data announcements, global trends and trading activity of foreign investors would guide momentum in the equity market this week, analysts said. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
'The whole point of this idiotic movie hinges on whether Aayush Sharma who wants to act can act. Unless a singular dazed expression qualifies as talent, not by a long shot,' says Sukanya Verma.......
'Mulk questions the very principle, of good-Muslim exceptionalism.''That, of course, we adore Abdul Hamid, A P J Abdul Kalam and Bismillah Khan and if only more Muslims were like them.''Anubhav......