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Only 3% women in formal jobs, ‘skills not translating into sustained economic participation’—NITI Aayog

Report, titled 'Reimagining Skilling for Viksit Bharat@2047', flags women’s participation in the workforce as a key challenge for India’s ambition of becoming a developed country by 2047.

India’s women face a double burden at home and at work. It keeps them out of jobs

India’s female labour force participation rate remains among the lowest in the world. The reason is the macroeconomic environment, and unpaid work within the household.

Govt’s internship scheme missed targets. But for some it was an entry point into corporate India

Designed to provide internship opportunities to 1 crore youth over five years, the PMIS targets candidates from non-elite educational backgrounds in tier-2 and 3 towns.

Social injustice is inevitable under socialist economic systems: BR Shenoy

Income contrasts tend to decline as economic development progresses, under consumer sovereignty, wrote BR Shenoy in 1977.

India’s paradox—rise in educational enrolment & steady decline in employment

Azim Premji University’s State of Working India 2026 report expanded on the factors that will determine whether India’s demographic dividend translates into an economic dividend.

Why are Northeast’s youth leaving home to face racial attacks in Delhi? Policy failure

Why do eight culturally rich, strategically vital states struggle to create enough institutional gravity to hold their young?

How India’s new labour laws are much better than the UK’s

In labour markets, intentions do not create jobs. Incentives do.

To trade coders for Legos, India needs a better deal

Since politicians are actively promoting AI tokens over human intelligence, they must open other pathways for students. Let today’s 6 million code-writing jobs shrink.

It’s skill or sink, say panellists at AI Impact Summit. ‘If you don’t do AI, AI will be done to you’

India is betting on AI & jobs co-existing. Chief Economic Adviser to the GoI V Anantha Nageswaran said the direction AI takes in India will depend on deliberate national choices.

Floundering PM Internship Scheme has seen 44% drop out since 2024 launch. Budget deals drastic blow

Only 21 percent of interns complete programme as Centre slashes budget by over 50% after poor joining and high attrition.

On Camera

Vande Mataram was always a Congress song. It’s the latest symbol BJP-RSS has claimed

Turning anyone who ever sparred with Nehru and Gandhi into a trophy of appropriation has long been both the Hindu Right's sport and strategy, and a rather successful one.

Is India becoming too dependent on Russian oil? The answer isn’t straightforward

Russia now accounts for about half of India’s crude imports. Experts say this reflects source diversification, but high concentration carries risks from sanctions, shipping curbs.

Modi govt opens up conventional missile production to private players. Astra & Pralay up for grabs

This opens up a market worth several thousand crores while allowing defence ministry to diversify and speed up production at a time when armed forces are looking to build missile stock.

Munir’s latest power grab is proof of his paranoia. Dictatorship and delusion go together

At some point Pakistani dictators begin to show paranoia. That’s the strategic reality most relevant to India since the late fifties. Munir’s case is worse, like some sudden acrophobia.