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Topic: employment

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.

Welfare state is socially and economically a national disaster: GN Lawande

In a welfare state, the rule of law has been defiled and public opinion and sovereignty are being superseded by the undemocratic decrees of the ministers, wrote GN Lawande in 1958.

India’s fast-growing gig economy adds lakhs of jobs, but comes with risks for workforce—Economic Survey

Economic Survey underlines gig workforce has grown from 77 lakh in FY 2021 to about 1.2 cr in FY 2025, driven by smartphone penetration, scale-up of digital platforms & payments.

New-age job search: Join a dating app, network your way to interviews

About a third of dating app users said they had sought matches for job hook-ups, according to a survey.

On Camera

University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.