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Topic: employment

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In a welfare state, the rule of law has been defiled and public opinion and sovereignty are being superseded by the undemocratic decrees of the ministers, wrote GN Lawande in 1958.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

Making Jobs & Talent Discoverable: Why It Matters For a Viksit Bharat

India’s employment gap is not just about the creation of jobs or skills, but also about whether people and opportunities can find each other in time.

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with global market & build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Rs 15,000 for first-time employees: Modi’s employment incentive push on Independence Day

Approved by Union Cabinet last month as ELI scheme, PM Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana aims to incentivise creation of more than 3.5 cr jobs in the country over a period of two years.

Modi govt clears scheme to give job market entrants one month’s wage of up to Rs 15k as incentive

Presenting Budget 2024-25, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman earlier announced the scheme, a part of the PM’s package of five schemes to facilitate employment.

Everyone’s joking about becoming a Vishal Mega Mart guard. Memes say it’s ‘better than UPSC’

Vishal Mega Mart is a retail store chain with over 600 outlets across India. In Delhi, it has a presence in Shahdara, Malviya Nagar, Chattarpur, Karol Bagh, Pitampura, Mahipalpur, and Manglapuri, among other locations.

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Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.