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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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Topic: employment

Is EPFO data right metric to show job creation? No, say experts citing its data limitations

Wage ceiling, mobility of lower-end workers, smaller establishments willfully avoiding registrations among factors that make EPF data flawed indicator, they assert

Ten reasons to use a cognitive ability test for hiring and employment

Cognitive ability tests are evaluation weapons for every recruiter because hiring a candidate with appropriate cognitive skills helps improve business productivity, enhance personal performance.

Three-fold rise in openings for freshers in HY 22, IT sector to be major employer, says report

A TeamLease EdTech report shows job aspirants with 0-1 yr experience are now market favourites. Spending in IT sector increased by 24% y-o-year in 2022 despite recession fears.

Real estate, IT, gig jobs, MNREGA: Making sense of India’s roller-coaster unemployment crisis

Employment in India rose from 394.6 million in August to 404.2 million in September, and while the numbers are still below pre-Covid levels, the increase is encouraging.

xHashtag brings identity credentials to Solana blockchain

Monica Durga, founder of xHashtag says, “Using Soultag Soulbound Tokens, wallet addresses can be humanized without revealing too much information about the owner."

What is quiet-quitting? Researchers explain rising employee disengagement

A Gallup survey has revealed that about half of the US workforce is ‘psychologically detached’ from their job and prefers to do the ‘bare minimum.’

Mood of the Nation survey has 3 messages for Modi govt, Opposition—Economy, economy, economy

Is this the beginning of the end of Modi government? That would be a hasty and lazy conclusion.

India’s ‘salaried class’ shrank during Covid, Muslims hit hardest, govt data suggests

India’s salaried class shrank by 2.7 percentage points during pandemic, govt’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) shows. But data for religious minorities, women is even bleaker.

Electricity or schools? Roads or hospitals? Why it isn’t easy for Modi to fix ‘freebies’

So used are Indians to handouts that they will opt for doles instead of measures that can help in the future. But, the thumb rule is not to overspend beyond one's means.

7.22 lakh out of 22.05 crore applicants got govt jobs since 2014, Centre tells Lok Sabha

Union Minister Jitendra Singh said 'employment generation coupled with improving employability' was the priority of the government.

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Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

After watching the most discussed series on Netflix, I was planning to write an asterisk-heavy column. As a tribute to the asterisks in its...

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.