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Thursday, August 7, 2025
TopicGig workers

Topic: Gig workers

Gig economy booming, workers will triple to 2.35 crore by 2030, says Niti Aayog report

Niti Aayog report finds concentration of workers rising in low- and high-skilled categories, maximum share in retail trade and sales.

Why a photographer, a McDonald’s manager, a trader, and a CA turned their bikes into cabs

A new subset of the gig economy has emerged in India post-Covid lockdowns — of service professionals and business owners who work full- or part-time for ride-hailing platforms.

Govt extends social security benefits to platform and gig workers

A portal will be set up to collect data on gig & platform workers, building & construction workers, among others to provide them benefits like health, credit, food and others.

On Camera

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Web of spoof sites, scam call centres. Crypto theft racket modus operandi in focus amid ED crackdown

As part of the crypto theft racket, businessman Chirag Tomar and his aides targeted 542 victims and managed to steal a total of Rs 19.9 million.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.