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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicIndia labour

Topic: India labour

India’s 12-hour workday is the wrong kind of capitalism: Andy Mukherjee

New Delhi: While the rest of the world frets over artificial intelligence and how it could hollow out demand for human effort, a zeitgeist-defying...

Nearly 4 lakh Indians migrated for work in 2023. Here’s a look at India’s labour mobility

MEA data shows number of unskilled & semi-skilled Indian workers going abroad rose from 3.73 lakh in 2022 to 3.98 lakh in 2023. India has labour mobility pacts with 6 nations.

Modi govt claims 7.8 cr jobs created in 3 yrs, but there’s a twist — 37% of ‘working’ women are unpaid

Govt data shows that unpaid workers make up nearly one-fifth of the overall workforce, with the situation being more severe in agriculture-heavy rural areas, particularly for women.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.