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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicJobs crisis

Topic: Jobs crisis

In India’s quest for jobs, here’s what Modi government’s policy agenda should be

In a new Carnegie India paper, an IAS officer and a scholar from Chennai lay out policy prescriptions for the government to create conditions and generate employment for India’s youth.

MP Santosh Gangwar says North Indian candidates lack qualifications, not job opportunities

Gangwar says those who come for recruitment in north India often complain that they are unable to find qualified candidates for the posts they are hiring.

Modi govt offers a deal to the world – take our billion consumers, give us jobs

India’s customers-for-jobs bargain could pay off if the easing of FDI rules is followed by less red tape & even small improvements in infrastructure.

Don’t just blame patriarchy for fewer women in India’s job force. Blame our cities too

Data shows that women are quite willing to work, and men are supportive of it despite patriarchal norms.

Arts graduate? The fourth industrial revolution is looking for you

Nearly every technologically advanced country is working out how to fill a skills shortage. It’s time they turned to people in non-technical careers.

Modi govt didn’t address jobs crisis in the first term. India’s progress depends on it now

India needs a National Employment Strategy with ministries made to submit to PMO annual action plans on how they will realise the goals.

Apoorvanand calls Modi ‘repeat offender’, Valson Thampu calls Rahul most ‘improved leader’

Reassurance that isn’t Apoorvanand |The writer teaches Hindi at Delhi University Indian Express Apoorvanand is disturbed by The Indian Express’s use of the word “magnanimous” to describe...

Why BJP’s startup push is better for Indians looking for jobs than Congress’ Nyay

Congress-led opposition is using one NSSO report to highlight unemployment woes in 2019 elections when job scenario world over has drastically changed.

Jobless youth are a reality. Modi can’t hide behind misleading data and a media spin

A country in need of over 10 lakh jobs each month has its prime minister, Narendra Modi, latching on to flawed analysis to claim that all is well.

Rahul Gandhi using 108 scholars’ dissent on data makes it political, not intellectual concern

The so-called leaked partial data led to a race for data points, and intricate statistical findings were turned into exit polls overnight.

On Camera

Chinese chatter on Delhi-Shanghai flight — ‘normalisation’ needs more than linking the skies

Chinese commentators consistently portray India as the driver of rapprochement. New Delhi’s outreach is framed as a pragmatic, reluctant choice shaped by multiple pressures.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.