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India’s banks show how AI is impacting jobs. Govt must focus on skilling

At HDFC Bank, the number of non-supervisory staff has declined by close to 5 per cent at the end of March 2026. But the strength of supervisory staff has increased by 11 per cent.

How Skill India lost its way by creating a parallel NGO universe of frauds

Skill India lost its way—Fake fingerprints, posed pics, ghost centres. CAG report a wake-up call.

Email ID ‘abc@gmail’, ‘111111’ as bank A/C—CAG flags gaps in Modi govt’s flagship upskilling scheme

Audit finds violations in age and education criteria, duplicate photos, unspent funds, and shut training centres in states surveyed; report tabled in Parliament.

India’s 1st commercial quantum computer has a task. Drug development

"Quantum computing is very important to actually move toward the next generation of intelligence modeling,” said Nagendra Nagaraja, Founder and CEO, QpiAI.

Where is Skill India money going? It’s a Rs 48,000 crore mystery

All industries are still facing an acute shortage of skilled manpower despite thousands of crores spent on skilling schemes.

National Skill Mission is missing something key. Nai Manzil showed the way

Without school education, skill programmes are not very effective in enabling beneficiaries to enter the formal sector.

India’s Skill India digital hub launched

The platform is a digital expansion of the skilling opportunities in India.

Skill India Mission to empower Indian youth

Industry-relevant skills to meet growing industry demands.

Centres shut, funds misused, no placements — Skill India needs a refresher course

As the employment issue comes up in the ongoing Lok Sabha election campaign, India’s skills and apprenticeship programme is once again in focus.

Who is vocational education training for? Data shows over 84% Indian didn’t get any

Periodic Labour Force Survey data shows the situation is worse for women. And those who got the training, almost half of them accounted for self-learning or ‘learning on the job’.

On Camera

Why Prashant Kishor’s Bankipur victory in Bihar should ring alarm bells for Modi-Shah’s BJP

With an estimated 1.6 lakh of its 3.79 lakh voters being upper-caste Hindus, Bankipur has been a BJP stronghold for three decades. Prashant Kishor has breached that fortress decisively.

RBI cracked whip on 87 urban co-op banks in 2021 for violations. Only 27 remain under regulatory curbs

Govt told Parliament that Maharashtra accounted for nearly half of the banks placed under RBI’s regulatory directions; DICGC settled Rs 18,931 crore in depositor claims.

Gorkha recruitment rests with Nepal, Agnipath only route to join Indian Army, says ex-CDS Chauhan

Recruitment of Nepali Gorkhas into Indian Army is on hold since 2022 with Nepal viewing four-yr tenure of Agnipath scheme, among others, as inconsistent with historical frameworks.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.