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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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Topic: Unemployment

Unemployment fuels Nepal crisis as youth migrate to survive. ‘Hopeful about new govt, but I won’t return’

Addressing corruption & unemployment is top expectation from Nepal’s new leader Sushila Karki. According to Nepal Labour Migration Report, unemployment rate is above 20% among youth.

India needs a National Jobs Mission, not just skilling

Training millions of young people without commensurate opportunities risks producing not more employed youth, but more skilled unemployed.

SubscriberWrites: Underutilized Youth— 370 million dreams on hold

With a youth unemployment rate of 15.3%, India wastes more young talent than entire countries possess. Yet paradoxically, industries desperately need workers.

Socialist planners aggravated unemployment problem

Planning Commission couldn't tackle unemployment because new job opportunities in large-scale industries producing consumer goods were not created, wrote GN Lawande in 1963.

Why worry about water or jobs? In New Bharat, everybody wants to be an influencer

In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.

Modi’s ‘Make in India’—a case study in what happens when strategy is replaced by storytelling

From day one, Make in India was driven by optics than economics. There were global summits, slick visuals, and media blitzes. But the real machinery never showed up.

More firms, but decline in offers, acceptance rate—Modi govt data on PM Internship Scheme 2nd round

The scheme aims to skill youth in tier-2 and tier-3 cities for future employment. The government is yet to release data on how many have actually joined companies in round 2.

News of the day: 16 July, 2025

CRPF jawan killed in gunfight with Maoists in Jharkhand One jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force’s (CRPF) specialised Commando Battalion for Resolute Action...

SubscriberWrites: Is unemployability inhibiting employment levels in India?

India’s real crisis isn’t just unemployment, but unemployability—rooted in outdated education, poor skills, and systemic inertia that stifles both talent and opportunity.

Arvind Kejriwal promises to end unemployment in Delhi within five years

In pre-poll video message, he highlighted AAP government's track record in Punjab, saying it gave 48,000 government jobs & facilitated 3 lakh private-sector jobs in 2 years.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Denied RBI licence to operate, Fadnavis govt scraps Maharashtra’s asset reconstruction firm

Maha ARC was set up to restructure distressed institutions linked to state government, but officials said the company would have been most useful for reconstructing and selling off sick cooperatives.

‘Can’t really win you wars’: What IAF chief said on drones, manned aircraft & Ops Sindoor

At defence conclave, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh says conflict needs all kinds of weapons, not just the long-range ones, as a paracetamol cannot cure all ailments.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.