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Saturday, April 4, 2026
TopicUnemployment

Topic: Unemployment

Graduate and unemployed: India’s middle-class rulebook for career & success no longer works

Saurabh Mukherjea, Nandita Rajhansa and Sapana Bhavsar highlight 5 beliefs contradicted by India's economic data in their book 'Breakpoint: The Crisis of the Middle Class and the Future of Work'.

More educated than ever, but struggling to get jobs—global media analyses India’s youth ‘paradox’

The Guardian meanwhile reports on Kolkata man & his staff of 80 who make ‘30 kg replicas of the dead, commissioned by family and loved ones’.

India’s paradox—rise in educational enrolment & steady decline in employment

Azim Premji University’s State of Working India 2026 report expanded on the factors that will determine whether India’s demographic dividend translates into an economic dividend.

Capitalism isn’t responsible for mass unemployment. Look at Japan, Singapore: BS Iyer

It is not capitalism which is responsible for the evils of permanent mass unemployment, but the policies of the stateman which paralyse its working, wrote BS Iyer in 1971.

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.

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This is how Strait of Hormuz shock is forcing a global trade reset

The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.