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Saturday, August 16, 2025
TopicUnemployment

Topic: Unemployment

Unemployment is a silent political killer and can catch the BJP off guard in polls

Unemployment can become big and yet remain undetected. Its impact can lead to a critical vote swing.

Narendra Modi’s junking of the economy is like Nero fiddling while Rome burned

The Indian economy cannot afford a slowdown, but the Modi government is not even accepting that there’s a problem.

Drip. Drip. Asia’s liquidity taps start gurgling

Indian polls are unpredictable & ongoing trapeze act of simultaneous fiscal & monetary easing may lead to an accident if investors don’t like makeup of next government.

Jobs crisis clearly visible in UP — 3,700 PhDs applied to be messengers for police

Labour minister Swami Prasad Maurya had told the UP assembly that the number of 'new' unemployed people rose by 9 lakh between 2016 & Aug 2018.

Against Modi govt’s unemployment woes, next door China’s booming jobs industry

China created 65 million jobs in past five years — more than double the figure Rahul Gandhi has cited to target Modi.

Why there has been no big social unrest in India to reflect inadequate job growth

Economic growth, migration & democracy are limiting the unrest that might have otherwise occurred in India.

Modi’s ‘Achche Din’ 2.0 as Piyush Goyal ‘baits’ middle class with tax rebate

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Piyush Goyal’s ‘laddoos’ and Narendra Modi’s ‘pakodanomics’ for job seekers

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

NSSO surveys to CMIE data: How India’s 4 major jobs reports are prepared

ThePrint takes a look at the criteria and frequency of various employment surveys in India.

On Camera

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?