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Friday, May 10, 2024
TopicUnemployment

Topic: Unemployment

Unemployment among young and highly educated Indians highest in 20 years, study finds

Unemployment among Indian youth and the highly educated has reached 16 per cent, worst in last 20 years, shows Azim Premji University study.

India, world’s fastest growing economy, isn’t growing fast enough to create enough jobs

Glacial economic reforms, fragile banking sector, rigid labor laws and a spotty educational system are holding India back.

Restless, young India has no connection to IITs & IIMs, but Rahul Gandhi can’t see it

Neither is Rahul Gandhi young nor are his ideas.

If Rahul Gandhi knew the value of timepass, he wouldn’t link it to ISIS-like terrorism

Rahul Gandhi argued that youth unemployment has been a key driver of lynchings in India.

Modi govt’s wants to make handyman jobs an attractive career option

The skills programme aims to change perceptions toward handyman jobs and increase training capacity in India.

Politicians aren’t relying on economists as economists are not solving their problems

Populist upsets such as Brexit and Trump’s election suggest that traditional economic prescriptions are not working on ground.

Narendra Modi’s ‘pakodanomics’ is in hot oil in Noida

Vendors selling pakoda and tea in Film City evicted after complaints of traffic jams in the area. They question action, ask what happened to PM promoting pakoda sellers.

Modi bets to gain in Lok Sabha polls with welfare plan for 1/3rd of Indians

Though this extension of benefits to 500 million people may ease his road to 2019, it will also likely widen India's yawning fiscal deficit Prime...

Missing data on jobs may play key role in 2019 elections

Though the EPFO database may have its own limitations, the estimate obtained from it can be used as a safe and consistent approximation.

Modi orders team to do math on new jobs to showcase success

To counter arguments on failed promises of creating jobs, Modi asks his team to produce a report card assessing his four years in power. 

On Camera

What’s Xi Jinping doing in Europe? His goal is more strategic than economic

India should aim to get European investments that are clearly no longer going to China. That is where the dots of its efforts to save Asia from China’s dominance converge at its most basic.

Day after mass sick leave by employees, Air India Express fires crew members, cancels 85 more flights

About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.

SC to take up over 400 SSC officers’ plea seeking post-retirement benefits — ‘breach of Article 14′

The Short Service Commissioned officers are demanding pension and contributory provident funds rights. The plea also questions disparity with Permanent Commissioned officers.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.