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Monday, August 18, 2025
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

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

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?