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Thursday, November 6, 2025
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Topic: Unemployment

Employed more suicidal than the unemployed. 90% of Indian youth don’t seek help

According to a Lokiniti CSDS report, one-tenth of Indian youth frequently experience thoughts of self-harm or suicide. Another 12 per cent admitted having such thoughts but rarely.

4 ways a US debt default could affect you — and your money

A US debt default—even a short debt ceiling breach—is expected to push the US economy into a recession.

Punjab youth are unemployable. The state doesn’t have a Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune or Noida

Young people of Punjab are perennially trapped in disenchantment with their state and in an irrational yearning to migrate. 'There is no scope in Punjab. So why spend time studying?'

A father’s message on Mughal chapter cuts and unemployment, and Twitter gets a new profile picture

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

33% of India’s youth aren’t in employment, education, or training. Most of them are women

Over 50% of Indian women in 15-29 age group are neither employed nor studying, shows NSSO survey. Most aren’t seeking a job either. Expert points to ‘burden of care’, marriage factor.

SubscriberWrites: Handlooms in West Bengal’s Nadia have fallen silent. Govt apathy, corruption root cause

Hundreds of unemployed handloom weavers live on the banks of this holy city. Rows of empty and shuttered warehouses line every village, writes Upasika Singhal.

‘Palpable economic crisis brewing’: Rahul Gandhi writes to public

As the Bharat Jodo Yatra enters its last leg in Jammu and Kashmir next week, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that there is a deep sense of hopelessness across the country.

Why Tibetan youth joining Chinese civil service is no indicator of their love for China

The Tibetan youth’s interest in pursuing civil services reveals the failure of government policy in creating enough private enterprises that can generate jobs.

Real estate, IT, gig jobs, MNREGA: Making sense of India’s roller-coaster unemployment crisis

Employment in India rose from 394.6 million in August to 404.2 million in September, and while the numbers are still below pre-Covid levels, the increase is encouraging.

Did RSS’s Hosabale criticise govt over poverty, unemployment? BJP says no, Modi said it too

RSS general secretary red-flagged poverty, unemployment & inequality at event Sunday, causing a political stir. BJP spokesperson says 'Sangh always thinks about social challenges'.

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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

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.