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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: Unemployment

Unemployment and unlimited data pack — UP’s youth are neither angry nor idle

Afternoons are to charge phone batteries, evenings are to play digital games in parks, and nights are to climb rooftops, catch network, and escape into videos and Insta reels.

Growth is a big help but India also needs to account for jobs, poverty, health, environment

Modi govt’s approach in Budget may bring growth for few years, despite slowing world economy, rising rates. But problems in areas including education won’t just vanish automatically.

In Patna coaching hub, lakhs of youth live in tiny rooms, dream of govt job. They’re losing hope

Most youth who come to Musallahpur Haat are from families struggling to make ends meet, because coaching is cheap here. But joblessness has made many of them disillusioned.

Unemployment rise in India isn’t due to Covid alone. See what data says

Decline in India’s manufacturing sector, in formal employment and in numbers of youth 'unemployed but looking for work' are all indicators of the severe jobs crisis.

‘Feel like tearing my books, going home’ — the deep despair behind Bihar’s railway jobs protest

Job aspirants in Bihar have been protesting against 'flaws' & changes in railways recruitment process. A ground report by ThePrint examines the craze for these jobs here.

Let them eat communalism: Yogi’s poll pitch may work but heartland’s jobless fury endangers India

While UP’s unemployed are angry, Yogi’s call for a choice between Jinnah and Sardar Patel, more than seven decades after they both died, is the new ‘let them eat cake’.

It’s poll season in Punjab & it’s time for same promise: Jobs. Here’s why they can’t keep it

According to data from the Centre's Periodic Labour Force Survey 2019-20, Punjab's unemployment rate of 7.4% was higher than all-India figure of 4.8%.

Studies show joblessness leads to yearning for strong-armed leadership. Look at Gorakhpur

In ‘To Kill A Democracy’, Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane write there are 3 million people in Gorakhpur, yet it has just one engineering college and university.

Punjab youth most dissatisfied with work in India, 78% feel state has ‘bad’ jobs

According to survey conducted by Centre for Studying Developing Societies-Lokniti & German thinktank Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Karnataka youth most satisfied about job opportunities in state.

Multiple attempts waste productive yrs of aspirants. Pick subjects you like: Ex-UPSC chairman

It has been observed that job seekers with expertise in some subjects or trades face exams with far more confidence than those who bank solely on clearing the competition tests.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.