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Topic: Urban India

Urban unemployment rate drops to 6.7% in Q1 2024, NSSO data show

ThePrint Team -
Unemployment rate in urban areas decreased to 6.7%, labor force participation rate increased to 50.2%

SubscriberWrites: One Lifestyle, Two Incomes- Welcome to New India

Seshank Mavalapalli -
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 puts the average MPCE in rural India has been Rs. 3,773 and in urban India has been Rs. 6,459.

What’s behind the ‘improvement’ in employment situation in labour force survey report

P.C. Mohanan -
The improved employment scenario as per PLFS 2019-20 is restricted to women and is due to the increased percentage of rural women in the unpaid family worker category.

Urban unemployment jumps as states announce Covid curbs, economic indicators hit

Remya Nair -
Urban unemployment rate touches double digits in the week ended 18 April. Business shutdowns and curbs on movement again set to hit urban economy.

Indian cities can have intelligent growth, not become urban horrors like Gurugram, Mumbai

Meeta Rajivlochan -
Giving farmers a fair share in the profit of PPP projects, where their land has been acquired, can generate trust.

Congress isolated in Bengal opposition camp. Its dalliance with the Left is good for BJP

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Education levels of SC, ST, OBC rising. A new study looks at caste gap in jobs, income too

Vidya Mahambare -
Data from NSSO 2004-05 and Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017-18 show that the education level of those belonging to OBC is now similar to General Category young men in urban India.

What an ‘urban NREGA’ should look like

Shivam Vij -
Having eaten humble pie on NREGA, time for Narendra Modi to seriously consider Jean Dreze’s terrific proposal for urban employment.

As workers reach home, Modi govt gets a second chance to redeem itself on migrant fiasco

S. Anukriti -
Homecoming of migrant workers and their families will constitute a massive shock to states' local labour markets, healthcare infrastructure, and PDS.

‘Bhaiyya de do please’ — Covid-19 crisis is making urban India go back to kirana stores

Bismee Taskin -
Covid-19 lockdown is like a renaissance for neighbourhood kirana stores as the urban Indian is finding them more convenient than malls.
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Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

Phiroze J Shroff -
If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Dharali floods a wake-up call for IMD, NDMA to buck up—the Himalayan region is vulnerable

Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

Economy

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

Neelam Pandey -
New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Defence

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

Snehesh Alex Philip -
New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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