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Topic: Urban India

Delimitation goes beyond just votes. It is also about India’s economic future

Since the urban population is more educated and demands greater accountability on economic issues such as housing and transit, increasing their political voice is important.

Are Mumbai’s domestic workers overpaid? Mini Mathur and Kirti Kulhari divide the internet

Kriti Kulhari's complaint over standard Mumbai domestic labor rates exposed the stark gap between urban living costs and worker expectations.

Noida techie’s death shows urban India’s infrastructural horrors write themselves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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Delimitation goes beyond just votes. It is also about India’s economic future

Since the urban population is more educated and demands greater accountability on economic issues such as housing and transit, increasing their political voice is important.

Bitcoin surges toward $80,000, on track for its biggest weekly gain in over 3 years

Bitcoin is up about 23% this week, on track for its best weekly gain since March 2023, as US Treasury bond buybacks lower yields and boost appetite for risk assets.

India, Japan look at joint naval shipbuilding, technology transfer with pact to deepen defence ties

Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.

Munir’s latest power grab is proof of his paranoia. Dictatorship and delusion go together

At some point Pakistani dictators begin to show paranoia. That’s the strategic reality most relevant to India since the late fifties. Munir’s case is worse, like some sudden acrophobia.