The lure of 10 million jobs a year

Employment in agriculture has increased. Will it lead to shed the belief that agriculture will not be able to employ further?

A void that cannot be filled: SEWA founder Ela Bhatt dies in Ahmedabad

Ela Bhatt founded SEWA in 1972, which has since blazed a trail in empowering women in various ways

MGNREGA: Drought-hit India abandoned 18 lakh water works in just one year

India's villages miss a golden chance to become drought-proof as more MGNREGA projects grind to a halt 

Education not enough

As a means of bringing long-term change in public attitudes, education at present is too weak and demands radical improvement

‘Totalitarian movements are self-destructive’

The reason socialist awareness is not possible in the 21st century is that the middle class in India in the 60s was primarily dominated by the …

'Renewable energy sector employment increased in 2015'

The total number of jobs in renewables worldwide continued to rise even as the growth in jobs slowed down compared to previous years, says a new …

Budget push for startups

New ventures to get tax holiday for three years; new customs regime to promote Make in India

We create jobs-for the US

Modi government still has no clear strategy for creating employment for the hordes of the jobless young in India

Change in immigration rules flayed

A US government plan to simplify immigration procedures for professionals in 10 short-listed vocations has come under fire

Death by starvation

About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.

Against the wind

Government policies and land prices are preventing companies from setting up wind mills in Nagercoil

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After more than 30 years of struggle, the Inuit people of Canada are given more autonomy and the right to self-determination

Fighting it out

Groups of tribal women in Orissa are fighting against authorities to improve their lot by consolidating the trade of minor forest produce

CAG indicts Bihar for irregularities in rural job scheme implementation

Only 35 per cent beneficiaries got jobs; half of civil work undertaken left incomplete

Civil society seconds rural development ministry’s demand for MGNREGA funds

The rural development ministry had recently demanded an additional allocation of Rs 5,000 crore to maintain the momentum of MGNREGA

Opposition turns up the heat on Nitish government over MGNREGA funds scam

Non-profit report says nearly Rs 6,000 crore meant to be paid to wage labourers siphoned off

Punjab’s ‘Donkey Flights’ to the world’s conflict zones

Widespread joblessness explains why Punjab’s migrants resort to desperate means to reach their final destinations  

Employment enigma: India’s high rate of self-employment gets reflected as a decrease in unemployment rate

The number of self-employed has increased in India, a trend usually seen in poor and developing countries with low per capita income

Globally the number of hours worked dropped in 1st quarter of 2022: ILO

A deficit of 112 million full-time jobs recorded over last quarter of 2021

Timely, but incoherent

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J&K against shahtoosh ban

Strategic alliance

The need of the day to save biodiversity

Profit's the non-word

About non-profit organisations (NPOs), also thought non-governmental

ReNew economics

Employment in German alternative energy generation grows with the