Job chances decline for factory workers

With technology advancing at a tremendous pace, companies are retrenching unskilled employees. The effect is being felt most in Europe

Jharkhand proposes MGNREGA worker unions

Work demand under the rural employment programme is decreasing in the state

Monsoon deficit spikes rural job demand under MGNREGS

Job demands in some states higher than recorded in COVID-19 pandemic

As told to Parliament (September 14, 2020): Some 10.4 million jobless migrant workers returned home post-lockdown

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Why MGNREGS workers sought police complaints against the PM

Non-payment of dues, insufficient funds cause for concern

Vulnerable employment will continue to affect 72% of workers in South Asia: ILO

India is faced with the dual problem of informal and vulnerable employment

Faulty policies

Dam(n) the rivers

Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management

Founded on piracy

The story of early US industrialisation

Kalam's kaleidoscpoe

Intellectualising poverty

No grey

Handloom is haute

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

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?

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