Why MGNREGS workers sought police complaints against the PM

Non-payment of dues, insufficient funds cause for concern

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 …

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

'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

Faulty policies

Change in immigration rules flayed

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

Against the wind

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

Dam(n) the rivers

Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management

No grey

Handloom is haute

Founded on piracy

The story of early US industrialisation

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

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.

HOME AT LAST

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

Kalam's kaleidoscpoe

Intellectualising poverty

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

Banana wise: This fashion designer in Shravasti uses banana crop waste to make women financially independent

Tejashwi Pathak’s Baudhanchal self-help group helps women in the east Uttar Pradesh district to make handicrafts from banana waste and …

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

‘Green growth’ can help African countries address socio-economic inequalities: Report

Green growth can address inequity through the creation of decent jobs, better provision of basic services, improvement of air quality and …

COVID-19 and jobs: The salaried, younger workers and women suffered more

While overall employment declined in the country in 2020-21, compared to 2019-20, some sections have been affected more adversely than others