[ad_1] File picture of job seekers at a job fair, used for representation only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The unemployment rate (UR) among people aged 15 years and above declined to 4.7% in November, the lowest level since April, when it stood at 5.1%, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) report for […]
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[ad_1] Former RBI governor D. Subbarao said on Thursday there was no ‘sufficient emphasis’ on jobs in the Budget for 2023-24 and it failed to grapple with the unemployment problem head on, except to believe that growth itself will generate jobs. Mr. Subbarao noted that the unemployment problem was quite bad even before COVID-19 and […]
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[ad_1] GUWAHATI A public rally by a tribal organisation in Meghalaya’s capital Shillong on Friday turned violent, leaving several people injured and many vehicles damaged. The Federation of Khasi Jaintia and Garo People (FKJGP) had organised the rally to highlight the issue of unemployment. Members of some influential groups such as the Khasi Students’ Union […]
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[ad_1] Consumer sentiment has picked up significantly as public mobility has exceeded pre-pandemic levels and unemployment levels have gone down Consumer sentiment has picked up significantly as public mobility has exceeded pre-pandemic levels and unemployment levels have gone down In the first week of September 2020, about 80,000 daily COVID-19 cases were recorded in India […]
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[ad_1] Manufacturing, service and infrastructure sectors are on the recovery path, but consumer confidence about the economy is yet to reach pre-COVID levels Manufacturing, service and infrastructure sectors are on the recovery path, but consumer confidence about the economy is yet to reach pre-COVID levels The share of urban consumers pessimistic about the Indian economy […]
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[ad_1] Brazil presidential race goes to Lula-Bolsonaro runoff Brazil’s top two presidential candidates will face each other in a runoff vote after neither got enough support to win outright Sunday in an election to decide if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office. Poverty, […]
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[ad_1] Kerala has been pursuing a policy of ensuring more jobs in the public sector in divergence from the Union government’s policy of cutting down on recruitments in the public sector, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said. He was inaugurating the Thozhil Sabha initiative on Tuesday, aimed at bringing together jobseekers, entrepreneurs, skill trainers, and […]
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[ad_1] Joblessness below pre-COVID levels: Finance Ministry Demand for work under the national rural employment guarantee scheme hit a two-year low in August, signalling that the recovering economy is creating more jobs in rural as well as urban India, the Union Finance Ministry said on Saturday. Government gives top priority to skill training: PM Modi […]
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[ad_1] Survey finds number of jobseekers in the State at 53 lakh, with 58% of them being women Survey finds number of jobseekers in the State at 53 lakh, with 58% of them being women Thozhil Sabhas, the Local Self-Government department’s initiative aimed at connecting job creators and jobseekers at the local level, are to […]
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[ad_1] Left unions will conduct a joint national convention at Talkatora stadium on September 5 Left unions will conduct a joint national convention at Talkatora stadium on September 5 The mass organisations affiliated with the CPI(M), the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and All India Agricultural Workers’ Union (AIAWU) […]
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