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Much before India’s health infrastructure and economy could even begin to recover, the second wave of Covid-19 came like a tsunami, exposing a callous, unprepared government that put the lives o...

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The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy has published unemployment figures for April 2021. As expected, with the second wave of Covid-19 hitting the economy, unemployment has risen by 73.5 lakh. From...

Such has been the recoil of private investment that new plans announced by businesses, which filled media spaces some years ago, have all but disappeared from the landscape. Public pronouncements of i...

Headline: Byline: Debmalya Nandy The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act tracker released by the People’s Action for Employment Guarantee as well as a research report prese...

In September, Parliament gave its nod to three new labour codes in addition to the wage code already approved in August 2019 to promote labour reforms. The codes essentially deal with wages, industria...

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The state’s technology university will make "half/full’’ refund of the examination fee to “deserving’’ students in the intermediate semesters, following a dema...

The lack of job opportunities and a persistently high level of unemployment are beginning to emerge as focal points of criticism of the Narendra Modi government. On the prime minister’s birthday...