Officials of the state forest department have decided to intensify patrolling and other protection activities in two sensitive locations — Zero Bandh in Gorumara National Park and Nathua forest ...

Some 200 migrant workers, jobless after being forced to come back home here amid the Covid-induced lockdown, went to the office of the district magistrate and demanded jobs under the 100-days work sch...

At a time of mounting job cuts across sectors amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Darjeeling tea industry stands out with jobs available by the hundreds, but very few takers. Darjeeling gardens have been...

The Congress on Thursday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi why he had stopped talking about employment generation, and Rahul Gandhi predicted a grim scenario as the “destruction” of the i...

The blisters of the lockdown are still raw. The head hunters of one of the largest private engineering firms in India have failed to source even half the labour requirement from Purulia after a three...

Displaced workers have no absolute fundamental right to employment and a government can in “overriding public interest” renege on a job promise to a group without having to provide “individual o...

The Arunachal Pradesh cabinet, headed by chief minister Pema Khandu, on Friday approved two important policies to help rationalise transfer and posting of teachers serving under the state government a...

A recent study by two university scholars, based on available official statistics, has found that youth unemployment has gone up alarmingly. Youth is defined as people in the age group of 15-29 years....

The finance ministry has after four years of inaction expressed “in-principle” endorsement rather than clear support for a proposal that would have ensured sharper yearly wage increases under the ...

Kalyani University on Saturday launched a career hub to explore job opportunities and develop entrepreneurship by imparting training in unconventional subjects.The hub will cover initiatives in biotec...