Over a century ago, the Marxist revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg,  had argued that the capitalist economy needed  “outside” markets to keep its growth going; and she had seen pre-ca...

The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday heard that “in every city, there is one Nainsuk Lal”. Had Prime Minister Narendra Modi been in the House, chances are remote that Nainsuk Lal would have rung a ...

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of securing the future of his "friends" even in foreign countries but leaving the youth of the country unemp...

The Government of India’s Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2020-21 shows that the unemployment rate in the country has fallen from 5.8% in 2018-19 to 4.2% in 2020-21. The workers’ particip...

The survey shows the proportion of the self-employed rising from 52.1 per cent in 2018-19 to 56.6 per cent in 2020-21 under the “usual status” method of counting, mainly driven by an incre...

It’s a recurrent theme in Narendra Modi’s sales deck to global investors: India, he has told them in Gujarat, Davos and elsewhere, offers international firms the rare combination of democr...

A man was found dead in a rented apartment in Bansdroni with a pillow on his face on Wednesday morning. His younger brother walked into a police station and “confessed” to have killed him,...

The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday, its biggest move since 1994, as the central bank ramps up its efforts to tackle the fastest infla...

  The 23rd Party Congress of the CPI(M) on Friday adopted a resolution against the "massive crisis of unemployment" in the country and demanded 200 person-days of employment be provide...

Chhattisgarh has been ranked first among states with the lowest unemployment rate in the country, an official statement said on Monday. According to the latest data released by the Centre for Monitor...