Crises — economic or medical — invariably have a disproportionate impact on vulnerable constituencies. The Covid-19 pandemic has reiterated this hypothesis. Data from the United Nations ha...
A 45-year-old man was on Wednesday arrested by the Sonari Police for allegedly duping lakhs of rupees from two unemployed youths in the name of providing them railway jobs.
The accused, identified as...
The current year’s budget was announced on the back of very high expectations. It seems to have delivered on those promises and has opened up growth opportunities for the future. In my opinion, ...
Millions of Americans are about to see their jobless benefits expire on Saturday as President Donald Trump has so far refused to sign into law a $2.3-trillion pandemic aid and spending package, insist...
Joblessness among urban youths was over 19 per cent or nearly three times the 2012 level even before Covid-19 hit India, official survey reports have shown.
The findings buttress the view t...
A 63-year-old man who police said lost his job during the lockdown died after falling from the roof of his four-storey building on Golf Club Road early on Friday.
Police said Soumitra Sen, who worked...
Around 4,000 workers attached to Reliance Jute Mills at Bhatpara in North 24-Parganas became jobless as mill authorities suspended production “indefinitely” from Monday after the workers&r...
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr plans to name Janet L. Yellen as treasury secretary, a nomination that would put a woman in charge of the treasury for the first time in its 231-year history.
The e...