Poverty in India declines to 8.5% from 21.2% in 2011-12: NCAER paperPoverty in India declined from 21.2% in 2011-12 to 8.5% in 2022-24, despite pandemic challenges, according to NCAER's report "Rethinking So...
Citing International Labour Organization & Institute for Human Development report, Congress targets Modi govtThe Congress criticized the Modi government over rising unemployment, citing the India Employment Report 2024 by ILO and IHD. Congress pres...
India needs more employment intensive growth and good quality jobs, says ILOIndia needs to increase its employment-intensive growth and production while improving job quality, according to a report by the Internatio...
We're sitting on ticking bomb of joblessness, have concrete plan for providing jobs: CongressCongress has criticized the Modi govt for unemployment crisis, promising 'Yuva Nyay' to tackle job scarcity by filling govt posts and offer...
Youth has understood BJP can't provide employment: Priyanka Gandhi VadraCongress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra criticised the BJP government over rising unemployment, citing a report showing 83% of India's unempl...
Will raising the marriageable age for women to 21 improve gender outcomes?National health survey indicates the urgent need for lowering maternal and infant mortality rates, as well as for promoting responsible and...
Over 1 lakh deaths in 29 cities due to air pollution: StudyWhile environment minister Prakash Javadekar is often heard stating that there is no correlation between air pollution levels and premature...
Residential biomass burning, open waste burning responsible for highest PM 2.5 exposure: Study
POKE ME: The social security measure seems doomed with budgetary cutbacks and frequent wage hikesProportion of households participating in MGNREGA plumetted from 32.5% in 2012/13 to 11.80% in 2014/15, a reduction of about 64%.
Despite being around for a decade, MGNREGS continues to be plagued by leakages, fraudAlthough conceived as a welfare programme to fight rural joblessness during the lean farming season, it was also meant to help in drought-p...
How Karnataka's horticulture department is turning the farmer into an entrepreneurThe state is expecting a range of cos, including the Big Four consulting firms to come forward to bid for tenders to provide manpower to su...
Muslims constitute 14% of India, but just 3% of India IncData on blue-collar employment of Muslims, who constitute 14.2% of population, in the private sector is scarce.
Warning photo size matters: 46% of illiterate men smokeNearly 46 per cent of the men in bottom fifth smoke compared to only 20 per cent in the upper fifth.
Delhiites concerned about corruption, crime, not power: StudyPeople of Delhi now consider issues such as inflation, corruption and crimes against women as far more important than power problems, accor...
- Cancer, diabetes, hypertension largest cause of death
Out of every 10 deaths in India, eight are caused by NCDs such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabet...
- Govt okays Integrated Handlooms Development Scheme
The government on Tuesday approved implementation of the Integrated Handlooms Development Scheme (IHDS) at a cost of Rs 790 crore which wil...
- Baniya, Babu & Borrowing: Household debt is concerning
India Human Development Survey suggests that rural households are far more likely to borrow from moneylenders than urban households— 38% ve...