Unemployment falls slightly to 6.7% in Oct-Dec quarter: Govt surveyIndia saw a dip in unemployment in cities and villages during October-December 2025. Joblessness fell to 6.7 percent in urban areas and 4 p...
10 Feb, 2026, 07.42 PM IST
Employment in unincorporated sector rises marginally to 12.85 cr in Jul-Sep quarter: Govt surveyUnincorporated sector employment saw a slight increase in July-September. The National Statistics Office reported a rise to over 12.85 cror...
25 Nov, 2025, 08.21 PM IST
Don't lose sleep over job dip dataThe National Statistical Office's new quarterly survey reveals a surge in employment and establishments in India's unincorporated sector in...
18 Sep, 2025, 11.37 PM IST
Mospi: Surveys on health, labour force, telecom to start in JanuaryThe National Statistics Office (NSO) will begin three surveys in January. These include surveys on health, telecom and ICT skills, and educ...
02 Jan, 2025, 11.40 PM IST
Unemployment rate down a tad in Q1 FY25: DataThe National Statistical Office reported a drop in India's urban unemployment rate for those above 15 years to 6.6% in the April-June quart...
17 Aug, 2024, 01.00 AM IST
How the 'perennial pessimist' economists cast shadows on any semblance of positive change in IndiaIndia’s growth numbers are backed by national data and endorsements by World Bank, IMF, RBI and other rating agencies. So, one should defin...
12 Sep, 2023, 12.33 AM IST
Growth projection of 7% for FY23 very realistic: CEA Anantha Nageswaran"The trends that we have in terms of high frequency data for 2022-23 for fourth quarter do indicate that achieving that growth rate in Q4 i...
28 Feb, 2023, 08.26 PM IST
Unemployment rate in urban India in the January-March quarter of 2021-22 fell to 8.2%The quarterly periodic labour force survey released by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation on Thursday showed male urba...
16 Jun, 2022, 07.09 PM IST
Unemployment rate at 12.6 pc in April-June 2021: NSO surveyJoblessness or unemployment rate (UR) is defined as the percentage of unemployed persons in the labour force. The joblessness was high in A...
14 Mar, 2022, 06.06 PM IST
Unemployment rate in January-March quarter of 2020-21 cools to 9.3%The unemployment rates had stood at 13.2% in the July-September quarter and 10.3% in October-December quarter, shows the quarterly periodic...
30 Nov, 2021, 08.14 PM IST
Unemployment rate at 9.3 per cent in January-March 2021: NSO surveyLabour force refers to the part of the population which supplies or offers to supply labour for pursuing economic activities for the produc...
30 Nov, 2021, 07.29 PM IST
Unemployment rate in urban India at 10.3% in Q3 of 2020-21: NSOThe unemployment rate, however, was higher compared to the corresponding October-December quarter of 2019-20 at 7.8%, shows the quarterly d...
09 Sep, 2021, 09.11 PM IST
India's unemployment rate drops to 13.3% in Q2 from all-time high of 20.9% in Q1The unemployment rate had stood at 8.4% in the corresponding quarter a year-ago period, shows the quarterly data from a periodic labour for...
02 Aug, 2021, 11.14 PM IST
Sales of over 1.7k listed manufacturing firms contracted by 7.7 per cent in Q2: SurveyThe Survey, tabled in Parliament on Friday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said demand conditions for the manufacturing sector weake...
31 Jan, 2020, 04.48 PM IST
Rise in salaried workers, women fare better: NSOThe share of regular wage earners and salaried employees in the total urban workforce increased marginally between April-June 2018 and Janu...
25 Nov, 2019, 10.33 AM IST
Urban unemployment rate fell in January-March 2019, official data revealsThe numbers are likely to provide relief to a govt reeling under sharp criticism over lack of jobs.
23 Nov, 2019, 08.54 PM IST
Salaried work longer than casual staff: StudyIn all the quarters, evidence emerged that salaried workers both male and female worked more hours in a week than casual labourers.
09 Jun, 2019, 08.40 AM IST