Despite India's economic growth, few jobs and meagre pay for urban youthThe rising unemployment in India belies other indicators suggesting the economy is undergoing a healthy rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic....
20 Jan, 2023, 04.34 PM IST
View: India’s demographic dividend is for real, but it needs to be discounted heavilyQuality of workers: Quality is difficult to measure. One marker commonly used to measure quality is education. Here, China has a distinct a...
24 Dec, 2022, 12.21 AM IST
Bihar professor returns Rs 24 lakh salary due to absence of students in his classRefusing his entire salary of Rs 23.8 lakh for two years and nine months, Lallan said there’s no point in taking the salary if there’s no o...
07 Jul, 2022, 11.50 PM IST
Disgruntled Bihar college teacher seeks to return Rs 23.82 lakh earned as salary"His request could have been looked into but for the fact that the committee on transfers has not met in the past couple of years because o...
07 Jul, 2022, 03.37 PM IST
What the middle-class wants: Jobs, tax breaks, health and education spendThe annual budget must provide a basic policy structure to bring back 200 million missing jobs in the economy and assuage the middle-class ...
29 Jan, 2022, 10.20 AM IST
Big breather for India Inc as government defers implementation of labour codesThe delay in implementation of labour codes is a breather for India Inc as resurgence of Covid-19 cases in major industrial states have rai...
01 Apr, 2021, 11.22 AM IST
Nand Kishore ‘NK’ Singh: A very civil servant indeedNK had a highly successful stint as economics and commerce minister in the Indian embassy in Japan. In that role, he helped bring to fruiti...
07 Nov, 2020, 12.01 AM IST
A better work environment for sanitation workers requires mechanisation, better gear and bigger private playThe virus will eventually be tamed. The fear of Covid-19 is already on the wane. The question is, will the newly acquired dignity that the ...
04 Oct, 2020, 08.11 AM IST
Divert resources to rural India to tackle the pandemic: George Mathew, Medical expert“Rural India needs hand-holding from the government from the point of view of infrastructure as well as human resources management, there n...
01 Sep, 2020, 09.48 AM IST
View: India’s public elementary schools are in crisis — and hiring more teachers is not the solutionAlready, in 2010-11, enrolments in 57% of public elementary schools in India had dropped to 100 or fewer students. The average number of pu...
07 Jun, 2020, 10.51 PM IST
For Indians in the Gulf, Covid paints an uncertain futureMillions of Indian workers are staring at an uncertain future as Covid shuttered businesses and crashed oil.
09 May, 2020, 11.50 PM IST
Rohtak boy bags highest salary package of Rs 47 lakh at IRMAThe average salary offered by the private sector this year touched Rs 12.17 lakh per annum against last year’s Rs 10.57 lakh per annum.
20 Feb, 2018, 03.40 PM IST
All about eve: Can BJP do a UP among women in 2019?The 2014 election dramatically closed the gender gap when it comes to voting. Women voter turnout was 66 per cent compared with 67 per cent...
04 Sep, 2017, 10.24 AM IST
Nalanda University: New chancellor, governing board likely by JulyThe Nalanda Mentor Group said they had sent the relevant portions of the 'minutes' to MEA and the President, but both decided to wait for t...
10 Mar, 2015, 11.19 AM IST
Money-making venture: Rupesh Shah and Sridhar Iyer on a mission to make computer education more funThis content-based curriculum teaches computer literacy skills through three animated characters-Tejas, Jyoti and Moz, their mascot-and the...
16 Jan, 2012, 08.28 AM IST
- Why we cannot expect Egypt-like situation in India
Since Cairo took to the streets, there is one question that comes up repeatedly in India. How have we been saved from such anarchy, in spit...
07 Feb, 2011, 11.16 AM IST
A broken school systemTo attain full literacy among women in the next five years, the central government will have to build partnership with state governments an...
09 Jun, 2009, 12.57 AM IST