Women’s role in business, workforce expands: ASUSEWomen's economic involvement in India is growing. More female entrepreneurs are leading businesses, especially in manufacturing. These busi...
06 May, 2026, 07.41 PM IST
Fish, meat & West Bengal elections: It’s about money and not politicsWest Bengal Elections BJP vs TMC: Political campaigns in West Bengal are creatively using fish and meat, staples of Bengali culture, to con...
24 Apr, 2026, 12.46 PM IST
America’s demographic stagnation to make it poorer?America faces a future of slower economic growth due to demographic stagnation. A declining birth rate and reduced immigration are shrinkin...
10 Apr, 2026, 06.03 PM IST
What is wrong with U.S. economy? Jobs, employment vanishing, domestic companies declining. Details hereU.S. Labor Department will release its numbers on September hiring and unemployment next Thursday, a month and a half late, marking the beg...
16 Nov, 2025, 05.58 PM IST
Formal job creation down for two fiscals after record FY23Net formal job creation under EPFO has declined for two consecutive years through FY25, falling from 13.8 million in FY23 to 12.9 mn. This ...
02 Sep, 2025, 06.51 AM IST
US job growth slows in January with 143,000 additions, unemployment drops to 4%US job growth slowed in January, with only 143,000 new jobs added, falling short of expectations and December's figures. Unemployment rate ...
07 Feb, 2025, 09.26 PM IST
Formal job creation up 3% under ESIC at 1.78 million in October: Payroll dataIndia added 1.78 million formal jobs under ESIC in October 2024. This shows a 3% rise from October 2023. However, it is a 13.2% dip from Se...
18 Dec, 2024, 03.07 PM IST
Net formal jobs under EPFO up 9.3% at 1.88 million in September: Payroll dataIndia witnessed the creation of 1.88 million net formal jobs in September, marking a 9.3% surge compared to the previous year, as per gover...
20 Nov, 2024, 09.20 PM IST
The Fed may have no choice but to assume the worstThe Federal Reserve is facing challenges as recent labor market data revisions suggest a weaker job growth than initially reported. Policym...
13 Sep, 2024, 04.05 PM IST
View: Budget’s war plan against inflation is heroic on economic as well as political frontsNirmala Sitharaman has delivered beyond what was expected. The budgetary allocation for infrastructure investment has been raised by an imp...
02 Feb, 2022, 11.50 PM IST
Need to develop proper matrix to understand changes in economy: Suresh PrabhuPrabhu said, "We have to have proper matrix to be developed to understand this changing profile of India's economy and in which job creatio...
07 Apr, 2019, 11.56 AM IST
Government to conduct new survey on employment, says Bibek DebroyThe govt will conduct a new national sample survey on employment, said economic advisory council chief.
01 Feb, 2019, 10.07 PM IST
Study finds unemployment rate at 6.9%, a 2-year highUnemployment rate in the country rose to 6.9% in Oct, the highest in two years, according to the CMIE study.
08 Nov, 2018, 09.11 PM IST
Over 39 lakh jobs created in 7 months till March: EPFO dataAs many as 6.13 lakh new jobs were created in the month of March this year, which is higher than 5.89 lakh payrolls with the EPFO in Februa...
22 May, 2018, 07.48 PM IST
- PM Narendra Modi to review country’s job scenario on Sunday
The meeting comes at a time when top policy-makers feel there is a lack of credible and timely job data that makes it difficult to assess j...
08 Sep, 2017, 12.33 PM IST
Good numbers make good policies: Reliable jobs data will help India overcome its jobless growth problemThe last time India carried out a focussed and comprehensive estimation of the employment situation nationwide was in 2012 through the 68th...
13 Jun, 2017, 10.25 AM IST
- Canada sees 25,000 new jobs created in May
Canada's economy added 25,000 jobs in May for a fifth consecutive month of employment gains, Statistics Canada announced on Friday.
04 Jun, 2010, 05.52 PM IST