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What Noida's factory protests mean for India's wage debateFactory workers' protests in Noida have reignited India's minimum wage debate. Rising inflation erodes real wages, impacting workers' purch...
Cities to face house help shortage as migrants return home to voteMajor Indian cities face a looming shortage of essential household help. Cooks, nannies, drivers, and security guards are heading home for ...
Iran War: India faces 'triple threat' amid West Asia crisisIran War: India faces a potential "triple threat" from a West Asian crisis, with rising energy costs, declining remittances, and reverse la...
Labour shortage fears hit industry amid war, Holi, Ramadan disruptionsIndian industries are experiencing a significant worker shortage. This is driven by a combination of factors including a global LPG crisis ...
Kerala: CM Vijayan opens his State’s work-near-home facility at KollamKerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday launched ‘Commune’, the pilot centre of his government’s ambitious work-near-home (WNH) pr...
Big metros choking, says Kerala industry minister as Bengaluru battles infra woesKerala's Industries Minister P Rajeeve is actively promoting the state as an alternative investment destination, citing issues in congested...
‘Even Pakistan is younger’: Sanjeev Sanyal warns of India’s aging cities, says it’s time to move past family planningEconomist Sanjeev Sanyal warns that India's population trends indicate a long-term decline, with fertility rates falling below replacement ...
Reliance on informal finance persists despite multiple financial inclusion measures: ReportA Piramal Enterprises study reveals that despite financial inclusion efforts, many Indians, especially micro-business owners and the econom...
Kerala higher education sector needs comprehensive, radical change: Minister R BinduKerala Higher Education Minister R Bindu emphasizes a radical shift in higher education to bridge the education-employment gap and foster e...
Survey reveals surge in govt school enrolment, private tuitions amid Covid-19ASER 2021 was conducted as a phone-based household and rural survey, covering 75,234 children in the 5 to 14 age group across 17,184 villag...
Over 15 lakh non-resident Keralites return home during May 2020-June 2021 from 6 Gulf nations: Official dataBy the first week of January 2021, 8.7 lakh such people had come back but by July 3, 2021, the count crossed 15,01,326, according to the la...
Deve Gowda asks PM to look into crashing prices of horticulture produceIn a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the JD(S) supremo cited the multi-level problems taking shape in rural India in the form of CO...
Covid impact: Temps’ wages surge 30% on labour shortageCurrently, orders are also good and the workforce has gone up by over 20%, as compared to pre-Covid days at 70-80 workers.
Local curbs, fear of lockdown spur another exodus of migrant workersThe second wave of Covid infections is sparking another migration of workers returning to their home states from places reporting sharp inc...
Kalyan Jewellers to increase retail footprint by 13% in first quarterWhile the brand has plans to scale up existing operations in the tier-1 cities, it will also focus on the tier-2 and tier-3 markets, with m...
Indian automakers see increased sales in rural areas, fuelled by higher farm incomesSo, what's behind this new-found love for country roads? The second consecutive good monsoons have boosted rural incomes. And the automaker...
Like Kerala, Karnataka to build transit homes for migrantsThe state govt plans to build four transit homes in Bengaluru, each with a capacity to accommodate at least 3,000 workers. These homes will...
Top World Bank economist explains the impact of coronavirus on foreign workersAs lockdowns have shut banks and money-transfer offices, marooned migrants couldn't send money home.
Hindi, Bengali, Odia speakers surge in South IndiaJust-released data from the 2011 census on mother tongues seems to indicate a reverse migration trend from earlier decades when people from...
- Kerala mulls new schools as exodus of Gulf kids looms
Norka is mulling establishment of three schools in the state, at Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Malappuram to cater to children of non-resid...