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Labour Market Recovery Still Under Hostage Of Multiple Crises
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The global jobs gap in 2023 would be 453 million, which amounts to 11.7 per cent, more than double the level of current gap. It would be much higher among women at 14.5 per cent than men at 9.8 per cent. This level of global unemploymen...
Sibal cites govt inadequacies behind Odisha rail tragedy
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday attacked the government over the railway tragedy in Odisha, and said one minister cannot deal with large ministries such as Railways as well as Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, as was being done...
Rail minister says no time for politics after spat with Mamata
Amid the Opposition’s call for his resignation following the tragic three-train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said this is not the right time to indulge in politics, as all efforts should be focused...
‘Free power’ parties will have to pay some way: Minister
Union minister of power and new & renewable energy RK Singh has blasted the promise of free electricity ahead of assembly elections, saying these people are not worried about the country’s future. ‘This is not free electricity. They have to pay for th...
Kejriwal asks Cong to choose between Constitution and Modi
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is out on a nationwide tour seeking support against the Central ordinance on control over administrative services in the national capital, on Friday said Congress has to decide whether it is with democracy, consti...
Rahul holds session with Silicon Valley AI experts, entrepreneurs
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday spent the first half of his day with Silicon Valley-based startup entrepreneurs, known for doing path-breaking work in the field of Artificial Intelligence and cutting-edge technologies. Sitting in the front row of t...
Modi blasts Cong for misleading poor, ‘guarantee habit’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack against the Congress during the mega rally in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district on Wednesday and said that the UPA government operated under a “remote control” rule. Hailing the work done by his government...
Mamata says Shah trip prompted by her own visit plan
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she wrote a letter to the Centre seeking permission to visit “peace-loving people of Manipur”. Addressing a press conference in Howrah, the TMC supremo said her letter requesting permission to vis...
Yechury appeals to Cong to supports AAP on ordinance
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday condemned the Centre’s ordinance on control of administrative services in Delhi and extended his party’s support to the AAP in opposing it in Parliament when a bill will be brought to replace it. He also...
Gehlot, Pilot patch-up success increasingly in doubt
The demeanour of Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot at the impromptu press briefing by Congress general secretary KC Venugopal, announcing that they would work together for the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly election and win it suggested that the problem between...
Owaisi says Modi event was like Delhi Sultan coronation
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the inauguration of the new Parliament saying he took only Hindu ‘pujaris’ (priests) inside the building and charged that the event seemed like the “coronation of a Sultan o...
EC orders updating of electoral rolls in five states
The Election Commission has asked chief electoral officers of poll-bound states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Rajasthan, and Mizoram to carry out a fresh special summary revision to update the electoral rolls. In its May 24 dated letter to t...
Opposition weighing one man against Modi in 2024
It’s now or never. And the Opposition knows this. The idea of a joint candidate against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Lok Sabha elections 2024 is gathering weight in the fissured ranks, with one perquisite uniting regional parties – the Congress must st...
HP-Punjab tussle over power project intensifies
The ongoing dispute between Himachal Pradesh and neighbouring Punjab over the Shanan Hydroelectric Power project appears to be escalating, as Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday urged the Centre to intervene and facilitate the transfer of the...
Kharge to lead delegation to President on Manipur violence
The Congress on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the recent violence in Manipur, saying a horrific tragedy is unfolding there while the PM is obsessed about his “self-coronation”. A delegation led by Congress Presiden...