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Farmers stage protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar against unemployment

As per the information, Delhi Police has detained some farmers protesting at Ghazipur on the Delhi-UP border.

Centre is playing 'CBI-ED'; busy toppling govts, tweets CM Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday attacked the Centre over a host of issues, including inflation and unemployment, and wondered how will the nation progress like this. Who will people talk to about their issues when these people are playing 'CBI-ED' and are busy toppling governments, he said. "Rupee is falling, people are troubled by inflation, unemployment is at a high -- these people are playing 'CBI-ED', and are busy toppling governments chosen by people and trading barbs the whole day. "Who do people talk to about their issues and whom should they go to? How will the nation progress like this?" he said in a tweet in Hindi. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had on Sunday declared that the 2024 Lok Sabha polls will be a contest between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the AAP chief. Sisodia had said people are looking at Kejriwal as an alternative to Modi since the former talks about issues affecting the common man.

Will continue fight against unemployment, inflation: BJP MP Varun Gandhi

BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Sunday said he will continue his fight against unemployment, corruption and inflation until they cease to exist. In an apparent dig at his own party, Gandhi said he is working for an India where children and youth get respect, and where nobody is compelled to bow his head for help. "Until employment ceases to exist in this country and your children don't get jobs, my 'sangarsh' (fight) will continue. We will also continue our fight against corruption," he said at a programme here. "We will not allow the sacrifice of our ancestors go in vain. Time has come for the people to raise their voice against basic problems, injustice and corruption," he added. During his Pilibhit tour, Gandhi inaugurated an indoor sports hall constructed at a cost of Rs 8 crore and also interacted with members of the urban local body.

Recovery in youth employment continues to lag worldwide: ILO report

Although the number of unemployed young people worldwide fell from 75 million in 2021 to 73 million in 2022, it is six million more than pre-pandemic levels

Train yourself to avoid redundancy due to technology: Pradhan to youths

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan called upon young people to skill themselves to meet challenges that will come with the change in technology rendering several current jobs redundant.

The employment-income crisis

Reforms of the education and skill continuum could usher in an Indian miracle

Politics heats up as Congress, and BJP go head-to-head

Public can't be blamed for being wary of the current Congress protests against price rise and unemployment. They have too closely tailed protests directed against ED summons to Sonia and Rahul Gandhi

US job growth beats expectations; unemployment rate declines 3.5%

Data for June was revised higher to show 398,000 jobs created instead of the previously reported 372,000.

West Bengal: Cong workers stage protests against price rise, unemployment

Around 50 Congress workers demonstrated outside the governor's residence, wearing black clothes, holding placards and shouting slogans.

Need to boost manufacturing to create jobs, says Anand Mahindra

"Only 40 per cent of the labour force that is capable of working is actually working or looking for work. The biggest sufferers are youth and women," said Mahindra.

Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra, other Congress leaders detained amid protest

Congress MPs including Rahul Gandhi were detained at Police Lines Kingsway Camp during their protest against the Centre

Unemployment, poverty on rise as country's assets are being sold: Baghel

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday claimed that the country's assets were being sold one by one, which has led to the rise in unemployment and poverty

US Prez Biden dismisses fear of recession even as GDP doubles down

Joe Biden and top officials have dismissed fears of US economy sinking into a recession as doubling down of GDP growth rates in two successive quarters at around 0.9 per cent did not mean recession

Youth are country's 'asset', but BJP showing them as 'liability': Rahul

"Out of 22 crore youths who queued up for government jobs in the past eight years, 7.22 lakh got jobs, that is, only three out of 1,000," Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.

Chinese Gen Z are underemployed and lowering their ambitions: Report

A perfect storm of factors has propelled unemployment among 16- to 24-year-old urbanites to a record 19.3%, more than twice the comparable rate in the US

Future imperfect

The gradual loss of momentum of growth in sentiments can be traced to the deterioration in consumer expectations from the future

When 'egonomics' trumps 'economics...: Rahul's attack on price rise, debt

He shared a chart sharing such details and said while the government's debt in 2014 was Rs 56 lakh crore, it is Rs 139 lakh crore in 2022.

India can reach 8% sustained growth: Ex-NITI Aayog vice-chairman Panagariya

'I fully support the capex push. I do not believe in sector specific interventions', said Panagariya

Vulnerable jobs

While about 13 million lost jobs during the month, the count of the unemployed increased by only 3 million

Amid record high unemployment, can China employ all of its graduates?

Over the next few weeks, China will churn out a record 10.8 million college graduates. Finding them jobs is proving to be an unexpected headache for President Xi Jinping's government