India's unemployment rate is likely to decline by as much as 97 basis points by 2028 as the country's economy hits the USD 5 trillion mark, fuelling a rise in employment, a new report said. Unemployment rate -- the percentage of people in the labour force who are without jobs …
Opposition parties want works under NREGS stalled till elections are over KANCHEEPURAM: Opposition parties have alleged that the ruling coalition at the Centre is using the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) to lure voters in Kancheepuram district. Participating in an all-party meeting convened by the District Election Officer and …
Proceeding of the public hearing of M/S Vedanta Aluminium limited for its expansion of alumina refinery from 1.0 mtpa to 6 .0 mtpa on 25.04.2009 at 10 a.m. at: village Belemba (opposite val switch yard), Lanjigarh, district Kalahandi.
Labour Relations and Manpower Minister Athauda Seneviratne said they hope to start 30,000 self employment projects in Sri Lanka before the end of this year. He said their purpose of starting this project is to reduce unemployment. A session of the Micro financial credit program was held at the People's …
Obama administration officials said Wednesday that an ambitious energy and climate-change proposal sponsored by House Democrats could help create jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they stopped short of endorsing it. Steven Chu, the secretary of energy, and Lisa P. Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told …
Rahi Gaikwad Poor infrastructure; dismal situation on power, irrigation fronts BJP promises to make Maharashtra free of load-shedding Marathwada has sizeable number of Dalits, Muslims Mumbai: The second phase of Lok Sabha elections is going to be a massive one for Maharashtra. Today (Thursday) the State will see 25 constituencies …
Adyanthaya said that the UPA government empowered villagers by increasing their buying capacity through NREGS and this made nation capable of facing recession
Congress does not have Bharath Nirman project, instead it has the Bharath nirnama (destruction) Project, said BJP Leader Anwar Manipady. Addressing a news conference on Wednesday, Manipady said that Congress has only been making empty assurances to the minorities and cheating them. Commenting on the statement of Congress leader Gulam …
LUCKNOW: Holding Congress, BJP and their supporting parties responsible for increasing inflation, backwardness and poverty in the country, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and chief minister Mayawati said that even after 61 years of the independence, there had been no perceptible change in the socio-economic conditions of the SC/ST …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday afternoon said due attention will be given to the next national budget for protecting homegrown industries and keeping prices of essentials within the purchasing capacity of common people. Sheikh Hasina will focus on the protection of the homegrown industries to make them able to …
South Korea has offered at least 5,400 job opportunities for Sri Lankan migrant workers in 2009. A spokesman for the Foreign Employment Bureau (FEB) said that Sri Lanka received at least 4,300 jobs last year. However, the spokesman said that the number of job opportunities available for foreigners in South …
79 percent young labour force in Pakistan living below poverty line, and majority of them has no access to education beyond Primary Level, veteran general secretary Pakistan Workers' Federation Khurshid Ahmad said here on Friday. He was addressing a national conference, organised by "Pakistan Workers' Federation" here on the eve …
The 61st round (2004-05) of the National Sample Survey showed that there was a turnaround in employment growth in rural India after a phase of jobless growth during the 1990s. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of widespread distress in the agricultural sector with low productivity, price instability …
Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque has said the government is redesigning the 100-day employment generation programme to identify its weaknesses.
World Bank Dhaka office's senior economist Zahid Hossain in a report titled 'Bangladesh: State of economy and policy response to the global economic crisis' released on Monday suggested that job creation in Bangladesh would have to be at least of the order of two million in place of one million …
Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque hoped that the next budget would be pro-people, pro-rural and pro-marginalised. He was speaking as chief guest at a roundtable discussion titled 'Budget and Social Safety Net Programmes: Perspective of Marginalized'. Shamunnay, a non-government social development organisation, in association with another …
Hiroko Tabuchi A motley group of unlikely farmers descended on the countryside in Yokoshibahikari one recent Sunday, fresh towels around their necks, shiny boots on their feet.
NWFP govt has decided formulation of another industrial policy for the province to attract domestic and foreign investors for industrial development rather than the present one promulgated by the previous government. According to sources, the provincial government in first instance will go for the appointment of a consultant firm to …
Hundreds of farmers, farm workers and local elected officials walked along dusty roads in the Central Valley on Thursday, part of a four-day march to protest federal cutbacks in water supplies.
The United States and Mexico agreed on Thursday on a new partnership to fight climate change and promote environmentally-friendly forms of energy production, they said in a joint statement. US President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, meeting in Mexico City, agreed to broaden political and technical cooperation on …
