Tag: unemployment
The Shape of the Beast Called Unemployment in India
During the period of high growth in Indian GDP from the early 1990s to about 2012, I was often reminded of a story I...
Karnataka: 490 employees laid off at Jindal Steel Works in Bellary
Bellary: The Indian working class is facing a double whammy of three months of lockdown and the grave economic crisis which is resulting in...
CPI(M) Protests Across India on 20-26 August Against Modi Govt
On the call of the CPI(M) Central Committee, protests took place across the country between August 20 and August 26. The protests were held...
Kashmir lost Education, Health and Economy. What did India gain?
As Modi government covered up the failure of the abrogation of article 370 and article 35A and a year of complete lockdown in Jammu...
Kashmir: Post 370A Abrogation Economic Loss stand at Rs 40000 Cr
On August 5, 2019, the Government of India revoked the special status granted to the state of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of...
Coronavirus has brought the welfare state back, and it might be...
Governments across the developed world have responded to the COVID-19 crisis by making welfare states vastly more generous. Historical parallels suggest that this munificence...
Ashok Leyland fires 5800 workers without notice
Ashok Leyland, the country's second-largest commercial vehicle manufacturing company has suddenly fired 5,800 workers from the Pantnagar plant in Uttarakhand.
The company fired 4,500 permanent...
Unemployment : What Could Be Done But Would Not Be Done
It has been a recurring theme in the political economy. Its two great masters of the nineteenth century, Malthus and Ricardo, believed in the...
Leave Man Ki Baat, Could You Please Listen to This: Devnoor...
There is a saying ‘Vyaparam droha chintanam’. I don’t know whether it is a saying or something that was brought into being by common...
Karnataka youth demand to address economic slowdown and implement youth manifesto...
We are hearing the news of the loss of millions of jobs. Millions of young people are writing exams for a hundred jobs. self-employment...
