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With an estimated 12 million young people entering the workforce annually and despite impressive economic growth in recent ...
At least 9 million Indians are living with dementia. The number is set to double by 2036, but care systems remain unprepared ...
Mumbai: Even though hilly states, such as Arunachal Pradesh, have large government debt to Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP ...
Cheap to buy and easy to ignore, bidi powers a vast economy that thrives on labour violations, policy loopholes and health risks ...
32,000 Indians Say They Possess Exotic Animals In Post-COVID Amnesty The environment ministry offered amnesty to Indians holding undocumented exotic animals as a first step towards regulating their ...
Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) provide large employment opportunities at lower capital cost than large industries, but this sector is plagued by low levels of registration. As per the ...
Caste impacts decision to migrate, benefits from migration Migration patterns and its impacts are based on a household’s caste, found a 2016 study from Beed in Maharashtra, published in the Social ...
Why There Have Been So Few Women In India's Administrative Services The expectation to balance their roles at home as caregivers as well as their jobs, along with covert biases within the ...
Why Local Initiatives May Be Key To Climate Change Adaptation Adaptation plans at national and state levels ignore communities most affected by climate change, but evidence from Jharkhand suggests the ...
Bengaluru: In July 2016, the Union government told Parliament that in its 15-year vision to achieve “total abolition of bonded labour”, it would identify, release and rehabilitate around 18.4 million ...