The CMIE projected that employment in India will decline by 2.5 per cent to 395 million in December quarter of FY21, compared to 405 million in the year ago period

As per ILO preliminary estimate, unemployment rate could increase from 4.4 per cent in 2019 to somewhere between 5.2 per cent and 5.7 per cent in 2020

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi has said in a reply to Congress' leader of Opposition, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury that the Parliament will now convene in January 2021 for the Budget session

Rural unemployment jumped to 9.11 per cent from 8.56 per cent in week ending December 6, urban unemployment climbed to 11.62 per cent from 8.15 per cent in previous week

While many companies suffered due to the national lockdown and laid off workers, PhonePe has hired 500 people across departments since March 2020.

On month-on-month basis, employment declined by 0.9 per cent or 3.5 million in November, as against 0.1 per cent or 0.6 million fall registered in October

Companies' expenses fell more sharply than sales did during the said period, which helped the corporate sector record bumper profits, Mahesh Vyas, Managing Director and CEO, CMIE, said in an article

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The plans offer coverage under two different conditions, the first being one where job/income is lost due to termination/lay-off or retrenchment, and the second condition is where job/income is lost due to disability or death

Mahesh Vyas, Managing Director and CEO, CMIE, said that employment increased by one per cent but real agricultural GVA growth in the September 2020 quarter was 16.4 per cent lower than it was in the June 2020 quarter

Talking about weekly numbers, the CMIE said that the country's unemployment rate stood at 7.8% for the week ended November 22, whereas the labour participation rate was at 39.3% leading to a steep dip in employment rate at 36.24%

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Most of the NPS funds have delivered attractive return without taking higher risk. As on November 20, 2020, the seven-year annualised return of five out of six equity funds with track record of seven years is above 11 per cent, while the sixth fund also delivered decent return of 10.17 per cent

A spokesman of British Airways said, \"We expect the highest standard of behaviour from all of our colleagues at all times, and we are investigating the claims\"

India's real GDP regained Rs 6.2 lakh crore of GDP it lost amid the lockdown to Rs 33.1 lakh crore in September quarter

The state IT department had developed the \"Karma Bhumi\" app for professionals who had returned from other places to enlist themselves for getting employment in the state for a limited period of time

\"The economic growth rate, though, contracted in second quarter but it is better than most estimates. The contraction has reduced considerably if compared quarter-on-quarter,\" said Nish Bhatt, Founder & CEO, Millwood Kane International

While this marks second consecutive quarter of GVA contraction, it also means a substantial recovery from steepest ever contraction of 22.8 per cent in Q1, says the think tank

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