The first tranche of the festive sale on e-commerce platforms has been led by small towns with both Amazon and Flipakrt having over 60 per cent sellers from tier-2 and beyond

India Stock Market Highlights Today: HCL Tech, followed by L&T, M&M, Tech Mahindra, Maruti, TCS, Asian Paints, Infosys and HDFC Bank were among the top gainers today. On the other hand, ONGC, Nestle India, SBI, ICICI Bank and IndusInd Bank were among the laggards

India Stock Market Highlights Today: ONGC, followed by NTPC, HDFC, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, PowerGrid and Nestle India were among the top gainer on Sensex pack. On the other hand, TCS, Tech Mahindra, Infosys and Sun Pharma were among the laggards.

Rameshan Paleri, chairman of ULCCS, said the members of the society earned about Rs 22,000 a month even at the time of Covid-19 pandemic

Business confidence improves despite hardly any uptick in demand and corporate leaders' dissatisfaction with government's efforts and its last stimulus

IMF, however, projected that the Indian economy will deliver an impressive recovery with 8.8 per cent growth rate in the next fiscal, higher than the 6 per cent growth it had predicted in June

The government of West Bengal is recruiting 2,000 'Bana Sahayaks' or forest assistants on a contractual basis to guard wildlife and stop man-animal conflict

India has learnt that growth in GDP does not automatically translate into growth in jobs and that GDP growth does not necessarily mean well-being of a vast majority of population. It needs to put these experiences into work and frame appropriate policy responses to the job crisis

The economic crisis following the pandemic and untimely national lockdown have been used by both the central and state governments to push through unilateral measures that undermine workers' interest by dismantling critical protections

The Congressional Budget Office released the unofficial 2020 figures Thursday, saying the deficit equaled 15% of the U.S. economy, a huge gap that was the largest since the government undertook massive borrowing to finance the final year of World War II

A recent report by diversity and inclusion company, Avtar Group says that diversity hiring in 2020 has gone up this year by 32 per cent as opposed to 23 per cent last year

Part I of this two-part article traces the growth of temporary employment in government and the practice of keeping a larger number of posts vacant even in the face of a severe job crisis

Employment rate scaled up to its highest level since lockdown to almost 38 per cent from 37.5 per cent in August. \"These are big and welcome gains,\" says CMIE CEO Mahesh Vyas

The economy has been going through a phase of stagflation. Here is what this means

Neither the Wage Code 2019 nor the draft Rules 2020 notified in July 2020 under it links wage to labour productivity, strengthen implementation regime, make minimum wage universal or limit working hours to 8-hour a day to improve the lot of workers

India Stock Market Highlights Today: On hopes of the US Govt to announce a stimulated package, global markets begun the new trading week with modest gains.

Gold, Silver prices today: Since the beginning of this year, the yellow metal has risen 41.5% to life-time high of Rs 56,191 per 10 gm. However, the bullion now trades almost Rs 6,000 lower than its lifetime high hit last month on August 7

The Trade and Development Report 2020 by UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Tuesday that the world economy is experiencing a deep recession amid a still-unchecked pandemic

As per CMIE, the average labour participation rate in the first three weeks of September was 40.7 per cent, while 30-day moving average was 40.3 per cent as of September 20 against 40.96 per cent in August

Contrary to Centre's claims, a parallel private market for farm produce and negation of states' regulatory power are aimed at helping private businesses at the cost of farmers. The last thing distressed farmers need is exposure to unregulated market forces