UP Cong chief, party leaders pay obeisance at Ayodhya

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai and other party leaders paid obeisance to Ram Lalla in Ayodhya after taking a holy dip in the Saryu river on Makar Sankranti festival on Monday. IMAGE: Uttar......

Mulayam, Ustad Zakir Hussain, SM Krishna get Padma Vibhushan

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, former external affairs minister in the UPA government S M Krishna and tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were among six luminaries selected......

3 BJP candidates lose deposit despite record win in UP polls

Even as it got an overwhelming majority in the recently-concluded UP assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party had three candidates losing their electoral deposits. IMAGE: BJP supporters......

Uttarakhand cancels Kanwar Yatra in view of Covid

The Uttarakhand government on Tuesday cancelled the Kanwar Yatra in view of the looming threat of a third wave of COVID-19.   IMAGE: A Kanwariya carries holy water. Photograph: Uma Shankar......

India's Employment Rate Lower Than Pakistan, Bangladesh

Only West Asia and North Africa have a lower employment rate than India, points out Mahesh Vyas. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The unemployment rate is not India's most important labour......

Beware! The Two Economic Indias

The substantially increased economic dualism may exert lasting negative influences which could include a reduced potential for economic growth; the persistence of a very weak employment and poverty......

'Every company wants to recruit people'

'There was hardly any recruitment after the second wave.''Now, there is a huge demand for manpower.' IMAGE: Candidates line up at a job fair in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Kindly note that the image......

120 million Indians will be unemployed!

'Just see what kind of political, social and economic impact it will have when the number of unemployed goes up four times in one year suddenly.' IMAGE: Planting of saplings underway in the rains.......