Self-employment has emerged as the fastest-growing segment in India’s labour market, rising from 23.9 crore in FY18 to 35.8 crore in FY24. It now accounts for over half of India’s total employment, ...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how Indians work, where jobs are created and what skills employers value, according to ...

India has a labour problem: youth unemployment rates of about 10 percent, farm jobs still employing at least 40 percent of the workforce, and a need to create at least 8-10 million non-farm jobs ...

Tech giants like TCS stop mass hirings, but global capability centres are creating the next wave of high-skill jobs ...

India’s new rural employment law offers greater fiscal predictability at the cost of higher household exposure to ...

India’s unincorporated sector saw modest growth in Q2 of fiscal 2025-26, with establishments rising to 7.97 crore and employment reaching 128.6 million, driven largely by urban job gains. The ...

India is home to one of the world's most ambitious social programmes - a jobs guarantee that gives every rural household the legal right to paid work. Launched in 2005 by a Congress party government, ...

The recent report highlights that Amazon’s latest wave of layoffs will also affect India. The job cuts are likely to be concentrated in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its retail operations.

In some places, educated young people are desperate for steady employment in the world’s most populous nation. In others, factory owners struggle to retain workers. Workers at an aluminum die casting ...