New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The decline in India’s unemployment rate to 4.9 per cent in February reflects an encouraging shift in the rhythm of hiring. Employment creation is no longer locked within a handful of urban hubs or select industries.February’s gains were spread across manufacturing, construction, retail, logistics, and agriculture — a sign that recovery is broad based and reaching both rural and urban India, according to an article in India Narrative.The government’s capital ex…
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Dhaka, Feb 3 (IANS) Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Shafiqur Rahman’s recent social media remarks equating women’s work outside the home with prostitution are not merely a conservative stance but dehumanising, reducing teachers, garment workers, doctors, nurses, journalists, police officers and civil servants to a single degrading label, a report said on Tuesday. According to a report in ‘Time of Bangladesh’, in a country where women are from the numerical majority rather than a marginal m…