New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), on Monday staged protests in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh over the alleged NEET paper leak issue, demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, and a ban on the National Testing Agency (NTA).NSUI workers gathered to protest against repeated paper leak incidents, alleging that lakhs of students are suffering due to irregularities in competitive examinations.One of the protestors said, “Our clear demand …
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Johannesburg, May 14 (IANS) South Africa’s worsening unemployment is driven by weak economic growth and systemic shortcomings in education and skills development, leaving young people the hardest hit, according to Ravi Naidoo, chief executive officer of the Youth Employment Service (YES).The YES program is a business-led initiative launched in 2018 by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to tackle youth unemployment, Xinhua news agency reported.In a recent interview with Xinhua, Naidoo said t…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) China’s latest unemployment figures have drawn renewed scrutiny, as official data point to a modest rise in joblessness, while analysts are of the view that the situation is far worse, according to a media article. According to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the country’s surveyed urban unemployment rate climbed to 5.3 per cent in February, marking a six-month high, according to the article published in Uganda’s PML Daily.The rise in unemp…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) China’s official headline growth figures are fake and the country’s economy is headed for a major danger from its mounting bad debt and a rapidly ageing population, a new report has said.Japanese news site Nippon.com said in the report cited US think tank Rhodium Group estimates that true growth of the Chinese economy is closer to 2.5–3.0 per cent rather than the Chinese government’s real GDP growth figures for 2025 at 5 per cent.It also cited some China-watchers wh…
Bengaluru, March 11 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council Chalavadi Narayanaswamy has accused the Congress government in the state of misleading the public by claiming credit for recruitments carried out during the tenure of the previous BJP-led government.Speaking to reporters near the Vidhana Soudha here on Wednesday, Narayanaswamy said the Congress government was presenting the achievements of the BJP government as its own and thereby deceiving people across the…
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) Pakistan will either confront deep structural weaknesses such as tax narrowness, energy inefficiency, and elite capture of its government or face a brittle economy and thinner social cohesion by 2031, a new report has said.The report from Business Recorder said half‑hearted reforms could leave average annual GDP growth hovering around 2–3 per cent over the next five years, barely above population growth, amounting to stagnation, the report said.”Stagnation, in a you…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Pakistan’s demographic dividend has turned out to be a “demographic dilemma” as a widening skills gap leads to “economic stagnation which feeds social unrest”, a new report has said.The report from The Express Tribune said the country produced nearly 8 lakh university graduates annually but struggled to access key labour markets such as Japan and South Korea due to mismatches between the skills produced and those demanded by these economies.The report flagged findi…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien has proposed a bold policy measure to address India’s persistent low wages and widespread working poverty. He has called for the introduction of a Universal Minimum Annual National Guarantee, or UMANG, for workers across all sectors. Speaking during zero hour, O’Brien highlighted alarming statistics on youth unemployment and stagnant incomes.He noted that one in three youth in India is not in employment, educatio…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) A lack of sustained growth has left real incomes falling which led to a ‘failing Pakistan’ despite signs of macroeconomic stabilisation and reform, a report said on Wednesday. The Express Tribune said in a report citing Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) data that the improved headline indicators alongside deteriorating social outcomes suggest a stark contrast.Real GDP growth averaged just 2.47 per cent across recent years barely in line with population growth…
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) Pakistan is underperforming economically because its education and skills systems fail to convert human potential into productivity, a report said on Saturday.The report from Pakistan Observer said that low public spending on education, outdated curricula, inadequate teacher training, limited vocational pathways and poor research funding have produced persistent skill shortages and high youth unemployment.Pakistan’s Human Capital Index of 0.41 indicates a child born tod…