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India’s unemployment rate fell to a seven-month low of 4.7 per cent in November 2025, driven by stronger rural employment and rising female participation, signalling improving labour market conditions despite urban joblessness remaining higher

Telangana's Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) was 66.5 per cent, higher than the national average of 61.6 per cent, indicating a high level of confidence in the State's economy

Says the unemployment rate, which was at 6% in 2017-18, had fallen to 3.2% and would come down further to below 3%

Joblessness or unemployment rate is defined as the percentage of unemployed persons in the labour force

Arvind Kejriwal makes a scathing attack on PM Narendra Modi, calling him a "tyrant" and accusing him of obstructing development work.

Ottawa: The unemployment rate in Canada edged down 0.1 percentage point to 5.1 per cent in May, marking three consecutive months of decrease while this key labor market indicator has reached a new record low, Statistics Canada said. The tightening labor market in recent months has contributed to year-over-year decline in unemployment rates across the core-aged […]

By Surajit Das The National Statistical Office (NSO) of the Government of India released a press statement on March 14 on the unemployment rate. According to the periodic labour force survey (PLFS) data, the unemployment rate stood at 13.4% in urban areas in the financial year 2020-21. Female unemployment rate was over 15% and for […]

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MPs on Tuesday made a demand to fill over eight lakh posts lying vacant in the Central government, saying vacancies are unjustified at a time unemployment rate is high. Raising the issue through a zero-hour mention, V Vijayasai Reddy said the government sector is overflowing with vacancies at a time there […]

Painting a rosy picture based on April's GST collections could be a miscalculation as all indicators point to a grim picture of the economy

Going by job losses and collapse of small businesses another lockdown could prove disastrous

"The latest batch of data show that the labour market has been somewhat weaker than previously thought and that the fallout from the Covid-19 recession is intensifying."

The annual budget is expected to contain a wage subsidy to get unemployed young Australians back to work.