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Market Ahead, May 6: Top Factors That Could Guide Markets Today

Today, a total of six companies, including YES Bank and Kansai Nerolac Paints, are set to declare their quarterly numbers

Best of BS Opinion: Unemployment rate touches 26%, Covid-19 fear, and more

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Covid-19: Unemployment rate rises to 24% amid nationwide lockdown

The economic impact of this lockdown by design is evidently huge. Its impact on the livelihood of vulnerable sections of society is immeasurably bigger

Unemployment rate over 23%; labour participation rate at all-time low

Labour statistics for March 2020 are worrisome. And those for the past two weeks are much worse

Coronavirus crisis adds to risks as India battles slowdown, unemployment

New risk in the form of the Covid-19 virus only adds to the economic cholesterol that India has accumulated over the past few years

Labour metrics flounder in February

Relatively stable or tending-to-rise unemployment rate combined with falling labour participation indicate employment rate is falling

Feb unemployment rate hits 4-month high of 7.78% as slowdown persists: CMIE

In rural areas, the unemployment rate increased to 7.37% in February from 5.97% in the previous month

Why India's present slump is a more serious issue than earlier slowdowns

What is unusual about the current period of slow growth is that it has come without an exogenous driver, unlike all previous periods of slowdown, going back 50 years, writes T N Ninan

Unemployment rate was at 6.1% in 2017-18, says govt citing new survey

Gangwar said the government has stopped the previous survey as the sample size was low

Canada sheds 71,000 jobs in November, unemployment rate rises to 5.9%

Most recent indicators have heralded a slowing of the economy as the end of 2019 approaches.

New govt to ensure 80% jobs for locals: Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari

Koshyari made the announcement while addressing the joint sitting of the state legislature at Vidhan Bhawan in which he laid out the new government's broader agenda for the coming years

Urban jobless rate down to 9.3% in Q4FY19, lowest in at least four quarters

The fall in the unemployment rate, by weekly status methodology basis, came as employment among regular wage employees and a section of self-employed workers increased during the period

Over 200 global economists seek junked NSO report details from govt

Chorus to make junk NSO report public grows

Statsguru: Public firms are increasingly denying social security to workers

While the transition from agriculture to other sectors is taking place, manufacturing is not providing the necessary buffer before the workforce shifts to the services sector

Unemployment rate in India rose to a three-year high of 8.5% in Oct: CMIE

Unemployment was worse only in the pre-demonetisation period, according to the data, at 9.6% in August 2016.

A first since independence: Employment down by 9 mn in 6 yrs, says report

Ever since NSSO's Periodic Labour Force Survey was published (which showed that unemployment in India was at a 45-year high, there have been debates on the state of employment in India

India's Oct unemployment rate rises to 8.5%, highest in over 3 years: CMIE

India's infrastructure output fell 5.2% in September from a year earlier, the worst performance in years

BJP has failed on each of its 154 poll promises: Bhupinder Singh Hooda

They had promised to pay farmers on the recommendation of the Swaminathan Commission. However, they are not giving them the MSPs, let alone paying them according to the commission's recommendations

Best of BS Opinion: Educated unemployed mark India's looming crisis

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Best of BS Opinion: Degradation of land, India's economic strategy and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day