Urban Life

Urban jobless rate reaches four quarter high in Q4FY24: PLFS data

Previously, the jobless rate in urban areas has been steadily declining since the high of 12.6 per cent reported during the April-June quarter of FY22 during the peak of the pandemic

Urban Company launches policy to support service partners facing abuse

The company said it would also release a series of videos to raise awareness about domestic violence and abuse, and how its service professionals can report it

Weak rural demand drags down FMCG sales in September, shows data

Bizom pointed out that rural sales were impacted in September due to excessive rainfall in some areas and weak rainfall in some other regions, thereby affecting agri yields and household incomes

What makes an area urban?

The variations in determining what can be classified as cities are as dynamic as cities themselves

Making urban MNREGA workable: A question of getting the structure right

The urban population is more educated and generally has a different set of job preferences than the rural

Joblessness a bigger worry of urban Indians than Covid-19: Survey

Despite unemployment being their biggest worry, 68 per cent urban Indians are optimistic that the country is moving in the right direction

How a 20-yr-old in Bhopal is bringing nature closer to urban living spaces

Paradise Gardens has completed 100 such projects so far in the past one year

These designers and citizens offer solutions to your urban living problems

A group of designers and active citizens in Goa attempts to work out solutions to problems of urban living

The urban-rural culture clash

Urban lives are the opposite of rural ones, especially when it comes to evenings out

Contemporary urban life: Let cities speak

Noise is everywhere. We live with it, inside and outside our homes