Chandigarh: Even as Punjab struggles with a high rate of joblessness, the state is recording one of the highest levels of informal employment and relatively poor job quality, pointing to gaps in formalisation and labour market stability.Punjab’s unemployment rate for the 15 years and above age group stands at 5.3%, much higher than the national…
Chennai: The CMBT police arrested four persons, including a history-sheeter facing 58 robbery and chain-snatching cases, for assaulting and robbing a software engineer of his laptop and mobile phones near Arumbakkam.Police identified the accused as Vignesh alias “Pallu” Vicky, 30, of Mangadu; college students Thirupathi, Gautham and Sanjay Kumar.According to police, the victim, Shyam Dhan…
MUMBAI: A team from the Nashik Crime Branch reached Mumbra on Friday in search of the absconding female employee, an accused in the TCS harassment and alleged religious conversion case registered in Nashik. According to police sources, her husband is currently being questioned by the Nashik police. An officer said that she has been living…
NEW DELHI: After Air India, IndiGo will also cut its wide bod operations due to costlier jet fuel, longer routes post airspace restrictions and forex volatility. IndiGo will “temporarily discontinue its flight operations to and from Manchester from Aug 31, 2026” and return one of the six damp leased (hired with operating crew) Boeing 787…
Pune: Commissioner of Pune police Amitesh Kumar on Friday highlighted the need for a societal cleansing and announced that the department would soon launch an initiative named Drug Mukt Prabhag wherein local corporators would help enforcement agencies tackle the issue in their areas.Kumar mentioned the Porsche crash case where two young people had died in…
When the Strait of Hormuz tightened, many braced for $200-a-barrel oil. More than three months on, that nightmare scenario is still nowhere in the picture.The disruption, which removed more than 10 million barrels a day of Middle Eastern supply from the market, had fuelled warnings of crude prices soaring to as much as $200 a…
Former England batter Geoffrey Boycott has criticised Joe Root’s leadership during England’s defeat to New Zealand in the second Test at The Oval, saying the stand-in captain appeared to have learned “nothing” from his previous spell in charge. Boycott also welcomed the return of Ben Stokes for the third Test, saying England needed him back…
NEW DELHI: Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) is part of India’s plan to develop four airport hubs to enable seamless transfers mirroring those in Dubai, Doha, Singapore and Frankfurt. While the hub-and-spoke model will roll out first at Delhi IGIA from June 1, the aviation ministry has begun work on the other three: KIA, Mumbai…
NEW DELHI: The breakthrough came from a father’s fractured memory: a white car, a yellow commercial plate, vanishing into the night with his young daughter. It was a slender thread, but enough for the investigators to launch a manhunt across city limits.According to police, the suspect, Basu Kumar Singh, a driver linked to three major…
China’s coast guard said on Monday that it had carried out “law enforcement” patrols in waters east of Taiwan in response to plans by Japan and the Philippines to begin maritime boundary delimitation talks in an area Beijing claims as its own, escalating tensions over disputed waters in the western Pacific.In a statement, the Chinese…
