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India’s educational enrolment has surged but jobs, especially good ones, are not keeping pace, a new report finds. Source link

THE WHAT? India’s antitrust regulator is investigating Givaudan, DSM-Firmenich and IFF over alleged agreements not to poach each other’s employees. THE DETAILS The Competition Commission of India (CCI) launched the probe in August following a leniency application, reviewing at least 30 internal emails suggesting a long-standing “gentlemen’s agreement” between the companies. The alleged arrangements, dating…

A man walks past a HDFC Bank stall at the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, India, 06 September, 2023. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of India’s HDFC Bank slid 5% Thursday after Atanu Chakraborty, its part‑time chairman, resigned after flagging governance and ethical concerns within the institution. During an investor call on Thursday,…

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Many economists say India’s growth model helps explain the bind. Unlike much of East and South-East Asia, which relied on export-led manufacturing to absorb low-skilled workers, India’s expansion has been driven by skill-intensive services – IT and communications in particular. Export-led manufacturing, by contrast, has remained weak. The result is a lopsided labour market: opportunities…

Cleaning off the ‘paan’; police officers enforcing the fine TOI Correspondent from London: Two Indian-origin men have been fined over £1,000 each for spiting paan in the London borough of Brent, which is on a campaign blitz to stop the menace.Akshitkumar Bhadre Patel (31), who lives in Edgware, was fined £1,391 (Rs 1.7 lakh) by…

Mumbai (March 18, 2026) – Anthem Sports & Entertainment, Inc., a global multi-platform media company, announced today that TNA Wrestling and Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) premium sports channel Eurosport India have entered into a new multi-year exclusive programming agreement. The new continued deal is set to begin in July 2027, bringing hundreds of hours of…

PM Modi and UAE president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (File photo) NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi spoke to the UAE President, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for the second time since the war started in the West Asia region on February 28 and reiterated India’s strong condemnation of all attacks on the Gulf…

In the north of Kolkata, near Dum Dum Junction, Subimal Das and his staff of 80 work from an old factory-warehouse. Using clay, fibreglass and silicone, they construct extraordinary lifesize replicas of religious icons, cultural figures, cricketers and Bollywood stars. But the workshop also has a popular new line: custom-made 30kg replicas of the dead,…