Labour force has still not recovered to pre-pandemic levels, according to CMIE.LATEST estimates put the number of unemployed in India at over five crore. This is just short of the heights reached during 2020, the first year of the pandemic, which saw recurring lockdowns and a shutdown of the economy. These estimates, made by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), are drawn from periodic sample surveys carried out by the consultancy.

DECEMBER 20, 1946 was witness to historic Karivellur Struggle against feudal landlords. After the Second World War, faced with a famine like situation due to shortage of food, the grains produced by the peasantry were being forcibly transported to the Chirakkal royal household.

LAWRENCE Livermore Laboratory's advance in achieving fusion energy using lasers has been splashed worldwide as a huge success. So what was the success all about? The joint press release of the US Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration states that this experiment "...will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean power." In other words, there was also a weapons component to the fusion experiment.

THE Modi government has stepped up its attack on the Supreme Court.  In the past few weeks, the union law minister, Kiren Rijiju, has been making a series of statements, both outside and inside parliament, criticising the collegium system of appointing judges as alien to the constitution and asserting that the ‘spirit’ of the constitution says it is the government’s right to appoint judges. The vice president of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar, while presiding over the first session as chairman of the Rajya Sabha, also launched an attack on the Supreme Court judgment which invalidated the National

THE winter session of parliament started from December 7, 2022. John Brittas, participating in the discussion on the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill in Rajya Sabha, said there is a deliberate design in every action of this government to usurp powers of the States. I am astonished that my colleagues from Andhra Pradesh and Odisha were welcoming this Bill without understanding the so-called scheme of this government to corner powers of the states. There are three 'U’s'. What are these? One is 'Unitary'. They don't want a federal constitution.