Livelihood

To earn a living, women-run self-help groups stitch raincoats, tracksuits and sleeping bags for officials and pilgrims, also giving a boost to the local economy.

Delhi University's English teachers fear job loss under new curriculum

The Delhi University’s Executive Council in February approved UGCF-2022 formulated in accordance with the National Education Policy.

In rural Madhya Pradesh, the art of making soaps brightens women’s lives

Having acquired the skills to make soaps using goat milk, the women of Jawar village in Khandwa today enjoy a stronger socio-economic status and supplement the income of their families.

Indian tea industry: A new management flavour, thanks to small growers

Owned and operated by farmers, the Grassroots Tea Corporation could transform the lives of over 2.5 lakh small tea growers in India.

Orphaned due to Covid, these kids are abandoning their education to make a living instead

These children are also facing problems accessing government aid schemes.

Poverty alleviation through livelihood intervention

In the new understandings of poverty, wealth as an objective is replaced well-being and employment in jobs by livelihood.

Maha beef ban due to vote bank politics: Traders

Though the slaughter of cows was previously prohibited in the state under the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act of 1976, the passage of the new Act will ban the slaughter of bulls as well as bullocks, which was previously allowed based on a fit-for-slaughter certificate.

Domestic slump, global uncertainty hit TN SME, leather biz

Small and medium enterprises in Tamil Nadu have been badly impacted by the gloabl economic slowdown. Exports from these industrives have dropped and has left thousands jobless.