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2 months ago | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Yashaswani Chauhan
The latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data highlights a notable shift in women’s employment. More women are moving into formal, salaried jobs and away from informal and household work. The proportion of urban women in regular wage or salaried employment rose from 53 per cent to 54.8 per cent between the quarter ending December 2023 and the corresponding quarter of 2024.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Yashaswani Chauhan
Indians are getting happier every year over the last five years, the World Happiness Report (WHR) 2025 released on Thursday suggests. India, which was ranked 139th (out of 147 countries) in happiness in 2020, improved to 136 in 2021, 126th in both 2022 and 2023 and is now ranked at 118 in 2024. India’s highest-ever ranking was 94 in 2011, while its lowest was 144 in 2019.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Yashaswani Chauhan
India’s EPFO enrolment data reveals a positive shift in workforce participation patterns. Net enrolment in the under 18 and 18-21 age groups is showing a sustained annual decline. Experts think this could be due to higher education and skill training taking precedence.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Yashaswani Chauhan |Jayant Pankaj
SENSEX 72,989.93 -96.01 NIFTY 22,082.65 -36.65 CRUDEOIL 5,899.00 -90.00 GOLD 85,921.00 + 537.00 SILVER 94,122.00 -411.00 SENSEX 72,989.93 -96.01 NIFTY 22,082.65 -36.65 NIFTY 22,082.65 -36.65 CRUDEOIL 5,899.00 -90.00 CRUDEOIL 5,899.00 -90.00 GOLD 85,921.00 + 537.00 Updated - March 04, 2025 at 10:14 PM. Oscars have been the most coveted award for movies over the years.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Yashaswani Chauhan
As India gains importance in global trade, investments and other financial transactions, its financial centres are rapidly ascending in global rankings. While Gift City has beendoing well in the rankings due to the backing it has received from the Centre, cities of Mumbai and Delhi are also rapidly improving their positions globally.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Yashaswani Chauhan
India’s gig economy is evolving but conditions of workers driving these new-age digital companies need improvement. The Fairwork India project is an independent study on labour conditions of platform workers. businessline’s analysis of the Fairwork reports shows that players such as Swiggy and BigBasket have shown improvements in their gig worker policies over the years, climbing up in the overall ranks.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Yashaswani Chauhan
SENSEX 77,311.80 -548.39 NIFTY 23,381.60 -178.35 CRUDEOIL 6,324.00 + 87.00 GOLD 85,887.00 + 999.00 SILVER 95,500.00 + 167.00 SENSEX 77,311.80 -548.39 NIFTY 23,381.60 -178.35 NIFTY 23,381.60 -178.35 CRUDEOIL 6,324.00 + 87.00 CRUDEOIL 6,324.00 + 87.00 GOLD 85,887.00 + 999.00 Updated - February 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) romped home with a thumping victory in the Delhi election.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Yashaswani Chauhan
SENSEX 77,505.96 + 5.39 NIFTY 23,482.15 -26.25 CRUDEOIL 6,359.00 + 9.00 GOLD 82,100.00 + 212.00 SILVER 93,250.00 + 36.00 SENSEX 77,505.96 + 5.39 NIFTY 23,482.15 -26.25 NIFTY 23,482.15 -26.25 CRUDEOIL 6,359.00 + 9.00 CRUDEOIL 6,359.00 + 9.00 GOLD 82,100.00 + 212.00 Updated - February 01, 2025 at 11:36 PM.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Yashaswani Chauhan |Sindhu Hariharan
The Central government is likely to end FY25 with lower value of Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT) with DBTs under fertilizer, scholarships, rural housing scheme in the slow lane. Businessline’s analysis of the central DBT Mission dashboard shows that DBTs to the tune of ₹4,15,343 crore have been recorded in FY25 (till December) — a decline of almost 20 per cent when compared with the corresponding period in FY24. The DBT value also recorded a marginal YoY decline of 3.5 per cent in FY24.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Yashaswani Chauhan
India’s start-up ecosystem is stabilising after a turbulent phase in the last 1.5 years. Layoffs by start-ups, which peaked in 2023 with 16,398 employees laid off across 92 companies, saw a notable decline in 2024, dropping to 8,895 employees laid off from 32 companies, as per data from start-ups layoffs tracker Layoffs.ai. Due to economic headwinds and shifting consumer behaviours, the job losses in the year were led by start-ups in the finance, retail, and education sector.
