-The Hindu chennai: In an indication of poor economic growth taking its toll on the job market, an estimated 12 million people may be forced to look for low-quality, low productivity rural or agriculture jobs over seven years, a reversal of old trend of migration from farm to non-farm employment opportunities, pointed out a report of CRISIL Research. Job generation in the non-farm sector will slow down sharply in the coming...

-The Hindu chennai (Tamil Nadu): Seven lakh pensioners and family pensioners of the State government will be brought under the fold of a new health insurance scheme. To be operated on the lines of an insurance scheme for serving government officials and the Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme, the proposed scheme would operate on a cashless basis and it would be made compulsory to all the pensioners (including spouse) / family...

-The Times of India chennai: The country's disabled population has increased by 22.4% between 2001 and 2011. The number of disabled, which was 2.19 crore in 2001, rose in 2011 to 2.68 crore-1.5 crore males and 1.18 crore females. Rural areas have more disabled people than urban areas. In Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jammu and Kashmir and Sikkim, the disabled account for 2.5% of the total population, while Tamil Nadu and Assam...

-The Times of India chennai: The just-concluded winter session of the 15th Lok Sabha is the worst in terms of performance since 2010. Twelve days - December 5 to 18 - were scheduled for business but the session was adjourned sine die two days. The Lok Sabha transacted business only for 4.5 hours, around 6% of the total time. Three of the scheduled 12 days were adjourned after obituary references, says data...

-The Hindu     Insufficient number of classrooms, unusable toilets, no playground chennai: Fifty-three percent of Adi Dravidar schools are functioning without sufficient number of classrooms in the northern districts of Tamil Nadu, according to a recent study conducted by Samakalvi Iyakkam, a movement for child rights. The Samakalvi Iyakkam-Tamilnadu conducted the study on 90 Adi Dravidar Welfare Schools in chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, Vellore, Tiruvannamalai and Vilupuram districts. In several places, as the boundaries were...