In a bid to ensure inclusive growth and increase employment opportunities, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) will develop 15 business clusters in different parts of Punjab, an official said on Sunday. "Currently, 20 such clusters are operational in Punjab which are providing employment to lakhs of people here," Assocham secretary general D.S. Rawat said here. "These proposed clusters will be established at a budget of around Rs.500...
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Highs and lows of job market by Sumi Sukanya
The state government has made a positive gesture by deciding to recruit doctors to fill up vacancies at government hospitals. But doctors are not willing to reciprocate. The government has decided to fill up 3,613 vacancies by March 2011 but only 1,200 doctors have applied for the posts in government hospitals across the state, said a source. Officials of Bihar Health Services Association (BHSA) — the organisation that represents doctors in...
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Media is business, journalism is not. With these stinging words, developmental journalist and Magsaysay Award winner for journalism P Sainath grabbed the attention of the 250 media students attending Mumbai's Sophia Polytechnic's annual lecture, 'Catalyst for Change', on Thursday. The topic was 'Paid News', on which there cannot be a more well-informed speaker than Sainath who has consistently highlighted the menace in his writings. Sainath said since 2008, some 3000 journalists...
More »Despite gains, bulk of world’s poor live in rural areas, UN report finds
Despite the fact that over 350 million rural people have escaped poverty over the past ten years, the bulk of the world’s poor are still found in rural areas, says a new United Nations report, which calls for greater investment in agriculture and efforts to boost livelihoods. The Rural Poverty Report 2011, released today by the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), found an overall decline of extreme poverty –...
More »Farmers to denounce “market-based solutions” to climate change by Meena Menon
Alternative Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social Justice gets under way in CancunVery different from the Arctic temperatures at Moon Palace, where the United Nations climate change conference is under way, a large open-air gymnasium and basketball court is the venue for the alternative Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social Justice, which began here on Saturday.Protests plannedLed by Via Campesina, or the International Peasant Movement, farmers have been...
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