Tag: Unemployment
Police baton charge job interviewees at Civil Hospital in Karachi
KARACHI: Scenes of chaos were witnessed outside the Civil Hospital in Karachi on Sunday after Police led a baton-charge against job applicants who turned...
Labour organisations announce protesting against closure of brick kilns
FAISALABAD: Labour organisations have strongly criticised the Punjab government's decision of closing at least 700 brick kilns lacking environment-friendly zigzag technology across the province and...
Jobless PhD degree holders ask CJP to take sou moto notice
--HEC fails to implement its own regulations as several positions in public sector universities still vacant
ISLAMABAD: In utter disappointment, the young jobless PhDs degree...
Number of unemployed youth to rise to 8.6 million by 2020
KARACHI: Four million young people between the ages of 15-24 years are unemployed and this number is set to rise to 8.6 million by 2020.
“As...
Unemployment rate in US falls to lowest in 17 years
The unemployment rate in the United States fell to its lowest level in nearly 17 years in October while job creation resumed climbing after...
Govt to provide 50,000 jobs in private sector this year
KARACHI: The economic prosperity is just around the corner as the government is taking effective measures to eradicate poverty and unemployment.
These views were expressed...
Younger generation pessimistic about future
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A new survey by YouGov has found that younger people are more likely to be pessimistic than older people.
Over 1,500 British adults were asked...
Afghans swell migrant tide as they flee war, unemployment
As a recent high school graduate from a middle-class Kabul family, Mohammed Fahim Aazar has the means to go to college and pursue a...
Millions, including PhDs, apply for Indian state’s 368 menial jobs
When a northern Indian state announced a few hundred job openings for low-level office workers who run errands and make tea, the response was...
Long-term unemployment is turning jobless into Pariahs
Long-term unemployment is one of the most vexing problems the U.S. faces, and today’s jobs report shows all-too-meager progress in fixing it.
The U.S. created...
Unemployment may increase chances of heart attacks
Unemployment hurts more than your wallet — it may damage your heart. That's according to a study linking joblessness with heart attacks in older...
Shares gain, bonds tumble as US unemployment falls
Wall Street, however, erased early gains With the S&P 500 breaking a four-day string of gains, weighed by concerns about the upcoming earnings season,...
Prices rise, employment falls
Regrettably, with the beginning of holy Ramadan, the prices of daily edible items have massively surged in the upper and lower Sindh districts especially...
Crime pays, but not too well
Note to the unemployed: Bank robbery is not a lucrative gig. This may come as a somewhat of a surprise. Bank robbers always seem...
Oil hits 18-month low near $90 on weak data, high supply
A technical breakdown in crude futures prices on both sides of the Atlantic spurred further selling, with no bottom yet in sight, analysts said....
Shahbaz criticises govt over load-shedding, unemployment
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday in his tent office at Minar-e-Pakistan continued to protest against the load-shedding in Punjab for the second...
Hari leaders vow to fight poverty, unemployment and price-hike
Hari leaders on Saturday vowed to fight poverty, unemployment and price-hike together, saying faulty government policies have empowered feudal lords, who are exploiting the...
