In a blog published on Monday, Central Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley sought to assuage worries related to the job market in India. Even though hiring in the formal job market has remained stagnant despite the GDP growth, Jaitley tried to defend that the unemployment rate in May was...

India on Thursday rejected a UN report alleging human rights violations in Kashmir as "fallacious, tendentious and motivated”. In a strong reaction, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the report is "overtly prejudiced" and seeks to build a "false narrative”. It violated...