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India’s manufacturing story can’t be built on cheap labour alone
Despite the uncertainties of a deglobalising world, climate change, and AI, the manufacturing sector and global value chains are likely to remain important if India is to reach middle-income status by 2047, writes Amit Basole in The Times of India.
How the word ‘impact’ has adverse effects — and why honest language matters in the social sector
The word now travels on autopilot through the sector, shaping thinking and surviving without anyone pausing to ask whether it is honest or useful, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.
The depot keeps winning in Chhattisgarh. Can the forest fight back?
M Sai Kiran, in Frontline, highlights how economically driven models impact forest-based livelihoods, nutrition systems, and cultural practices of Adivasi communities in Mohla-Manpur- Ambagarh Chowki district (Bastar region) in Chhattisgarh.
The Right Approach to Punctuality
The manner in which a school imposes punctuality among students defines how students receive it, writes Aruna Sankaranarayanan in Deccan Herald.
Bengaluru: Azim Premji University plans Dr Rajkumar tribute events
The programme on April 17 will be held at the Indian Institute of World Culture in Basavanagudi, featuring film, music, discussions, and personal recollections.
Youth in Labour Market: Changing Employment Trends | Number Theory
Bhargavi Shanigarapu and Rosa Abraham, in Hindustan Times, contrast the structural transformation experience for the young and old cohorts of workers, given different levels of education and aspirations.
The Myth of Systems Change
The growing preoccupation with systems change risks distorting priorities and undermining meaningful work on the ground, writes Anurag Behar in India Development Review (IDR).
CBSE’s AI Curriculum — Lofty Goals, Little Clarity
The proposed curriculum could add to the information overload, without addressing the central concern relating to middle-school children using AI, writes R Ramanujam in The Indian Express.
CBSE launches computational thinking, AI curriculum for Classes 3 to 8
Faculty from IIT Madras, Gandhinagar, Azim Premji University, Dhirubhai Ambani School, along with other subject experts, prepared the syllabi for both computing and AI.
India’s construction labour shortage: Builders must ask themselves some hard questions
Businesses should pay workers better wages instead of blaming the country’s welfare apparatus, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.
The Secret Life of Soil: What Lies Beneath
Ananya Mukherjee and Aditi Sudhir emphasise on the importance of research in microbial ecology at a time when projections show that by 2030, two-thirds of the global population is projected to live in urban areas.
Young Graduates and the Search for Employment | Number Theory
High unemployment among the educated youth indicates that the transition from education to employment remains a challenge, write Amit Basole, Bhargavi Shanigaraupu, and Mrinalini Jha, in Hindustan Times.
Unions navigate a changing plantation workforce in Kerala
Sai Veena S Kuttoth, in The Migration Story, explores how trade unions act as bridgemakers through mediation, negotiation and conciliation as Idukki’s tea plantations witness a demographic shift.
Azim Premji University shortlists nine writers for Fellowship for Children’s Literature in Kannada
ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ ಫೆಲೋಶಿಪ್ಗಾಗಿ ಅಜೀಂ ಪ್ರೇಮ್ಜಿ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದಿಂದ 9 ಲೇಖಕರ ಆಯ್ಕೆ
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Emerging Economies – Focus on India: State of Working India 2026 report indicates worrying trend
Lester Kiewit speaks to Dilip Menon, International Relations Department at Wits University, about India’s state of employment as reflected in the State of Working India Report 2026, and more. | CapeTalk
Kadugolla shepherding community bring their music to public
Titled ‘Stories of the Sari’, it will be performed by Manjunatha Yalapenahalli and his troupe from Tumakuru.
On rabies treatment, challenges in cancer treatment, and more
Researchers, academicians, and industry experts came together for discussions on recent advances in biomedical sciences and theranostics at the two-day international conference held at Azim Premji University, Bhopal.
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Building smart cities in the air
As Indian cities expand and race to fulfil their “smart” tag, a unique conference at Azim Premji University, Bhopal addressed the ecological and social costs of poor urban planning.
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ಜಾನಪದ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಸಂವೇದನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿಚಯಿಸುವ ʻಜುಂಜಪ್ಪನ ಕಾವ್ಯʼದ ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತಿ | ಪ್ರಜಾವಾಣಿ ವಾರ್ತೆ
Karnataka past its demographic peak, job quality is key: Report
The median age for Karnataka, as per the State of Working India 2026 report by Azim Premji University, is 32. The highest is recorded by Kerala at 39 while Bihar has the lowest median age of 22, highlights The Hindu.
Unsung Heroes: The decade-long mission bringing migrant children into education fold in Bengaluru tech hub
Founded by Azim Premji University alumni, Gubbachi has provided bridge courses and high-quality English programmes, reviving enrolment in local government schools.
Sahariya Adivasis face the risk of double displacement
India’s conservation and development apparatuses continue to produce precarity for some of the most vulnerable social groups in the country, as highlighted by Stuti Singh and Shaurabh Anand in Mongabay.
India’s youth is leaving farms, but skill gaps mean stagnant pay
Young people are leaving behind agriculture faster than ever, but lack of adequate training means they are stuck in cities with low-paying informal work and no growth prospects, writes Samreen Wani in Forbes.
Working with hands
The State of Working India 2026 report says skill training, vocational and technical, must be made aspirational. The world of work has to be made class and caste-agnostic, as highlighted in The Times of India.
India’s young are more educated than ever. So why are so many jobless?
India’s youth story is a study in contradictions — of abundance and scarcity, promise and drift, writes Soutik Biswas, in BBC.
ಭಾರತದ ಪದವೀಧರರಲ್ಲಿ ಶೇ. 40 ರಷ್ಟು ಜನರಿಗೆ ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಸಿಗುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ: ವರದಿ
63 ಮಿಲಿಯನ್ ಪದವೀಧರರಲ್ಲಿ ಹನ್ನೊಂದು ಮಿಲಿಯನ್ ಜನರು ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗಿಗಳಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಪದವಿ ಪಡೆದ ಒಂದು ವರ್ಷದೊಳಗೆ ಕೇವಲ ಒಂದು ಸಣ್ಣ ಭಾಗ ಮಾತ್ರ ಸ್ಥಿರ ಸಂಬಳದ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಗಳನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದೆ | Srinivasa Murthy VN, ಕನ್ನಡಪ್ರಭ
Pride in AI is a powerful force: It could result in doom without the oversight of collective wisdom
As history shows, the pride of those accountable to nobody risks civilisational collapse, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.
देश में ITI की संख्या में 300% की बढ़ोतरी, रोजगार के मोर्चे पर चिंता बरकरार, ग्रेजुएशन के बाद 40 फीसदी युवा बेरोजगार: रिपोर्ट
अज़ीम प्रेमजी यूनिवर्सिटी की तरफ से भारत में कामकाज की स्थिति-2026 रिपोर्ट जारी की गई है। ये रिपोर्ट कहती है कि 2030 के बाद कामकाजी आबादी का अनुपात घटने लगेगा, जिससे रोजगार सृजन की गति बढ़ाने की जरूरत और अधिक महत्वपूर्ण हो जाएगी।
40 percent of young graduates in India unemployed as jobs fail to keep pace
The State of Working India (SWI) 2026 report estimates that the share of the working-age population will begin to decline after 2030, highlights Padmini Dhruvaraj in The New Indian Express.
India’s young workforce is growing and getting more educated: State of Working India 2026 report
India’s young workforce is becoming more educated, even as challenges persist in their transition into employment, according to Azim Premji University’s State of Working India 2026 report, as highlighted in The Tribune.