S.Korea’s unemployment rate hits all-time low

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S.Korea’s unemployment rate hits all-time low

South Korea’s unemployment rate hit an all-time low last month, but the pace of job growth slowed down for the third month in a row amid economic uncertainties, new data revealed on Friday.

The number of employed people stood at 28.41 million in August, up 807,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea.

It is the highest on-year rise for any August since 2000 when the country added 848,000 jobs from the previous year, reports Yonhap News Agency.

The country’s job market has improved markedly after being hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, with the number of employed people constantly rising since March last year.

But the growth slowed down for the third consecutive month, from 935,000 jobs added in May to 841,000 jobs in June and to 826,000 jobs last month.

The slowdown in job growth came as South Korea is facing multiple economic challenges, such as high inflation and slowing growth, amid external uncertainties over the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and global monetary tightening.

The country’s jobless rate fell 0.5 percentage points on year to 2.1 percent in August, the lowest level since the statistics agency adopted the current data compiling methods to analyze the job market in 1999.

The employment rate of people aged 15 and older rose 1.6 percentage points on year to 62.8 percent in August, the highest for any August since the statistics agency began compiling related data in 1982, according to the data.

The number of economically inactive people — those who are neither working nor actively seeking jobs and people outside the labor force — reached 16.25 million in August, down 3.1 percent from a year earlier.

It marked the 18th consecutive month of an on-year fall.

The number of permanent workers grew by 907,000 on-year last month, while that of temporary workers and daily laborers fell by 78,000 and 97,000, respectively.

The increase in job posts for older adults led to overall growth.

More than half of the jobs added in August, or 454,000 jobs, were for people aged 60 and older, followed by 182,000 new positions taken by those in their 50s. Some 98,000 people in their 30s and 81,000 people in their 20s also landed jobs.

But the number of the employed among those in their 40s fell for the second consecutive month in August, the data showed.

Top results secured by the telangana students in the NEET exam.

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Top results secured by the telangana students in the NEET exam.

Students of the Neet exam who have taken the exam recently have qualified for around 9,93,069 and  35,148 of the 59,296 passed in the Telangana state.

Telagana students also created history in the NEET exam results, which were released today, four students were in the top 50 at the India level.

Errabelly Sidharth Rao has secured all India 5th rank with a score or marks of 711,37th rank was bagged by Chappidi Lakshmi Charitha with 705 scores, With the score of the 705 the, Kachana Jeevan Kumar Reddy got the 41st rank into his account and Vurum Aadhithi has gained the 50th rank in the neet exam with the 700  the marks.

Total of the 10 ranks the PwD category holders got the ranks, Vasarla Jaswanth Sai got the rank 2493 through 661 scores.

In the ST category, Mudavath Litesh Chouhan reached first with an India rank of 400, Gugulothu Shivani got an all-India rank of 715, Navodaya Brinda secured the rank of 1373 and reached fifth place and the sixth position was bagged by the Anumeha Bhukya with the rank of 1619.

Involving with14 outside of India, over 18,72,343 students attended the exam at 3,570 centers around 497 cities on July 17 in 2022. Among the qualified students, male are 4,29,160, 5,63,902 are female and seven are transgender.

The exam has been performed in the 13 languages like Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi.

The exam had also arranged for the first time in 2022 in the languages of Bangkok, Riyadh, Colombo, Doha, Manama, Kathmandu, Abu Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, Muscat, Sharjah, and Singapore, besides Dubai and Kuwait City.

Ethic character-building new lesson will be included in the Bengal school syllabus soon: Mamata Banerjee

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Ethic character-building new lesson will be included in the Bengal school syllabus soon: Mamata Banerjee

As Bengal CM said, new the section for “character building” will be included in the Bengal syllabus soon.

Based on the West Bengal government and the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress with the force of corruption situation, a new statement has been announced on this particular subject.

Mamatha declares the statement about the new subject of character building in the syllabus when giving the felicitate to teachers on the occasion of ‘the Teacher’s day” On Monday.

Mamatha asked Bratya Basu who is the State Education minister about the quick process of adding subjects in the function.

The chief minister also made a significant statement on the occasion when she said that a person is not known by the property he or she owns. “How much money one owns is not the only identity of a person. Always remember the money you own today might perish tomorrow. Whether I will remain honest or not will depend on me only. All fingers are not the same. Just as there are good people in society, there are also bad people. So, for some bad people it would be unfair to malign the entire society,” she said.

To recall, since the time Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal were arrested in connection with teachers’ recruitment and cattle smuggling scams respectively, several Trinamool Congress leaders had been facing public wrath and humiliation. Several top Trinamool Congress leaders, including the chief minister, had been insisting in public meetings that it would be unfair to malign the entire party for the wrongdoings of some.

Speaking at the teachers’ felicitation program, the chief minister also said that at times even good people adopt the wrong path because of ill associations or mental depression.

The ongoing imbroglio over the teachers’ recruitment scam could have been solved much before had there not been constant public interest litigations (PIL) filed in the matter. “These legal hassles are delaying the entire process. I admit there had been some mistakes. But at least we should get a chance to rectify them,” the chief minister said.

According to her, the irregularities in the Trinamool Congress regime are coming to the limelight because of proper documents and papers. “During the previous Left Front regime, they used to destroy all papers and documents,” she alleged.

41% Indian workers left jobs in past year, health top priority: Report

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41% Indian workers left jobs in past year, health top priority: Report

A staggering 41 percent of Indian employees left their jobs during the past year, indicating that the great reshuffle is here to stay as the last two years of the pandemic have fundamentally changed how we define the role of work in our lives, a new Microsoft report showed on Friday.

Two out of three employees in India are more likely to prioritize their health and wellbeing overwork now than before the pandemic, according to Microsoft’s ‘Work Trend Index’.

“The last two years have shown us how employees have learned to work differently and rethink their priorities. With the evolving mode of work here to stay, we are now at a long-awaited inflection point: the lived experience of hybrid work,” the report noted.

We are not the same people that went home to work in early 2020.

This year, nearly 65 percent of workers in India are likely to consider changing employers — from 62 percent in 2021.

The power dynamic is shifting, and perks like free food and a corner office are no longer what people value most.

For Gen Z and Millennials, there’s no going back.

The report revealed that 70 percent of Gen Zs and millennials in India are somewhat or extremely likely to consider changing employers this year, up 7 percent from last year.

In all, there’s no erasing the lived experience — and lasting impact — of the past two years.

“Flexibility and wellbeing are non-negotiables that companies can’t afford to ignore. The best leaders will create a culture that embraces flexibility and prioritizes employee wellbeing,” the report noted.

UP Board examinations begin today for 52L students

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UP Board examinations begin today for 52L students

Around 52 lakh students are taking the Class 10 and Class 12 UP Board examination from Thursday.

Of these, 27.8 lakh students will appear for Class 10 and 24.1 lakh for Class 12. The exams will be held at 8,373 centers across the state.

The UP Secondary Education Board (UPSEB) has identified 254 centers as ‘highly-sensitive’ and 861 centers as ‘sensitive’ in view of vulnerability for cheating.

To prevent mass cheating in the UP board exams, the government has set up a state-level ‘monitoring and control room’ for CCTV surveillance and to monitor voice recordings.

About 2.9 lakh CCTV cameras have been installed at 8,373 centers and 75 district control rooms (each in one district).

Over 2.7 lakh invigilators have been put on duty.

Chief Secretary D.S. Mishra said that strict action will be taken against those spreading fake news during the examinations.

Congress demands unemployment emergency in Telangana

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Congress demands unemployment emergency in Telangana

Stating that 40 lakh people are facing hardships due to unemployment problem in Telangana, the opposition Congress party has demanded an unemployment emergency in the state.

AICC spokesperson Dasoju Sravan Kumar said Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao should consider concrete interventions to address and resolve the unemployment problem.

He also urged the Chief Minister to set up a high-level task force with various national-level industrialists, academicians, intellectuals, strategists, policymakers to formulate a strategy with specific task policies to deal with the unemployment which is plaguing the Telangana society. He recalled that such a task force was set up by the Kiran Kumar Reddy government in undivided Andhra Pradesh.

“Since this is a social issue, an emergency all-party meeting should be held with all political parties,” the Congress leader said and demanded that each unemployed youth should be provided with an unemployment allowance of Rs 3,016 a month as promised in the 2018 assembly elections by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).

“Skill Development Centres should be set up in each Mandal center in collaboration with the Central Government and job fairs should be organized in collaboration with private sector companies to provide employment to the youth, employment opportunities, and training,”

Stating that there are lakhs of applications pending in SC, ST, BC, Minority, and MBC corporations, he demanded immediate disbursement of self-employment loans so that they can stand on their feet.

Congress also demanded to bring a statutory Act to ensure that 95 percent of jobs reserved for locals in the private sector too. He also made several other demands, including ex-gratia of Rs one crore to the 70 field assistants who died after being dictatorially terminated from the service causing serious distress, and also suggested releasing the full salary to them for two years.

Sravan Kumar said the Telangana government failed to create new jobs and instead the existing jobs were blown away. The government laid off a total of 52,515 employees, including 7651 field assistants. He said 21,200 employees in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, 1640 Nurses, 709 in Mission Bhagiratha, 315 in Horticulture, 16,400 Education Volunteers, 2000 Junior Panchayat Secretaries, Social Welfare and Education, and 2,640 employees of Road Transport Corporation (RTC) were sacked.

In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister, he found fault with the chief minister for his announcement made in the Assembly that 90,000 jobs would be filled while the Bishwal Committee said that there were 1.91 lakh job vacancies in the government departments.

He also offered to help the government as a former professor of HRD and also having worked in large companies, in various capacities in human resource development departments, in solving the unemployment problem.

New age boarding school redefining Indian education system

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New age boarding school redefining Indian education system

True education is far beyond imbibing theoretical knowledge or learning new concepts. Parents today want holistic education for their children, which includes the joy of learning, attaining life skills, developing an inquisitive mindset, discovery perspective, and innovative thinking. To equip their children with these qualities, parents are keen on sending their children to progressive educational institutions, which help them identify their strengths and ways of overcoming their weaknesses.

Pathways Education 2.0 is one such premium institute, which can be called a ‘house of learning as it helps students grow academically while parallelly helping them in reaching their true potential in sports, public speaking, music, arts, leadership, and design thinking. From an early age, the school encourages students to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset while holding a sense of adventure and developing leadership qualities that contribute to the overall growth of society. The schools’ curriculum design and offerings set it aside from the other regular boarding schools of the country. Being the first International Baccalaureate (IB) Continuum School in North India and the first residential school in the region to follow the IB curriculum, Pathways 2.0 is truly a one-of-a-kind boarding school that ensures a child’s holistic growth and development.

With a total strength of 1400 students belonging to 40 different nationalities, the school offers a perfect platform for indirect global exposure alongside myriad opportunities of learning from each other and growing together. With each classroom having an average strength of 15-20 students, all the children get maximum attention, despite the huge strength of the entire school. With this, it becomes convenient for the teachers to evaluate and mentor students as per their strengths and weaknesses. To ensure the holistic development of a child, Pathways provides multiple platforms to hone their academic and interpersonal skills such as empathy and active listening.

Pathways have successfully imbibed the Gross Student Happiness philosophy from Bhutan. The concept is new for any school as it evaluates how safe and loved a student is feeling within the premises and the boarding environment.

At Pathways, students are allowed to explore a sport of their interest. The range of sports facilities given at the school not only helps students in staying active and mentally alert but also helps them in developing life skills such as gamesmanship, team spirit, and a sense of building self-worth. One of the school’s key attractions is its elaborate sports infrastructure that includes an Olympic-sized Soccer field, Half Olympic-sized all-weather swimming pool, Glass Squash Courts, Multi-utility Gymnasium, Aerobics & Gymnastics, Horse Riding, Golf area, they even have Mini Basketball & Tennis Courts for kindergarten kids.

Apart from sports, Pathways focuses on developing creativity among students as it helps them in problem-solving, gaining perspective, purpose, and satisfaction in life. Unlike traditional schools, Pathways equally emphasizes arts for having a huge significance in daily activities. Students can explore their creative side while learning and experimenting in theatre, visual and digital art, and music labs. The emphasis on creativity can easily be assessed by the aesthetic values of the school, which is adorned with student masterpieces, ceiling to floor.

To help students develop various competencies required to ace in the 21st century, Pathways provides them multiple opportunities such as participation in the Model UN or StartUp Challenges. The school takes pride in nurturing and preparing students for various competitions and has won accolades at the World Scholars Cup competitions or IB Student Conferences around the globe. The school organizes assemblies and competitive events to encourage excellence in spoken word poetry, design challenges, and robotics. Apart from these, drama, music, and dance are a part of the regular curriculum.

Pathways organize camps, expeditions, and international exchanges to expose students to a wide range of cultural, educational, and linguistic diversities during their stay in camps and international visits. These camps and expeditions make students more sensitive towards biodiversity and natural resources available on the earth. To inculcate practical learning, Pathways shares research projects with students where they can implement various concepts learned in science, economics, history, and environmental issues. At Pathways, students are motivated to take initiatives through which they often display their capabilities by making small-level but effective changes. For instance, a Pathways student formed a team and cleaned a garbage field near his house to grow veggies, which are free to be consumed by passers by.

Pathways also have several ‘interact clubs’ that enable students to develop leadership skills and personal integrity. The separate leadership council helps students democratize their thoughts and provides an avenue for identifying a variety of issues affecting them while suggesting innovative, yet implementable solutions.

Unlike traditional boarding schools, Pathways provides flexible boarding options, which help students stay connected with their families. The school has replaced strict wardens with ‘residence parents’ who are available all the time and cater to all student needs.

‘Creating confusion’, SC junks plea against physical exams for Class 10, 12

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‘Creating confusion’, SC junks plea against physical exams for Class 10, 12

The Supreme Court on Wednesday junked a plea seeking cancellation of physical exams for Class 10 and 12 scheduled to be conducted by all state boards, CBSE, ICSE, and NIOS.

The top court pulled up petitioners for filing premature petitions and creating confusion among lakhs of students through such PILs. It warned the petitioner of exemplary costs if such action is repeated.

A bench headed by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar told the petitioner’s counsel, “Creating confusion by such petitions, what kind of petition you filed?”

Advocate Prashant Padmanabhan, representing the petitioners, urged the top court to see the present CBSE directions and also pointed at the petition filed in connection with the exams last year. The bench, also comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and C.T. Ravikumar, said what has happened in past cannot become a norm, and that will be misleading. Padmanabhan added that CBSE has conducted the first term exam in offline mode in December 2021 in MCQ mode and results aren’t published yet.

Justice Khanwilkar said the situation has not arrived yet and told the council to allow authorities to take a decision in the matter. “How can you pre-empt everything”, said the bench.

The top court added, “These kinds of petitions are misleading, what kind of publicity do these petitions get. These petitions create confusion. Let students and authorities do their jobs.”

The plea said many students studying in CBSE, ICSE, NIOS, and state board approached the petitioner, Anubha Shrivastava Sahai, for issues they are facing regarding the board exams and are directly affected by the outcome of this PIL.

“The other petitioners are students as well as the parents from different states, who were aggrieved by the Board’s decision. That, the mental pressure that is created for performance in this exam is so much that every year a number of students commit suicide for fear of underperformance, or of failure”, said the plea.

The plea added, “To make students appear and face the examination with the additional fear of getting infected by the Covid-19 virus will not only be unfair but the same will be absolutely inhuman”.

The plea urged the top court to issue directions to concerned authorities to pass a notification regarding alternate mode of assessment of students from Class 10, 11, and 12 of CBSE, ICSE, NIOS, and state boards instead of offline exams.

The second petitioner in the plea is the Student Union of Odisha. The plea has also included a list of students from various parts of the country who approached Sahai regarding issues with the board exams.

Hijab row: K’taka HC resumes hearing; many students boycott exams

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Hijab row: K’taka HC resumes hearing; many students boycott exams

A three-judge panel of Karnataka High Court, formed to look into the petitions on hijab row, resumed hearing on Monday afternoon.

Even as the bench headed by the Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi is hearing the matter on a day-to-today basis, the hijab crisis continues in the state, raising concerns over the law and order situation.

Meanwhile, many students across the state have boycotted crucial II PUC practical exams that have started on Monday for not being allowed to wear hijab in the classrooms. However, majority of the students, including those from Muslim community, took off their hijab and attended exams.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant has extended the prohibitory orders surrounding 200 meters of surroundings of schools, PU Colleges, Degree Colleges or other educational institutions till March 8.

If II PUC students remain absent for practical exams they will lose out 30 marks and that will make them get a maximum score of 70 marks in theory exams. To attend CET, the students will have to score a minimum of 45 marks. The scores of practical exams are crucial for the future of students.

The main exams are scheduled between April 16 and May 6. Practical exams will be held for physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, computer science and electronics subjects. The marks will be uploaded to the website of PU Board immediately after exams. If students remain absent for practical exams, no second chance would be given to them.

More than 40 students in Vijayapura district boycotted exams for being asked to remove hijab and staging protests before the District Commissioner’s Office. More than 10 students refused to take off their hijab and waited near Women’s Polytechnic College in Hassan on the premises. Later, they got into an argument with the Principal demanding entry into classes with hijab.

Prohibitory orders will continue in Koppal district till February 26. The district administration has warned that around 300 meter radius more than five people can’t gather. Meanwhile, the six students who started the agitation at Udupi Pre-University Girl’s College have remained absent for the practical exams.

As many as nine students of Madikeri Junior College staged a silent protest at the entrance gate. They sat near the gate holding placards containing messages of ‘hijab is our right, our choice’, ‘we want justice’.

Students of Kolar Government Pre-University College demanded a letter from the Principal for not allowing them with hijab to classrooms. They claimed that the court has consented for the entry of students in colleges which do not have a college development committee. They have also staged a protest.

The larger bench has directed the state government to see to it that it’s interim order is not violated. Counsels for petitioners have been vehemently pressing for allowing Muslim students with hijab by reconsidering interim order. One of the counsels has requested the court to allow Muslim students to wear hijab at least on Fridays, the jumma day which is considered as most auspicious day for Muslims.

The counsels have also submitted that there is no legal sanctity for the College Development Committee (CDC) and School Development and Management Committees (SDMC). They have also questioned MLA, representing a political party and ideology being let in the academic environment.

The bench has already questioned Advocate General Prabhuling Navadagi representing the government on the legal sanctity of CDCs and SDMCs. He had submitted that the order issued by the government on February 5, did not ban the headscarf but only gave the power of deciding on uniform to CDCs. He also clarified that the government has taken a conscious stand not to intervene in the matters related to religious symbols and it is unnecessarily being dragged into the issue.

The Advocate General will present his arguments on three points and stated firstly he would prove that hijab is not an essential religious practice of Islam, preventing its use did not violate Article 25 of the Indian constitution and the challenged Government Order was in accordance with law. The bench has questioned Advocate General on why the government has referred to verdicts given by the high courts and the Supreme Court while giving the order.

SC sets aside HC’s ‘one line order’ on Haryana law on 75% job quota in pvt sector

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SC sets aside HC’s ‘one line order’ on Haryana law on 75% job quota in pvt sector

The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court order, which stayed the Haryana law providing 75 per cent reservation in industries to youngsters with a domicile of the state.

A bench headed by Justice L. Nageswara Rao set aside the high court order and ordered no coercive steps should be taken, and the high court should decide the matter expeditiously and not later than the period of four weeks. “High Court order is set aside as the court has not given sufficient reason…”, said the bench.

Pointing at the one-line order of the high court, the top court said: “All statues can be done in one-line order?”

It was submitted before the bench that the high court was prima facie satisfied that the legislation was unconstitutional. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Haryana government, contended that the high court merely gave 90 second hearing in the matter, which was against the principles of natural justice. “In the meanwhile, the Haryana government should not take coercive steps against employers”, said the bench.

Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, representing a petitioner on caveat, submitted that there are over 49,000 companies registered in Haryana. He added that there is no reservation in the private sector and it can only be done by Parliament. “There is no empirical study, no data to give reservation”, said Dave.

Senior advocate Shyam Divan, representing Manesar Industrial Welfare Association, urged the top court not to vacate the stay granted by the high court on the law.

In a special leave petition, the Haryana government contended that the interim order was passed in the teeth of law laid down by the top court in Bhavesh D. Parish vs Union of India (2000), and also in violation of the principles of natural justice.

“It is submitted that the hearing granted by the High Court was a mere empty formality, whereby, the High Court with a predetermined conclusion opened the hearing by saying that the Act is liable to be stayed and thereafter did not afford any opportunity to the law officer appearing on behalf of the state of Haryana,” said the plea. It further added, “Violation of principles of natural justice is manifest from the fact the entire hearing in the matter concluded within one minute”.

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