Asha spent years juggling odd jobs to put food on the table, until she discovered Vahan.ai through Zomato delivery riders in her Bengaluru neighbourhood. Initially hesitant, Asha eventually signed on as a delivery partner. Today, Asha is one of many Zomato delivery partners, earning about â‚ą30,000 per month, enough to send her two children to…
Europe, the United Kingdom in particular, is facing an unexpected threat from Kim Jong Un’s North Korea – job scam. According to a report by The Guardian, the UK has become a prime target for fake IT workers deployed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea. As per the report, these IT…
“Some Nobel Prize-winning economists estimate AI’s impact on GDP in the low single digits, while others expect double-digit growth. That’s how uncertain things are,” Chatterji told Mint in an interview during his India visit on Tuesday. The effect of AI on jobs is similarly debated. “Some studies suggest AI will affect only a small fraction…
AFCAT 2025 results declared: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has declared the results of its 2025 Air Force Common Admission Test (AFCAT) today, on March 17. The AFCAT 2025 exams were conducted on February 22 and 23, at various examination centres in India. The two-hour-long written exams were conducted online in two shifts on each…
Although only a few hundred deportees so far have been of Indian origin, there are serious implications for Indian labour market entrants. Nation states across the globe are now squarely responsible for providing jobs and livelihoods for populations within their respective borders. Also Read: America’s H-1B visa is vital to US interests—and suits India too…
The first wave of AI coding assistants has become proficient at producing code that meets this standard, thanks to training on billions of code snippets that enabled them to learn the structural syntax of various programming languages. Ask an Indian software engineer what frightens them the most right now, and many will say Generative AI…
The government has reiterated that the first chip from an Indian fab will debut by October. That would mark self-sufficiency in chips, 65 years after Fairchild Semiconductor chose Malaysia over India, citing bureaucratic hurdles. The milestone will help boost jobs, cut imports, and take India closer to global AI leadership. Mint explains: What’s the latest…
For the upcoming budget year, nominal gross domestic product (GDP) has been projected to grow at 10.1% over the half year-based First Advance Estimate (FAE) for the current year, yielding a budgeted GDP denominator of â‚ą356.97 trillion for 2025-26. The Second Advance Estimate (SAE) for 2024-25 will soon follow at February-end, and at May-end the…
This pace of growth, though twice that of global GDP, may not be enough to achieve India’s aspirations of becoming a middle-income country and creating meaningful jobs for its youth. Can India sustain more than 7% growth over a long period? In the past, the answer to this question would have depended on when it…
At least 400 employees of HSBC are likely to lose jobs after the bank’s decision to shut international payments app Zing, news agency Reuters reported. Georges Elhedery, Chief Executive Officer at HSBC, has instigated a series of changes to drive down costs since stepping into the role last year. The staff at risk of redundancy…
