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Pakistan: Decline in textile export hurts livelihoods, economy
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Pakistan's ongoing power crisis just added to the problem. Frequent and longer outages and higher energy costs have driven many out of business. This has rendered losses of USD 70 billion to the textile industry alone, reported Asian Lite International.
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Pakistan-Iran border: Thousands left jobless amid closure of market at Taf
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The manual workers are unable to get any work for them. Getting two times meals has become a problem for them. Even small traders are suffering from the financial crunch. They have nothing for trade.
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Gujarat polls: Congress MLA carries 'gas cylinder' on his bicycle to cast
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
With the intention to underline the issues of high fuel prices, inflation and joblessness, the Congress MLA went to the polling booth on a bicycle with a cylinder on it.
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Imran Khan's party protests in Lahore against price hike, massive taxes un
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 24 (ANI): The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has in Lahore protested against the price hike, joblessness, load shedding, inflated power bills and massive taxes in the country, local media reported.
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900,000 Afghans lost jobs since Taliban takeover: SIGAR
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 10 (ANI): According to the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), at least 900,000 Afghans have lost their jobs since the Taliban took control last August.
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Afghanistan: Construction projects over USD 5 billion at halt, surging job
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 6 (ANI): Construction projects in Afghanistan over USD 5 billion are on hold, stated the union of private constructions companies in the country.
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Pak opposition party holds protest against Imran Khan govt over inflation,
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 13 (ANI): Lashing out at the Imran Khan government over inflation, corruption and rising unemployment, the local activists and workers of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Tuesday protested against the government in Bannu city of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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Former Afghan policeman commits suicide due to joblessness
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 24 (ANI): A former Afghan policeman died of suicide in eastern Kunar province after he was left jobless post the Taliban takeover of the country.
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Pakistan's unemployment rate jumps to 6.9 per cent in 2018-19
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], September 18 (ANI): Pakistan's joblessness has jumped from 5.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 6.9 per cent in 2018-19, according to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) published by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Thursday.
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Impact of COVID-19 on Indian Informal Economy
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI/Heylin Spark): The sheer scale of joblessness that prevails in our country is the most defining impact of the pandemic induced lockdown.
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Imran Khan not concerned over people's issues, hiked prices of life-saving
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 10 (ANI): Pakistan's opposition party Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz lambasted Prime Minister Imran Khan for implementing anti-people policies and said that the government has increased prices of life-saving medicines by an average of 50 per cent for the 12th ti
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Employed or jobless, frustration among China's youth growing
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 15 (ANI): China is unable to mask the discontent brewing among both the employed and the jobless youths as the numbers of jobless persons are growing and employed find it tougher to get accustomed to working because of stressful office and economic environments.
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