Monday, September 21
India’s unemployment rate stood at 5.6% in June 2025. It was the same rate in May, according to the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Tuesday.Unemployment went down in rural areas from 5.1% in May to 4.9% in June. However, in urban areas, it went up from 6.9% in May to 7.1% in June. In rural India, the jobless rate for those aged 15–29 climbed to 13.8% in June, up from 13.7% in May. In urban areas, youth unemployment rose to 18.8% in May from 17.9% a month earlier.Both female and male unemployment rate in urban and rural areas combined was recorded at 5.6% in June.The Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR), which is an estimate of the number of people actively engaged in the workforce, in the Current Weekly
India and the European Union (EU) will hold the next round of negotiations on the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) in September here as both sides have exchanged offers related to the services sectors last week, an official said on Tuesday. L Satya Srinivas, Special Secretary in the Department of Commerce, said the last (12th) round of talks concluded last week in Brussels. "We have exchanged our offers on services and non-services... there were discussions on that. We also discussed key interests in market access related to goods as well... The next round of talks (will be held) in the first week of September," Srinivas told reporters here. In June 2022, India and the 27-nation EU bloc resumed negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement, an investment protection agreement and
