Author: Avijit Sah

Unemployment Rate Rises as Participation Holds Steady The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November, exceeding market expectations and marking an increase from earlier in the fall . The number of unemployed climbed to 7.8 million, while the labor force participation rate held at 62.5%, suggesting the rise in joblessness was driven by hiring softness rather than workers re-entering the labor market . Longer-term indicators showed little improvement, with long-term unemployment steady at 1.9 million. Sector Performance Highlights Defensive Hiring Job gains were concentrated in health care, which added 46,000 positions, and construction, which expanded payrolls by 28,000 . These…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Career uncertainty and breaks aren’t setbacks — they’re opportunities to experiment, learn new skills and build small, tangible projects that can shape your next chapter. Meaningful connections and intentional reflection during downtime can uncover unexpected opportunities and provide clarity through action, not just planning. It’s a strange feeling — waking up without a roadmap. No meetings. No emails piling up. No job title on your LinkedIn that feels “current.” Whether you’ve just been laid off, are taking a career break or simply don’t know what’s next, there’s a silent pressure…

A new analysis discovers where the holiday spirit shines brightest in home listings , /PRNewswire/ — Looking for a place where it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas? Zillow® has unwrapped its list of America’s most festive towns: 10 places where the holiday spirit doesn’t stop at Main Street, but shines through in for-sale home listings. Zillow analyzed listings across the U.S. that include holiday keywords such as “Christmas lights,” “Santa,” “holiday spirit” and “winter wonderland.” The result is a roundup of towns where homeowners are clearly decking the halls and highlighting the holiday season as a selling point. “Santa’s…

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Hyderabad weather forecast today: Telangana braces for cold wave conditions on 9 December after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an alert for 7 districts in the state. Since, the minimum temperatures are likely to be below normal by 3 to 4 degrees Celsius over the coming two days.7 Telangana districts on IMD’s yellow alertAdilabad, Komuram Bheem Asifabad, Mancherial, Nirmal, Sangareddy, Medak and Kamareddy districts of Telangana are on yellow alert for cold wave, according to IMDs latest bulletin. Predicting “fog mist in the morning and partly cloudy sky later” IMD suggested that the minimum temperature will settle around 13…

John Noble Wilford, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist for The New York Times who covered the Neil Armstrong-headlined first moon landing in 1969, passed away at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 92. His niece, Susan Tremblay, told the NYT that the cause of Wilford’s death was prostate cancer.‘MEN WALK ON MOON’John Wilford gave the NYT readers an awe-inspiring and comprehensive account of Apollo 11’s touchdown and exploratory mission on the moon’s arid Sea of Tranquillity under the front-page banner headline “MEN WALK ON MOON,” on 21 July 1969.“It was man’s first landing on another world,” he wrote, “the…