New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- India's unemployment rate in the quarter ending June 2026 was 5.4%, exactly what this number was a year ago. This rules out any large shock to India's labour market on account of the economic disruption of the ongoing war in West Asia. To be sure, the steady unemployment rate came along with a marginal fall in the labour force participation rate (LFPR) between compared to a year ago. The National Statistics Office (NSO) released the quarterly bulletin of the Period Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for April-June 2026 period on Monday. The latest PLFS quarterly bulletin makes itself comparable to the first such bulletin which gave numbers for both urban and rural labour markets, thereby making it representative of the entire ...