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Disproportionate focus on heavy industries in the second plan served contrary to the core objective of generating employment through enhanced...

Geographical uniqueness of Uttarakhand is characterised by GI tag-awarded agricultural products ranging from Tejpatta to multipurpose Chyura Oil and...

Building on the success of the first plan, economic planners — emphasising on the socialist pattern — decided to rely on heavy industries for...

India, which secured GI tag for Basmati rice after battling with the US over patents, is the largest producer worldwide but its claim of sole...

Although the first Five-Year Plan well surpassed the goals it had set for agriculture and irrigation in the public sector, it left urban planning and...

Though Darjeeling Tea was the first product to be awarded GI tag in India after the passage of Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and...

Contrary to the norm in the West where market drove the allocation of resources, India preferred to go with centralised planning even before the...

Only the second Bengali playwright to have won the Sahitya Akademi Award, Bratya Basu, a literary revolutionist, is taking forward the rich legacy of...

Empirical and methodological applications introduced by David Edward Card, Joshua David Angrist and Guido Wilhelmus Imbens enabled effective...

Apart from using game theory to design alternative auction formats, Paul Robert Milgrom and Robert Butler Wilson carried out influential works in...

Given Kolkata’s diversity of religions and cultures, Christmas celebrations are not just restricted to Christians. Non-Christians, in thousands,...

While William Dawbney Nordhaus incorporated climate change in economic models and emphasised on cooperative multinational policies for tackling the...