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Continuing with the socialist framework, the third plan aimed at attaining self-sufficiency in agriculture and continuing the expansion of industry,...

Pashmina is a combined outcome of largely unrewarded labour of Changpas who extract the wool from Changra goats, and the exquisite craft of Kashmiri...

A range of products resulting from intertwining of geographically distinct raw materials with the traditional craft have lent a distinct outlook to...

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...