Insight - Page 15
Growing by degrees
4 Jun 2023 1:09 AM ISTDespite fluctuations, industrial development progressed at a steady pace through the five-year plans, but the share of manufacturing stagnated towards...
God’s own food!
27 May 2023 10:04 PM ISTGrown in Kerala’s picturesque environments adorned with valleys, hillocks, rivers, forests etc., Navara rice is not just a nutritious and easily...
Inertial factors
27 May 2023 9:59 PM ISTThe skewed benefits of irrigation, fertiliser use and HYVs under the New Agriculture Strategy, coupled with heavy cost on account of high fertiliser...
Tale of the great conquest
20 May 2023 11:45 PM ISTKP Agrawal’s magnum opus, British Takeover of India, documents the major treaties that were instrumental in India’s colonisation — exposing, in the...
Elusive optimisation?
20 May 2023 11:41 PM ISTThough growth targets were seldom met in the agriculture and allied sectors through the five-year plans, production and crop yield increased in...
Levers for the last mile
13 May 2023 8:33 PM ISTCommunity participation and technology are the two basic building blocks that can go a long way in transforming the lives of people at the grassroots...
Paradigmatic shift
13 May 2023 8:31 PM ISTWhile the 12 five-year plans lent India a decent industrial base, systematic educational pattern and self-sufficiency in terms of food grains, the...
Evolving dynamics
6 May 2023 9:25 PM ISTAs karmyogis, the civil servants have been relentlessly synthesising the inputs provided by various sectors to put everything in a wider perspective....
Falling short of targets
6 May 2023 9:23 PM ISTThe 12th five-year plan, which would ultimately be intercepted by the formation of NITI Ayog, started with a vision of ‘faster, sustainable and more...
Bridging the gulf
29 April 2023 7:59 PM ISTIn the second part of the extract from his Civil Services Day address, Sanjeev Chopra highlights that British India’s frontier regulations in...
Growth sans inclusivity
29 April 2023 7:56 PM ISTAmid a global economic downturn, the 11th plan managed to register a ‘commendable’ growth rate of eight per cent but the slowing down of poverty...
Growing against the odds
22 April 2023 10:51 PM ISTDespite the ICOR remaining much above the envisaged target and agriculture and allied sectors performing below the mark, the tenth five-year plan...
Festival of Light, Shadows of Trade
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26 Oct 2025 12:02 AM ISTDigital Dystopia
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Boateng forced to cancel internship at Bayern Munich
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