Page 2 - Second Five Year Plan News Today

All previous governments have contributed to the progress of the nation. BJP leaders, while being inspired by petty politics, don’t give due credit to former governments.

India’s population is young. Its birth and death rates are both near the global average. More than half the population is under age 30 and less than one-fourth is age 45 or older. Life expectancy is about 68 for men and 70 for women. A population explosion in India commenced following the great influenza epidemic of 1918–19. In subsequent decades there was a steadily accelerating rate of growth up to the census of 1961, after which the rate leveled off (though it remained high). The total p...

The King of Bhutan had to rush to New Delhi last week to restore confidence and re-strengthen the economic and security relationship

Macau, Macau Business, MAG, MB, MB Featured | A revolutionary idea that deserves to be studied. Without the help of these 85 km2, how and where will Macau produce renewable energy in relevant quantity?

This sweeping survey of the post-war period contains fascinating insights but lacks an organising principle

India’s pre-eminent freedom fighter and first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has not featured on any stamp issued in the 75th year of Independence. In fact, over the past 25 years, after the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government effectively shunted Nehru out of the philatelic space, he has featured on only three key postage stamps and was mentioned in the information brochures of a

Paddy farming in Punjab was started to meet the food grain requirements of the country for which the state has been forced to pay a huge price

A book that takes the great statistician, Prof. P C Mahalanobis, from historical obscurity and places him in the centre of Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision of Democratic Planning

Host Dinyar Patel and Nikhil Menon explore the world of PC Mahalanobis, the genius statistician who drove the second plan.

The self-financed quantitative expansion of engineering education in Kerala since the beginning of the 2000s should not be seen as a logical expansion consistent with demand and supply. Rather it should be primarily seen as qualitative, contributing to a change in the meaning of what engineering education is and has historically been. The qualitative aspect of this expansion