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Seventy-three years after India won the coveted hockey gold medal at the 1948 London Olympic Games and 46 years after it won the inaugural World Cup Hockey championship (1975) in Kuala Lumpur, the country is now struggling to make it to the top three slots in India’s ‘national game’. And though, over the decades, cricket…

Only one in 10 Indians lived in cities at the start of the 20th century. By 2030, the United Nations estimates that over 40 per cent of India’s population will be found in its big cities. Further, a 2018 UN report says that by 2050, India, China and Nigeria will account for 35 per cent…

India’s foreign trade policy can be divided into three phases: the 1950-75 period that saw tight controls, 1976-91 which witnessed some liberalisation, particularly the last 5-7 years, and 1992 onwards which saw the full onset of liberalisation. Although the government had introduced quantitative import controls in May 1940 to conserve foreign exchange during World War…

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Consider this. With 40,813 doctoral degrees in science and engineering granted in 2018, India ranks third globally in the number of PhD graduates in these fields every year, after the US and China. In terms of annual research publications, India ranks fifth, with a 5.4 per cent share (after the US, China, the UK and…

Improving the quality of life and economic well-being of seven out of 10 Indians, who live in rural, relatively isolated or sparsely populated areas, remains a daunting challenge. Poverty is rampant in rural India, with the average annual earning of small and marginal farmer households at Rs 79,779 in 2015-16, according to the Committee on…

They account for a little more than 8 per cent of India’s population, some 100 million people belonging to 700-odd communities across the country, but the designated Scheduled Tribes (STs) have borne the brunt of modern civilisation bearing down on them. Tribals constitute 40 per cent of all displaced people in the country, says an…