India ranked at 90 out of 163 countries in the 2017 Global Peace Index (GPI). The GPI is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace. It gauges on-going domestic and international conflict, safety and security in society and militarisation in the 163 countries by taking into account 22 indicators. **********
Young Indians
About 60 per cent of the population in India is below the age of 25. That means, in a country with 1.2 billion people, approximately 700 million are youths. This is an enormous amount of wealth when it comes to the labour force. **********
Social media
At least 74 per cent of internet users are using social media, women accounting for 76 per cent while men 72 per cent. There has been a 22 per cent increase in the number of internet users in rural India in last one year, says an UNICEF study. One in three internet users worldwide is a child.....
