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Fit for Motherhood: The Glocalization of Maternal Physical Activity in Mother and Baby Magazine

Fit for Motherhood: The Glocalization of Maternal Physical Activity in <i>Mother and Baby</i> Magazine

Groundwater Sustainability, Security and Equity: India Today and Tomorrow

Groundwater Sustainability, Security and Equity: India Today and Tomorrow

Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham’s Ideology on Capital Punishment

Punishment is defined as an act of imposition of a penalty or consequence on someone as a result of their immoral behaviour. The top punishment given in present time is known as “Capital Punishment”, it is a state-sanctioned practice of killing (highest punishment) a person as a punishment for an extreme crime. The question is how we arrive at the conclusion. In what ways is the death penalty acceptable? This article chose to contrast two opposing points of view and show how they differ in their attitudes about the death sentence. This article analyse Kant and Bentham's positions on the death penalty because they both embody the core ideas of two well-known ethical schools: retribution and utilitarianism. The researcher focused on the ideologies of Kant and Bentham because they both had a large influence on Western thought, both of them discussed extensively about the death sentence, and the majority of the justifications we use today for and against it are based on one of the two. We look at how they view the system's operation and whether they concur with one another. Additionally, we also look at whether their theories on the death sentence are still relevant today in India. Did, the Indian criminal justice system employed the theories of Kant or Bentham to implement the death penalty? And it will conclude with providing a personal viewpoint on the subject and going over how to draw conclusions that will help us make better decisions on the death sentence.

Spatial Segregation and Muslims in India: A Review

The most essential feature of India today is its huge urbanization. Migration, integration, and adaptation each played an integral part in the development of Indian culture. As people are relocating to cities and towns, it is essential to build an understanding of how cities will grow inclusionary. Against this background, the study explores that India's marginalized communities’ exclusion from the country's increasing urban extension, is based on religion. The study narrates that Muslim marginalization peculiarly forms spatialized Muslim groups across ethnic locations concentrated in specific parts of the cities. It is intended to focus on how socio-spatial segregation reinforces the making and unmaking of the social structure. Conceptually, the work approaches how individuals and groups are included or excluded in urban transitions. The findings of this study help demonstrate “spatiality” as an essential feature of the living pattern with the need to strengthen the social and legislative measures.

Infectious diseases specialty in india today and the vision for the future

Infectious diseases specialty in india today and the vision for the future

КТО ТАКИЕ КАВВАЛЫ: ТРАДИЦИЯ КАВВАЛИ В СЕВЕРНОЙ ИНДИИ И ЕЕ ХРАНИТЕЛИ

The article examines the musical performative practice of qawwali that is performed in the tombs of Muslim saints of the Chishti Sufi order and is characteristic of the Indian subcontinent. Attention is paid to the traditional form of qawwali which it preserved in Northern India today, as well as to the community of qawwals – hereditary qawwali performers and the keepers of this tradition. The features of individual groups of this community are analyzed. Suggestions are made as to which features can potentially be universal for the qawwal community as a whole, and which are likely to be specific to individual regions or groups of performers.

New Nationalism, Social Democracy, and Development: A Commentary on Contemporary India

As in the most parts of the world, India of today also is governed and determined by a socioeconomic order where the profit is privatized, while the cost is socialized. The world has been witnessing a vulgar polarization of wealth in favor of a few privileged with a vast majority of the populace getting pushed into the deeper ends of poverty and destitution. India is traversing this trajectory, more aggressively in the last couple of decades, since she opened up her economy to the forces of neo-liberalization. The worsening economic conditions would obviously trigger unrest and anger against those in power, and the ruling class in turn pre-empt the possibility of any such upraising by preoccupying the mass with emotionally charged divisive issues that pit them against one another. “Nationalism” has always been one of the most effective “emotional tools” in the hands of the rightist forces world over in the past in their efforts to ward off mass resistance, and now it is India’s turn to endure the enactment of the same. While capitalism is tightly preserving the economic structure that enables amassment of wealth for a few, fascism in the hands of the ultra-nationalists is acting as its gatekeeper to ensure that dispossessed do not gatecrash, revolt, and thrash the capitalist castle. The privileged work overtime to divide the very forces that could form a threat to their economic fortunes and system of loot. This paper is a detailed commentary on how the above said process is currently operating and how it is weakening the democracy, diversity, and sustainable development in India.

A Best-Worst Scaling based Evaluation for Indian News Websites

Developments in the media industry in recent years compel media houses to improve their website quality with the goal of attaining a sustainable competitive advantage through online presence. Here, the author evaluates the website quality of leading digital news alternatives with the use of Best Worst Method. WebQual, a widely acknowledged model, has been used to identify the contextually relevant criteria for such a study. Additionally, using three news websites (NDTV, India Today and Times of India) an attempt has been made to illustrate the criteria based approach to discern key insights which can aid better designed websites.

Indian Space Force: A Strategic Inevitability

Since the beginning, the critical focus of India's space programme has been investing in space technologies for the purposes of socioeconomic development. Nonetheless, India's space agenda has always remained dynamic and over the years the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been undertaking various scientific and commercial value programmes, such as launching an astronomical satellite, undertaking missions to the Moon and Mars, launching satellites for navigation and developing the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle. Today India has increasing concerns about the security of its space assets. On 27 March 2019, the Indian Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted an anti-satellite test (ASAT). This act is said to have transformed India's strategic calculations in the domain of space. This test indicates that India is trying to redefine its own responses to space security challenges. This article attempts to recognise India's atypical space security challenges and debates on the possible response mechanism to these security challenges. The article further argues that constituting an Indian Space Force could be the most apt response mechanism in this context.

Data Mining Techniques for Analysing Prediction of Time Series Data in Stock Trading by Using Big Data Analytics

This research was designed to study the metal stress on plant species, Lantana camara in culture. Plant Tissue Culture techniques are used as a tool, to study the growth of the plants in presence of the heavy metal Lead. Lantana camara is generally known as notorious weed. Indian region have been invaded by several exotic plants of which Lantana camara is of more concern, because of its rapid spread, intensity of infestation, and resistance to cutting and burning. Lantana is a native of tropical America, and was introduced to India as an ornamental to be planted in gardens and hedges. Since then, the species has spread rapidly into both farm and forest lands, and is one of the most widespread, terrestrial invasive species in India today. Despite of this Lantana camara has immense potential of phytoremediation of heavy metals. The industrial area Govindpura, Bhopal contains this plant in majority at heavy metal contaminated area, thus the study has been carried out to evaluate the response of Lantana camara towards lead. The cultures of Lantana camara were firstly established on M S Media supplemented with BAP, NAA and Kinetin and the stable in vitro plantlets then used for further study. The effect of heavy metals on Lantana camara plants under various concentrations of Lead was studied using in vitro culture. The tissue culture experiments were conducted using M S Media.

A Study on the Influence of RSPO and RTRS in Indian Market

This paper strives to study the presence and impact of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) in India today. The reason for choosing these two roundtables is - India is one of the significant producers of soy oil and is one of the largest markets for palm oil globally. With the roundtables being established keeping in mind the case of sustainability for the procurement and usage of soy oil and palm oil, and India playing a major role in both, it becomes extremely important to study how sustainable the Indian market is in terms of product manufacturing and usage involving soy oil and palm oil. The previous papers have done an extensive study on RSPO in India, the global presence, and the impact of RTRS. They have a lot of quantitative and qualitative data regarding the presence of RTRS and RSPO. However, a gap exists, as RSPO and RTRS have not been analyzed together in the Indian context. Thus, this gap shall be addressed in this paper- we attempt to analyze the latest RTRS and RSPO in India by referencing previous papers and looking up the public domain for recent information specific to RSPO and RTRS in India. This paper is a literature review of previous papers on RSPO in Indian reference and RTRS and adds updated information. A comparative analysis of the presence of RSPO and RTRS in India is also added. Both RSPO and RTRS have a lot to increase their influence in the Indian market- especially RTRS. The paper concludes with recommendations for enhancing the influence and opens further discussion on implementing the recommendations and alternative recommendations, if any, in the future.

The Importance of Health Insurance in the Various Insurance Sectors in India: A Review

The pressure of competitive and dynamic markets has contributed to the provision of these services. A booming financial market holds the interest of most of the Indian today. The banks are no longer the means of saving money and taking loans but they have turned into one stop any financial need by a common man. For banks seeking to improve their performance, developing offers to attract mass affluent customers may be the key to raising their profile and reducing their cost-to income ratios. Each banking institution must weigh the economics of such a move and determine whether there is demand for such service in its market. Insurance is a finance service for collecting the savings of public and providing them with risk coverage. It reimbursement in a situation of loss, The risk may be certain events like death, retirement, pension, education, marriage etc. or uncertain events like theft, accident, fire, ill-health, etc. Insurance is pooling of risks, when the concepts of insurance to arises, a pre-payment of some type is required. Today, there is insurance for many aspects of daily living: Business, Auto, Health, Life and Travel. The health insurance is one of the very important products for various types of insurance products. In this study we are analysis the various types of health insurance policy effects on the human life.

Machine learning prediction of agricultural produces for Indian Farmers using LSTM

The agriculture sector is India’s primary source of national income and occupation. Today India is considered a global agricultural powerhouse, but the agriculture sector suffers from serious maladies. As a result, Indian agriculturists and farmers are poor. As per the experts, one of the major factors contributing to farmers' poverty is poor access to reliable and timely market information and the unavailability of commodity price forecasts. In this study, our main goal is to build a web application for Indian farmers with a simple user interface to provide them easy access to current and historical prices of their commodities as well as predict daily, weekly and monthly commodity prices using a long-short term memory (LSTM) machine learning model. For the price forecast, we evaluated different methods based on input data type and Mean Square Error (MSE). Upon evaluation, we used the LSTM model for its efficacy and precision on time-series data and lowest MSE among contemporaries.

Organic Farming and Sustainable Development

With the increasing pressure of population on the resources has increased the demand of grains to fulfil the food requirement. Production of food grains in agriculture was very less in the first half of the 20th century. After Independence first five year plan was dedicated to agriculture. Green revolution also introduce in the country to reduce the scarcity of grains. Consequently India became self-depend on the production of grains and fulfil the demand of its huge population but with introduction of chemicals fertilizers, pesticides and weedicides it’s also increases the problem of soil pollution, reducing the soil fertility and have bad impact on the health of human as well as on the animals. Today India is practicing organic farming for sustainable development in the field of agriculture. This paper is an attempt to study the benefits of organic farming and its issues and challenges in India. Organic farming which is a holistic production management system that promotes and enhances agro-ecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity is hence important. Many studies have shown that organic farming methods can produce even higher yields than conventional methods. Here in this paper we tried to focus the organic farming it issues and challenges moving towards sustainable development with it.

Deposit mobilization of commercial banks: A Comparative Study with AXIS Ltd and CUB Ltd in India

The present study is deposit mobilization of commercial banks a comparative study with AXIS LTD and CUB LTD. Deposit mobilization is an important part of banking activity. Mobilization of savings through various deposit schemes has been regarded as the major task of banking in India today. Acceptance of deposits is the major function of commercial banks. As such, deposit mobilization is one of the basic innovations in current Indian banking activity. In this paper, an attempt is made to evaluate the trend and growth in deposit mobilization of AXIS LTD and CUB LTD during the period from 2011-2012 to 2020-2021. Three different types of deposits, namely demand deposit, savings deposit and term deposit is considered for the study. The total amount of deposits mobilized during the years from 2011-2012 to 2020-2021 in all AXIS LTD and CUB LTD in India is gathered from official website of concern bank. The collected time series data are subjected descriptive statistics. Mean, Standard deviation, co-efficient of variance and The Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) are calculated for analyzing these data. Finally found that, there has been a remarkable growth in mobilization of all kinds of deposits in AXIS LTD and CUB LTD in India on the whole.

Spoken Wor(l)ds: Anglophony, Poetry, Translation

This essay grows out of the sense that the diatribes against purportedly bad poetry on the Internet have become less interesting. It examines the flourishing Internet-enabled poetry culture in India today through a few works of dissent poetry birthed and circulating online. As digital artefacts, these poems live, in a manner of speaking, very public lives unlike born-digital novels or longer prose forms. They can be accessed and manipulated by anyone with an Internet connection or a cheap data plan on their phone. Most of these poems are also almost simultaneously translated by members of that poetic, political, or intellectual community. They are read out loud, listened to, seen, and yelled out and yelled at as they move across intermedial environments as Instagram posts, YouTube and TikTok videos, protest performances, and WhatsApp forwards. How do these self-consciously political poems perform their politics through their mediated and linguistic environments? Analysing three poems – Aamir Aziz’s ‘Ballad of Pehlu Khan’, Ajmal Khan’s ‘Write Me Down, I Am an Indian’, and Tishani Doshi’s ‘Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods’ – the essay argues that Indian dissent poetry on the Internet leverages the viral logics of social media to defy state surveillance and censorship, toward new political affiliations. In doing so, this poetry reprises a long tradition of folk and resistance poetics as part of a digital protest culture.

Mārganāṭyam: Ancient Indian Theater in India Today. Philosophy, Discipline and Artistic Experience

The article is the first exploration of Mārganāṭyam, a new tradition in the performing arts of modern India, created (and still in the process of the development) from the beginning of the XXI century by an outstanding researcher of musical, theatrical and dance culture, Kalamandalam Piyal Bhattacharya (Kolkata, West Bengal) and his students. It is based on the many years of the author’s personal observations, interaction, interviews and discussions with the participants of “Chidakash Kalalay. Centre of Art and Divinity”, an artistic community based on the direct transfer of knowledge and skills from teacher to students, which has developed around Piyal. The features of the method of reconstruction of the ancient Indian theater, the flexible application of the legacy of the past in modern conditions are under study. Particular attention is paid to the artistic interpretation and comprehension of the Indian philosophical heritage, and above all the concepts and worldview of Nyaya and Vedanta systems, transferring them to the space of scenic images. The presented material demonstrates that an integrated approach to the artistic heritage, a metatheater, combined with individual pedagogical unfold of the personality of the artists, creates the possibility of recreating the long-vanished tradition and complex philosophical issues in a way that is well understood today, relevant and reflects the essential needs of modern creators and viewers of the Indian theater at large.

An Aroma of Spirituality and Indianness in the Poetry of Vishnu P. Joshi

Vishnu P. Joshi is a familiar name widely published, globally recognized, and innumerably awarded in the world has many published collections of poetry entitled Discover This India Today (1996), Echoes of India (1999), Anjali: Whispers of the Soul (1999) and Anjali: Whispers in the Dawn (2001). Though settled in the U.S.A. and educated in the Western atmosphere, the poet's soul is still pure, immaculate, taintless, and even brimming with the love for India, its people, culture, tradition, and rich heritage. His unfailing attempts to make Indians awake and enlightened with the true Gyana on the famous dictums of Indian Philosophy Uttishth Jagrat Prapya Varannibodhat i.e. ‘Awake and Attain’ and Chraivati Chraivati i.e. ‘Keep on Acting’ inspires the reader to rebuild and reconstruct the Nation as well as unite her, mirror the enormous energy of the poetry and the sacredness of a true poet which sighs and bleeds at the sight of pain and prays for the prosperity of the nation and its people.

Analysis of consumer behaviour in health insurance sector

Health is riches. India is progressively becoming health aware. Indians have acknowledged the need of health insurance. Owing to this awareness, the medical insurance market is one of the fastest expanding areas in India today. The new economic strategy and liberalization approach implemented by the Government of India since 1991 prepared the door for privatization of insurance industry in the nation. . According to the Investment Commission of India the healthcare industry has achieved exceptional growth of 12 percent per year in the previous 4 years. All increasing income levels and expanding older population elements are fueling this rise. In addition, shifting demographics, illness profiles and the move from chronic to lifestyle diseases in the nation has contributed to increasing expenditure on healthcare insurance products. The research seeks to analyze the consumers’ awareness degree of knowledge about health insurance and the variables impacted them in choosing of policy(s) (s). It was revealed that customers are aware of insurance plans. And some elements such as policy characteristics, policy advantages have major impact on the choosing of insurance policy and purpose of keeping it.

Beliefs Overshadow on the Social Issues Potrayed in the Novel The Man From Chinnamasta by Indira Goswami

Dr. Indira Goswami (Mamoni Raisom Goswami) is one of the leading writers of the India today. She has won the Jnanpith Award for the year 2000, which is the highest literary award of India today. She belongs to the family of Sattra adhikars (Head of Vaisnava monastery) of South Kamrup in Assam. Her father, Late Uma Kanta Goswami, was an economist, who worked as the Director of Public Instruction of the Government of Assam. Indira did her schooling in Guwahati and Shillong. She has written eighteen novels, and several hundreds of short stories. Her novels and short stories have been translated into many Indian and Foreign languages. She tries to write from her direct experiences of her life. She only moulds her experiences with her imagination. Her novel The Man from Chinnamasta is a story of sacrifice. In this novel she portrays the picture of ancient India and the practice of animal sacrifice. Religion has been always a major preoccupation in the novels of Indira Goswami, especially the practices of orthodox Hinduism, the author was born and brought up in the midst of these cultural practices and was aware of its violence and cruelties. The story is set in pre- independent British India, particularly around the ancient Kamakhya temple in Assam.