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This book endeavours to cover the history of the Patna High Court ever since its inception, and is the third of its kind in India. The first one titled `Famous Judges, Lawyers and Cases of Bombay`, by P.B. vachha, was published on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the Bombay High Court in 1962. Six months thereafter was published the book entitled, a Century Completed, The Madras High Court, 1862-1962, by V.C. Gopalratnam.
The Patna High Court was ...
The Indian railways is one of the world's largest state-owned enterprises with around 1.4 million employees, over 63,000 kilometres of network, running around 13,000 trains each day. Bankruptcy to Billions reveals for the first time how the Indian railways transformed from near bankruptcy to post US$ 6 billion (Rs 25,000 crore) annual cash surplus in 2008. Using data, analyses, and insight, the book reveals how the turnaround story was scripted in just four years ...
The North-Eastern region comprising of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura is inhabited by a large number of tribals of various ethnic groups. The North-Eastern zone is the home of a number of primitive societies like Abor, Garo, Dafla, Khasi, Kuki, Mishi, Rabha, Naga, Apatani etc. Although the tribal population in this zone is less than 12 per cent of the total tribal population of the country but they constitute ...
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which entered into force on 29 December 1993, is one of the most innovative international instruments for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from sustainable use of genetic resources. CBD requires each contracting party ‘as far as possible’ and ‘as appropriate’ to identify the economic component of biodiversity for conservation and sustainable use and ...
This edited volume seeks to explain the persistence of terrorism and armed rebellion in India's north east, which in some places is at least half a century old. It also seeks to examine the role of Bangladesh and Pakistan, which are currently busy in fomenting trouble in this region. The contributors point out that there exist commonalities as well as differences in the insurgencies that affect different parts of the northeast. The volume shows how Assam that ...
Flowers and Vegetables of India has taken all the due care in compiling the details on he cut flower culture both in the open and also under covers and acquainting the user and the reader with the export entry into the market and its requirements, transportation under controlled conditions which are the top most requirements have been given. Also details of establishing own nurseries, tissue culture laboratories and project costs on cut flower floriculture have ...
Economic development of the villages and prosperity of the farmers are the two un-separable parts of the Indian development and its place in the neo-world order, where farmers form 85% of the society. Whether, it is drought or low productivity or an order of market surplus, does not ruffle the sentiments of the farmer. Farmer is content with whatever he gets in return. Indian system is such, where farmer has not been reckoned as the major player of the economic ...
Union Territories are unique features of Indian Constitution. They are spread on the map of India like resins in a cake. They were created and liquidated to meet the exigencies of the time and circumstances. Political expediency followed by administrative convenience was the dominating reason for their continued existence. All the territories have different patterns of administration. Whatever institutions in the name of associating the will of the people with ...
Operating system is the heart of any computer. This field is changing field at a breathtakingly rapid rate, as computers are now prevalent in virtually every application. Yet the fundamental concepts remain the same and it is clear in all books of operating systems. This work provides a clear description on the concepts that are required for understanding the proper functioning of any operating system. The hardware text required for an understanding of operating ...
The primary foal of DBMS is to provide an environment that is convenient and efficient for people to use in retrieving and storing database information. The collection of data usually refers to database which contains information about one particular enterprise. The large bodies of information are designed to manage by database systems, provision of mechanism for the manipulation of information, storage of information involved in management of data. The ...
Entrepreneurs and new entrants to Hort-agro industry ventures and keen to flourish in the agriculture sector and intending to avail the growing grants/ aids/subsidies from the Government schemes and also to avail of the Bank/Financial Institution Loan schemes for agriculture marketing and processing of fruits/vegetables/flowers must go through this book thoroughly, which aims at providing in depth knowledge in the preparation of Project Reports. This book ...
This book is an indepth study of the natives in the post colonized world as depicted in the four major novels These are Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. They represent the theme of post-colonial self assertion. All the novels focus on the exploitation of the resources of the natives by imperial powers. The study also seeks to analyse and trace the ...
The North Eastern Region is a rich respositary of useful plants. These plants have not been studied in detail regarding their characteristics, use utilization, potential and also as a source of valuable protein. This publication is an humber attempt in the above direction and may from the basis of further detailed work. The author is fully conscious of the shortcomings of the present publication. Much more could have been done but because of the problems of ...