The 2014 Indian general election marked a single party – the Bharatiya Janata Party, winning a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, the first time since the 1984 election. The Congress, the other main national party, suffered its worst ever defeat. This election was termed by some as a 'critical election' signalling the advent of a new phase of a ‘BJP dominated’ party system in India. In this paper,...

The 2014 Indian general election marked a single party – the Bharatiya Janata Party, winning a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, the first time since the 1984 election. The Congress, the other main national party, suffered its worst ever defeat. This election was termed by some as a 'critical election' signalling the advent of a new phase of a ‘BJP dominated’ party system in India. In this paper,...

Many times it happens that units ordered are not of 100% good quality. A deterministic inventory model with imperfect quality is developed when the deterioration rate is Weibull distribution. Here it is assumed that holding cost is time dependent. The model has been framed to study the items whose deterioration rate increase with time under permissible delay in payments with imperfect quality. ...

In a recent paper, Khanra, Ghosh and Chaudhuri’s (2011) presented an EOQ model for a deteriorating item with time dependent quadratic demand under permissible delay in payment. Deterioration considered in most of the EOQ models is constant, while in most of the practical cases the deterioration rate increases with time. This work is motivated by Khanra, Ghosh and Chaudhuri’s (2011) paper extend...