Taking cognisance of the prevailing high maternal and child mortality in the country, India's latest (Eighth) Five Year Plan has adopted an ambitious programme for 'Child Survival and Safe Motherhood (CSSM)'. The major objectives of this programme are the reduction of IMR to 50, underfive mortality to 70, maternal mortality t~ 200, and crude birth rate (CBR) to nine. The targets for service-cov...

In this paper, the new mission of naval forces, i.e. the mission of “ensuring the security at sea and the security against the dangers threatening from sea” – have been discussed and presented. Especially the content of today’s World’s terrorism, the subject of the global war on transnational terrorism, the subject of the maritime security, as well as the consequences resulting form the new mis...

This study was initiated to characterize urban and peri-urban sheep production systems and their economic importance in and around the towns of Debre Berhan and Dessie, Ethiopia. The study was undertaken using group discussions, structured questionnaire and personal observations. In both locations the majority of sheep producers were male household heads and predominantly traders in urban and f...