Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 empowers citizens of India to access information from any governmental organization. Using this Act citizens can ask questions (through RTI applications/queries) to government offices and obtain answers. In this work we attempt to model RTI queries. Objective of modeling is to understand the latent patterns such as transparency and effectiveness of RTI Act i...

This article places the Kenyan intellectual Ngũ gũ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow (2006) in what has until now been seen as a predominantly Latin American tradition of dictator novels. Dictator novels unmask the intrinsic fallibility of power. The purported omnipotence of the dictator is undermined by dictation: that is, by his power’s reliance on the shifty and ambiguous medium of language, ...

We introduce a simple Hopfield-like cellular-network model to explain a kind of "intelligence" in plants (Trewavas, 2002), especially, the capacity of plants to act as a memory device. Following earlier observations by Indian scientist J.C. Bose (1923), we regard the plant as a network in which each of the elements is connected via negative interactions. We investigate properties of the model b...

Chief Medical Officer, Mines Board of Health, Asansol. The article by the editor in the Indian Medical Gazette for December 1924 on " Some Experiments for the Solution of the Rural Health Problem in. India " makes it likely that an account of the outdoor organisation of the Asansol Mines Board of Health may not prove uninteresting at this juncture. The Asansol Mines Board of Health, which is co...

CARVER+Shock (Agriculture) software is developed by Sandia National Laboratory, USA with the association of USFDA and USDA-APHIS as a food defense tool for farms. In the wake of recent findings on food and agriculture defense studies, it is very useful software to prepare the farm managers to protect against any act and attack of bioterrorism. The software was tested on the north Indian farms a...

Improving rural health service delivery is a major challenge in India as 73 percent of its population resides in rural areas. Recognizing the need to improve rural health service delivery, the Government of India launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005. The NRHM aims to undertake architectural correction of the rural health system through communitization, improved management, ...

This paper offers an overview of the legal development of tribal gambling operations in California. First this paper explains the general contours of tribal sovereignty, then it discusses the development of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the present of the legal basis of tribal gaming. Finally, this paper discusses the options the State may have to enforce any type of gaming regulations on t...

Fruits of Ziziphus jujuba Mill. (family: Rhamnaceae), known as Indian jujube or "Ber," are of potential nutritional and medicinal value. The objectives of the present study were to estimate bioactive compound maslinic acid by HPTLC method and to evaluate in vitro antioxidant and hepatoprotective activity of eight cultivars of Indian jujube. Maslinic acid and the fruit pulp of various cultivars ...