the future of contested strategic competitions in the indian ocean the indian ocean has received new attention in recent years because of its economic and strategic importance. the region is seen as a theatre for great power rivalries mainly between the united states, china, and india. in this regard, this paper assesses how the indian ocean region is coping with the challenges of global powers...

Ragas are the heart of Indian classical music. Raga is one of the fundamental musical concepts in Indian music. Raga plays an important role in Indian classical music. It is a group of swaras (musical notes) comprising of many features and qualifiers and is described as melodic concept which is led to blossom by the musician. According to characteristics of raga, Indian classical music is furth...

The Indian pharmaceutical industry represents a successful case of indigenous self-reliant development. Over the last three decades the Indian industry, working under weak patent laws, used reverse engineering skills to develop capabilities in process R&D and generics drug development. With the signing of the TRIPS agreement Indian firms faced a stronger regulatory environment which restricted ...

THE study of the history of ancient Indian medicine in the Indian sub-continent as a special subject by practitioners of modem medicine, is of comparatively recent origin; some eminent Indian physicians, however, have interested themselves in the subject and have published short articles in the Indian medical press from time to time. Notably one or two have recently published small treatises on...

A total of 3528 specimens of freshwater turtles belonging to two families viz., Geoemydidae (Brown River Turtle, Kachuga smithi; Indian Saw-backed turtle, K. tecta; Brahminy Rrive Turtle, Hardella thurgi; Spotted Pond Turtle, Geoclemys hamiltonii) and Trionychidae (Indian Soft-shell Turtle, Aspederates gangeticus; Peacock Soft-shell Turtle, A.hurum; Narrow-headed Soft-shell Turtle, Chitra indic...

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one of the fundamental notions of realization of sustainable city within the framework of the theory of sustainable development is what affects the urban green spaces as well as the influence they may have. as the upshot of years’ worth of experiences in the ideology of iranian urban design, iranian garden is of magnificently high position which possesses the potentials to act as the green spac...

non-performing assets (npas) have been a major cause of concern for indian commercial banks in the recent past years. many studies have been reported on the different aspects of npas in indian banking system. however, there is a crucial lack of investigation on the comparative assessment of various types of banks such as public sector banks, private sector banks and foreign banks so that the tr...