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Interrelationship between Rainfall Index and Leading Stock Market Index: An Empirical Study
Get PDFThe Indian Nifty is one of the major financial indicators showing daily economic changes in the share market. The Nifty is affected by many factors, including rainfall. Rainfall variability is one of the systemic risks for the Indian economy. India is the only country that experiences all of the world's weather variations, and rainfall has a significant impact on the economy. India is still a developing country and it depends on the monsoon for economic development. The equity market is one of the leading economic indicators and it should be influenced by the monsoon in India. The Efficient Market Hypothesis is one of the modern investment theories, and it states that prices of stocks quickly adjust to all the available information. Rainfall is one of the weather factors that show revenue direction for the rainfall dependent industries. Normal rainfall increases farmers' purchasing power and improves trade balances by increasing exports and decreasing imports. The deficit rainfall results in higher prices of goods and it leads to higher inflation. Higher inflation adversely affects the economic development of a country. According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), total quantum rainfall of less than 90% of the Long Period Average (LPA) indicates drought; 90% to 96% of the LPA indicates normal rainfall; 104% to 110% of the LPA indicates above normal rainfall; and more than 110% of the LPA indicates excess rainfall
Megalithic Tribal Culture in Kishtwar District, Jammu Region: A Preliminary Investigation
Get PDFMegaliths are structures that are made up of huge stone and are presumed to have some superstitious, ritual and religious end meaning. They are found in the entire stretch of the country. The term Megalith is derived from a Greek word Megas which means huge or big and Lithos means stone. Thus, megaliths are different types of structures that are made up of large and roughly dressed slabs of stone. Some of them are made up of only a single stone while others have more than one. The construction of these structures reflects the belief system of those people who constructed them
Use of Critical Thinking Skills by Freshman year students in colleges of Hooghly District
Get PDFAround 500 B.C.E in ancient Greece, Socrates has portended to be first preceptor of critical thinking. Later on, philosopher John Dewey coined the term 'critical thinking' (CT) as a scientific attitude of mind to achieve an educational goal. Also, he stated the term as 'reflective thinking' as an effective process to think carefully about an activity based on the reasons or grounds. Many recent studies upon CT suggested that the concept of CT has been updated and gone far from its traditional one in the teaching-learning system . Thus, CT is a mean of a capability to dissect facts and experiences in an unbiased manner and the path to overcome the complexities and simplify to grasp information in life. It has grounded in the concept of rationality, which could be comprehended through the combination of epistemic rationality and instrumental rationality. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified critical thinking skill (CTS) as a key competency to solve higher level complexities in 1999. According to WHO, Critical thinking, the capability to think and imagine transparently which enables one to behave reflectively in problematic situations to solve the problems immediately and helps to create many ways to unravel a familiar problem. Critical thinking ability (CTA) is taken as a core life skill in this current research article
Research Notes : Covid-19 and the Long-term Environmental Health Implications for India
Get PDFCorona virus popularly known as Covid-19 has taught several lessons to mankind. One of the important positive impacts of Covid-19 is considered to be the positive contribution to the environmental parameters like GHG, Air Pollution, and reduction in BOD in water courses particularly the much-polluted Ganga etc. Therefore, it is necessary to link the Covid-19 responses from economic activities and their impact on health and environment of people. The OECD has published a policy response to Covid-19 in May 2021 and projected its impact on the structure of the economy beyond 2025. It has conducted a study to project the impact on various sectors. The following Figure from the Report indicates that service sector particularly construction and accommodation will be different in the future compared to its pre-covid levels. What is important for environment and health of the people is that it is going to affect adversely more in India than in the OECD countries. Though India has done reasonably well in the propagation of vaccines as we have an advantage of two patents registered by Indian innovators, the death toll seems to be not reckoned with the spread of vaccines
Ethnic Diversity and Nationahood in Pakistan : A Study
Get PDFThe history of Pakistan as a nation indicates that it was formed on the singular ideology of 'Islam as a state religion. However, the 'Two-Nation' theory, on which Pakistan demanded a separate statehood, proved futile after the 1971 bifurcation of the 'Islamic state' into two independent states. It appears that other factors other than religion have played an important role in the formation of Pakistan as a nation.So, instead of looking at Pakistan through the prism of religion alone, the rise of ethnic movements of various groups' calls for a different approach. Since its inception, Pakistan has witnessed numerous turbulent events, many of which were driven by ethnic conflicts. The parting of the eastern wing of Pakistan in 1971, the upsurge in the interior of Sindh, repeated resistance movements in Balochistan, the unsettled grievances of Pashtuns, and the highly discontented Muhajirs, underline the explosive nature of Pakistan's ethnic problems and the failure on the part of the state to come in terms with the ethnic diversity of the country. As the understanding of any problem precedes the solutions, it becomes crucial to have a deep analysis of the ethnic problems of Pakistan. The sustenance of the multi-ethnic culture weaving it with the concept of the nation-state is vital for its survival
Governmentality, Patriarchy and Feminist movements in the Capitalist State: A Foucauldian Analysis
Get PDFWe live in a world of change. Feminist discourse over the past few decades has uncovered significant new avenues and directions of analysis, using methods and ideas of thinkers that we normally would not have thought, to fit in the discourse before. The richness and variety of feminisms is impressive but at most times, overwhelming. Foucault has been one such thinker, whose ideas have been at the center of feminist arguments. Recent discussions on Foucault and his position vis-à-vis feminism have yielded two major camps of thinkers; a camp which sees Foucault and his theories as incongruent with feminist thought and the other, which perceives that the Foucauldian discourse is compatible with feminist theory. Such a plethora of varying responses to Foucault from the feminists might be due to the fact he was a transdisciplinary figure; engaged in a number of disciplines, interpreted and misinterpreted competently by countless schools and disciplines. The idea of "disciplinary power" is one of the most explored Foucauldian conceptions and recent developments have highlighted the application of the concept in feminist discourse as well
Return and Risk Analysis of Public and Private Sector Banks: A Comparative Study
Get PDFBanking sector plays a vital role in the development of the economy. Investing in banking securities is very common among investors, but the banking sector securities tend to be volatile in nature, so If the market value of the banking securities drops, the asset shrinks. Investment is an activity that commits funds in any financial or physical form with an expectation of receiving some return in the future. All investments are characterized by the expectation of return. In fact, investments are made with the primary objective of deriving a return. The expectation of a return may be from income (yield) as well as through capital appreciation. Capital appreciation is the difference between the sale price and purchase price of investment. The dividend or interest from the investment is yield. Different types of investments promise different rate of return. The expectation of return from an investment depends upon the nature of investment, maturity period, and market demand and so on. The longer the maturity period longer is the duration for which the investor parts with the value of investment. Hence, the investor would expect a higher return from such investments. Risk is inherent in any investment. Risk may relate to loss of capital, delay in repayment of capital, non-payment of interest or variability of returns. While some investments such as government securities and bank deposits are almost without risk, others are more risky. The risk of an investment is determined by the investment's maturity period, repayment capacity, and nature of return commitment. The longer the maturity period greater is the risk. When the expected time in which the investment has to be returned is a long duration, say ten years instead of five years, the uncertainty surrounding the return flow from investment increases. This uncertainty leads to a higher risk level for the investment with longer maturity rather than an investment with shorter maturity
Constraints to the Dispersal of NRC Agricultural Technology in India: The Case of SRI (System of Rice Intensification) in Tamil Nadu
Get PDFAgriculture sector has been acknowledged as engine of economic growth and critical to poverty reduction through improvements in rural incomes in developing countries like India. Since the beginning of development planning, policy making in India has been occupied by problems of low per capita production of food grains and accompanying food insecurity. This was partly addressed by large scale investments in irrigation early years of planning and subsequent advances brought by the green revolution, helped the country to achieve a technological breakthrough in the agricultural sector in 1960s. In the Green Revolution process, the knowledge and technologies generated by investment in R&D has played major role in achieving food security for its growing population (Ramasamy, 2013) and achieving self-sufficiency of food grains. Besides the achievement of green revolution in attaining high productivity during 1970s and 1980s, it was restricted only to irrigated regions and to particular crops like wheat and rice
Minority Electoral Behaviour in the Era of Political Majoritarianism in India
Get PDFSweeping victory of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the two successive parliamentary elections without a single Muslim Member of Parliament (MP) signals a deeper representational crisis of Indian democracy. The highest number of Muslim MPs in the Lok Sabha was in 1980, when 49 legislators from the community were elected. Like in 2014, the BJP is the only winning party to not have a single Muslim MP in the 17thLokSabha. While democratic representation of Muslims has dropped in the Modi years, they have always had low representation in the Indian state. Scholars believe that anti-Muslim sentiment stoked by some in the BJP has led to fewer Muslim candidates outside the BJP. Fearing being tagged "anti-Hindu", the Indian National Congress (INC) and other parties are refraining from promoting Muslim candidates
Understanding Environmentalism as Politics in India
Get PDFThe concept of environmentalism reflects worry over the degradation of the natural world as a result of economic progress. The concept of environmentalism arose from concerns about the deterioration of human existence, a crisis in the human species' survival economy, and the potential dangers of the organic and inorganic environment. Environmentalists in the West have their roots in ecological or green movements, as well as the revolution against industrialism. The main principle of ecology was introduced by Thomas Robert Malthus, who proposed that population expands in a geometrical proportion while food supply grows in an arithmetic proportion (Ramaswamy, 2004, 428). Environmentalism is commonly connected with the birth of the green or ecological movement in the late twentieth century (Heywood, 2007, 64); nevertheless, its roots can be found in the nineteenth-century uprising against industrialism. Environmentalism emerges from social movements, which aim to influence the political process in order to save natural resources and the entire ecosystem. Because the philosophy stresses human needs and their satisfaction, environmentalism supports 'shallow ecology.' Environmentalists are concerned with the long-term viability and conservation of natural resources for human needs