History bears out the fact that in India, over the last five decades quite a large number of rural development programmes have been launched. But afterwards, these programmes proved to be dysfunctional, as it could not promote genuine popular participation in the programme process....

Foreign body inhalation in the tracheobronchial tree is a common ENT emergency with serious and potentially lethal consequences thus presenting as a most challenging task to the otorhinolaryngologists. A prospective study on 60 patients were carried out at JLN Hospital & RC, Bhilai (C.G), from Jan’ 06 to Dec’08....

International Aid is a core form of humanitarian assistance that all underdeveloped countries in the world receive. The purpose of this aid is to fill in the gap in development that the Government itself is unable to....

Capital adequacy requirements are the rules that help bank supervisors determine whether banks hold sufficient capital at all times to meet unexpected losses. The banking industry had moved ahead with its risk assessment technique, economic capital models and risk based pricing....

The diffusion process is perhaps one of the most widely researched and documented social phenomena. A number of researches have been conducted in the field of diffusion and adoption providing invaluable knowledge base regarding the processes and factors that directly or indirectly affect them....