"Even after 57 years of independence and passing through many Five Years Plans, the vagaries of drought and floods could not be tackled by nation effectively, thereby causing lot of destruction to the already poverty stricken community of our country."   Drought has become a recurring natural calamity faced by many States in India, costing a huge amount to the exchequer, but never taken among the priorities in national planning seriously. Slogans of India Shining, Feel Good factor may look good while sitting in Delhi but meaningless to the common people whose all properties comprise of cattle, mud houses etc. lost in wake of flood and drought every alternate year. Thousands of marginal farmers and landless labourers in Jawhar in Thana district near Mumbai were reportedly on the verge of starvation, when several droughts gripped the area during 2001. Their small farms yielded only 25% of the normal crops and more...

"Ever since the dawn of civilization there have been much debate on worth and dignity of science and religion; the intellectuals, philosophers, thinkers tire divided even today on the conflicting belief in the matter of supremacy of one over the other'.  With the rapid progress made by science and technology in the recent past, the conflict between the two widen further. Science on the one hand, concludes the theories on the basis of experiments and analytical logics, while religious theories are based on experience, meditation and blind faith. Science deals with the things objectively. while religion is a subjective matter. In the present age of rapid growth in scientific advancements in all walks of life, the future history wounded end on the way of livening  of the new generation to reconcile the conflict between Science and Religion. Religion is mainly a phenomenon of faith, a purely subjective topic while  science more...

"Although everyone has heard of SARS and its rapid spread around the globe, few understand what SARS is, how it is spread and the magnitude of the threat it poses to the world. In addition, this constant focus on disease and war has created a sense of fear that is causing many people to wonder if the end of the world had finally arrived. Increased focus on SARS has done more to alarm people than to give awareness about the disease."  Lack of information about SARS has added greatly to people's fear of the disease. When the first cases of SARS were reported back in mid-March, not only were scientists unsure where SARS came from, they also knew very little about what has caused it, how it was spread or what differentiated those who are able to resist the disease from those who succumbed to it. This brought many people more...

This line which has since taken the shape of a proverb really occurs in the famous poem 'my heart leaps when I behold 'of Wordsworth, the great poet. It implies that the qualities and characteristics shown by a child often indicate what the child is going to be as a grown up man. The childhood is the reflection of future personality. The habits, traits, qualities of a man are usually the development of the habits, traits, Qualities he had as a child. A careful study of the characteristic and qualities in a child can help us to foretell his future prospectus. The childhood shows the man. As morning shows the day.   The child is the father of man is proved true in many cases. See the example of ShivaJi who during his childhood, loved so much to hear the stories of famous heroes of Ramayana and Mahabharat, became later more...

"Is there anything like Fate ? Are our lives planned out beginning to end? Well, many people believe that there is something bigger than us. Thai there is a reason for everything. Some believe the everything is a coincidence. It all depends on if one believes in things of more importance to us. Some believe that coincidence is real and not Fate. However, none of this can ever be truly proven ". Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms compares them. Fate suggests inevitability. Fate is the most evocative synonym. It derives from the Latin fari, "to be spoken."The spoken word is powerful. The word has the power to respell and ensorcelled you. Coincidentally or not. the word "spell" derives from the Old English spelled, "to be spoken," the same word as fari. When one speaks, one casts a spell and cast one's fate. Coincidence is appropriately more mundane: "a seemingly planned sequence more...

"The poor give us much more than we give them. They 're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don 'I have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them."                                                                                                                                                                                            —Mother Teresa   Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu later on known as Mother Teresa was bom into a middle class Albanian family in Skopje, then Yugoslavia, on Aug. 26, 1910. As a child she was called Gonxha. Her father, a businessman and member of the community council, died when she was only nine years old. Her mother, Drana, raised Gonxha and her siblings, Aga and Lazar, alone. Drana Bojaxhiu earned a living by sewing, and was much conscientious about the religious education of her children.  Mother Stresses Piety : The family prayed every evening and attended church daily. "I heard the call to more...

"India has emerged from a long period of economic libber alit. The country's economic scene appears excellent in all spheres, This year can be taken as the most flourishing year that India has ever had after India attained freedom."  India's GDP growth in the eighties averages 5% per annum. The growth rate during métier save raged at 6%, despite some adverse developments. All the prospects of economy have seen a tremendous boom this year. People are said to have experiencing 'Feel Good Factor' of the emerging economy. Today Indians command a high respect throughout the world. Many foreigners have started coming to India for medical treatment. Wal-Mart, the biggest company  in the world, making plans to purchase more than $5 billion worth of goods from Indian companies. The emergence of the country as an important player in the software and IT sector has led to recognition by all developed countries more...

The Supreme Court defined ragging in following words: "Any  disorderly conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of leasing, treating or handling with rudeness any other student indulging in rowdy or indiscipline activities which causes or likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychology- cal harm or to raise fear of apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student or asking the students to do any act or perform swellings which such students will not do in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student." The apex court has taken into consideration, while defining ragging all kinds of acts faced by a fresher or a junior while subjecting to ragging by the seniors.  Ragging has become more...

"After more than 56 years of independence, with launching and implementing many jive years plans, the cities of modern India, are on the verge of collapse. The cities epitomes an area wherein the habitants, whether rich or poor, are bound to face the scourges of exploding population, air pollution contaminated water sources, blimps solid wastes, intolerable noise pollution, inadequate transport system, creaked road unable to cope with the proliferation of private and public vehicles, shortage of water, breakdown of electricity, choked sanitary, drainage and sewage system, increasing crime against fair sex and unsafe senior citizens, with criminally indifferent attitude of government officials to every kind of problems." One more peculiar thing about cities is the scant regard for keeping the cities clean and tidy. The indifferent attitude and deliberate neglect by the civic authorities have caused the cities a bump of solid and other wastes choking and overflowing sewage and more...

"For any coalition, the hidden enemies within the Government are more unpredictable lliiin the outsiders. The trouble started even before the ship was to set sail and captain knew well that a rough voyage and hidden icebergs are ahead of him ". It appears that the chapter of a single party rule. in India has become a matter of past. The most significant development in Indian political scene since 1996. Has been the emergence of coalition era in Indian Politics. Till 1989, the stable Government at the centre under the leadership of Smt. Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi did well. In 1989, the country was amidst instability as Rajeev Gandhi lost power and Mr. V.P Singh took over as the next Prime Minister of Minority Government. Mr. V.P Singh had to step down as BJP withdrew its support. Mr. Chandra Shekhar assumed power and formed Government with Congress more...