This volume critically analyses Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in India and offers an alternative perspective to look at MPL and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) debate. Tracing the historical origins of this legal mechanism and its subsequent political manifestations, it highlights the complex nature of MPL as a sociological phenomenon, driven by context-specific social norms and cultural values. With expert contributions, it discusses wide-ranging themes and issues including MPL reforms and human rights; decoding of UCC in India; the contentious Triple Talaq bill and MPL; the Shah Bano case; Sharia (Islamic jurisprudence) in postcolonial India; women's equality and family laws; and MPL in the media discourse in India. The volume highlights that although MPL is inextricably linked to Sharia, it does not necessarily determine the everyday customs and local practices of Muslim communities in India This topical book will greatly interest scholars and researchers of law and jurisprudence, political studies, Islamic studies, Muslim Personal Law, history, multiculturalism, South Asian studies, sociology of religion, sociology of law and family law. It will also be useful to practitioners, policymakers, law professionals and journalists.

This volume critically analyses Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in India and offers an alternative perspective to look at MPL and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) debate. Tracing the historical origins of this legal mechanism and its subsequent political manifestations, it highlights the complex nature of MPL as a sociological phenomenon, driven by context-specific social norms and cultural values. With expert contributions, it discusses wide-ranging themes and issues including MPL reforms and human rights; decoding of UCC in India; the contentious Triple Talaq bill and MPL; the Shah Bano case; Sharia (Islamic jurisprudence) in postcolonial India; women's equality and family laws; and MPL in the media discourse in India. The volume highlights that although MPL is inextricably linked to Sharia, it does not necessarily determine the everyday customs and local practices of Muslim communities in India This topical book will greatly interest scholars and researchers of law and jurisprudence, political studies, Islamic studies, Muslim Personal Law, history, multiculturalism, South Asian studies, sociology of religion, sociology of law and family law. It will also be useful to practitioners, policymakers, law professionals and journalists.

A unique and comprehensive study on social science research, this book highlights the status, issues, roadblocks and challenges of the field in India and certain select nations of the world. It conducts key cross-comparisons with existing literature in the area, and discusses aid policies and decisions, funding dynamics and quality of research as well as assessment systems in social science research.

A unique and comprehensive study on social science research, this book highlights the status, issues, roadblocks and challenges of the field in India and certain select nations of the world. It conducts key cross-comparisons with existing literature in the area, and discusses aid policies and decisions, funding dynamics and quality of research as well as assessment systems in social science research.

Water resource systems and technologies are important fields in engineering today. This book will discuss various areas on water resource management. Topics discussed include water harvesting techniques, waste water purification, and urban water systems as well as concrete, pavement, and mortar stabilizers, and earthquake resistance technologies and how they relate to water management systems.

The thread of self-organization which is now recognized as permeating many dynamical transformations in diverse systems around us seems set to unleash a revolution as influential as that of Darwin in the last century. Darwin removed the 'originator' of a species; self-organization now seeks to remove the 'organizer' from an organism. Methods of nonlinear dynamics have played a crucial role in opening up this field and if these methods have a progenitor it is Henri Poi~care (1854 - 1912) whose first substantial compilation amongst his prolific productio~ was Les Methodes Nouvelles de la Mecanique Celeste, Vol 1. Thi~ work'aplleared in Paris in 1892, a century ago, thus offering us the opportunity to celebrate a centenary of this extraordinary revolutionary of science: M~:of. ~he ex;tensive contributions of Poincare helped to lay the foundation of this field of nonlinear dynamics, for _e. xam*lI~e mai:hematic~l theory of . dillJ. ensions~ . ( qualita. tively) global aspects of ph~ ~~c~ d~~~ics, topological analysis, . fiXed. pbiilt theo- rems, bifurcation COIiC~l?ts :{~o ?e u~d later for example for Andronov-Poincare bifurcation), diffe~!:. Iice' equation mappings in phase spa

The living organisms and systems possess extraordinary properties of programmed development, differentiation, growth, response, movement, duplication of key molecules and in m any cases higher mental functions. But the organisms are physical objects so they must follow laws of physics yet they do not seem to obey them. Physicists cannot easily persuade themselves to accept this as finally true. Non-living objects are governed by these laws of physics and they can explain these properties. However, in the living systems too phenomena encountered like coupled non-linear interactions, manybody effects, cooperativity, coherence, phase transitions, reversible metastable states are being understood better with the aid of powerful theoretical and experimental techniques and hope is raised that these may let us understand the mysteriousness of life. Contributors to this volume are a small fraction of rapidly growing scientific opinion that these aspects of living bodies are to be expected in a hitherto inadequately suspected state of matter which is in the main directed by these physical properties pushed almost to limit. This state of matter, the living matter, deserves to be called The Living State. Mishra proposes that given hydrogenic orbitals, atoms showing easy hybridisability and multiple valances, molecules with low-lying electronic levels, "loosestructure," and a metabolic pump in thermodynamically open system, various fundamental properties of living state can emerge automatically. Structurally these are all known to be present.

The living organisms and systems possess extraordinary properties of programmed development, differentiation, growth, response, movement, duplication of key molecules and in m any cases higher mental functions. But the organisms are physical objects so they must follow laws of physics yet they do not seem to obey them. Physicists cannot easily persuade themselves to accept this as finally true. Non-living objects are governed by these laws of physics and they can explain these properties. However, in the living systems too phenomena encountered like coupled non-linear interactions, manybody effects, cooperativity, coherence, phase transitions, reversible metastable states are being understood better with the aid of powerful theoretical and experimental techniques and hope is raised that these may let us understand the mysteriousness of life. Contributors to this volume are a small fraction of rapidly growing scientific opinion that these aspects of living bodies are to be expected in a hitherto inadequately suspected state of matter which is in the main directed by these physical properties pushed almost to limit. This state of matter, the living matter, deserves to be called The Living State. Mishra proposes that given hydrogenic orbitals, atoms showing easy hybridisability and multiple valances, molecules with low-lying electronic levels, "loosestructure," and a metabolic pump in thermodynamically open system, various fundamental properties of living state can emerge automatically. Structurally these are all known to be present.

The themes covered in this volume touch upon wide ranging issues starting from economic growth and outlook for India vis-a-vis China and Pakistan, India in the international economy, strategic management to make public enterprises globally competitive to the crisis in Indian education, emerging disparities in India and an economic analysis of Judicial activism. It also incorporates seminal writings on public sector viz., public enterprises and evaluation, the future of public sector in India and emerging role of independent directors in the board room.

Ports along the 7,517 odd Kilometer long peninsular coastline of India have suddenly become the cynosure of investor and public policy attention in India. Cumulative pressure for widespread policy-related reforms in the port sector coupled with growing investor interest in taking up port projects has been building up ever since the country embarked on the path of economic liberalization and opened its doors to forces of globalization. The pace of growth has particularly gathered momentum since the government invited private sector participation in development of port infrastructure, especially in designated major ports of the country in 1996. The story of India's efforts to modernize its port infrastructure and bring them on par with the international benchmarks arguably got a kick-start with the establishment of Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT). Overall macro-economic development objectives of public policy rather than considerations of business and enterprise-level efficiency and optimization of port organizations have guided much of the understanding about the working of the ports in the country. The report covers the details of around 12 Ports situated in th

This Book focuses on the Credit and Risk Analysis carried out by the Banks during appraisal of a loan proposals for Large Corporates i.e., with a turnover of above 500 crores. The Book focusses about the fundamental aspects involved in the Credit Appraisal and associated Risk Management. The Book deals from the perspective of a Bank and the Regulatory Norms as stipulated by the Regulator of Banking System in India i.e., Reserve Bank of India. The report is a descriptive study with basic objective of understanding procedural aspects involved in the Credit Appraisal and Risk Management before and after sanctioning of Bank Credit to the Large Corporate enterprises. During Credit Appraisal, Bank needs to do a 360 assessment of the proposal submitted by the Corporate by verifying its managerial integrity and commercial, technical, financial viability. It has been observed that the Credit risk management enables bank to identify, assess, manage proactively, and optimize their credit risk.

Finance was not considered so important for business organizations before the industrial revolution because methods of productions were very simple, labor was more important than capital and finance at that time. So these things didn't create any problems. Nowadays finance is considered as the life blood of every business and achieved the most important place in today's business. Any business whether large scale or small scale requires finance for its operations. So many businesses approach the lending institutions at some point or the other in order to get some finance in terms of loans. A lending institution appraises the proposal and then decides whether to lend the money or not. This process is generally termed as credit appraisal. Credit appraisal is a process of assessing the credit worthiness of a borrower. The process of credit appraisal has assumed increased significance, particularly during the time of economic downturn .The book is a comprehensive and a thorough examination of the components of a project.The area of study in Corporate Banking in Indian Overseas Bank would include- Working Capital Financing and Term loan financing.

This book discusses on mutual fund industry in detail, the impact of various scrips on the performance of the mutual funds. The book also discusses on some of the tools and concepts to measure performance of mutual funds such as average daily return and risk in stock market to compare with the market indicator, Jenson's ratio, Treynor's ratio, Sharpe's ratio, and Fama's model. In the final stage we also discuss about the Investment priorities of different Investors and evaluate on how investors view mutual funds. Also focuses on the investment procedure of mutual funds, investor's preference regarding mutual funds, and motivational factors of mutual fund investors.

The CAPM model which was developed by Sharpe (1964), Lintner (1965), and Black (1972) was largely supported by Black, Jensen and Scholes (1972), Fama and Macbeth (1973) and Blume and Friend (1973). Later this method was questioned on various grounds. Our book mainly focuses on the estimation of 19 PSBs and PSFIs returns for the period of 1998-2010 using the CAPM frame work. Further this paper compares the CAPM returns with that of the Annual Market Returns (AMR). We have selected these PSBs and PSFs on the basis of the companies quoted in the BSE stock Exchange in India for the period 1998-2010. The study states that most of the companies scrips are undervalued and have not rewarded the investors properly.

This Book focuses on the Influence of Corporate Financials with Equity Returns. Since the economic and industry-specific factors are common for all the companies in an industry, it is expected that the underlying performance of the companies determines the returns from the equity shares of companies in the industry. Further the analysis progresses with inter-comparison and cross-verification of the individual companies in the industry with the corresponding private sector company on a sample basis. Therefore, the present study has carried out an industry-wise investigation whether equity returns are influenced by the corporate fundamentals or not, and also a general performance of the various parameters of the financial institutions has been carried out. For the purpose, public and private sector financial institutions have been selected. The sample scrips selected are PSB's quoted at BSE, consistently during the period 1992-93 to 2008-09 were selected. It has been found from the regression results that the book value of share and dividend per share are the only independent variables which significantly impact the equity returns.

The General objective is to study the past performance of the staff co-operative society by considering the past financial Statements and suggest measures to improve the financial performance. To study the liquidity, profitability and etc the tools of ratio analysis like current ration, super quick ration, debt -equity ratio are used, to study the performance over a period of time Comparative and common size statements are used the tools are used to analyze and interpret the performance over the study period. The study would enable the management to take decision on cost cutting measures, cost of capital, and capital budgeting decision of the society. This would become a guiding research for the future as this is the first kind of report submitted in the history of the co-operative society beginning from 1965 onwards. The study would enable the management to take decision on cost cutting measures, cost of capital, and capital budgeting decision of the society. This would become a guiding research for the future as this is the first kind of report submitted in the history of the co-operative society beginning from 1965 onwards.

The power system has seen many strides in the past. The recent introduction of reform and restructuring of power industry has imposed further challenges to planners and operators, since new operational strategies are to be adopted over existing system, in order to maintain system security, reliability and supply quality. Introduction of power electronic devices and their application for interfacing distributed generation from renewable energy sources and existing grid is inevitable. However, they have given rise to newer problems which need to be addressed. Thus, enormous challenges are being faced by present day power industries which require efficient planners, technology, solution methods and software to address their problems effectively. The present book aims to put before readers the current problems faced by the power sector and the attempts being made by experts to solve them.

The SOLARIS 2012 conference focussed on solar radiation modelling and day lighting, solar thermal (ST), photovoltaic (PV), renewable energy resources (RES), climate change (CC), food processing industries/rural development (FRD), and life cycle cost analysis of renewable energy sources (LC). These proceedings from the conference will be of interest to students, teachers, researchers, scientists, engineers and users involved in renewable energy in general and solar energy in particular. Manufacturers will also find these proceedings useful.

Laparoscopic hernia repair is a relatively new surgical technique to fix tears in the abdominal wall using small incisions, a patch and special cameras to view inside the body. It frequently offers a more rapid recovery for the patient, less postoperative pain, and a quicker return to work and normal activities. (LapSurg.org). This concise guide discusses the latest procedures in laparoscopic hernia repair. Beginning with chapters on the history of hernia, imaging and equipment, the following sections discuss surgical procedures for different types of hernia. Nearly 400 colour images and illustrations are included, as well as two DVD ROMs demonstrating different laparoscopic procedures and discussing potential complications. Key points Guide to latest procedures in laparoscopic hernia repair Covers techniques for different types of hernia Nearly 400 colour images and illustrations Includes DVD ROMs demonstrating procedures and discussing complications

'Climate change' and 'sustainable development' involve complex interactions between climatic, environmental, economic, institutional, social, political and technological processes at global level. They cannot be addressed or comprehended in isolation of broader societal goals. The papers in the book examine these twin aspects that contribute towards global development and thus present the various efforts undertaken by the researchers, academicians and policy makers in this direction. The book while dealing with current research and development in climate change and sustainable development, also discusses about the significance of natural resource management for sustainable development. It covers the issues of topical interest viz., carbon emission trading, organic farming, waste water management, impact of land use, special and temporal variation of rainfall, concepts of green building, sustainable agriculture, resource recovery mechanism, disaster risk reduction initiatives, GHG emissions, environmental regulations etc. Written by leading experts, the diverse chapters dovetailed in the volume serve the interests of all sections of the society who are working in the areas of climate change and sustainable development. Practicing engineers, environmental managers, academicians, researchers, research scholars, students and government officials will consult this book as an essential guide to help mitigate and adapt the effects of climate change and sustainable development.

This edited volume presents various issues and challenges faced by the health sector in India as well as in South Asia. It is a compilation of research papers presented by eminent social scientists in a health system strengthening conference organised by the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad. The contributors of this publication are senior experts working in the area of health sector and reform issues from India and across South Asia and it provides the readers an insight into the various issues and challenges faced by the health sector, especially problems of accessibility, human resource management, financing, monitoring etc., which have been brought out in the book very succinctly. This volume will be of immense benefit to researchers, policy makers and students working on issues of health sector.

After many decades of existence for the public sector in India, there are still many questions unanswered. Though the Government has delegated financial and administrative powers to PEs (public enterprises) to a great extent to provide considerable financial leverage for taking prudent decisions, the results are not satisfactory. It has been several decades since the MoU system has been introduced in India in the hope of incentivising performance, yet there are considerable numbers of PEs which are languishing in the fair and good category in terms of performance. Performance challenges still exist in public sector enterprises which are mainly due to inadequate systems, processes, and latest technology. The focus now is on making the PEs more efficient and competitive so that they can face the stiff market competition. There is a clear direction that has been set with the Performance Management Division taking lead and rolling out the overarching PMS and implementing RFD. The RFD system provides a comprehensive framework of performance measurement and management for all the government departments/ministries, to develop performance plans in sync with the national priorities and prog-rammes. With the RFD system in place, it will give greater stability to the MoU system and make it sustainable.