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Kanak Dixit was arrested in Kathmandu on Saturday, April 8, with a host of other professionals for defying curfew to press for democratic rights in Nepal. He remains in detention still. This column was smuggled out of Jail. The accompanying picture is of his arrest.
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capacities and discretionary power of action, insurgency has radicalised its forms and activities. The criminalisation process …, how has the externality of the insurgency influenced this phenomenon? The third part of the paper will propose an overview …
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In order to understand criminal legislation, one needs to refocus from criminal legislation to its most modern form, the code ─ by turning one's historical attention to the significance of criminal codes, thereby reconnecting the analysis of law to the analysis of the state, jurisprudence to...
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that diffusion mechanisms may play an independent role in the spread of new reproductive behaviour (small family norm …). Though diffusion per se, no real explanation for the fast decline of fertility in Southern or Coastal India (what would then … be the cause of diffusion in the first place?), it would definitely be important to understand how these mechanisms are …
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An important channel through which globalization affects poverty is introducing new technologies to developing countries. Adoption of new technologies can be hindered by uncertainties about their efficiency. This paper studies the role of information exchange between adopters and others about a...
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centrality is defined by diffusion centrality (Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jackson, 2013), which characterizes a nodeâ …€™s influence in spreading information. It first show that diffusion centrality nests standard centrality measures – degree … diffusion centrality. …
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India Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2006 and Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) 2006 were undertaken region-wise, namely, North, South, East, West, Central and North East, covering 99.7% of the total population of India. Altogether, 12,086 students and 2,926 school personnel from 180...
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This document highlights the results and associated processes from Chayan’s implementation experience under the RACHNA program. The programmatic framework, designed for low-prevalence contexts in India, draws on standard targeted intervention approaches but is grounded in community-based...
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a developing country with respect to Aids in India. It also focusses on its preventive measures, status of the epidemic …
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