In accordance with the long-term policy objectives of the government of India for rural electrification, an off-grid woodfuel-based power plant for generation of grid quality electricity has been installed in a remote island of West Bengal. The present study focuses on technical performance of...

Conflict between India and Pakistan is one of the major conflicts in the world today. The conflict has been continued since the creation of Pakistan out of India in 1947 and turned into several wars during the last century. At the time of partition of India, the native states (also called...

This paper involves an analysis to investigate the limits to GDP growth in the present economic scenario. One objective of this study is to investigate how innovation alters these limits to economic growth. The present analysis is based on cross-section data. Results show the impact of the size...

Wetlands of non-prominence that have been discussed here are some water bodies in the lower-Gangetic floodplains of India. People surrounding these wetlands earn their livelihood and derive many direct and indirect benefits from them. But in the process of acquiring benefits stakeholders place...

History, culture, religion and identity are often used to legitimise conflicts. But these causes not always act as the sole divisive forces to initiate conflict unless there are economic reasons. Conflict leads to human displacement and loss of life, destruction of assets and low investment....

In regret analysis, an entity (either an individual or a group or a country) feels regret by taking a decision for any particular action when there are other ways to act. Such regret often motivates someone to settle conflict. The present paper discusses such a possibility using a mathematical...

Any wrong strategy sends a wrong signal, and misleads the target to understand the possibility of a threat from the provocateur. It may ultimately lead to a non-ending conflicting situation. Russia NATO conflict has been analyzed in the light of the above hypothesis