Women are increasingly becoming the victims of discrimination and deprivation despite the overall development of the society, economy and polity. That they are vulnerable and subject to humiliation and harassment even at homes – considered as safest place for all – is strange and painful....

India is now considered a knowledge-economy. Despite financial constraints, higher (tertiary) education is changing significantly in terms of its content and context. Its immense contribution to the country's human capital and economic development is well accepted and acknowledged. However, many...

Gender issues are no longer confined to biology and ecology. With steady growth of women enterprises, all over the world, female entrepreneurship has emerged as the focal point of resource and research. At the same time, women face time, human, physical, and social constraints that limit their...

Water the critical resource of agriculture, has not been well managed in India, despite the country being an agricultural powerhouse. It has some 195 MH of land under cultivation of which some 62 per cent is rain-fed and 37 per cent, irrigated. Agriculture uses 85 per cent of the water resources...

The word liberalisation is mainly used to denote that the Government is moving from licensing of commerce to de-licencing. Even though normally associated with Government ownership of Government in business entities, the real direction of liberalisation is moving away from planned economy to...

As the world has moved increasingly away from regulation towards integration – under the phenomena called globalization – the importance of language in general and of English language in particular has to be analysed in the changing circumstances. It is now widely acknowledged that under...

There is evidence that purchase choice behaviour of consumers is motivated by utility, value for money, and social betterment. It results in a phenomenon called Consumer Social Responsibility (CnSR). This research paper aims to examine whether consumers' purchase intent will be influenced when...

Economics and Commerce are closely related. Many aspects fall in both areas or in their borderline. Modern research, particularly in social and managerial sciences needs to have trans-disciplinary approach with both common-purpose and special-purpose applications. That gives a vast canvas for...

Modern business society is going through a massive change due to multiple factors. The most important of these factors are shift from manufacturing to services, globalization in every industry and the worldwide dissemination of Information, Communication and Technology . All these three factors...