China started its market oriented reform process in 1978. Reforms have covered all major sectors of the economy including agriculture, industry, finance, international trade and investment. The major characteristics of reforms are managerial…
This article tries to give a comprehensive meaning to the concept of venture capital by taking into account all relevant aspects associated with it. Secondly the origin, growth and development of modern concept of venture capital around the world are…
The Middle Palaeolithic culture has been widely distributed in the Ghataprabha basin, obtained from 113 sites. The majority of the sites are concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the river Ghataprabha and the assemblage is comprised of…
The rich and famous have looked down upon history for most of the 20th century. In 1916, the pioneer car manufacturer, Henry Ford, declared „History is bunk‟ because it‟s an unwanted vestige of tradition. On the other hand, in 2005, Thomas Friedman,…
The present investigation aims at analyzing the regional disparities in the levels of Human development and finding out the relationship between the Human development and the level of women empowerment in the Karnataka state. Five variables namely;…
Karnataka is closer to the average of India in case of health status and health facilities, but compared to the states like Kerala, it stands too low. The most striking problem, related to the health infrastructure and health status arises out of the…
For the past three decades India's banking system has several outstanding achievements to its credit. The most striking is its extensive reach. It is no longer confined to only metropolitans or cosmopolitans in India. In fact, Indian banking system…
This paper is an attempt to explore and analyse the practice of the institution of slavery observed by the Syrian Christian communities in Kerala. There are eighteenth and nineteenth century palm leaf (manuscript) records in the Syrian Christian…
