Reservation : Right or Wrong Reservation policy fails to achieve its purpose of giving equal opportunity to everyone because of lack of infrastructure in the rural areas of the country where the proportion of backward classes is significant. A number of people living in some remote areas in Orissa, M. P. or Bihar are not even aware of these policies. They are deprived of even primary education and basic employment which...

Organisation and Administration There can be no administration without organisation. “Organization is the basic tool by means of which the administrative process is kept operating.” The term organization is derived from the word organicism which means an organised body of interdependent parts sharing common activity. Organisation is the form of every human association for the attainment of a common purpose. ‘By organisation we mean planned system of cooperative effort in which...

Indo-US Nuclear Deal    George Bush is the only fifth USA President who visited India in 2006 over 58 years since Independence. U.S.A. stands as the only super-power of the today’s world. U.S. is number one world power. It is difficult to be number one. But it is ever more difficult to retain number one position. In the process of becoming number one has to sacrifice but once you are number...

Importance of Yoga in Our Life   Bhagvad Gita says, “Listen to the principle of yoga. By practising these you can break through the bonds of karma.” Human beings are made up of three components—body, mind and soul. Corresponding these there are three needs—health, knowledge and inner peace. Health is physical need, knowledge is our psychological needs and inner peace is spiritual need when all three are present then there is...

Indian Science : Where We Stand While looking towards the future it helps to look backwards first to be how Indian science has fared during 20th century. What were its top 10 achievements ? Could our overall performances have been better ? Can we use the painters from the past and trends at present to plan for the future ? There has been, it will be noticed, a shift since independence...

Internet & E-mail  Can you guess the age of Internet ? It was considered in the form of computer networking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962. After incubation period of seven years the first cute little baby of the species appeared on the scene in September in 1969 as APRANET of Department of Defence of Government of USA. APRANET consisted of four major techno-logical breakthrough (1) Interface message processor...

Our Solar System The solar system is the name given to the collection of heavenly bodies that encircle around the sun. The sequence of planets ascending to their distance from the Sun—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The sun contains over 99.8% of the total mass of the solar system. All the planets revolve around the sun in the same direction the orbit is elliptical the orbital...

Computer    Necessity is the mother of revolution. The saying holds true for computers also because computers were invented as a result of main search for a fast and accurate calculating device. The earliest device that qualifies as a digital computer is the abacus. The device permits the users to represent the number by the position of beads on the rock. Although abacus was invented around 600 B.C. It is interesting...