surrogacy industry"‚ talked about how the surrogacy industry made an impact on India. Being a socially conservative country‚ India surprisingly does not reject the idea but rather supportive of it. The confederation of Indian industry reported that by 2012‚ the practice of surrogacy will generate 2.3 billion dollars. Why is this industry advancing so fast in India? First of all‚ commercial surrogacy is legal in India‚ while it is still banned in many other countries. With the business growing so
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industrializing economy such as Singapore and Hong Kong. McDonald’s entered into Into India in 1996. and its joint venture partners had opened 46 restaurants between 1995 and December 2002. They initially opened their restaurant in Mumbai and Delhi‚ where they can find the customers who could actually afford their food from expensive restaurant like McDonald. Later on McDonald extended their outlets all over India. Till now McDonald has been one of the leading fast food chain restaurant due to their
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Inflation in India: India suffers with maximum inflation compared to chief markets. From the last two years India is trying to bring down the inflation rate but all the efforts are in vain. Started with the hike in food prices‚ inflation now has a strong foothold in the Indian economy. The consequence is that the hiked price is now considered as the “new normal” in an economy which has had subsidised prices since independence. To counter this Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised
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Corruption in India. As the reverend Mahatma would have said that‚ the throng must have promised to do the same. Today‚ the same sentence but with “not” being superfluous‚ is agreeable. Recent time is witnessing a sharp fall in the values and morals of human beings. Evincing the very fact‚ India has been ranked 94th by Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. The former U.N. Secretary General‚ Kofi Annan said‚” Corruption
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June 13‚ 2012 India’s Drug Problem India is a world leader in generic drug manufacturing. Their previous policies for food and pharmaceutical patents paved the way for this. Since India’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in January of 1995 there has been an increasing push for reform of India’s patent laws. While there have been reforms made to the patent laws to comply with WTO regulations‚ they contain vague and somewhat easily exploitable language. It is without question that
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power development in the country as a wholly owned company of the Government of India. Presently‚ Government of India holds 89.5% equity in the company and the balance 10.5% is held by FIIs‚ Domestic Banks‚ Public and others. NTPC is engaged in engineering‚ construction and operation of power generating plants. It also provides consultancy in the area of power plant constructions and power generation to companies in India and abroad. NTPC was among the first Public Sector Enterprises to enter into a
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It involves clearing a patch of forest land‚ but retaining useful trees and plant varieties‚ cultivating it for two to three years and then abandoning it for 10-20 years to allow the natural forest to grow back and the soil to regain its fertility. The cycle of cultivation‚ leaving it fallow and coming back to it for cultivation‚ is called the Jhum cycle. Traditionally‚ a village community owns/controls the forest land and decides on such rotational cultivation pattern. Thus the community cultivates
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Non-contributing population 11 Happiness Index 11 Seasonal factors 12 Inequality and IHDI 12 Morality and Materialism 12 Income Variation 13 HDI across States of India 13 Income Dimension 15 Education Dimension 15 Health Dimension 17 Intra-district disparity 17 Challenges to HD faced by States 17 How can we improve HDI of India? 18 Education 19 Health 19 Employment and Skills 20 How can we make HDI a better indicator of development? 21 Including Happiness Index 21 Data sources
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Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen* Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore‚ who died in 1941 at the age of eighty‚ is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence in Bangladesh and in India. His poetry as well as his novels‚ short stories‚ and essays are very widely read‚ and the songs he composed reverberate around the eastern part of India and throughout
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NATIONALISM IN INDIA TIMELINE 1914 1918 The First World War 1913 1918 The war prices increased in double 19181919 & 19201921 Crop failure 1921 Famines and the epidemic Mahatma Gandhi 1916 Mahatma Gandhi organized satyagraha movement in Champaran(Bihar) 1917 Mahatma Gandhi organized satyagraha movement in Kheda District (Gujarat) 1918 Mahatma Gandhi organized satyagraha Movement in Ahmedabad. 1919 Rowlatt Act was Passed (It gave the govt. enormous powerto represspolitical activities
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