The Passenger Reservation System of Indian Railways is a major computer application in a visible, consumer sensitive area. The involves a distributed database, spread over five host computers located in five metropolitan cities in India, and terminals located in more than 22 cities. The...

The paper examines the marketing tasks involved in case full potential of the special bearer bonds which is being introduced by the Government of India to mop up undeclared money that is accumulated in the economy. The paper examines the major attributes of the scheme and relates these to the...

Total and Post Literacy Campaigns have launched incidental processes of women’s empowerment in almost every district that witnessed this uniquely Indian innovation. However, these processes have generally tended to fade with the campaigns’ closure. This has prompted suggestions, that, if the...

The present study attempts to find out the differences on creative thinking abilities and level of alienation between the students of Arts and Science Streams. The Verbal Test of Creative Thinking and Alienation-Scale were administered on 400 boys (200 each of arts and science streams) of...

Since the mid-1990s, investors and regulators have benefited from a high degree of competition in the Indian securities industry. Even more than all the policy changes that have taken place, it is technology and competition that have transformed the Indian capital market in the last 7-8 years....

The economic reforms initiated in 1991 were broadly based on the view that the strategy of state dominated industrialisation with high protective barriers was either a mistake of has outlived its usefulness. And this strategy should now be replaced by a more market oriented, open economy...

The traditional stock valuation model incorporating growth opportunities, fails to recognise the investment opportunities constraint. As a result the conventional model fails to provide an optimum reinvestment ratio and instead provides merely a limit for the same. This note recognises the...

Land in India is problematic largely because of archaic and perverse provisions in the practice and the law. The new Land Acquisition Amendment Bill does go some way to correct the anti-democratic and imperial provisions of the old 1894 Act. Other regulatory restraints stand in the way of fair...

The new civil aviation policy may be controversial because it marks a historic shift from potential intra industry sources of foreign investment to trans industry sources (as distinct from purely financial consortia). This sets the stage for observing the unfolding of focal faculty theory in...

This study investigates the venture capital activity development process in India. The discussion covers the issues of the initiation of venture capital fund, investment strategy and evaluation criteria and the value addition by venture capital firms (VCFs). The history of modern venture capital...