The availability of conventional medical services (i.e., allopathy) is the basic need for a modern day living. Though this clause is easily met in the developed countries, but in the developing countries it is very difficult to accomplish. Hence in the developing countries a dearth is often...

In 1993, the government of India introduced a parallel marketing system for petroleum products, particularly for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). LPG, under the parallel marketing system, is distributed at higher price without any subsidy. The government distributors, however, distribute LPG at...

In accordance with the long-term policy objectives of the government of India for rural electrification, an off-grid woodfuel-based power plant for generation of grid quality electricity has been installed in a remote island of West Bengal. The present study focuses on technical performance of...

In a social system a sustainable coexistence is difficult to attain without generous interactions among its members. Generous interactions or generosity is liberality in spirit or act. Several studies have tried to find out some possible causes of generosity. Interestingly, some studies have...

A regret analysis has been carried out in this article to show why more risk-averse people are more religious. By regret here we mean avoidable cost or opportunity cost. Some interesting results have been found. It has been observed that the regret for not worshipping God when bad fortune...