This paper presents a small exploration of the problem faced by visually impaired college students in academic information seeking and library use in India. In-depth telephonic interviews were conducted with fifteen visually impaired undergraduate and post graduate students across the country. Initial findings reveal that academic libraries of their institutions used by participants hardly catered to their academic needs and those visually impaired students, when looking for information and materials for academic purposes, rely most often on interpersonal network and the Internet. The preferred format for this specific user group is not the Braille, but electronic document. The assistive technologies play important role in their academic experiences. Overall, they face barriers in the form of time-constraints, lack of independence and lack of accommodative attitude of teaching and non teaching faculty and limited access to electronic materials and clear print documents which can be read by the visually impaired students if equipped with adequate technological support. The authors also give suggestions to make library services accessible for these students.

This paper presents the barriers in using library services by Divyang students in Indian higher education and suggests some majors for improving the library services for these students.

Virtualization has become a very popular research topic in recent years. Virtualization is used in varied applications such as e-Learning, business-to-business communication, social networking, computer simulation and enterprise development. Virtualization provides many benefits like greater efficiency in CPU utilization, greener IT with less power consumption, better management through central environment control, more availability, reduced project timelines by eliminating hardware procurement, improved disaster recovery capability, more central control of the desktop, and improved outsourcing services. These advances are due to the availability of high-speed computers, fiber-optic-enabled internet connections and advanced virtualization programs. However, only a very small amount of research has been conducted, most especially on the performance of virtualization programs. Thus little is known about the performance of the various virtualization programs such as VMware Workstation and Amazon Web Services. When dealing with virtualization, performance is of primary importance. This study opens a new path for research in the area related to performance of virtualization programs. The conclusion explores possible directions for future research on the performance of virtualization programs. Findings of this study may help businesses to select appropriate virtualization program as part of their information technology infrastructure and thereby benefit from using virtualization technology.

Banks are one of the important professional institutions that interact with the masses and hold a unique & intermediary position in the economy. It influences the economic development of the country both in terms of Quality and Quantity. As in today's era needs and perception of customers are changing and other challenges too, the old way of doing banking is no more successful. India's banking system has seen some major financial innovations in the past decades which lead to tremendous improvements in banking services and operations such as ATM banking, NEFT,RTGS, IMPS, Online and Mobile banking. There is a further lot more scope to go forward The objective of this paper is to find out the benefits and challenges of technology driven banking trends and to study how innovations have contributed to the development of Indian Banking. The necessitate of this millennium is to devise such a system that encourages the efficiency of investment, focus on future sustainability and can provide better customer service which leads towards satisfaction. The paper concludes by focusing on the current challenges, opportunities and future trends and scope of Innovative practices by Indian banking sector.

The present age is the age of rapid change of competitions. Meditation is an art which connects our soul, mind, and body together. It makes us strong, flexible, peaceful and healthy personality. In country like India where people have so much stress and are fatigue, Meditation is very necessary. It makes us fit and healthy. A healthy mind can do everything. These days, people don’t have time for meditation due to their daily tasks, work, and stressful life. Maintaining a good health is much important than growing financially because without health you cannot work and without working you cannot earn. The study originally was intended to determine the affect of meditation on blood pressure and benefit of meditation for young people and Students with high blood pressure, stress, anxiety seems to become lower side. The results were emphatic and clearly demonstrated that meditation significantly reduced blood pressure in all situations.

In each and every aspect of business “Go Green” mantra has become relevant in the environment friendly society. Green Banking ensures environment friendly practices in banking sector and reducing internal carbon foot prints and external carbon emission. This paper makes an attempt to understand and examine “Green Banking” and its role toward sustainable development. It elicits the various initiatives taken by the Indian Bank industry to protect the natural environment and brings about sustainable development in the society. It aims to highlight the means to create awareness in internal as well as external subsystem among target groups and enumerate effective methods for green banking and impart education to attain sustainable development through green banking.

Due to climate change in India, the safety and sustainability of the tribal communities living aside Eastern Coasts are exposed to vulnerability. This demands a universal appeal from all corners of the life. To this, Amitav Ghosh employs fiction, as the best suited of all forms, to serve as a powerful weapon. In addition to this, Ghosh questions the elimination of climate consciousness as a genre in Indian Literature. The paper is written in an investigative mode, analyzing his concern regarding concealment of the truth in the realist mode of fiction, which becomes another reason for individuals’ ignorance towards it. The relationship between the literature and the physical environment is thought to be encouraged in such a way that the idea to preserve one’ environment becomes an implicit goal. Discussion on various issues ranging from one’s incapability to address the climate change, to the right kind of literature, has been tackled within the scope of a paper, yet the response to the climate derangement still remains unanswered. What is that which can help realize the humankind the objective of social commitment, is the sole purpose of the debate.

Economic reforms started in 1991 in India, but in agriculture sector new economic policy initiated after some years. There have been a rising trend in foodgrains production and productivity. But slow growth rate in foodgrains production and productivity. There were almost stagnant in increase in area under foodgrains cultivation. There are high potential in foodgrains productivity enhancement.

Economic reforms started in 1991 in India, but in agriculture sector new economic policy initiated after some years. There have been a rising trend in foodgrains production and productivity. But slow growth rate in foodgrains production and productivity. There were almost stagnant in increase in area under foodgrains cultivation. There are high potential in foodgrains productivity enhancement.

Education plays a very important role in human life because education works to guide man Education works to lead man from darkness to light Education is the art of living life  Education makes a person blossom like a flower and spreads the fragrance of his achievements everywhere.  There are various problems while developing this ability

Lithium ferrite powder was synthesized by a novel polyol method. The X-ray diffraction results indicate that the synthesized nanocrystalline lithium ferrite have only spinel structure without the presence of other phase impurities. FT-IR data indicates two strong bands observed in spectrum which is well matched with spinel structure. The morphology and particle size of the spinel ferrite powder, as revealed by SEM analysis. It shows that the Li0.5Fe2.5O4 sample contain uniform and homogenous particles. The electrical behavior clearly indicates that the present ferrite have semiconductor like nature. Thermoelectric power measurement also confirms n-type semiconducting nature of lithium ferrite. A room temperature magnetization result shows a ferromagnetic behavior of the lithium ferrite. The present work describes the structural, electrical and magnetic properties of lithium ferrite

Electricity plays a vital role in the development of agriculture sector as well as rural economy. It is one of the basic infrastructure facilities necessary for changing rural life. Electricity plays an essential role in the shifting cropping pattern and increasing agricultural production and productivity. Electrification has helped in changing the agrarian economy in a significant manner. Electricity brings about a change in cropping pattern also. Farmers can shift crops from low value to high value, which in turn helps to increase in the level of output and income also. Generally, development of a country depends upon rural development and it mostly depends on agricultural development. In recent year, modern agriculture requires electric power to make use of modern technology. In most of the cases for the purpose of irrigation, electric pumps are being used, instead of manpower, animal power and diesel engine. Therefore, electricity is more convenient as compared to the other sources. Use of electricity leads to expansion of irrigated area and ultimately it leads to more output and more employment opportunities. The use of electricity brings about changes in entertainment facilities like radio, television, which are quite effective media for educating masses.

An efficient method has been described for the synthesis of 1,8-naphthyridine derivatives. A reaction of 2-amino pyridine, malononitrile and aromatic aldehydes was carried out in presence of lanthanum chloride as catalyst at room temperature to produce ,8-naphthyridines. The short reaction time, mild reaction condition and excellent yield are the remarkable features of this method.

The climate of India is seasonal due to the unique natural structure of India.  India has three seasons namely summer, winter and monsoon.  Among them, in India, it rains from June to September from southwest monsoon winds.  However, due to the irregular and wavelike nature of this rain, severe drought often occurs in Maharashtra along with many other states in India.  Maharashtra government had to declare drought in 2002-03 in 11 districts of Maharashtra due to very low rainfall.  71 talukas in Solapur, Sangli, Satara, Pune, Ahmednagar, Nashik, Beed, Osmanabad, Aurangabad, Latur, Jalna districts were affected by drought.  Water storage in drought-prone areas has decreased.  It had an adverse effect on crop composition.  Also there is a decrease in production per hectare.