Present study was undertaken to the academic stress and academic achievement motivation in relation to mental health of sighted and visual impaired students of senior secondary school. For this investigation, descriptive study was conducted, for this purpose 260 (130 visually impaired &130 sighted) respondent of class 11th or 12th were selected randomly from two govt. blind and two govt. sighted schools. Sinha, Sharma and Nagpal’s scale for measuring academic stress was used to see the magnitude of stress, Dr. T.R.Sharma’s test for measuring academic achievement motivation was used to see the magnitude of motivation and Jagdish & Srivastava’s Inventory was used to see mental health of the students. Investigator found that there is no significant relationship between academic stress, academic achievement motivation and mental health of visually impaired and sighted students. Keywords: Academic Stress, Academic Achievement Motivation, Mental Health, Sighted students, Visually Impaired Students.

The present study was carried out to study their difficulties and problems in their school environment (financial, administrable, political, spatial, lack) of facilities, poor supervision, bureaucratic role of supervising staff and discouragement etc. and in their rural area from A sample 150 teachers working in the schools of rural area of Jammu was selected randomly which hinder their effective functions as agents of social change in rural area of Jammu. The results reveal that most of the teachers are not satisfied with their present economic conditions. Further said that the economic development in the rural area of Jammu is also a reverse factor which is hindering the required social change and many social evils such as drinking and dowray is increasing day by day in rural area of Jammu.

The new trends and tryouts in education have produced corresponding innovations and new dimensions in teacher education. A model of Teaching is one of them teaching strategy arriving on the horizon of teacher education. It emerged out of the feeling that a particular method of technique may not be appropriate for achieving the multidimensional objectives. The present study was proposed to determine the relative effectiveness of Inductive Thinking Model and conventional method in teaching of physics. It was an experimental study. The effectiveness of teaching strategies has been studied in terms of students’ achievement in physics.

On 16 and 17 June 2013, heavy rains together with moraine dammed Chorabari Lake burst caused flooding of all rivers in Uttarakhand. The flash flood and landslides killed more than 6000 people. It left approximately 84000 people stranded for several days. Indian Army and its Northern Command launched one of the largest and most extensive human rescue missions launched in its history. Spread over 40,000 square kilometres, 45 helicopters were deployed to rescue the stranded. Increasing human activities are augmenting the risk of natural disasters in the ecologically sensitive region of Uttarakhand. Everywhere development has been done without a care for regulations. The economic future of the Himalaya and its people can never be secured if the already vulnerable region is made more hazard-prone. This paper aims to find out the natural and manmade causes of this disaster and emphasizes upon the need to be alert about such events in future.

The word mission means “a specific task or duty assigned to a person or group of people”. It can also refer to a person's vocation (often in the phrase’ mission in life’). Another meaning for it is “a group of persons representing or working for a particular country, business, etc, in a foreign country” or “a special embassy sent to a foreign country for a specific purpose”. Yet another definition for it is “a group of people sent by a religious body, especially a Christian church, to a foreign country to do religious and social work.”1

Early twentieth century was crucial as far as Kerala society was concerned. The period witnessed the upraising of downtrodden sections, the growth of communism and nationalism and the progress of religious-caste organizations, which favored the reformation movements in society, and the period brought significant changes in Muslim community too as in other communities. It must also be said that 20th century was a period in which the Islamic spiritual values and the fundamental principles were altered effectively to give a wider acceptance. The Muslim reformation movements that were gaining momentum in Malabar, Cochin and Travancore areas were of many characteristic features.

The word ‘tribe’ is a generic term used to identify distinct groups sharing certain characteristics. One need to be cautioned here that when we say common characteristics it does not mean identified, but characteristics identified by anthropologists with high degree of abstraction. In reality each tribal community is a word itself. They have their own distinct culture, language, political system, religion, territorial affiliation, and are self sufficient as a society. Historically they are often pitched against non tribal for controlling the resources, mainly their ancestor land. Millions of tribal perished in this process. Many more they have been absorbed into non-tribal society, there by permanently losing their tribal characteristics. Presently the ethnic conflicts, incessant wars, conflict induced famines, development process and land hungry non-tribal are displacing the tribal freedom their ancestor land.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an economic and geopolitical cooperation among eight member nations that are primarily located in South Asia continent. Its secretariat is headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal. The SAARC policies aim to promote welfare economics, collective self-reliance among the countries of South Asia, and to accelerate socio-cultural development in the region. The SAARC has developed a role in external relations around the world. The study entitled ‘a study on trends in India’s merchandise trade with SAARC nations’ highlights India’s merchandise trade relationship with SAARC at large and with each members of the trade bloc in particular. The study has objectives like to find out trends in India’s Export and import in general and particular, to find out growth rate in export and import, to know India’s trade balance with SAARC nations, to know share of export and import in SAARC, etc. The study period was 2001-02 to 2013-14 (April-March). Study primarily depend upon secondary data in which data obtained from ministry of commerce and industry, government of India, RBI publications, World Bank Development report, ADB working papers and report, etc. Data compiled, analysed and interpreted for the purpose and is found out that India has a prominent role in outh Asia and India’s biggest trade partners are Bangladesh and srilanka. It also concluded that India has alwayspositive trade balance with SAARC nations growth rate in export and import is increasing even it is slow. In India’s world trade, SAARC constitute around 5% in export and around 0.5% in import. The study has neither separately analysed the trends in trade after the introduction of SAPTA/SAFTA nor it focused on a single or particular country, rather it is a general study based on secondary data.

“I believe that we have a lot to learn from Bhutan," the Ex P.M. of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh said while welcoming Bhutan Prime Minister Jigme Y Thinley, who delivered the fourth Prof. Hiren Mukerjee Memorial Annual Parliamentary Lecture on "Gross National Happiness: A Holistic Paradigm for Sustainable Development" on December – 21st , 2011, in New Delhi. The lecture was peppered with Bhutan's success story on measuring the happiness of its people. "Fifty two per cent of Bhutan citizens are happy while 45 per cent are very happy. Only 3 per cent are not very happy," he said. The tiny nation has a big lesson to teach a development hungry nation. Mighty India should learn anything from little Bhutan?

Corporate Governance is concerned with the systems and processes for ensuring proper accountability, probity and openness in the conduct of an organization’s business. Thus, it is the process under which the organizations try to hold the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals. The basic aim of Corporate Governance is to align as nearly as possible the interests of individuals, corporations and society. Banks have an overwhelmingly dominant position in developing the economy s financial system, and are extremely important engines of growth. Despite the differences between co-operative banks in the different countries, all networks share one common and defining feature – member ownership. The cooperative banks are effectively owned and controlled by their local customers through the membership concept. Corporate governance in banks has assumed importance in India post-1991 reforms because competition compelled banks to improve their performance. Due to these core values and corporate governance rules, cooperative banks were not at the root of the crisis and have shown to be more resilient during the crisis. With core values and corporate governance model of cooperative banks in mind, the importance of corporate governance is much greater than is considered at present. This paper reviews the existing codes of Corporate Governance (CG) in India. It uses secondary data for analyzing the adaptability of CG codes in the Indian context. The data were collected through various published and unpublished reports and websites. The paper reviews, what is conveniently forgotten is the pathetic troubles of a large number of bank depositors caused by a series of failures of urban co-operative banks (UCBs) year after year. During first ten months of the current year, ten urban cooperative banks death causing untold hardship to a large number of bank depositors, who are virtually left high and dry for no fault of theirs.

Modern world is a world of technological revolution. As every revolution reflects each aspect of human life and affects it immensely, it is needless to say that education has also been influenced by these technological advances. In today’s world, the transmission of information and explosion of knowledge is very fast. In the new millennium Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has emerged as the driving force which has affected every sphere of human life. The paradigm will be shifted to advanced technology information society, industrial society, long term planning, creative learning and decentralization from traditional educational system. Hence, it is very urgent to take immediate steps to make the education more useful and relevant. Present paper, using theoretical data, empirically analyses the use of ICT in education particularly in teacher education sphere.

There are a large number of theories in management on the subject of Motivation. This management concept of human motivation requires „someone‟ to motivate. In day-to-day life what motivates us? The conventional necessities like food, clothing, shelter or most of the times….the feel of „show must go on‟, that is, just one more day to go. The workers and staff members in any organization after satisfying financial needs like wages, salaries, bonus, overtime, allowances etc. like to have something called non-financial motivation in the form of rewards, awards, recognition and acceptance from others.