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The BPO industry in India has become a growth engine for the economy. It has achieved staggering growth in the last 10 years of its operation, adding 5 million jobs and USD 15 billion in its revenue. 5 million jobs naturally imply that 5 million people are working in some capacity or the other for the industry. This makes the job of HR all the more demanding, and important. Human resource is responsible not just for procuring the right kind of people for the right jobs, it also makes sure that these people stay with the company, and, during their stay contribute optimally to the company’s development. Although, in a BPO, it is relatively simple to lay down the technical qualifications of the job, the channel through which people with such qualification can come to the company, and the manner in which these aspirants can be evaluated. The high attrition rate in the industry is primarily due to the restricted career options or growth opportunities for the youngsters. Fear of stagnation is a major factor that forces the employees to quit the industry. While some leave their career mid-way in pursuit of higher education, others are drawn in by the higher pay packages offered elsewhere. The new entrants into the BPO sector, who are consistently on the lookout for trained youngsters, offer higher remuneration. With the employees moving to other jobs in less than a year, the industry has to confront the gnawing problem of attrition.

In order to meet the growing food demand, use of pesticides is a common feature in agriculture now a day but extensive use of pesticide has resulted in global contamination of the environment. Imidacloprid is one of the major representatives of the new generation of neonicotinoid insecticides. The objective of current study is to examine the hematological parameters and developmental defects after exposure of imidacloprid in chick embryos. Present study was carried out on 300 fertile eggs of white leghorn chicken. Imidacloprid exposure increases the risks of developmental defects and mild toxic effects on hematological parameters in chick embryos.

Salinity is one of the major stresses in arid and semi-arid regions causing adverse effects at physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels, limiting crop productivity. In this research, three canola cultivars (Licord, Talayeh, Zarfam) were compared at 5 salinity levels (control, 50, 100, 150 and 200 mM) for their catalase, guaiacol peroxidase, superoxide dismutase activity,proline and yield in a completely randomized design with 3 replications. In our study, we found that NaCl concentrations greater than 150 and 200 mM caused the irreversible disorders. Increased salt concentrations led to significant changes in the levels of antioxidative enzymes and proline in three canola cultivars. Also, yield rates in three varieties decreased in the presence of NaCl concentrations.

This paper focussed on Federal character principle which was introduced into the Nigeria political and administrative system because of the multi-ethnic nature of the Nigeria Federation, so as to promote fair-ness among different ethnic nationalities in the equitable distribution of resources like employment, appointment, and election to any public position to promote national loyalty and encourage national development. A review of the contributions of federal character to national development in Nigeria since its inception in 1979 till date entails that the desired objective have not been achieved. It then becomes clear that federal character is now more of a curse than a blessing to Nigeria and Nigerians because; it has damage the principle of excellence, it discourages determination and zeal for national development, it undermines standard and professionalism, it encouraged liquidation of many industries, it invaded the integrity and standard of public bureaucracy and its purely an elites policy. Based on the above findings, some recommendations were made as prerequisite to national development in Nigeria.

The growth of complexity of the business environment in which firms operate, calls for more effective tools, able to consider the effect of the strategic choices of the actors of the market and to supply information useful for managerial decision process. Game theory seems to be an ideal candidate for this scope. Nevertheless, because of its axiomatic approach, its validity to highlight and define marketing issues has many critics. This paper analyses the main literature about the use of game theory for marketing management decisions and highlights its limits in this field in order to answer to the question: Can game theory be an effective marketing tool?

ABSTRACT In this paper induction motor speed controlling using FOC with genetic algorithm tuned hybrid PID plus fuzzy controller is discussed. Tuning of PID plus fuzzy speed controller by GA improves static and dynamic performance of FOCIM. Nonlinear induction motor modeling is modeled as linear model for optimization of controller gains. Matlab/Simulink based simulations are carried out with different cases to check efficiency of proposed controller. These results are compared with conventional trial and error method to check improvement in peak overshoot and response time. Keywords: FOCIM (Field Oriented Control Induction Motor), Genetic Algorithm, Fuzzy, mutation, crossover.

Green Banking means combination of operational improvements, technology and changing client habits in banking business. Adopting green banking is not only useful for environment but also benefits in greater operational efficiency. This paper analyzes the evolution of green banking concepts in India, its necessity and significance. It also highlights the major benefits and challenges of Green Banking. Banks should go green and play a pro-active role in India’s emerging economy. This paper has also presented the status of Indian Banks as far as Green banking adoption is concerned. It also highlights the green banking initiatives been taken by the Indian Banking Industry. It gives a detailed study on the findings that there have not been many initiatives in this regard by banks and financial institutions in India though they play an active role in India’s emerging economy. The objective of this study is to find out what initiative has been taken by the Indian Banking Industry to adopt Green Banking. This article also presents the to find out different ways to overcome such hindrances. Observational method and descriptive research design has been adopted for this research and secondary data has been chosen for the research.

Diglycine hydrobromide an intriguing material for frequency conversion has been grown by slow evaporation solution growth technique at room temperature. Their structural, optical and physicochemical properties were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction and UV-Vis spectra. The title crystal has found to crystallize into noncentrosymmetric orthorhombic P212121 space group. The material has a wide transparency in the entire visible region. It is found that the cutoff wavelength lies in the UV region. The dielectric studies were carried out using the instrument, N4L LCR meter. The compound is a prospective crystalline material for second order nonlinear optical application.

Although it is loudly pronounced that the world has become global village but there can be seen a huge gulf among the poor and rich countries particularly in education, The tertiary average enrolment, percentage of GDP for education, literacy rate of youth, pupil teacher ratio and number of universities were selected as criterion to analyse the ratio among these factors which painted a gloomy picture. The data has been collected by various official web sites of the relevant countries and from the World Bank Reports, UNESCO Institute of Statistics. The findings show that there is a big gap in all of the indicators. Particularly tertiary regional average enrolment, GDP spent on education ,literacy rate among youth, research publication per year, number of PhDs produced yearly, teachers students ratio and number of universities public and private both are included. It is recommended that the technology and skills should be transferred to these comparatively less developed countries along with financial assistance. The regional conflicts and tension and the factors that cause hindrance in development of education must be removed by joint efforts of both of these countries. They have already contributed reasonably in the development process but it needs to be precise and education oriented.

The Indian higher education system is the third largest in the world, after China and the United States. There has been an exceptional growth in number of universities, colleges as well as enrolment in higher education system particularly during last 15 years. The ratio of professional to non-professional enrolment has been almost 1:3. Key challenge before higher education system in India is to make it relevant and purposive, so that it responds to societal needs and enables students to get meaningful employment opportunities. The areas in which there is a need to come out with policy perspective at macro level and innovations at institutional level are - Quality and Excellence, Equity and Access & Inclusion. There is a dire need for the teaching community to keep coming out with innovations in teaching-learning process, in particular in the areas of curricula, pedagogy, and assessment which should make learning an enjoyable experience and more and more purposive to the societal needs. This paper attempts to identify specific areas of innovations in higher education system to improve the quality of higher education, so as to make it relevant and purposive to societal needs. The strategy to innovate has to take care of local and global dimensions of multiple sources of learning such as – networked learning, life-long learning, world class learning with local and international perspective. Above all, higher learning has to imbibe a framework of flexibility by introducing a modular structure which can be taken as per the desired pace of understanding of the student, implying a possibility of completing the degree programme in shorter or longer duration and a choice-based learning that allows the student to opt for interdisciplinary courses of his liking and interest as a part and parcel of curricula to complete his degree programme.