Volume 14 | Issue 2 |

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Despite having 16% of the world's population, India only possesses 4% of the world's rapidly diminishing water resources. It is anticipated that the present water consumption will increase from 40 billion cubic meters (bcm) to around 220 bcm by 2025. One of the most crucial inputs for crops is water. Its abundance and scarcity have an impact on plant growth and development, yields, and output quality. There are several ways to increase soil moisture and lessen these losses. These include mulching, cropping, tree planting, contour farming, using net-surfacing traps or polythene sheets to capture fog or dew, connecting water systems via canals to move water from areas with excess water to areas with deficit water, desalination technologies like distillation, electro-dialysis, and reverse osmosis, and using efficient watering systems like sprinklers and drip irrigation to cut down on plant water consumption. Changing people's attitudes and behaviours, including our own, is the most crucial stage in the process of finding answers to water and environmental conservation concerns.

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Water, conservation, technology, Rainwater-harvest, drip-irrigation

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This study aims to examine the influence of financial literacy on investment decisions of Gen Z investors and the mediating role of narrative bias in these decisions. Gen Z investors are increasingly becoming engaged in financial markets, but their decisions often do not correlate with their financial literacy, which raises questions about the behavioural determinants driving their decisions. The data were collected from 267 Gen-Z investors using a structured questionnaire. The study analysed the data using the process macro of IBM SPSS to explore the mediating role of narrative bias. The questionnaire was reviewed and tested to make sure it was accurate and reliable before analysing the relationship between the variables. The study finds that narrative bias mediates the relationship between investment decisions and financial literacy among Gen Z. Therefore, it is essential that investors not only focus on financial literacy but also protect themselves against the effects of narrative bias. The results help financial advisors and wealth managers to use strong narratives to protect the clients from falling into the trap of market myths. This result provides policymakers with guidelines to closely monitor the narrative bias created by financial influencers and the media, thereby enhancing investors' protection and confidence.

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Financial behaviour, financial literacy, Gen Z, investment decisions, investors, narrative bias.

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Natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, cyclones, landslides, and wildfires can cause serious damage to people and property, and during such times, getting the right information quickly is very important. However, information is often scattered across news, social media, government websites, sensors, and satellite reports, which can delay rescue and emergency actions. To solve this issue, this research proposes a Real-Time Disaster Information Aggregation Software that collects data from different sources and brings it together in one system. The software filters and organizes the information, identifies the type of disaster, and highlights the most important alerts using data analysis and machine learning techniques. It also provides real-time notifications, risk analysis, and an interactive map so that communities, emergency teams, and authorities can understand the situation clearly and take faster, better decisions during emergencies.

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Disaster Management, Real-Time Monitoring, Emergency Response.

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Inclusion means the policy or practices of ensuring that all individuals in our society has access to resource and opportunities. Inclusion is necessity for all educational sectors. From the past years to present situations many committees, commission, policies have recommended inclusive education for all children. In the educational context, Inclusive education system means where the educational policy of placing children with special needs, physical or mental disabilities in mainstreaming classroom and providing them with their suitable atmosphere. On 29th July, 2020 Union Cabinet of India was approved the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) for outlines the vision of new education system of our country. The policy is a comprehensive framework for primary level to higher educational level as well as vocational training cum education in both rural and urban India. Major aim of the policy is to transform India's education system by 2040. NEP 2020 shows that inclusion as a part of the various reforms of the ongoing education system, which aims to create learning environments that are sensible for all learner needs, conductive to successful educational outcomes and ultimately to a more equitable society. In this paper tries to focus the implementation strategies for inclusive education in the light of recommendations given by NEP 2020.

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Inclusion, Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Vocational Training, Equitable Society

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In the twenty-first century, disability studies in India have become an expanding genre. Additionally, this is the era in which Indians with disabilities are coming up with their life-narratives. However, the twentieth century did not witness such kind of spread. Yet this was the time when HPS Ahluwalia, a person with spinal injury, was coming up with his life narrative. Thus, the second half of the twentieth century is the time in India when persons with disabilities have just started controlling their images by appearing with their narratives. The disability of the author was produced by the Indo-Pak War of 1965, resulting in his spinal injury. The author's experience of "severe handicap" has called for a "story" as G. Thomas Couser points out that the "normal body" can pass without any explanation, but the deviant body calls for a narrative. Being a person who has served in the Indian army, successfully climbed up Mt. Everest, and always remained an epitome of the ultimately successful, masculine, desirable male figure by society, it becomes a challenge for him to accept the fact that he would never be a "whole man" again. John M. Kinder suggests that in many circumstances disabled veterans are expected to be hopeful about their recovery and steadfast in their belief. It was the author's life before impairment when he explored so much physically and had been trained in a particular way that kept on igniting a deep passion even after his impairment. This paper intends to explore Ahluwalia's text Higher Than Everest: Memoirs of a Mountaineer (1973) in the light of Marilynn J. Phillip's idea of four stages of development in the transformational process of disability experience that are: i) marginalization ii) retreat iii) renegotiation iv) emergence. It will make an effort to investigate whether and how these four stages are being organized and presented in the narrative of a disabled veteran in late twentieth-century India.

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disability studies, life-narratives, impairment, masculine, disabled veterans, marginalization

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India United Kingdom relations have undergone substantive tramsformation in 21st century, shifting from historically burdened post colonial association to a multidimensional partnership grounded in shared democratic values ,converging strategic interests and evolving economic interdependence.This paper takes on a thematic structure to analsyse India UK ties across political ,diplomatic ,economic ,defence, security,climate, knowledge diplomacy ,people to people dimensions.The relevance of bilateral relations for both nations amid changing global order marked by multipolarity and on going reconfiguration of global governance.It argues that while both states have articulated ambitious framework such as the Roadmap 2030 and India UK Vision 2035,progress remains uneven, strained by negotiation frictions, domestic politics and divergent geopolitical imperatives .Nonetheless , the partnership possess significant structural -especially in trade, research & education, technology and climate action that can support their emergence as mutually reinforcing powers.

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India-UK relations , strategic partnership , economic cooperation,defence and security , people to people ties ,global governance.

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ABSTRACT: Corruption is no longer limited to politics or the administrative sphere; rather, digital deception has gradually become a silent disease of the digital society. In today's technology-dependent society, corruption has also become digitalized due to the rapid development of information technology and the continuous spread of the internet. Social media has gained immense popularity among people in the past few decades. Just as social media has brought the distant world closer to us and has expanded communication, the authenticity or transparency of this communication is constantly facing challenges. People sometimes share various personal information related to their daily lives on social media. Some unscrupulous people use that information for their own benefit and try to trap innocent people for exploitation. Despite the various positive aspects of social media, it has emerged as a culture of digital corruption today. Nowadays, rather than the traditional forms of corruption, fake profiles, page reviews, fake followers, views, or likes on social media are used to distort the authenticity and transparency of information and present it to the people through all these processes. As a result, the question arises as to how the standards of authenticity, morality, and trust can be reconstructed in this era of digitalization. The overall objectives of this research are: (1) To analyze the different forms and nature of corruption on social media platforms and to explore how it is conducted. (2) To identify how personal and social credibility is damaged as a result of these corruptions. (3) To understand the socio-economic and moral impact of this corruption. (4) To provide recommendations for establishing digital ethics and transparency. The study adopts an analytical research methodology and is primarily based on secondary sources such as official documents, scholarly articles, and policy papers. The findings will contribute to a deeper understanding of these questions so that ethical transparency and social accountability can be ensured in digital policymaking in the future.

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Key words: Corruption, Digital Deception, Social Media, Ethical transparency, Policy-making.

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This study focuses on the work-life combination of conservancy workers in Coimbatore corporation. Conservancy workers contribute markedly to the public health and urban cleanliness, even though they face lots of challenges such as long working hours, low wages, occupational health risks, and limited social recognition. The primary objective of the study is to analyses the factors affecting their work-life balance and job satisfaction. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire under the scheduling method and cluster sampling method is used in this study. Data were collected from the 103 respondents in Coimbatore. Statistical tools such as percentage analysis, rank analysis, Chi-square test, and one way ANOVA were applied for data analysis. The findings indicates that variables like age, income, and employment status significantly influencing their work-life balance. Even though certain welfare measures are implemented by the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation, gaps remain in effective implementation. The study suggests improvements in wages, health benefits, job security, and working conditions to enhance their overall well-being.

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Conservancy workers, Coimbatore corporation, Work life balance, working conditions, welfare measures.

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Background of the study: Even though social media is an integral part of college students' lives, there are still no exclusive studies made to examine the intensity of social media use in college students' daily lives. Hence, the current study focused on measuring college students' social media use in their daily lives. Objectives of the study: The present study aims to measure the intensity of social media use among the college students; the study also pinpoints the determinants of the intensity of social media use. Methods: The study is cross-sectional in nature along with the descriptive research design. To analyse the quantitative data, SPSS software was used. To measure the intensity of social media use, a social media use scale was adopted, along with a socio-economic demographic profile. Findings and conclusion: in the study, the researcher found that more than half of the respondents have a moderate level of social media use. The study concluded that age, gender, family type, residence, and duration of social media use were significantly associated with social media intensity. The study concludes that the socio-economic demographic variables influence the intensity of social media use.

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Social media intensity, socio-economic, college students and determinants

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Light Intensity Measurement and Energy Harvesting System is developed to monitor environmental light conditions in real time while simultaneously harvesting solar energy for sustainable power generation. The system integrates a light intensity sensor with a Wi-Fi enabled microcontroller to measure and process ambient light levels in lux units. A solar panel is incorporated to capture renewable energy, which is regulated using a charge controller and stored in a rechargeable battery. The harvested energy can power low-power IoT devices, making the system self-sustaining and energy-efficient. The measured light intensity data is transmitted to the ThingSpeak cloud platform through Wi-Fi connectivity for real-time monitoring, graphical visualization, and analysis. ThingSpeak enables users to remotely access sensor data, observe variations in light intensity, and evaluate solar energy generation efficiency via web dashboards. The integration of IoT technology with renewable energy harvesting enhances system scalability, reliability, and intelligent decision-making capabilities. This work provides a cost-effective and eco-friendly solution suitable for smart agriculture, smart street lighting, solar tracking systems, environmental monitoring, and smart city applications. By combining real-time sensing, cloud-based analytics, and sustainable energy utilization, the proposed system contributes to modern green energy management and IoT-enabled automation technologies.

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Energy Harvesting, IoT and ThingSpeak Integration, Light Intensity Measurement, and System Advantages

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