Essays on Bharat

India

India is located in Southern Asia and has Bay of Bengal in East, Arabian Sea in West, Himalayas in the North, and Indian Ocean in the South. The population of India in 2016 reached 1.32 billion, making it the second most populous country in the world (Worldometers). Primary crops produced in India are rice, wheat, millets, maize, pulses, sugarcane, groundnut, tea, coffee, rubber, cotton, and jute. The top industries of India are textile, tourism, chemical, engineering & machinery, transportation, IT & ITES, banking & insurance, real estate, agriculture, and retail and wholesale (Rawat). The per capita income of India in FY 2015-16 ...

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The total number of patients with cancer keeps soaring globally with around 14 million cases diagnosed by 2014. Each year, about 8 million people die of cancer-related illnesses globally. There are quite some remedies that have been proposed to mitigate in the cancer menace. This study is focused on cancer treatment by curcumin through tyrosine kinase inhibition. Curcumin is the primary coloring agent found in turmeric, a tuber of the herb Curcuma longa Lin. It has widespread use as a flavoring agent (Aggarwal and Bokyung 87). It is also well known for its medicinal value commonly used to suppress ...

Bharat Petroleum and Corporation Limited, a fortune 500 Indian company, was primarily a refining and marketing company. On April 2010, the company’s chairman, Mr. Ashok Sinha, contemplated the company’s corporate strategy for the next five years. Its previous corporate strategy, which primarily consisted of diversifying into exploration and production (E&P), was a huge success. He had the following questions in mind for the proposed strategy: Let us look at those questions and analyse plus evaluate them with reference to the case and facts-figures.

Sustain the pace in E&P or wait for more results?

The success ratios in E&P were such that 100 contracts resulted in one producing well. But in ...

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Religion plays a central role in the lives of human beings and countless artworks have been founded on the theme of religion. Most artworks from ancient and even modern-day South Asia are founded on the theme of religion. These artworks range from sculptures and paintings of religious figures to buildings that have been used since ancient days as temples. Religious buildings and gods are two aspects that are central to the founding of any religion and hence the selection of artworks depicting these two aspects of religion. The artworks presented in this exhibition are famous iconic representations of gods, temples ...