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Present paper conducts a meta-analysis of the innovation features that influence the intention to use and adoption of information technology (IT) innovation in the organizations. Previous studies that assessed the influence of innovation features on intention to use and adoption have found inconsistent results and thus created confusion among academicians and practitioners. Present study consolidates the findings of previous studies using meta-analysis to reveal the key factors behind organiz...

The establishment of regional groupings has become increasingly common, especially amongst developing countries. The formation of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in 1985 ushered in the era of institutionalized regionalism in South Asia. However, as a regional institution the SAARC has yet to fully achieve its objectives after three decades of its establishment. This raises the question: why has regionalism in the South Asian region under the SAARC framework failed...

For centuries, Greece and Turkey have been unable to come to terms with each other. Due to the territorial and maritime claims and disagreements over them. This has caused both countries to fly military aircrafts and jets with mandates to violate the airspaces. Furthermore, the Aegean Sea has witnessed Greek and Turkish warships collide with each other during a standoff. In the current climate, things are heating, and tensions are rising. Lawmakers in Athens are pushing to expand their Territ...

Antarctica, one of the world’s last great wildernesses, presents special challenges for international law. Fears that Antarctica would become a front in the Cold War catalysed agreement on the 1959 Antarctic Treaty which neither legitimised nor challenged the existing sovereign claims to the continent

Exactly five years ago, there were fears that Russian ships were mandated to sever, and/or, wire-tap undersea data cables. This would have enabled Russian intelligence access to 97% of the world’s communication.

Administrative decentralization has led to a vast improvement in the delivery of healthcare in Nepal. This is one district’s story.

According to a recent report, India’s energy consumption will rise by 156 per cent between 2017 and 2040. India generates more than 80 per cent of its energy from fossil fuels. These fuels - coal, oil and gas - create major greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, causing air pollution, health hazards and harsh climate impacts.

It took an initiative by Nepal's supreme court to force the government on laws for climate protection.

Even if the Kerala government was required to participate in the auction, the stipulation that the state’s bid had to be ‘within 10% below the range of highest bid’ was against the spirit of RoFR. There should have been a right-to-match, as there is in the IPL.

Popular for his contributions in framing of India's Constitution, this aspect of Ambedkar's life has generally been ignored. In the compilation of his writings published by Government of Maharashtra (2008), Gangadhar Pantawane has aptly remarked, "even after the well-crafted journalistic creation by Babasaheb Ambedkar, nobody has recognised him as 'Patrakar Ambedkar'" (p.2; roughly translated from Marathi).

The NSO recently released a report based on an all-India survey conducted in 2017-18. The survey shows that only 10.6% of the Indian population aged above 15 years has successfully completed a graduate degree. This proportion is only 5.7% in rural India and is 8.3% among women. The proportion of graduates in the same age group was 8.2% as per the 2011 Census.

In this edited volume, the recipe for a southern model of research excellence is quite simple: combine international quality with social vocation in equal parts. However, the noteworthy message of this work is that social vocation – or, simply put, creating knowledge that is useful in the local context – must precede, indeed, may be a precondition to, the pursuit of international quality.

Society survived a ‘grand collapse’ at the end of modernity that has had it transforming to postmodern conditions. The grand collapse was, arguably, a collapse of human imagination, causing a fall of everything society held dear, and quite opportunely, it was also a collapse of all that it despised. Of all that which collapsed, what has social imagination going kaput was the collapse of time, to be precisely, it was the collapse of the sense of time the social subject of the modernist societ...

In India, abortion has been allowed in limited circumstances since the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act 1971 was passed, creating an exception to the offence of abortion under the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The law’s primary purpose was population control and family planning1 and it lacks a rights-based framework. The law is doctor-centric and over-medicalises abortion, stripping pregnant persons of their right to bodily and decisional autonomy and vesting the decision to abort with t...

In India, urban refugees sit within a legal vacuum and often struggle to make ends meet in the socio-economic periphery. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and its implementing partners have focused on supporting refugees to achieve a level of self-reliance, primarily through market-based livelihood interventions. However, refugee lives in India’s cities continue to be characterized by economic insecurity, exploitation and marginalization. This article explores the limitations ...

This paper analyses how everyday life, the state and nationhood are regulated and organised in a conflict-affected borderland space through economic activities. It focuses on two elements that are often overlooked when scholars discuss spatial governmentality: tourism and trade. Both are commonly declared to be elements of peace, peacebuilding and cosmopolitism. However, the spatial governance of tourism and trade can also profoundly shape how national belonging and the limits of territory ar...

Smart card based user server mutual authentication framework is famous for safe communication via unfavorable and insecure communication system. The authenticated user and server communicate to each other and share information via Internet. Recently, Wang et al. suggested a lightweight password-assisted two factor authentication framework using smart card. We reviewed their scheme and observed that it does maintain security and privacy off-line password guessing attack and also impersonation ...

This article examines how efforts at legal legibility acquisition by gender diverse litigants result in problematic (e.g., narratives counter to self-identity) and, at times, erroneous discourses on sex and gender that homogenize the litigants themselves. When gender diverse persons approach the court with a rights claim, the narrative they present must necessarily limit itself to a normative discourse that the court may understand and, therefore, engage with. Consequently, the everyday lived...