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Changing Framework of Local Governance and Community Participation in Elementary Education in India [PDF]

, 2010
In recent years, strengthening and better functioning of local governance have become prime concerns of educational reform agenda. Establishment of effective local governance has been part of overall changes in educational governance for several years in
Bandyopadhyay, Madhumita, Govinda, R
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Severity of Betel Quid Use Disorders (BUD) Among Adult Indian Betel Quid Chewers

Oral Diseases, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Oral cancer is a major public health problem in India, with the highest number of cases and deaths in the world, and Betel Quid (BQ) chewing is responsible for almost 50% of cases. BQ Use Disorder (BUD) prevalence and severity have never been investigated among Indian BQ chewers.
Stefano Petti, Roopa Shamsundar Rao, Pallavi Deshmukh, Sowmya Gujjar Vishnu Rao, Ashok Lingappa, Krishna Sireesha Sundaragiri, Chandni Shekhawat, Tejavathi Nagaraj, Surendra Lakshminarayana, Saman Warnakulasuriya   +9 more
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe, Bonnie J. Palifka, Lasse Buschmann Alsbirk   +2 more
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Assessment of Stroke Severity And Mortality (ASSAM): A hospital-based study from north-east India

Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine
Background: Stroke burden continues to grow; ischemic subtypes share the biggest pie. Assam is one of the states with the highest burden in-terms of mortality. Aim: In Assam, we studied factors operating at different timelines concerning stroke events in
Glennys Carvalho, Debabrata Goswami, Abdul Barik Ahmed   +2 more
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Inter-State Imbalances in Essential Services : Some Perspectives [PDF]

This paper analyzes the inter-state imbalances in three major sectors of the economy, namely, education, health and family welfare, and water supply and sanitation for fifteen major states.
C. Bhujanga Rao, D.K.Srivastava
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Rethinking ‘Hill‐Valley Divide’ in Darjeeling District, India: An Autoethnographic Approach to Highland Identities

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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Feasibility Study of Setting up Information Technology-Enabled Services (ITES) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Hubs in the North Eastern States of India: A Report [PDF]

This report aims at identifying the various state administrative/commercial capital cities in the North East Region where IT-enabled service industry could be set up, and whether the necessary conditions conducive to the industry exist.
Dass, Rajanish, Lethil Nangmuansang
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Mobilizing Documents: Identification, Bureaucracy, and Policing in Transnational Mobility

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This co‐authored essay builds on a growing anthropological literature that engages critically and creatively with idealized official and popular ideas about documents of/in migration regimes. Documents are often championed as a common and unquestionable good in transnational migration but they are intrinsically tied to inequalities and ...
Sahana Ghosh, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Radhika Mongia, Sealing Cheng, Heath Cabot, Nicole Constable   +5 more
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Induced abortion potential among Indian women [PDF]

Information on abortion is limited and inaccurate especially in the developing world, which has led to several speculations on the prevalence of abortion in this region. A rise in prevalence of abortion is mostly accounted for in terms of increase in the
Mala Ramanathan, S. Irudaya Rajan, U.S. Mishra   +2 more
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Oral cancer risk stratification: A cross‐sectional population‐based screening study in Northeast India

International Journal of Cancer, Volume 158, Issue 6, Page 1517-1527, 15 March 2026.
What's new? Oral cancer burden is high in India. Risk stratification for selection of high‐risk individuals could enable early detection through efficient screening programs. We conducted a cross‐sectional screening study in Northeast India to develop and validate an oral precancer/cancer risk prediction model.
Kunal Oswal, Satirtha Barman, Alexandar R. Kerr, Murad Zaman, Jnyanashree Patowary, Debasis D. Barali, Nipam Barman, Ashok Das, Umakant Nadkar, Rajesh Dikshit, Jennifer E. Gallagher, Mark W. Lingen, Richard Muwonge, Philip E. Castle, Li C. Cheung, Kelly J. Yu, Anil K. Chaturvedi, Arnie Purushotham   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source