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Town Planning, the growing difficulties- "The end of human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization" . These rather radical words of Ralph Waldo Emerson should be enough to caution us. Ever since man has begun his journey towards civilization, we have been showing greater greed. We tend to forget the environmental and social issues and the limited resources that Mother Earth provides us with. Town planning is just one of the issues in this multifaceted problem. To begin with let us define the concept of town planning. Simply stated, it is the discipline of land use planning. Town planning or urban planning is multidimensional including effective land usage, architecture, design, sanitation and drinking water just to mention a few. Urbanization has brought with it complexities in life. In order to ensure a better and safer world to our future generations we need to address these complexities. We can no longer overlook things like town planning and be ...

As civilization advances culture declines :- Any civilization advances in a very gradual manner and it takes a turn very gradually.There cannot be a specific period that we can mention to say that civilization advanced during this year.It transforms very gradually and unnoticeably.The economic reforms of 1991 is the latest example for this.We are feeling the changes of globalization,privatization and liberalization from the year 2000 onwards and every year we are seeing some drastic changes for which those economic reforms were the background. On the basis of culture we can classify civilizations as three sections : first is before the British period,second is during the british period and third is after the economic reforms.There were many changes that took place in culture during these periods and its pace has increased since the past 7years.Before the British period ,culture got a recognition or definition, i.e. it is the people in the society who defined the meaning of ...

Does Cannibalism still exist? Evolution of human beings can be traced 60 million years back in time. Since, then there has been a constant evolution, both physical and mental, in man. We have grown as human beings, the most potent race among all living beings, one which have the ability to think rationally about life and living. Even though our cave-living ancestors did not possess the amount of polished grey matter, they cared for the society in which they lived. May be they were not able to talk but did have feelings for others. They never hunted their fellow compatriots till the time they were hungry and starving to death. But these are the stories of a bygone era, where the difference between man and animal was only in their physical appearance. Millions of years have passed and we live in a civilized world where we have every comfort of life and do not need to hunt for our food. We still need to grow as human beings, as the superior race amongst all animals. Even toda...

Importance of Indo-US Nuke Deal :  The agreement for the Indo-US nuke deal was reached between Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and US president Mr. George W. Bush on July 18,2005 during Dr. SIngh's State visit to the US.Later on March 2, 2006,the deal was clinched when Mr. Bush visited India.Since then, it has been awaiting Congressional approval.The basic objective of the deal is to allow the US to have civilian nuclear trade and technology with India besides blazing the trail for the international community to have nuclear cooperation with the country. Indicating a paradigm shift in the existing legal status of the American nuclear policy, the bill allow US civillian nuclear trade even with those countries which have not allowed full international inspectons.The bipartisan support to the deal came in the wake of the Senate's rejection of the "killer"amendments, including the one seeking mandatory commitment on India's part to stop making fissile m...