Rajiv Aarogyasri
[Sep. 26, 2008] - Andhra Pradesh, India, has introduced an innovative health scheme under the stewardship of Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhar Reddy, a doctor- turned politician and Chief Minister of the state. Christened Rajiv Health Mission (Rajiv Aarogyasri), it is an overarching health programme dedicating three new public services to the people of Andhra Pradesh in public-private-partnership mode. It envisages providing quality health care services for diseases like heart ailments, cancer, kidney failure, neurosurgery and trauma cases to the poor and the marginalised sections.
Health Management Research Institute (Hmri)
[Sep. 26, 2008] - Health Management Research Institute, is a unique public–private partnership between Government of Andhra Pradesh (India) and Satyam Foundation which is a novel intervention to provide accessible, affordable and accountable quality health services to everyone as envisaged by the Nation Rural Health Mission or NRHM...
Emergency Management Research Institute
[Sep. 26, 2008] - An academician identified a middle-aged man who had collapsed from his scooter due to a collision with a private high school van on the busy Medchal highway in the outskirts of Hyderabad and immediately dialled the toll free number-108. The call centre of Emergency Management and Research Institute or EMRI took up the case. Soon, an ambulance reached the accident spot...
Making Peacebuilding Sustainable
[Jun. 20, 2008] - Public cry for national unity is not a common event to see in Lebanon. When in February 2005, world-wide media showed a crowded Martyrs’ square calling unanimously Vive le Liban!, feelings of hopeful amazement were directed towards at least three considerations: Christians and Muslims, mainly youngsters, were standing together holding Lebanese flags...
A study on feature films and popular culture
[Nov. 12, 2007] - Feature films are one of the most studied objects within popular culture. There is an almost endless catalogue of publications and texts that analyse this particular kind of cultural product: film critique, aesthetic, semiotics, sociology, cultural studies are only some of the disciplines interested in this field.
The flourishing of all these different approaches may be explained with the importance that the object of analysis has had and still has in both the Western and the Eastern societies and cultures...