Jawaharlal Nehru University

About: Jawaharlal Nehru University is a education organization based out in New Delhi, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 6082 authors who have published 13455 publications receiving 245407 citations. The organization is also known as: JNU.

BRICS, developing countries and global governance

Abstract: This article analyses the implications and consequences of the rise of BRICS for the developing world and for global governance. In doing so, it examines BRICS’ increasing importance among developing countries and their growing significance in the world economy, situated in historical perspective, and considers the factors underlying the evolution of the group as an economic and political formation. This is followed by an analysis of the possible economic impact of future growth in BRICS on other developing countries, which could be complementary or competitive, positive or negative. In conclusion it discusses the potential influence of BRICS, extending beyond economics to politics, in the wider global context, with reference to international institutions and cooperation among developing countries.

Radiation induced oxidative stress: II studies in liver as a distant organ of tumor bearing mice.

Abstract: Since the radiation dose tolerance of normal tissues/organs away from the site of tumor influences the success of radiation therapy of cancer, and antioxidant status is likely to be one of the factors to determine the tolerance; the radioresponse of antioxidant enzymes has been examined in the liver as a representative distant organ in the tumorbearing mice.

Glacier changes in the Ravi basin, North-Western Himalaya (India) during the last four decades (1971-2010/13)

Abstract: A glacier inventory of the Ravi basin, north-western Himalaya has been generated for the year 2002 using Landsat ETM + and ASTER Global DEM (GDEM V2) as the baseline data for the change analysis. The Ravi basin consists of 285 glaciers (> 0.02 km 2 ) covering an area of 164.5 ± 7.5 km 2 , including 71 debris-covered glaciers with an area of 36.1 ± 2.1 km 2 (22% of total glacierized area) in 2002. Change analysis based on Corona KH-4B (1971), Worldview (2010) and Landsat 8 OLI/TRIS (2013) images was restricted to a subset of 157 glaciers (covering an area of 121.4 ± 5.4 km 2 in 2002) due to cloud cover. Glacier area decreased from 125.8 ± 1.9 km 2 (1971) to 119.9 ± 4.8 km 2 (2010/13), a loss of 4.7 ± 4.1% or 0.1 ± 0.1% a − 1 . The glacier recession rate has decreased, to a minimum for the recent decades (2002–2010/13). The debris-covered glacier area increased by 19.2 ± 2.2% (0.5 ± 0.05% a − 1 ) in the Ravi basin. However, there were significant variation in its sub-basins i.e. in Budhil and Upper Ravi sub-basin, where the debris-covered area increased by 28.6 ± 3.1% (0.7 ± 0.1% a − 1 ) and 14 ± 1.6% (0.3 ± 0.04% a − 1 ), respectively, between 1971 and 2010/13. Field investigation of selected glaciers (2010–2014) supports glacier recession trend from remote sensing data. Glacier retreat rates in the Ravi basin were lower than previously reported for selected glaciers in the similar basin and other basins (e.g. Chenab, Beas, Parbati, Baspa and Tirungkhad) of the Himachal Himalaya.