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The IT revolution has taken the world by storm and organizations have witnessed massive changes in the business environment due to technological disruptions such as the Internet. The current study identifies organizational, environmental, and technological factors that play a major role in the use of Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic commerce (EC) website. While the B2B EC's marketplace model has picked up more than the direct model between a buyer and seller (Statista), the need for research exists in both. This case is based on one of the electricity utility companies in India, VIN, and its supplier DPEN who together form a dyad. The study describes the level of use of a B2B website by the dyad, and illustrates the factors related to the hosting primary organization (PO) and the user organization (UO) that determine use. The article aims to describe the website features; how and why the PO and UO characteristics influence website use using the soft systems methodology (SSM). Sources of data include face-to-face interviews and secondary data relevant to the organization. The findings of the study are significant because it represents the experiences of similar organizations in an emerging economy like India which is lagging behind in B2B EC adoption compared to the developed nations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

India Post, the most widely distributed postal system in the world has been facing huge challenges for the last few years on account of the technological revolution in the field of communication. By adopting many technology enabled banking services at its Post Office Savings Bank and by obtaining licence to do payment banking services, India Post is shifting its focus from postal services to banking. Core Banking Solutions (CBS), debit card, ATM, cheque book, Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), mobile banking, net banking, payments, etc. are the newly introduced banking services of India Post in order to be a part of the digital economy as well as provide impetus for inclusive growth. With this backdrop, this research is an attempt to understand the new initiatives of India Post as a bank, its features and performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hybrid Warfare is gaining currency and posing new challenges to military thinkers and practitioners. The changes by the technological revolution, information and psychological operations, digitisation of the battlefield, and modernisation in conventional warfare have ceased to be the standalone option for applying force. These changes envisage the application of all Elements of National Power (EoNP), projected along a continuous span of activities, stretching from stability, security, reconstruction and terminating at armed conflict. The paper explains that hybrid warfare is the instrument of choice by the challengers, primarily India, to weaken Pakistan, subjugate it and either balkanise it or make it a flaccid state as the least desired objective. With hybrid warfare as an instrument of application against Pakistan, this article has attempted to dissect its contours and impact on Pakistan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The introduction of new water supply techniques in the Deccan region of India helped make water a crucial factor in local warfare. Improved water supply and conservation influenced military networks, especially at sites located on the strategic frontiers between local polities. Water management also served residential complexes within fortified sites and agricultural improvements in the surrounding arid landscape. This survey of the Naldurg Fort, overlooking a lofty gorge on the Bhima River in the modern state of Maharashtra, examines how builders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dammed available water to service a strategic frontier military garrison, thereby creating a refreshing environment for a pleasure palace and garden. All photographs and the survey are by Nicolas Morelle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In India, agriculture plays an important role in development in food production. In our country, agriculture depends on the monsoons which are not sufficient source of water. So the irrigation is used in the agriculture field. Internet of Things (IoT) is a milestone in the evolution of technology. IOT plays an important role in many fields, one of that is Agriculture by which it can feed billions of people on Earth in future. The objective of this paper is aiming to overcome this challenge, the whole system is micro control based and can be operated from a remote location through a wireless transmission so there is no need to concern about irrigation timing as per crop or soil condition. The sensor is used to take sensor reading of soil like soil moisture, temperature, air moisture and decision making is controlled by the user (farmer) by using a microcontroller.Using wireless transmission, these data collected are sent to the server database. The irrigation will be automated when the moisture and temperature of the field are reduced. The farmer is notified with the information regarding field condition through mobile periodically. This system will be more useful in areas where there is a scarcity of water and will be worth efficient with satisfying its requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China's rise as a global power and its pursuit of space technologies have increased India's insecurity. To address the challenge of China (and benefit from the technological revolution), India has invested heavily in the space sector. Its space program benefits from indigenous innovations and international cooperation. However, its military achievements in the space domain have aggravated Pakistan's sense of insecurity. Pakistan's financial and technological limitations have forced it to look toward China to mitigate the Indian threat and maintain the balance of power in South Asia. In addition to great power competition in the region, these perceptions of security and insecurity and states' efforts to maximize their security are likely to exacerbate competition and negatively affect the prospects of mediation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's comments on the diasporas related to India, which refers to the transmigration of people. According to the author, globalization requires global markets, global communications, and global networks, and covers societies in India and the countries to which Indian diasporics have migrated. The author says that the technological revolution constitutes a major dimension of the socio-cultural impact of globalization in India and the diaspora.

The author shares his impressions of technological innovation in India, one of the world's most populous countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an analysis on the offshore development of technical computer science or software engineering, with an emphasis on its profound effect in the field of computer engineering and its influence on the technology as a whole. The author has made an extensive discussion about industrial revolution, explaining how some jobs disappear while some are created. He has likewise discussed how developing countries have built an industry of offshore software development. Of particular importance is the case of India, to which the author has exhaustively discussed economic profiles highlighting on its success in outsourcing industry.

The objective of making an organization 'sustainable' needs development on the economic, environmental, and social fronts. Indian Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises are facing the competition posed by rising technological advances in the market. Thus, Industry 4.0 intervention shall be highly useful in this context. This study assesses the barriers involved in implementing Industry 4.0 for sustainable production, and it attempts to find causality among the barriers using the 'Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory' method. The study considers eight barriers to implement Industry 4.0 for sustainable production. These barriers are inter-related and have causal relationships among them. This causality is represented graphically. The applied method delineates barriers under consideration for causality into two groups, namely; 'influencer' and 'influenced.' It also illustrates the strength of the influence of one barrier over the other through numerical values. The prime contribution of this study is to not only find the influencing barriers but also to mitigate them by allocating scarce organizational resources. Mitigating the influencing barriers would help in managing the influenced challenges. 'Technological upgradation', 'lack of policy frameworks' are the top two barriers that find its place in the hierarchy of importance established by this study. These barriers are also classified into the 'cause' group. Also, this study establishes that 'difficulty in access to credit' and 'non-readiness of the workforce' in adopting Industry 4.0 are 'influenced' barriers. This study shall be of importance to the small business practitioners and government analysts in evaluating barriers in implementing sustainable production initiatives using Industry 4.0. With this, Indian Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise needs to upgrade by upskilling young working population for the forthcoming technological revolution of Industry 4.0. Finally, we suggest several important implications for managers and policymakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The currently available methods of screening for diabetic retinopathy (DR) depend on the availability of healthcare professionals and technology. The high prevalence of diabetes in India, and the need to repeatedly screen such patients for DR and treat them, places an enormous economic and logistic burden. We introduce the concept of screening for DR with 'selfie retinal imaging' through this report of 3 patients. The patients can themselves capture retinal images and transfer to a grading centre for further deliberation. If incorporated into the current technological revolution of smartphones, this futuristic concept is likely to be of huge benefit in preventing loss of vision due to diabetes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This issue's selection of features is rather broad in the range of issues they cover as well as in scope. Alongside an essay on the state of innovation in the world's second-largest and fastest-growing nation, India, we offer you four shorter articles describing some pioneering technologies developed in one and the same minuscule area of the UK - the East of England. The companies behind these innovations are small, at times tiny (two people in the case of Insentinel, for example), yet the new technologies they develop are truly global and life changing: from unorthodox methods of detecting explosives with the help of live bees to a potential major breakthrough in cancer treatment. By doing that, we wanted to stress that neither size nor location matter a huge deal in the realm of innovation. What does matter, however, is the spirit of creativity and the persisting desire to change the world for the better. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]