scholarly journals First detection of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in the vicinity of COVID-19 isolation centre through wastewater surveillance in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Firoz Ahmed ◽  
Md. Aminul Islam ◽  
Manish Kumar ◽  
Maqsud Hossain ◽  
Prosun Bhattacharya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Variation ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Genetic Material ◽  
Genetic Load ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Sampling Location ◽  
Gene Detection ◽  
Prime Objective ◽  
Genetic Loading ◽  
The City

In the course of a COVID-19 pandemic, 0.33 million people got infected in Bangladesh, we made the first and successful attempt to detect SARS-CoV-2 viruses' genetic material in the vicinity wastewaters of an isolation centre i.e. Shaheed Bhulu Stadium, situated at Noakhali. The idea was to understand the genetic loading variation, both temporal and distance-wise in the nearby wastewater drains when the number of infected COVID-19 patients is not varying much. Owing to the fact that isolation center, in general, always contained a constant number of 200 COVID-19 patients, the prime objective of the study was to check if several drains carrying RNA of coronavirus are actually getting diluted or accumulated along with the sewage network. Our finding suggested that while the temporal variation of the genetic load decreased in small drains over the span of 50 days, the main sewer exhibited accumulation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Other interesting finding displays that probably distance of sampling location in meters is not likely to have a significant impact on gene detection concentration, although the quantity of the RNA extracted in the downstream of the drain was higher. These findings are of immense value from the perspective of wastewater surveillance of COVID-19, as they largely imply that we do not need to monitor every wastewater system, and probably major drains monitoring may illustrate the city health. Perhaps, we are reporting the accumulation of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material along with the sewer network i.e. from primary to tertiary drains. The study sought further data collection in this line to simulate conditions prevailed in the most of south Asian country and to shed further light on the temporal variation and decay/accumulation processes of the genetic load of the SARS-COV-2.

Ayodhya Dispute and Responses of India’s Islamic Neighbors and Hindu Nationalism in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-236
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Hindu Nationalism ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
South Asian Country ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Independence Movements ◽  
Indian National Congress

India has been noted for its independence movements including the non-cooperation and civil disobedience movements under the leadership of the Indian National Congress in general and Mahatma Gandhi in particular. However, in this South Asian country, there is another kind of nationalism that roots in Hinduism. The objective of the article is to explain the nature of Hindu nationalism in India. To gain this aim, the author is going to implement three tasks including giving a brief overview of the Ayodhya dispute; reporting the reactions from India’s neighbors to the Ayodhya issue; and explaining the relations among the Ayodhya related legal fights and responses from Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as Hindu nationalism. As a result, the study is helpful to comprehend the politics of India and its nationalism. Received 25th September 2020; Revised 2nd January 2021; Accepted 20th February 2021

scholarly journals ‘Diasporicity in the City of Portsmouth (UK): Local and Global Connections of Black Britishness’

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Rajinder Dudrah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Black British ◽  
Theoretical Premise ◽  
Global Connections ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
The City

This article engages with the theoretical premise of diasporicity - the local/regional specificities and workings of a given diaspora. Diasporicity is an attempt to extend the vocabulary of the concept of diaspora as an intervention against fixed ideas of race and nation. The article tests the usefulness of some aspects of ‘diasporicity’ by applying them to the settlement of African, Caribbean and South Asian Black British groups in Portsmouth, UK. The article draws on qualitative research, including extended interviews, and offers a social commentary on Black British diasporic connections that are distinctive to this city and, at the same time, contribute to an overall idea of Black Britishness.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF TERRORISM ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRY

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-191
Author(s):  
Qasim Saleem ◽  
Sidra Sidra ◽  
Abdur Rauf ◽  
Hafiz Muhammad Abubakar Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
South Asian Country

Bombay Before Mumbai

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
The City

‘City of Gold’, ‘Urbs Prima in Indis’, ‘Maximum City’: no Indian metropolis has captivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writing on the city that was once Bombay. This book, featuring new essays by its finest historians, presents a rich sample of Bombay’s palimpsestic pasts. It considers the making of urban communities and spaces, the workings of power and the nationalist makeover of the colonial city. In addressing these themes, the contributors to this volume engage critically with the scholarship of a distinguished historian of this frenetic metropolis. For over five decades, Jim Masselos has brought to life with skill and empathy Bombay’s hidden histories. His books and essays have traversed an extraordinarily diverse range of subjects, from the actions of the city’s elites to the struggles of its most humble denizens. His pioneering research has opened up new perspectives and inspired those who have followed in his wake. Bombay Before Mumbai is a fitting tribute to Masselos’ enduring contribution to South Asian urban history

scholarly journals AHP- fuzzy comprehensive evaluation of the safety risk in power investment project along “the Belt and Road”

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 01039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taihua Yang ◽  
Zhixiang Li ◽  
Jing Qin
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Investment Project ◽  
Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Safety Risk ◽  
South Asian Country ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Belt And Road

Energy is the focal point of “the belt and Road” investment cooperation. Because of the uncertainty factors, the safety risk of investment and construction is high, so the management and control of project is very difficult. Taking the 50M wind farm project in a South Asian country as an example, this paper constructs a safety risk assessment index system including 14 basic factors through the identification of the safety factors of “the belt and road” power investment project, and analyzes it by using the AHPfuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. The results show that the final safety risk evaluation score of a power investment project in a South Asian country belongs to the “medium risk” range. Geopolitical risk, national sovereignty risk, local legal risk and local natural environment risk are the main indicators, whose risk grade is relatively high. Finally, the paper puts forward the effective risk countermeasures and suggestions.

Batavia, 1619–1740: The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Colonial Town

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Blusse
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dynamic Function ◽  
The City

The rise and fall of a Chinese colonial town within Batavia was closely related to the transmutation in Batavia's function as a capital. In the early seventeenth century it was founded as the headquarters to a — mainly inter-Asian — maritime trading East Indies Company at war with the Iberian enemy. As the staple town to the Company, “het magazijn van derzelven producten”, it served both strategic and mercantile goals. From the late seventeenth century onwards a structural change took place. Wars with European rivals were over and trade with the motherland became emphasized at the expense of the Asian “country trade”. On Java, the Company gradually transformed itself into a territorial power, which derived its main income from a system of contingenten and verplichte leverantiën, or tributary payments. Consequently, Batavia lost most of its dynamic function as a headquarters to a maritime trade empire. The adaptation of the city into its new role, e.g., to function as a capital to a territorial hinterland, did not progress smoothly.

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