scholarly journals The Unforgettable Indus River Flood-2010: A Review

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 48-51
Author(s):  
Arshad Ali ◽  
Ghazala Nosheen ◽  
K.A. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crises ◽  
Arabian Sea ◽  
Indus River ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
River Flood ◽  
North Part ◽  
Contaminated Drinking Water ◽  
Us Dollar ◽  
The Government

Floods are the unannounced natural disasters that destroy both lives and infrastructures. In July 2010 a huge and unpredictable flood struck Pakistan, especially the catchment area of the River Indus, extending from the north part of Khyber Pakhtun Khwa (KPK) Province south to the Arabian Sea. The top five rainfall intensities recorded at Risalpur, Islamabad, Murree, Cherat and Ghari Dopatta were 415mm, 394mm, 373mm, 372mm and 346mm, respectively. The Indus Flood-2010 affected nearly 20 million people spreading over 36 districts of the country. The death toll recorded was nearly 1,800 persons. More than 10 million people were subjected to contaminated drinking water. The destruction to cotton, rice, sugar cane, and animal fodder was recorded as 3,000 km2, 800 km2, 800 km2, and 1000 km2, respectively. And about five hundred thousand tons of wheat was destroyed. The Indus Flood of 2010 caused an estimated 43 billion US dollar loss to Pakistan and adversely affected its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It brought on both the financial crises and socio-political concerns (such as infiltration of the Taliban in the form of a relief supporter). Though this flood has left everlasting impacts on the people of Pakistan, they could be better handled if the government and relief agencies were more determined, honest and committed.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hn.v9i0.7073 Hydro Nepal Vol.9 July 2011 48-51

scholarly journals A Review of Arabicization as a Controversial Issue of Language Planning in the Sudan

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Asjad Ahmed Saeed Balla
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Future Project

This paper tries to review the issue of Arabicization through languages policy in the Sudan by tracing the different periods of the ups and downs of this process in its social and political context. Arabization and Arabicization are two terms used to serve two different purposes. Arabization is the official orientation of the (ruling group) towards creating a pro-Arab environment, by adopting Arabic culture, Arabic language in addition to Islam as main features of Arabizing the Sudanese entity. The mechanism towards imposing this Arabization is through the use of Arabic, as the official language the group (government). Arabicization is an influential word in the history of education in Sudan. The Sudan faced two periods of colonialism before Independence, The Turkish and the Condominium (British-Egyptian) Rule. Through all these phases in addition to the Mahdist period between them, many changes and shifts took place in education and accordingly in the Arabicization process. During the Condominium period, the Christian missions tried strongly to separate the South Region from the North Region, and to achieve this goal the government fought against the Arabic language so it would not create a place among the people of the Southern Sudan. But in spite of all the efforts taken by the colonialists, Arabic language found its place as Lingua Franca among most of the Southern Sudan tribes. After independence, the Arabicization process pervaded education. Recently, the salvation revolution also has used Arabicization on a wider range, but Arabicization is still future project. Both Arabization and Arabicization are still controversial issues. 

scholarly journals Art. XX.—An Account of the Country of Sindh; with Remarks on the State of Society, the Government, Manners, and Customs of the People

1834 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M‘Murdo
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
The State ◽  
Satisfactory Explanation ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
River Indus ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Universe

The author of the Tohfat-al-Giráni states, that “the country of Sindh takes its name from Sind, the brother of Hind, the son of Noah. It is reckoned the forty-third of the sixty-one countries of the universe. The line of the second climate passes, from the north, directly through its centre; and although Sindh is situated in the five first climates, it nevertheless chiefly appertains to the second, and, consequently, lies in the region of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.” It would be difficult to discover where the author quoted has found these grandsons of the patriarch; indeed, as is usual in such genealogies, they are probably altogether imaginary. The Hindú writings may, perhaps, afford some more satisfactory explanation of the name; but I have not been so fortunate as to meet with it. As far as I can learn from such sources, this country was called Sindhúdès, or “the country of the ocean,” alluding doubtless to the river Indus, which receives that dignified appellation in their sacred writings. The same authorities also state Sindh to have been governed by a Xhuthi, named Jayadrat'ha, who was slain in the civil wars of the Pandús; and it has, in consequence, sometimes received the name of Jayadrat'hadès, after that chieftain.

Intellectuals, Writers and Artists

1962 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Nhu Phong
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
The Government ◽  
North Vietnam ◽  
The University

Of all intellectuals, the most highly respected and appreciated by Vietnamese society are the doctors. Indeed, it is hardly surprising that they should enjoy the esteem of a society the great majority of whose members are uneducated, impoverished, and beset by chronic disease and sickness. However, the reasons are twofold; medical degrees are academically superior to all others, and medicine, of all the professions, is the most useful on the purely practical plane. The doctors themselves are accorded the honorific title of “Thay,” and the medical profession is popularly referred to by the descriptive phrase “savers of people and helpers of life.” This is why, on the thirtieth anniversary of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party and the fifteenth anniversary of the Government of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam, the “Doctor of Doctors,” Ho Dac Di, who is Chairman of the North Vietnamese Medical Association as well as Director of the University and Specialist Colleges, was invited to make a speech. Here is what Dr. Ho Dac Di said on that occasion:The future of the intellectuals is a glorious one, because their activities bind them closely to the proletarian masses who are the masters of the world, the masters of their own country, the masters of their history, and masters of themselves…. On this, the thirtieth anniversary of the foundation of the Party, all those classes who work with their brains, and the scientists in particular, sincerely own their debt of gratitude to the Party and proclaim their complete confidence in the enlightened leadership of the Party, as well as in the glorious future of the fatherland. They give their firm promise that they, together with the other classes of the people, will protect the great achievements of the revolution.

From “Nourish the People” to “Sacrifice for the Nation”: Changing Responses to Disaster in Late Imperial and Modern China

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Jean Edgerton-Tarpley
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
River Flood ◽  
Nationalist Government ◽  
Desperate Attempt

This article seeks to spark a conversation about shifting conceptualizations of disaster under modernizing states. It employs case studies of two major disasters, the North China Famine of 1876–79 and the Yellow River flood of 1938–47, to map changes and continuities in Chinese responses to disaster. State approaches to the late-Qing famine both drew on a millennium of Chinese thinking about disaster causation and anticipated new issues that would become increasingly important in twentieth-century China. The catastrophic Yellow River flood occurred when China's Nationalist government deliberately breached a major dike in a desperate attempt to “use water instead of soldiers” to slow the brutal Japanese invasion. The Nationalist state's technologization of disaster, its rejection of cosmological interpretations of calamity, and its depiction of flood victims as heroes sacrificing for the nation mark departures from late-imperial responses to disaster, but foreshadow features of the devastating Mao-era Great Leap Famine of 1958–62.

scholarly journals An Examination of the Framing of Climate Change by the Government of Canada, 2006-2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chater
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Changement Climatique ◽  
The North ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Arctic Climate Change ◽  
The Impact

Background  How has the Government of Canada framed the issue of climate change in Canada’s northern region during the last decade?Analysis  This article undertakes a discourse analysis of Canadian government speeches, statements, and reports relating to northern climate change since 2006. It argues that the rhetoric of the 2006–2015 Conservative government de-emphasized the impact of Arctic climate change on the people of the North. It stressed the threat to environmental security and nature.Conclusions and implications  This article contributes to literature that understands how governments frame issues, as well as literature that examines the framing of climate change and reviews of Canada’s northern policy. Contexte  Comment le gouvernement canadien a-t-il représenté le changement climatique dans le Grand Nord au cours des dix dernières années?Analyse  Cet article entreprend l’analyse d’énoncés, de discours et de rapports du gouvernement canadien depuis 2006 qui portent sur le changement climatique dans le Grand Nord. L’article soutient que le gouvernement conservateur de 2006-2015 s’est efforcé par sa rhétorique de minimiser l’impact du changement climatique dans l’Arctique sur les habitants du Nord canadien. À l’époque, le gouvernement mettait plutôt l’accent sur la sécurité environnementale et la nature.Conclusions et implications  Cet article est une contribution à la recherche sur la manière dont les gouvernements représentent les problèmes sociaux. En outre, il vient compléter la recherche portant sur le cadrage du changement climatique et sur les politiques canadiennes à l’égard du Grand Nord.Mots clés  Canada; Gouvernement; Changement climatique; Cadrage

scholarly journals Analisis Hukum Pemberian Kredit kepada Usaha Kecil di Provinsi Sumatera Utara

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Abi Jumroh Harahap
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
The Public ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
North Sumatra

For empowering economic of the people (small enterprises), the government has enacted some regulations to provide facilities including credit for enterpreneur even resolving the marketing problem such as Law No. 20 of 2008 on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises. This is a legal research of normative with the empirical approach based on the phenomenon in social field, then all of data is displayed systematically to be analyzed deductively. The population consists of 32 regency/city located in the North Sumatra Province, but sample is selected purposively namely five regency/city of them. Duration of the research is 2 years which is oriented on: to improve the policy of government considering small enterprises empowerment in Indonesia spesifically in North Sumatra, scientific publication in a local journal having international serial number (ISSN) or national acredited journal and textbook or handbook. Financial limitedness for developing micro, small and medium enterprises (UMKM) is the clasical problem found frequently in the developing countries. This effects to level of production and its development. The public grants provided by government for developing UMKM is distributed through the special financial agencies such as the bank for industrial development and agribusiness. The commercial banks are hoped to be able to participate in the sector by quota of credit, subsidy, tax income, and guarantee for failure.

The Colored Vote: The South

2008 ◽  
pp. 137-154
Author(s):  
John Roy Lynch
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
Material Change ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government

This chapter discusses the colored vote in the South, presenting the reason for the sanguinary revolution which resulted in the overthrow of the Republican state government in the state of Mississippi in 1875. What was true of Mississippi at that time was largely true of the other reconstructed states where similar results subsequently followed. When the War of the Rebellion came to an end, it was believed by some and apprehended by others that serious and radical changes in the previous order of things would necessarily follow. But when what was known as the Johnson plan of reconstruction was disclosed, it was soon made plain that if that plan should be accepted by the country no material change would follow, for the reason, chiefly, that the abolition of slavery would have been only in name. It was the rejection of the Johnson plan of reconstruction that upset these plans and destroyed these calculations. The Johnson plan was not only rejected, but what was known as the congressional plan of reconstruction, by which suffrage was conferred upon the colored men in all the states that were to be reconstructed, was accepted by the people of the North as the permanent policy of the government and thus made the basis of reconstruction and readmission of those states into the Union.

The Southern Funj of the Sudan as a Frontier Society, 1820–1980

2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C. Jedrej
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Blue Nile ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Local Ngo ◽  
The Right ◽  
Free People

The long civil war in the Sudan between the government and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is usually simply described as a war between ‘the Arab North’ and ‘the African South.’ Equally simply, it is understood as a continuation, by new means and in new circumstances, of nineteenth-century and earlier inequalities between free people and unfree people, and of hostilities between slavers and those they preyed upon. In the twentieth century these asymmetries came to be represented by a religious distinction between Muslims and non-Muslims. However, these apparent distinctions between free and unfree, and between Muslim and non-Muslim begin to blur when we ask who is making them. Likewise, at closer inspection, the division into “the Arab North” and “the African South” begins to fragment and reconstitute into a complexity of alliances and interest groups. These complexities become more evident as engagement moves from hostile encounters in the remote vastness of the Sudan to peace negotiations and press conferences in hotels and offices in capital cities. In the latter settings marginalized populations can be heard. Of special here interest are the three culturally ‘southern’ populations whose homelands are in the geo-political North: Abyei, the Nuba Mountains, and South Blue Nile. In January 2003, a public statement, headed “Let us not be denied the right to decide on our future,” was delivered to the North-South peace conference in Kenya by a local NGO, the Relief Organisation of Fazugli (ROOF), on behalf of “the people of South Blue Nile.” It demanded that their representatives, along with those of the Nuba Mountains and Abyei be included in the current peace negotiations.

scholarly journals DAMPAK USAHA KEGIATAN PENAMBANGAN PASIR TERHADAP PERUBAHAN MATA PENCAHARIAN DI KABUPATEN MUNA BARAT

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Irfan Ido
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Sand Mining ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Seasonal Factors ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sand Extraction

ABSTRACTTondasi Village is one of the Villages in the North Tiworo Sub-District West Muna District as a producer of sand extraction. This study aims to find out: (1) Sand mining business in Tondasi Village, North Tiworo District, West Muna Regency; (2) Determine what factors cause people to change their livelihood patterns. The sample in this study used the Non Probability Sampling technique that was chosen which was saturated sampling (census). In this study, the samples taken were 229 Tondasi villagers. Data were analyzed with 3 stages, namely data reduction, data presentation and conclusion. The results of this study show that sand mining in Tondasi Village initially used traditional tools, but technological development is increasingly rapid, so sand mining in Tondasi Village uses a sand suction machine. There are 3 factors that cause the community to change their livelihood to become sand miners, namely the income factor, the lack of catches for the people who are fishermen background, and the failure of the crop due to uncertain seasonal factors for the people who are farmers. However, there are 3 factors that have caused the community to leave their livelihood as sand miners, namely the emergence of new technology to mine the sand which makes traditional sand miners unable to compete with miners who use vacuum cleaners, the absence of mining permits from the government and the emergence of awareness about the importance of protecting the environment.Keywords: Sand Mining Business, Livelihood Changes 

scholarly journals The Influence of Jogjakarta Outer Ring Road Development Plan on the National Roads in DIY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1000 (1000) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prima Romadhona
Keyword(s):  
Outer Ring ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
Ring Road ◽  
Traffic Jams ◽  
The North ◽  
Road Development ◽  
North Part ◽  
The Government ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Main Streets

The development of Jogja Outer Ring Road (JORR) has been issued by the government as one of possible alternatives to deal with traffic jams. The ring road has occupied the existing road with an extension of 7 meters to seize 14 meters. In the future, ring road will pass through 22 districts in 3 regencies. In this study, there were 4 main streets, i.e. Solo-Jogja street, Kaliurang St, Magelang St, and Palagan Tentara Pelajar St, set as the objects of comparison to the existence of JORR, which was analyzed three probabilities, namely 1) without JORR, 2) JORR of government route, and 3) actualized JORR with alternative route. As a result, V/C ratio of four surround roads with JORR were better. Additionally, with alternate JORR the result was much better until 5 more times. In the opposite, there were 3 roads surrounds that had more performance than the existence of JORR. Based on this study, the V/C ratio of Solo-Jogja St in front of the eastern part of Kalasan district as the north part, it decreased for about 8.79% if JORR was actualized and 60.78% if JORR was actualized with alternate road. At the western part, there was increased performance of 6.55% if JORR was actualized and 49.42% if JORR was actualized with alternate road. At southern part, there was raised performance around 16.25% if JORR was actualized and 5.27% if JORR was actualized with alternate road.

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