The operating performance of financial institutions has long been at the center of academic research and has received a substantial amount of attention. This is primarily due to the fact that operating efficiency is of particular interest for both managers, whose aim is to improve the performance of their ?nancial firms , and policy makers, whose task is to assess the effects of market structure on performance and, therefore, to safeguard the stability of the ?nancial system. The banks in India are facing stronger rivalry due to the globalization and liberalization of the financial system. Therefore the study of operating performance of domestic (public and private sector banks) and foreign banks in India becomes important. The objective of the study is to compare the operating performance of public, private, and foreign banks in India, so that they can draw the lessons from each other to be fit and profitable. Findings of study show that the foreign banks operating performance in relation to profitability is better than private and public banks. Further the public banks performance was found inefficient through DEA approach putting their sustainability in danger.

World Wide Web has vast useful Web databases which are difficult to extract relevant data from various sources. The number of Web databases has reached 50 millions according to a recent survey. These web databases can be searched through their web query interfaces. The web pages resulted are said to be surface web which can be accessed by search engines without accessing web databases and deep web refers to the web page that is not indexed by the general search engine. Deep web can be accessed only by websites interfaces. So it is inaccessible to search engines. So extracting data from deep page is critical problem.This paper studies some deep web data extraction techniques. A different way for deep web data extraction to overcome limitations of previous works is using visual approach. Visual features of deep web pages are used as primary concern to extract contents from deep web pages. It includes both data record extraction and data item extraction.

Anyone with responsibility for organising resources or people is a manager. In this factsheet we are talking about anyone from supervisors to chief executives, and about all activities aimed at developing people from where they have no management responsibilities to those where they have al least some. For a discussion of the difference between senior and other managers in terms of development, see our Developing senior managers factsheet. The Chartered Management Institute estimated that in 2004 the spend per annum per manager on management and leadership development was £1,035, an average of 6.3 days per manager.The basic purpose of executive development is to improve managerial performance imparting knowledge, changing attitude or increasing skills.

Unit Linked Insurance Plans has played a significant role in increasing business across a wide range of investors and financial services. It is one of the largest industries in the world both in number of establishments and number of employees. In India, ULIPS, considered a sunrise industry today after info tech, is the most happening industry with almost all the big players vying for a share of the coveted pie. There is no real ULIPS revolution in India, the industry is still in the stages of infancy. In India ULIPS businesses have broken rand and seem poised to surge ahead with renewed vigor, optimism, confidence and capability. The Indian ULIPS industry has begum to move towards modernizations, systemization and consolidation. Today, modernization is the catch phrase and the key to understanding ULIPS in the next decade.

New revolution in the field of Indian rural economy has come already in the form of Self-help groups. With the help of these self-help groups, rural population is growing their economy in very rapid speed. Various grants and subsidies are given by the government to these SHG's and with this soft-hand; various businesses are taking birth in rural areas of India and with time this situation is being same in urban and semi-urban areas of India.. This situation is helping the people in many ways; providing employment opportunities, business opportunities, opportunities of being supplier of raw material to various businesses, etc. In this way SHG's are helping to 'Vision 2020" in a vast manner and making rural economy strong through providing micro finance.

At the beginning of the century, social life was mostly local. It was followed by a period in which commodities were produced on a mass scale. Consumer Marketing operated on mass marketing principles and business primarily concerned itself with how to build the best sales force. At the end of the century, there is an emerging global culture. The major driver of these changes is technology. Technological change has moved steadily back focusing on the individual. These changes shape the possibility and conduct of business. Marketing is especially tied to communication and transportation revolution. As the tools and reach of marketing increase, the job and responsibilities of marketers have evolved with them. As the new technology of the Internet develops, it reinforces the new marketing emphasis - which in many ways is a return to business at the turn of the century. In today's technology driven world, a new fast paced digital economy is emerging.

Present study mainly aims to gain insight into the Indian capital markets and the roles and responsibilities of a capital market regulator. This study also focuses on identifying the loopholes in the Indian financial system. This study consists of role of SEBI in Indian stock market. SEBI is the regulator for the securities market in India. It was formed officially by the Government of India Being the study descriptive in nature, findings have been made through theoretical analysis in order to know the impact of SEBI on Indian capital market and to provide in-depth analysis of the Indian stock market. It has been found that SEBI has done a lot of work for the development of the Indian capital market.

The Ancient Indian merchants went from village to village to collect for example, cotton thread from the spinners or cotton cloth from the weavers and to sell them in village where they were in demand. The Ancient merchants earned a profit through supplying the goods acquired. What was true of thread or cloth also applied to grain and or cloth also applied to grain and or cloth also applied to grain and other products. Soon there was large trade or exchange of goods in the country. Ancient Indian Trade was made easier by the invention of a new method of exchange money. Before coins were used, goods were bartered or exchanged. But coins were advantageous because those were easy to be carried from one place to another. As the use of coins increased, there were more and more traders.

Observing the stock price movement is an area of research that attracted the attention of various academicians and scholars. Perhaps no other area of finance has been subject to so much empirical investigation during the last four decades as the behavior of stock prices. The present study attempts to contribute positively to the understanding of the behavior of Indian share prices in relation to the dividend announcements. Dividend announcements usually are considered as the positive signal to the shareholders and its positive impact on the share prices is also expected. A standard event study methodology is adopted in the paper to examine the price reactions of 30 listed companies surrounding 70 days of the announcement dates.

This paper examines impact of regional economic integration on economic growth. This paper is purely study based – a review of literature and determine the research problem is expressed as ? To what extent the impact of regional economic integration on economic growth of various economy? ? the primary objective of the study is to investigate the impact of regional economic integration on economic growth. Apart from that it also determines the role of income distribution, trade, poverty, employment etc. on various economies. This study found the neutral impact of regional economic integration on economic growth, income distribution, trade, poverty and employment.