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The North-eastern Region of India, an agrarian economy, is rich in agricultural produce and contributes highly to the region's GDP. After the launch of the Act East Policy, the opportunity to capture the world market has enlarged and many export houses are registered in the region. As the government is emphasizing trade and commerce more, it becomes important to know the performance of the export houses of the region. The study has determined the comparative advantage of the agricultural products of the region in the country’s export basket using the Revealed Comparative Advantage Index and revealed the export performance of the region using the Average Annual Growth Rate and Compound Annual Growth Rate and showed the trend and growth of the value and quantity of exports. The study revealed that the agricultural products of the North-eastern Region have an advantage in the export of the country and growth is minimum but positive post the launching of Act East Policy.

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Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (Fol), a causal organism of Fusarium wilt in the tomato plant, secretes cell wall degrading enzymes, also known as carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes). These are crucial during colonization and pathogenesis, as evidenced by several proteomic studies, revealing the importance of these CAZymes in virulence and pathogenicity. However, few of them have been done in-planta, exhibiting differences in the expression of these cell wall degrading enzymes compared to in-vitro studies. Therefore, to explore the CAZymes involved in pathogenesis while residing in the host plant, an in-planta (xylem sap) proteomics of a susceptible tomato variety affected with Fol was done. Most of these CAZymes belonged to the hydrolase and oxidoreductase families having no significant homology with tomato proteins. Nearly 90% of them were predicted to be soluble and extracellular. The core CAZymes families with interactional evidence identified were AA3, GH3, GH18, GH20, GH28, GH43, GH47, GH55 and CE8. Thus, apart from annotating some of the hypothetical proteins to be CAZymes, the study sheds light on CAZymes families that may have a role in the pathogenesis and survival of this fungus in the susceptible tomato plant.

Disability is a societal issue. Societal attitude often stands as a determining factor which determines the extent to which the physical, emotional and societal needs of a person with disability is met. Education of disabled children is one of the areas which have been largely impacted by the societal attitude. Therefore the concept of inclusive education emerged. According to UNICEF’s Report, on the Status of Disability in India (2000) states that there are around 30 million children in India suffering from some kinds of disability. Besides the Sixth All-India Educational Survey (NCERT, 1998) reports, that out of India’s 200 million school-aged children (6-14 years), 20 million require special needs education. While the national average for gross enrolment in school is over 90 per cent, less than five per cent of children with disabilities are in schools. Therefore, certainly the idea of inclusive education is highly relevant in North-east India, where differences in ability are seen as a threat, rather than a source of richness and diversity. Further there is lacuna of research about the impact of societal attitude on inclusive education in North-east India. Therefore, the objectives of the study are to review the extent of implementation of inclusive education in North-East India and to identify how societal attitude act as a barrier in implementation of inclusive education. Further, this paper also suggests how social work as profession can change societal attitude to strengthen the process of inclusive education. The ontological framework on which the study is based is that social construct normalizes the exclusion faced by children with disability in education. The epistemological assumption is that the relationship between societal attitude and inclusive education can be understood by in-depth review of secondary literature. The logic of procedure as emanating from the theoretical framework is predominantly deductive. Further, the study design includes systematic review and synthesis of related literature. The paper is divided into eight sections namely, introduction, rationale of the study, objectives of the study, methodology, literature review, critical analysis of literature review, suggestion and conclusion.