Priya's idyllic world turns upside down when she realizes her husband considers her dead weight after stripping her off her inheritance for his ambitions and lavish lifestyle.Instantly attracted to Priya, Abhimanyu knows getting involved with a married woman is inviting trouble. But despite common sense, cautions and hesitations, he is drawn to help her.Happily ever after has become a myth for Priya and trying to keep the relationship plato...

They never had anything in common and tolerated each other for their best friends' sake. Thrown together due to circumstances beyond their control, Cupid strikes.Aditi is a modern girl working in Delhi brought up in a sheltered atmosphere with high traditional family values.Rahul is a free thinker with no regard or patience for archaic social norms.Will Rahul be able to break the barrier of Aditi's social conditioning? Will he go to...

Air pollution has become a major global issue due to rapid industrialization, human population growth and increasing urbanization. The various sources of atmospheric pollutants, both those created by human activity and those from natural physical and biological processes, have become the focus of much scientific research and analysis. An understanding of how these many pollutants are affecting air quality is essential in order to design strategies to mitigate them. Written by a team of int...

From sustainable event planning to the influence of VR, AI, and mobile applications on tourist behaviour, this book explores the dynamic landscape where innovation meets tradition. It studies the intersection of green technologies, sustainable infrastructure, and the delicate balance between cutting-edge tools and the intrinsic emotional aspects of human engagement. Aligned with the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the book highlights AI's potential to drive meaningful con...

That afternoon, Abhishek Verma met a girl on his flight from Delhi to Siliguri. She didn't tell him her name, but she did willingly give him a kiss. Abhishek can never forget that kiss, shared with the girl of his dreams, 30,000 feet above the ground. After all, it was his first, and he never got to kiss her again. Find out what happened that day ...

Years ago, Ishita broke Vinay's heart. Now, fate has brought them together again. For a long time, Vinay has asked himself the same questions over and over again - why did she leave him? What went wrong? Was their love not strong enough?Now, he has a chance to find the answers he's been searching for. But is he ready to face the truth?

When Rajni finds out that her husband of several years has fallen in love with his secretary, she is heartbroken. After the divorce, as she falls deeper into depression, her son whisks her away to Goa for a change of scene, in the hope that it will lift her spirits.What he doesn't reckon for is that his fifty-four-year-old mother will find not just a new lease of life, but also true love.Will he be able to make peace with his mother's new boyfriend?

That afternoon, I met a girl on my flight from Delhi to Siliguri. She didn't tell me her name, but willingly kissed me in return. I will never forget that kiss, I shared at 30,000 feet above ground, for two reasons. One, it was my first. Two, I never got to kiss her again. Here is what happened that day...

This two-volume set, CCIS 2382 and CCIS 2383, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Computational Intelligence, ICANTCI 2024, held in Punjab, India, during April 5-6, 2024.The 38 full papers and 6 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 153 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Advanced Network Technologies; Computational I...

Vinay is on his way to work as usual. Suddenly at the metro platform, his eyes fall upon the only love of his life who does not belong to him anymore. What will he do? What would you do if you were at Vinay's place? Would you change your path to avoid bumping into your ex so that you don't have to relive the pain again? Would you go and meet them right away, leaving the past behind? Or would you grab the opportunity to be able to see them everyday as long as it is possible and maybe someda...

This book focuses on integrated disaster risk reduction arising out of climate change and shows how communities build resilience through adaptive and transformative strategies at the local and global levels. It integrates disaster risk, uncertainty, and maladaptation to climate change with evidence from empirical research and a systematic review of existing studies. The book also proposes two important contributions, which makes it distinctive. First, it gives a systematic review of the li...

The global energy landscape is changing radically as the world moves from dirty fossil fuels to relatively cleaner renewable forms of power. The urgency for climate change action as well as sustainable energy solutions are a critical element in the long-term economic and environmental sustainability. In this framework, fuzzy logic has provided a breakthrough for solving complexities and uncertainties in renewable energy systems. It is perfect for handling the variability and intermittent n...