Wednesday, July 14, 2010
KANU SANYAL
He is he aechitects of the nexalite movement and, who in more recent times, was critical of the maoists, was found dead at his residence in the naxalbari area of west bengal darjeeling district on April 23 2010.
Monday, July 12, 2010
ROLE OF MASS MEDIA IN WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Media has important role in the awareness generation and women emancipation . Especially for last two decades, media has been instrumental in improving condition of women must be stopped .Advertisement companies are competing with each other in portraying nudity and sexist appeals.
Media should be used to portraying images consistant with human dignity of girls and women .Efforts should be made to specifically strive to remove demeaning , degrading and negative conventional stereotypical images of women and violence against women . The media would be encouraged to develop codes of conduct , professional guidelines and other self regulatory mechanism to remove gender stereotypes and women and men.
Private sector partners and media networks should be involved at all levels to ensure equal access for women particularly in the area of information and communication technologies.
Media should be used to portraying images consistant with human dignity of girls and women .Efforts should be made to specifically strive to remove demeaning , degrading and negative conventional stereotypical images of women and violence against women . The media would be encouraged to develop codes of conduct , professional guidelines and other self regulatory mechanism to remove gender stereotypes and women and men.
Private sector partners and media networks should be involved at all levels to ensure equal access for women particularly in the area of information and communication technologies.
Friday, July 9, 2010
SAARC SUMMIT
The 16th SAARC summit was held in Thimphu from April 28 .Two new agreements signed environment and trade in service . This was the first time Bhutan hosted as SAARC summit. Bhutan chose climate change as the theme of the event. Theme of the summit is climate change . Butan choose climate change as the theme of the event at a time when the issue has engaged the world in a more meaningful manner than ever.South Asia being one of the world's ecologically most diverse and one of the most ecologically fragile regions is highly vulnerable to effects of climate change and one has witnessed the untold sufferings inflicted up on the poorest of the poor in the area by Tsunami and cyclones Aila and Sidr.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
HIMALAYA
Himalayan mountains are also known as the Himadri, Himavan, or Himachal.The Himalayas consist of the youngest and the loftiest mountain chain in the world .The magnitude of their size can be estimated from the fact that the central usual range of the main Himalayas alone stretches for a distance of over 2,400km from the Indus gorge in the east . The width of the Himalayas varies from 500km in Kashmir to 200km in Arunachal Pradesh. The total area of the Himalayan mountain region is nearly 5 lakh sqkm.The pamir , popularly known as the roof of the world is the connecting link between the Himalayas and the high ranges of Central Asia.The Himalayas have attained a unique personality owing to their high altitude, steep gradient, snow capped summits, deeply dissected topography youthful drainag, complex geological structure and rich temperate flora in the sub tropical latitudes. The Himalayan mountain chains have the lofties peaks of the world.
NATIONAL PARK
A national park is a reserve of natural or semi natural land declared or owned by a government, set used for human recreation and enjoyment, animal and environmental protection and restricted from most development.
Kaziranga National Park
The kaziranga national park in Guwahati, famous for one horned rhino, has the highest density of tigers in the world .This was revealed in a report titled monitoring of tigers and prey animals of kaziranga national park released by Assam Forest and Environment Ministry. The report stated that the density of tigers at kaziranga is 32.64 tigers per 100sq highest in any known tiger habitat.
Kaziranga National Park
The kaziranga national park in Guwahati, famous for one horned rhino, has the highest density of tigers in the world .This was revealed in a report titled monitoring of tigers and prey animals of kaziranga national park released by Assam Forest and Environment Ministry. The report stated that the density of tigers at kaziranga is 32.64 tigers per 100sq highest in any known tiger habitat.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Capital punishment also known as death penalty, is essentially the execution of an individual as punishment for offence by a state. The crimes which can lead to capital punishment are called capital crimes or capital offences by a state . The crimes which can lead to capital punishment are called capital crimes or capital offences. Earlier, the killing of criminals and political opponents was prevelent in almost every civilization.
The supreme court of India ruled in 1983 that the death penalty should be imposed only in "the rarest of rare cases", capital crimes are murder , gang robbery with murder, abetting the science of a child or insane person, waging war against the nation, and abetting mutiny by a member of the armed forces. In recent years the death penalty has been imposed under new anti-terrorism legislation for people convicted of terrorist activities .
Mohammed Afsal (Afsal Guru) was convicted of conspiracy in connection with the 2001 Indian parliament attack and was sentenced to death. The supreme court of india upheld the sentence , ruling that the attack" shocked the conscience of the society at large ". Afsal was scheduled to be executed on october 20, 2006 but the sentenced was stayed.
According to Amnesty International a human rights NGO, death sentence is retained by the legal system of only 58 countries at present while nearly two thirds of the countries of the world have either abolished it or have not used it for at least 10 years . Most of the countries , which have abolished the death sentence , are in the western world, while over 60% of the worlds population lives in countries where death sentence is still legal .
The majority of states in Latin America have absolutely abolished capital punishment however, a few countries like Brazil use death penality only in special situation ,for example treachery committed during war time . There are still a quite a few states and countries that retain the use of capital punishment , including the US ( The federal government and 36 of its states ) Japan, and Africa.
Pro's and con's of capital punishment
Deterrance
Prevents recurrence of violence
More humane than life imprisonment
More economical than life imprisonment
Con's
Violation of human rights
Chance for reform
Doesn't deter crime
Miscarriage of justice
The supreme court of India ruled in 1983 that the death penalty should be imposed only in "the rarest of rare cases", capital crimes are murder , gang robbery with murder, abetting the science of a child or insane person, waging war against the nation, and abetting mutiny by a member of the armed forces. In recent years the death penalty has been imposed under new anti-terrorism legislation for people convicted of terrorist activities .
Mohammed Afsal (Afsal Guru) was convicted of conspiracy in connection with the 2001 Indian parliament attack and was sentenced to death. The supreme court of india upheld the sentence , ruling that the attack" shocked the conscience of the society at large ". Afsal was scheduled to be executed on october 20, 2006 but the sentenced was stayed.
According to Amnesty International a human rights NGO, death sentence is retained by the legal system of only 58 countries at present while nearly two thirds of the countries of the world have either abolished it or have not used it for at least 10 years . Most of the countries , which have abolished the death sentence , are in the western world, while over 60% of the worlds population lives in countries where death sentence is still legal .
The majority of states in Latin America have absolutely abolished capital punishment however, a few countries like Brazil use death penality only in special situation ,for example treachery committed during war time . There are still a quite a few states and countries that retain the use of capital punishment , including the US ( The federal government and 36 of its states ) Japan, and Africa.
Pro's and con's of capital punishment
Deterrance
Prevents recurrence of violence
More humane than life imprisonment
More economical than life imprisonment
Con's
Violation of human rights
Chance for reform
Doesn't deter crime
Miscarriage of justice
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
FEMA (The Foreign Exchange Management Act) 1999
The foreign exchange management act 1999 or in short FEMA has been introduced as a replacement for earlier foreign exchange regulation act ( FREA). FEMA came in to act on the 1st day june 2000. The main objective behind the foreign exchange management act 1999 is to consolidate and amend the law relating to foreign exchange with objective of facilitating external trade and payments and for promoting the orderly development and maintenance of foreign exchange market in india .
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