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Feminism and Social Justice: A Reflection

Defining Feminism is a major challenge that world faces. The main reasons for this include, the dilemma between the interchangeable use of the terms of sex and gender. Sex is biological, gender is a social construct. The fact that these terms are misrepresented leads to the rise of various issues, creates set gender roles that…

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INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION

In 1856, British colonial officials in India were busy supervising the construction of a railway along the Indus River valley that would connect the towns of Lahore and Karachi modern-day Pakistan. Some of the laborers noticed many fire-baked bricks wedged in the parched landscape as they proceeded to work. Hundreds of thousands of rather uniform…

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR RAPE

The debate on capital punishment has been running over the past so many decades, but yet nothing concrete is coming up. Many may be satisfied with the present legislation on giving of capital punishment but to many of us its still not serving the purpose that it is deemed to serve. Which as far as…

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OVERVIEW OF DIVIDEND POLICY

Dividend policy means policies related to the distribution of the dividend to the shareholders. The share of a company’s after-tax earnings paid to its owners on the basis of the number of shares owned by them that is after payment of the taxes the surplus amount is distributed among the shareholders as per their shareholding…

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SOURCES OF FINANCE FOR A COMPANY

Companies are still looking for sources of capital to expand their businesses. Funding, sometimes referred to as lending, is an act of adding money to the funding of a policy, initiative or need. The various sources of financing available to a company that is also interested to go public are: Retained Earnings: After making income,…

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Dowry System in India

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood Mahatma Gandhi Introduction In India, dowry has its roots in medieval times when a gift in cash or kind was given to a bride by her family to maintain her independence after marriage. During the colonial…

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THE ‘GOLDEN TRIANGLE’

The underlying fact that the Constitution of India is the longest written Constitution of any sovereign country in the world. Constitution declares India a sovereign, socialistic, secular, democratic, republic, assuring its citizens of justice, equality and liberty, and endeavors to promote fraternity among them. The six fundamental rights namely Right to Freedom, Right to Equality,…

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Purpose of Preamble

The meaning of word preamble according to oxford is “A preliminary or preparatory statement; an introduction”, but in relevance to the Indian constitution is this the only role that it plays? Or is there more to it than what the name suggests… The preamble of the Indian constitution is a product of the objectives resolution,…

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Capital punishment

CAPITAL PUNISHMENTEvery one of us is familiar with the term punishment. But Capital Punishment is something very few people understand. Capital punishment is a legal death penalty ordered by the court against the violation of criminal laws. In addition, the method of punishment varies from country to country. Where some countries hung the culprits until…

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