Court has made death penalty applicable only to the rarest of rare cases – the cases where the act is no less than shocking to human conscience. The landmark cases where the death sentences were awarded in India are Ranga Billa case‚ Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case‚ Laxman Nayak case and most recently in 2004 Hatab case of West Bengal where accused Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged on 14 August‚ 2004‚ on his birthday‚ after Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence awarded by the
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WOMEN THOU ART UNPARALLELED “A country or a community in which women are not honored cannot be considered as civilized” My friends these noble words of Mahatma Gandhi about women indicate how the contribution of the women has been contemplated by human race over the years. Women constitute a major share in terms of contribution to the society for prosperity and wealth. Women‘s development forms the grassroots of social development. It is believed that with the creation of a woman‚ gods complements
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Indian History - Important events History of India . An overview : The people of India have had a continuous civilization since 2500 B.C.‚ when the inhabitants of the Indus River valley developed an urban culture based on commerce and sustained by agricultural trade. This civilization declined around 1500 B.C.‚ probably due to ecological changes. During the second millennium B.C.‚ pastoral‚ Aryan-speaking tribes migrated from the northwest into the subcontinent. As they settled in the middle Ganges
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Case Study: Coke and Pepsi in India: Coca-Cola controlled the Indian market until 1977‚ when the Janata Party beat the Congress Party of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. To punish Coca-Cola’s principal bottler‚ a Congress Party stalwart and longtime Gandhi supporter‚ the Janata government demanded that Coca-Cola transfer its syrup formula to an Indian subsidiary. Coca-Cola balked and withdrew from the country. India‚ now left without both Coca-Cola and Pepsi‚ became a protected market. In the
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are simply being disregarded at the dominant men’s best. But we should not forget that history in a witness to the women who have in the past demonstrated unique leadership capabilities. Razia Sultana‚ Rani of Jhansi Laxmibai‚ Sarojini Naidu and Indira Gandhi are the examples of women empowerment. Earlier‚ most women were able to demonstrate the leadership qualities only on their home fronts‚ as in Indian society man has always acted as the master of the scene and the decision regarding the issue of
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the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had projected L.K. Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee its prime ministerial candidates in the past (remember the Ab ki baari Atal Bihari slogan in 1996?). The Congress party’s projection of Indira Gandhi as the country’s tallest leader with its ’Indira lao desh bachao’ tagline in the 1970s is another such example. But the personal rhetoric had been tied‚ and sometimes made subservient‚ to the political parties to which these leaders belonged. With his landslide win in
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This investigation will answer the question: For what reasons did Pakistan support the Mujahedeen during the Afghan-Soviet War‚ between the years 1979-1989? This investigation is important because Pakistan’s role was essential in ensuring the Mujahedeen’s success over the Soviets in the Soviet-Afghan war of 1979. The scope of this investigation is the reasons behind Pakistan’s involvement in the Soviet-Afghan war and their successes in training the Mujahedeen during the years 1979-1989. Firstly
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ugliness to beauty. The cameos have layers of meanings. They abound in ambiguity‚ pun‚ and allusions to historical and political happenings‚ satire‚ irony‚ wit and black humour. The author hasn’t spared even Gandhi‚ Nehru‚ Sheikh Abdullah‚ Farooq Abdullah‚ Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He is critical of Nehru’s policy on Kashmiri and Gandhi’s ‘ray of hope’ that he saw in Kashmiri in 1947. The author talks about Jinnah and Zia-ul-Haq. He exposes the leaders and politicians who played with the
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public sector and a closely monitored‚ regulated and controlled system where government played the role of licenser in the process of building industry. There were few hiccups in between. In the late 70s Mrs. Indira Gandhi brought in small doses of liberalization. In the mid 80′s Rajiv Gandhi did likewise but the real change came in 1991 when economic crises were looming large on the horizon. India’s economy could be termed as a developing economy which is characterized by the co-existence‚ in greater
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Who is a mass communicator? A mass communicator is the one who has the ability to reach out to a number of people and put across his opinions and influence people in some way or the other. According to me‚ Mahatma Gandhi was an effective mass communicator. He had the ability to convince people to accept his views and opinions and he influenced the entire nation in a major way. Perhaps‚ that’s the reason he came to be known as the “Father Of The Nation”. To be a good communicator‚ a person should
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