Honour killing or more appropriately killing of honour – is a death sentenced by family or society members to a man or woman for marrying against parent’s wish, having extra-marital or pre-marital affair, marrying outside one’s caste or [...]

Some misguided people in our country who prefer a male child over a female child get the sex of their unborn child determined by ultrasound technique, even after the technique being declared illegal and in case it is a female foetus, they get [...]

The Jan Lokpal Bill, also referred to as Grievance Redressal And Whistleblower Protection Act, 2010, is a draft anti-corruption bill drawn up by prominent civil society activists seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent corruption [...]

Since 1970, Syria has been a dictatorship run by the Assad family. In that year, Hafez al-Assad, the Defense Minister, launched a coup that put him in power. Upon the death of Hafez al-Assad in 2000, his son, Bashar al-Assad, became President [...]

The 2007–2012 global financial crisis, also known as the Global Financial Crisis(GFC), is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the collapse of large financial [...]