The United Nations Peacekeeping mission has of late been under scanner, already involved in many sexual exploitation and human rights abuse scandals apart from various allegations like oil for food scam. Now, the UN mission in Congo too has come under..
The gentlemen’s game has received a new high with top entrepreneurs investing their wealth in the game. The game of cricket has by far remained a bundle of controversies with matching fixing, bribing and other such unscrupulous means. The game of...
Outsourcing was once seen as a bad word in the west that meant proliferation of call centers in India, where undergraduates and ordinary graduates would provide customer care support. However, in the last couple of years outsourcing has taken a very...
Five thousand years ago when the Aryans came to India and divided the Indian society on the basis of four castes – the Brahmin, Kshatrya, Vaishya and Sudra, caste was determined according to the occupation of the person. There are a number of stories.
Female foeticides are rampant in many parts of India despite laws like the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques that prohibit selective abortion and sex determination of the foetus. This is evident from India’s sex ratio that shows that for each 1000 boys.
It is often said that the biggest strength of India is its democracy. One can say anything he/she wants to and espouse any cause that they want. But there are times when one wishes that there were some ways to remedy some evils, which slip through...
While the Indian multinational software giant Tata Consultancy Services earns 51 per cent of its revenue from North America, the American multinational IBM depends on its domestic domain for only 35 percent of its revenue. The different market...
Despite laws prohibiting child labour, with overwhelming poverty in the country the Indian government appears to be helpless in eliminating child labour in the country. The architects of the Indian Constitution had provided for free and compulsory...
India’s muted response to the Chinese atrocities in Tibet and the Indian government’s efforts to protect the Olympic torch as it made its way through the national capital had raised criticism from several quarters that India had moved away from its.
After enjoying close ties for decades, will the landslide victory of the Nepali Maoists in the general elections change the diplomatic and economic relations between Nepal and its powerful neighbour India? Given the close link between the Nepali...
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