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AJMAL KASAB CASE STUDY MOHD. AJMAL AMIR KASAB VS. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AIR 2012 SC 3565 INTRODUCTION AND FACTS: A group of 10 Pakistani terrorists sailed to India in the city of Bombay to brutally kill innocent people in the city. This happened for a consecutive three days from 26th November 2008 to 29th November 2008. These three days can be called as “Black Days” of the Indian History and no citizen can ever forget these days in their lives. The 10 men who entered India illegally had loads…

many people have heard of it. Just like Buddhism, Sikhism can be confused with a way of life just as much as a religion. There are approximately 20 million Sikhs in the world today and around 250,000 Sikhs in the United States. Sikhism originated in Punjab, India and is derived from Hindu and Muslim teachings (Sikhism). Sikhs do not have caste systems or many Gods like Hinduism. Similarly, Sikhism does not practice the superiority of men over women found is Islamic beliefs. The founder was known…

Maternal health is defined as the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.(“WHO | Maternal health,” 2016) It is used as an indicator for evaluating the quality of health care systems and is assessed using estimates of maternal mortality and morbidity rates. Maternal health is a significant aspect of the health of populations and the repeated emphasis placed on this health issue by global institutions and local governments over the years, reiterates its importance.…

Introduction: Life Course is one of the major theories in investigating the lives of individuals within the cultural and social framework. It is a pattern of socially defined, age-graded events and roles, which are subject to historical change in culture and social structure (Elder 1999). Over the past several decades, life course has changed immensely throughout the world- where once there were large family size and everyone depended on the income of one family member, now the family size has…

After the 7 July 2005 London bombings, British-Pakistani Muslims began to be discriminated against by white people in public spaces. For British-Pakistani Muslims, their ethnicity, religion and nationality all became sources of their identity, and became problematic if they were constructed against the British ideal. These forms of discrimination occurred in many spaces, one such space was cricket in England. Cricket in England since the 7 July 2005 London transport bombings has become a…

INTRODUCTION “The term 'Dalit' is derived from the Hebrew root 'Dal' meaning 'broken' or 'crushed'. In Sanskrit it means 'downtrodden', certain Hindi versions explain the term as 'oppressed' or exploited.” The meaning of the term Dalit can be explained through the example of flower petals. While the broken petals are symbolic of Dalits, the petals which are joined to the calyx signify the rest of the society. The term is used to signify a broken down and downtrodden section of the society.…

Bollywood is not just a source of entertainment for many people. In fact, people love to follow celebrities on social media to take a peek in their lives and also to draw inspiration from their fashion and makeup choices. This is one of the reasons why beauty bloggers love to do celebrity inspired makeup looks since that is what the audience wants, to know the tricks to look like their favourite Bollywood starlet. In this article, we are going to share 15 makeup secrets of popular Bollywood…

South Asia, is home to over one fifth of the world’s population and is known to be the most disaster prone region in the world. It is also home to a majority of the world’s poor. According to FAO (2009), 1.02 billion people are undernourished worldwide in 2009. About 456 million people in South Asia are estimated to be undernourished. In the recent past, climate change emerged as the single most pressing issue facing society on a global basis, with serious implications for the food security of…

Pak-China Economic Corridor: Geo- Strategic Importance of Pakistan The geographical significance of a country plays a pivotal role in the world politics for that country. It marks that how critically beneficial or non-beneficial is the country to the other countries in social, economic and political respects. Pakistan is located at a very strategically important place on the globe. It is located at the juncture of energy proficient to energy deficient countries. On…

This is why over one billion people follow this religion today. Sikhism was founded in the 15th century and is a monotheistic religion. Guru Nank is the founder of Sikhism and its first Guru. Since then, there have only been ten more Gurus. Punjab, India is the only state in the world to have a majority of Sikh. In Sikhism, it has been written that god is an omnipresent being with no gender and without form. In the western world, many people have converted to Sikhism through yoga…