Abortion  Abortion, termination of pregnancy before the foetus is capable of independent life. When the expulsion from the uterus occurs after the foetus becomes viable (capable of independent life), usually at the end of six months of pregnancy, it is technically a premature birth. Abortion may be spontaneous or induced. Expelled foetuses weighing less than 0.5 kg or of less than 20 weeks’ gestation are usually considered abortions. In spontaneous abortion...

Modern Women and The Society  Modern women are facing many problem as a member of society in transition. The women while adapting to new work culture , new attitudes and new careers are increasingly coming under pressure. We take a look at few problems faced by modern women in this fast world. Earlier many people did not have a good attitude towards modelling but in recent years with Indian beauty queens...

Qualities men like about Women Women are the most beautiful gift of nature of the men. Without women this would cease to exist. It is amazing how women are so wonderfully giving and loving. Their love is unconditional and forever. And once they forgive, when they really forget. They don’t dig out the heavy artillery, even they have the best opportunities to do so. It is lovely how women manage to...

Dowry and The Modern Woman It’s been a while since a countrywide brigade—albeit small— of bridegroom-rejecting brides, flagged off by the petite 21-year-old Nisha Sharma, took the world by storm. Now that the dust has settled, it is time to examine whether the courageous stance of Sharma, Farzana and Vidya Balasubramaniam (the other two who called off their marriages at the last moment) was indeed a triumphant strike on patriarchy and...

Girl Foeticide  Gynaecologists have finally begun making noises against sex selective abortions. The fraternity that openly held out guarantees of delivering only males by ensuring that female foetuses were eliminated and made easy money while performing this ‘greatly needed social service’ is beginning to feel the heat. According to the 2001 census, only 927 female children are born for every thousand male children. It can be assumed that if gynecologists banded...

Unidentified Flying Object – UFO Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) is any object or light in the sky that cannot be immediately explained by the observer. Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but UFOs (sometimes called flying saucers) became widely discussed only after the first widely publicized American sighting in 1947. Many thousands of such observations have since been reported worldwide. At least 90 per cent of UFO...

E-Commerce : Electronic Commerce : E-Commerce an abbreviation for electronic commerce, usually defined as the conduct of business on-line, via the Internet. Until recently, e-commerce was limited mainly to large companies and their suppliers, who connected their computers together to speed up ordering and payment systems. Today, millions of people are involved in e-commerce on the Internet—when, for example, they visit World Wide Web sites to buy books or CDs, order...

Cryogenics  Cryogenics is the study and use of materials at very low temperatures. The upper limit of cryogenic temperatures has not been agreed on, but the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology has suggested that the term cryogenics be applied to all temperatures below -150° C (-238° F or 123 K). Some scientists take the normal boiling point of oxygen (-183° C or -297° F), as the upper limit....