Poverty Leads to Crime Poverty shares an intimate connection with crime. Although it is true that all criminals are not poor and the poor are not all criminals, it is the likelihood of people living in poverty to commit crimes that brings up the correlation. The causes and effects of poverty are the determining factors that make poverty often resort to crime. The fact that whitest collared crime goes uninvestigated and...

Reservation: Does India Need It? Reservation in India owes its occurrence to the fact that the Government perceives citizens belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (the so called backward classes) as inadequately represented in government sere ices and institutions. Generally, caste serves as the main factor for Reservation in India, although sometimes other facts like religion also take part. The Mandal Commission put the last nail in the coffin by...

Oil Merchants of The Gulf The countries Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab. Emirates, and the Sultanate of Oman politically constitute the Gulf Cooperation Council which was constituted on 26th May 1961. The aim of this Council was to promote coordination among member oil merchant states in all areas to achieve unity. In 2006, the Persian Gulf countries produced about 28 percent of the world’s oil, while holding 55...

ASEAN-The Association of Southeast Asian Countries ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Countries) was established on 8th August 1967 in Bangkok by the five original men1ber countries: Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and Philippines. In 1984 Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN followed by Vietnam in 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar in 1997 and Cambodia in 1999. It is a geo-political and economic organization of ten countries located in Southeast Asia. The main objective...

Nuke Free World During the Cold War (from 1940 to 1970) nuclear, weapons were necessary to maintain international security because they were considered a means of prevention. Nuclear weapons’ were a means of deterrence. The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however left such mass destruction in its wake that post, war Japan went on to adopt Three Non-Nuclear Principles, forbidding the nation from nuclear armament. The bombs killed close to...

The Nobel Laureate In 1895, a year before his death, Alfred Nobel signed the ramous will which would execute some of the objectives to which he had dedicated so much of his life. Most of Nobel’s estate, more that Swedish Kronor 31 million (today about Swedish Kronor 1,500 million) as per the stipulations of Nobel’s will had to converted into a fund and invested in safe securities. Alfred Nobel willed the...

Human Trafficking Human trafficking is just another name for modern-day slavery, wherein the victims involved are forced, coerced and deceived into labour and sexual exploitation. The figures are scary. Almost 600000 to 800000 women and children are annually trafficked across national borders. This does not account for the numbers that are trafficked within their own countries. Most human trafficking victims are actually duped into the trade by the false promises made...

Funfairs and Amusement Parks A funfair is a small or medium sized traveling fair primarily consisting of amusement rides. In some place these funfairs are called as ‘carnivals’ and in the Indian subcontinent they are called as `melas.’ A fun fair is generally a conglomeration of amusement rides and fun game stalls. In the countryside a funfair provides a brief interlude from the tough life that comes along with the unforgiving...