Ever since Europeans discovered Africa, history has been filled with squalor and suffering. Slavery, rape, and racism were the main features of the colonial land grab and slicing and dicing of colonies owned and controlled by European kingdoms and nations. Though the purge had ended a long time back, both in Africa and the region where their brethren were traded, discrimination reverberates in different forms in different countries in Africa. Kenya, much like other colonies, after more than 60 years of slavery, achieved its independence from the British in 1963. However, this hasn't stopped discrimination from being entirely abolished and has highlighted the Kenyans as the oppressor regarding the populace of Kenya that followers of Islam. Police enforcement and killings of Muslims h...
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Indian Men Still Don’t Prefer Working Women As Partners: Oxford
According to a 2022 study by Oxford University, women who are working are less likely to find matches on matrimonial sites than women who are not working. Diva Dhar, the doctoral candidate who conducted the experiment to test her theory, found that women who had never worked received 15 to 20 percent more interest than those who did. Basically, out of 100 men who respond to a woman who has never worked, only 78 to 85 will respond to a working woman. Dhar spends her time researching Indian women's participation in the labor force and how gender roles affect marriage and the lives of working women. The experiment began with her creating 20 fake profiles on a leading matrimonial website. They were similar in age, lifestyle choices, and diet, and the only differences were caste and w...
Read MoreIndoor Air Pollution Contributes 52% To Overall Pollution Levels In India: Survey
A United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) study (2018), reveals that indoor air pollution may contribute to between 22 and 52% of India's overall pollution levels. The report suggests that indoor emissions need to be reduced to improve air quality. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 4 million people die every year from pneumonia and other diseases caused by indoor air pollution. The report said, "A number of studies indicate that reducing emissions from household cooking and heating may be required to substantially improve ambient air quality in some parts of Asia and the Pacific." Environmental air pollution and indoor air pollution are linked to each other as people spend about 90% of their time indoors. According to the State of Global Air Report 2019, in In...
Read MorePopulation Prospects In India: Demographic Restrictions Continue To Stifle Growth And Development
The UN's World Population Prospects 2022 has increased attention in India's demographic challenges. India will exceed China in population in 2023, with 1.428 billion people compared to China's 1.425 billion. By 2022, the world's population might reach 7.9 billion. According to current patterns, population growth won't decrease until the globe reaches 10.4 billion in 2086. Large-population countries' demographic decline would start sooner. China (2024), Brazil (2047), Indonesia (2061), and India are sooner-than-expected prospects (2064). Pakistan and Nigeria's populations will continue to expand beyond 2085, whereas the US's will stabilise. India's population growth has increased density. Land, water, minerals, and energy are scarce per people, hindering growth. India has 477 peop...
Read MoreMurmu’s Mantras: Service And Comprehensive Education As Two Components To Development
Two themes came through loud and clear in Droupadi Murmu's statement after taking the oath of office as India's next president: service and integrated education. Murmu has highlighted the 19 th century Saint poet of Odisha, Bhima Bhoi, “mo jivan pachhe narke padithau, jagata uddhara heu”, which means that “the world must be saved even if I suffer hell for that cause.” The significance of this poem is undeniable, despite the difficulties of accurately expressing the saint poet's spiritual vision and the inherent problem of translating spiritual poetry into another language. Even in the midst of chaos, misery abounds. When the poet witnesses the suffering of others, he is moved to tears, and he would give up everything, even his own life, to help those in need. Those who can sense the ang...
Read MoreString Of Pearls Theory: The Chinese Dragon Tightening Around Asia
China is viewed as one of the biggest threats there is to world peace, second to Russia. Its communist autocracy concerns democracies all over the globe especially considering its economic rise and as the most quickly developing nation. The Chinese imperialistic aims are on full display with border disputes against India, allying with countries opposed to the West and democracies in general and debt-trapping nations that have crippling economies like Pakistan, Sri Lanka and many more. Focusing more on the debt trapping China's plan of crashing economies and flinging nations is part of the bigger plan called 'Belt and Road Initiative, which China masquerades as the philanthropic mission of providing economic aid and building infrastructure. This, in reality, is a systematic undermini...
Read MoreThe media has only paid to violence, terror and war in Iraq, ignoring the side-effects of the ongoing instability and war instability in Iraq, particularly human trafficking. Human trafficking in Iraq prevailed under Saddam Hussain; the situation worsened by the end of his reign. The U.S. Department of State's 2020 Trafficking in Persons Report ranked Iraq as a tier 2 country. A Tier 2 status means that the nation has not been successful in trafficking using its implemented measures. One of the measures by the Iraqi government includes identifying seventy victims of human trafficking. It has been acknowledged as much higher than this. The blame is passed on to the lack of functioning a functioning in fracture for combating human trafficking correctly. An example is a report from the
Read MoreThe CJI Ramana Calls Media ‘Kangaroo Courts’ Amid Criticisms Of Judiciary
Chief Justice Of India Ramana also told out that there has been an expansion in the number of physical aggression on judges and announced that non-filling up of judicial emptiness and not enhancing the infrastructure were the primary causes for the pendency of issues in the nation. Chief Justice of India N V Ramana Saturday, while documenting problems confronting the present-day court, stated that several media societies in the country were operating "kangaroo courts… on problems actually encountered judges find hard to settle on". Addressing an occasion at the National University of Study & Research in Law in Ranchi, the CJI stated: "Ill-informed and agenda-driven debates on problems involving justice delivery are demonstrating to be dangerous to the healthiness of democracy. Pe...
Read MoreKargil Vijay Diwas: Check Out How India Defeated Pakistan In Operation Vijay
The Kargil War was battled against intruders from Islamabad, who had travelled the Line of Control (LoC) into the Indian region during the winters of 1998. They brought up occupancy in fortified strongholds that dominated the NH 1A in the Ladakh region's Drass and Batalik Sectors of Kargil. In 1999, the battle went on from May 8 to July 26, 1999, when India completed Operation Vijay. On July 26, 2022, New Delhi will celebrate the brave sacrifices and boldness of the failed heroes in retaking different peak heights brought by Pakistani intruders in Kashmir, honouring the 23rd anniversary of its triumph over Pakistan in the Kargil War. Because of separatist motions in Kashmir, some of which were supported by Pakistan, the tension created during the 1990s, the Lahore Declaration was an
Read MoreShinzo Abe: Staunch Advocate For ‘Indo-Pacific’ From ‘Asia-Pacific’
Japan lost its longest-serving PM Shinzo Abe on 8th July 2022. He was assassinated while giving a speech in Nara, Japan. Abe has been a visionary in re-imaging the geopolitical design of the Indo-Pacific. He was the ‘architect’ of the Quad during its initial years and remained its key champion throughout its revival. Abe stressed the importance of joining the Pacific and Indian oceans creating a “broader Asia”, from which the present concept of Indo-Pacific evolved. Advocate for ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ Shinzo Abe has been hailed as the pioneer of the concept of the “Indo-Pacific”. Before 2007 the area stretching all the way from Australia and US to China was known as Asia-Pacific. Abe feared the threat from China which was at the centre of this geopolitical landscape. He was the...
Read MoreThe French Empire was one of the most powerful in human history. At its height, it controlled almost ten per cent of the world's land area. The country was a dominant global power from Southeast Asia to West Africa. And that was particularly true in Africa. France oversaw territory spanning 17 modern-day nations, from Morocco to the Congo. Under the banner of a "civilising mission," France managed brutal occupations that engorged the empire's wealth. It left a terrible legacy for ordinary Africans – marked by slavery, extraction, and murder. And today, France's empire in Africa is STILL around – in a streamlined, more profitable, and even more exploitative form. In the aftermath of the Second World War, a wave of decolonial movements swept across Africa and Asia. And the French –...
Read MoreUK Gives Caravan Of Nuclear Submarines To Australia: Does China Need To Worry?
The chief of UK armed forces, Tony Radakin, is hoping to arrive at a contract on the problem at a naval talk in Sydney next week, thereby completing London's responsibility under the AUKUS security partnership of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The submarines will be deployed on the west coast of Australia in the city of Perth until 2024 to move out patrol functions. Australian submarine administrators will be incorporated into the UK team to improve their talents. The Royal Navy has fallen to reveal how numerous of its submarines may be sent to Australia, telling that all operational points regarding the UK submarine caravan are organised. The UK defence ministry has also denied commenting on the subject. The AUKUS association, founded in September 2021, a
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