The Right to Information (RTT) Act is a law enacted by the Parliament of India to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens. It was passed by Parliament on 15 June 2005 and came fully into force on 13 October 2005. The RTI Act mandates timely response to citizen requests for government information, ll applies 10 all Stales and Union Territories of India, except the State of Jammu and Kashmir, which is covered under a State-level law. The Act relaxes the Official Secrets Act of 1889 which was amended in 1923 and various other special laws that restricted information disclosure in India. In other words, the Act explicitly overrides the Official Secrets Act and oilier laws in force as on 15 June 2005 to the extent of any inconsistency. Under the provisions of the Act, any citizen (excluding the citizens within J&K) may request more...

The more than ten coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai which began on 26 November 2008 are referred to as 26/11 on the lines of 9/11 that reminds of the attack on the Twin Towers in US. The attacks lasted until 29 November, killing at least 173 people and wounding at least 308. Eight of the attacks occurred in South Mumbai including at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Oberoi Trident, the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital, the Orthodox Jewish-owned Nariman House, and the Metro Cinema. There was also an explosion at Mazagaon, in Mumbai's port area, and in a taxi at Vile Parle. India's National Security Guards (NSG) carried out Operation Black Tornado, which ended all fighting in the attacks on 29 November with the death of the last remaining attackers at the Taj hotel. Ajmal Kasab was the only attacker who was captured alive. He more...

Feminism refers to political, cultural, and economic movements aimed at establishing greater rights, legal protection for women, and or women's liberation. It includes some of the sociological theories and philosophies concerned with issues of gender difference. Nancy Cott defines feminism as the belief in the importance of gender equality, invalidating the idea of gender hierarchy as a socially constructed concept. Feminism has earned itself a bad reputation, but it never undermined gender differences that exist between males and females. A man can never be as good a mother as a female can. Similarly, a woman can never be as good a father as a male can. While accepting these anatomical and physiological differences between the two genders, feminism seeks for both genders to be equally respected. They are both human and as a species, humans cannot progress without either one of them. Maggie Humm and Rebecca Walker divide the history more...

Believe it or not, around 24,000 people die directly from hunger or hunger related diseases every day, in spite of the fact that there is enough on earth for every single person to have about five pounds of food per day. Since most of this food is produced in developed nations, like the United States, to make it reach the countries that need it, there are huge expenses in packaging, transporting, and distribution. Food problem arises in some countries as they have very little arable land due to the soil being too hard, temperature too extreme, or there might not be enough water in the area. However, new land is being made available through continually developing technologies. Another problem might be that the land is not being used efficiently enough. Some methods of food production are more efficient than others naturally. For example, beef production takes about 10 to 20 more...

Cyber crime is the new breed of crime, which is either perpetrated using computers, or is otherwise related to them. Its origin can be traced to the growing dependence on computers in modern life. Cyber crime has assumed sinister implications today as everything from microwave ovens and refrigerators to nuclear power plants is being run on computers. Today, the world is moving towards a point where everything from banking, stock exchanges, air traffic control, telephones to electric power, health care, welfare and education depends on software. This exponential growth, and the increase in the capacity and accessibility of computers coupled with the decrease in cost, has brought about revolutionary changes in every aspect of human civilization, including crime. As a result, the increased capacities of information systems today come at the cost of increased vulnerability. Information technology has begun to produce criminal opportunities of a variety that the brightest criminals more...

Reading is a wonderful habit. It is a. kind of therapy, which can work wonders and act as a soothing balm to calm frenzied minds and frayed nerves. It is a stimulating tonic, which brings that distinctive qualitative change in the wholesome persona of the individual who takes to it just like a duck takes to water. Allied with it, it is also quoted that books are one's best friends in life and this even when one's real friends in life betray one. Books are always there even in one's most difficult times and are very rightly hailed as human's best soothe-mate. Reading is a very good habit which not only increases knowledge but also improves language. It helps people in keeping themselves updated about the current issues and the present trends besides increasing their creativity and imagination. Spending some amount of time on reading helps individuals to gain perspectives more...

The status of women in India has undergone many great changes over the past few millennia—from a largely unknown status in ancient times through the low points of the medieval period, to the promotion of equal right in recent decades. In the ancient times, the primary duty of women was Service to one's husband. Scholars, however, believe that in ancient India, women enjoyed equal status with men in all Holds of life. Works by .ancent Indian grammarians such as Patanjali and katyayana .suggest that women were educated in the early Vedic period rigvedic verses invest that the women married at a mature age and were probably free to select their husband. Gargi and Maitreyi were notable women sages mentioned in scriptures such as Rig Veda and Upanishads.          According to studies, the status of women began to decline with the Smritis, especially Manusmriti. The Islamic invasion and later Christianity curtailed women's more...

The first railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane on 16 April 1853. The idea of a railway to connect Bombay with Thane, Kalyan and with the Thai and Bhore Gnats inclines first occurred to George dark, the Chief Engineer of the Bombay Government, during a visit to Bhandup in 1843. During the formal inauguration ceremony, 14 railway carriages carrying about 400 guests left Bori Bunder at 3.30 pm "amidst the loud applause of a vast multitude and to the salute of 21 guns". The first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly, a distance of 24 miles, on 15 August 1854. Thus the first section of the East Indian Railway was opened to public traffic, inaugurating the beginning of railway transport on the Eastern side of the sub-continent. In South, the first line was opened on 1 July more...

The first and foremost purpose of education is to educate all students and give everyone equal opportunity as a means to succeed in life. Education is a way of igniting and enlightening the thought of an individual. It is to create a spark and create the sense of realization about the purpose of life, world and the universe. It is a magical tool to grasp and get the insight of the infinity. Education is to teach everything with the logic and a way to reason why the other things are illogical. It should help learners to discriminate the knowledge and ignorance, light and dark, day and night, space and time, life and death, world and unworldly, illustration and illusion, image and mirage, finite and infinite, etc. The main reason for education is to bring the ignorance into light and help learners to see the world they thought was not only more...

Cancer has become the second-most killer disease today, killing about Seven to eight million people every year in the world. It refers to a class of diseases characterized by out-of-control cell growth. There are over 100 different types of cancer, and each is classified by the type of cell that is initially affected. The disease harms the body when damaged cells divide uncontrollably to form lumps or masses of tissue called tumours (except in the case of leukaemia where cancer prohibits normal blood function by abnormal cell division in (lie blood stream). Tumours can grow and interfere with the digestive, nervous or corculatory systems and they can release releas hormones that alter body function Tumours that stay in one spot and limited growth are generally considered to be benign. More dangerous or malignan tumours form when two things occur: one, a cancerous cell manages to  move throughout the body using more...