Linkages of Organized Crime with Terrorism | UPSC – IAS Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a religious or political aim. It is used in this regard primarily to refer to violence during peacetime. The […]
POCSO Act | Child Sextual Abuse in India| UPSC – IAS India has one of the largest population of children in the world – Census data from 2011 shows that India has a population of 472 million children below the age of eighteen, of which 225 million are girls. In order to effectively address the
Armed forces Special Powers act AFSPA | UPSC – IAS Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, enacted in the year 1958, grants extraordinary powers and immunity to the armed forces to bring back order in the “disturbed areas”. Areas are considered disturbed “by reason of differences or disputes between members of different religious, racial, language or
Role of Women and Women’s Organizations in India | UPSC – IAS (An Introduction and Analysis) Indian Society, which is largely male dominated, for the position of women in society. Not only men, even most women internalize their position in society as a fair description of their status through the ages. These generalizations apply to
