The financial development of any nation depends on strong investor protection and good governance. ... The Act in a coherent form intends to deal with relevant aspects such as investor protection, inclusive agenda, fraud mitigation, internal control, director responsibility and efficient restructuring. ... Sahi (2013) Rule by majority and protection of the rights and interests of the minority shareholders have always been areas of considerable dispute and controversy. The Companies Act 2013 has introduced several sections aiming at protection of minority rights. R Rajesh (2013) says that &quo...

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These include individual rights common to most liberal democracies, such as equality before law, freedom of speech and expression, and peaceful assembly, freedom to practice religion, and the right to constitutional remedies for the protection of civil rights by means of writs such as habeas corpus. ... In 1919, the Rowlatt Act gave extensive powers to the British government and police, and allowed indefinite arrest and detention of individuals, warrant-less searches and seizures, restrictions on public gatherings, and intensive censorship of media and publications. The public oppo...

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In addition, India is also failing its duty to provide free and compulsory education to all children from ages six to 14, under the 86th Constitutional Amendment Act (WBG, 2014). ... The Rights to Education Act (2009) (UNICEF, 2014b) was a historic moment in as for the first time in India, children were being guaranteed their right to an education supported by the Government, communities and families. The Act makes education a fundamental right of every child between the ages of six and 14 and specifies minimum norms in elementary schools. ... Child labour in India is important part to famili...

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The Industrial Disputes Act is the most important piece of legislation on job security and the employers' rights in labour market (Errol 2010). ... It also provides for the fair payment of wages to contract employees and manage the employers to abide by the Contract Labour Act. ... The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act has some cross-references with The Industrial Disputes Act: if a worker has worked over 240 days without break, the worker can apply for the protections under various labour laws (Debi 2014). In 1971, state Maharashtra passed the Maharashtra Recognition of Tr...

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Additionally, because these materials tend to be porous, the pores and other microscopic imperfections act as  stress concentrators, decreasing the toughness further, and reducing the tensile strength. ...

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The principal activities undertaken by Ministry of Environment and Forests, consist of conservation and survey of flora, fauna, forests and wildlife, prevention and control of pollution, afforestation and regeneration of degraded areas and protection of environment, in the frame work of legislations. ...

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In India and the Indian subcontinent (and also as in other countries in South Asia), people have been systematically discriminated against on the basis of their work and descent for centuries. Over 200 million people are Dalits, also known as untouchables or outcastes. Dalit women constitute 16.3% of the total Indian female population. The traditional taboos are the same for Dalit men and Dalit women. However, Dalit women have to deal with them more often. ...

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Introduction Hundreds of companies in the United States started moving their customer service jobs to India in the late 1990s (Patel, 2008). This country in South Asia is in the center of globalized economic processes, and positions itself as a semi-periphery country. Therefore, it climbs up the ech...

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Then religion appears offering all the protection and answers that people have been longing for. ... Every act and every thought produces good or bad results, and the one responsible must account for it, either in this life or in the next. ...

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As Kele Onyejekwe explains, to cater to the Agricultural Adjustment Act-which authorized the subsidy, price support, and crop insurance of U.S agriculture-the United States strategically allowed for agriculture products to be excluded from GATT's sweeping denial of the use of subsidies. ...

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