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Air Pollution In India

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  Meaning of Air Pollution : Air pollution may be defined as imbalance in the quality of air so as to cause ill effects. According to Maxwell, “our enormously accelerated abuse of the atmosphere has become a health hazard and a threat to life, damaging both plants and animals in areas polluted with poisonous fumes, dust and smoke”. The different types of pollutants are continuously introduced into the atmosphere and are removed by natural process of cleaning. But when pollution exceeds the atmosphere’s self purifying capacity, accumulation of pollutants occurs causing serious hazards for environment and other organisms including humans. The following are the main reasons for the increasing rate of our pollution: (i) Poisonous gases and other particles emitted from industries without any treatment. (ii) Heavy increase in the number of automobiles and their emission. (iii) Increased use of chemicals and petro-chemicals. (iv) Population concentration in cities. (v) Fast rate of defore...
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Violence Against Women

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    Know violence, educate self and others According to data by the World Health Organization, one-third of women globally experience violence at least once in their lifetime. Physical violence, rape, sexual assault, acid attacks and forced prostitution are the kind of violence we usually consider. But violence goes far beyond that. Isolation from family and friends, continual humiliation, threats against children or being threatened with injury or death, being forced to watch or engage in pornography, stalking, inappropriate advances on social networking sites, offensive sexually explicit messages and many other such acts, that are mostly ignored, also constitute violence. Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life, constitutes violence against women. Prevalence...
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