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The importance and the impact of the media, written or electronic cannot be marginalized in the world of today. In the modern world of quick communication and quick information, media plays a very crucial role. The original role of the media was and still is to give to the public all relevant information about occurrences in the country and the world. Now the written media includes a host of publications, dailies, fortnightly, weeklies, monthly all giving information about events with supplement of suggestions and comments by learned people. Today, the print media has acquired such proportions that, there is absolutely no avenue of knowledge or information that is left out. Multifarious avenues are being touched upon, whether it be local, national or international. All avenues of news, business, health, sports,…

Edmund Burke is acclaimed today as one of the originators of modern political conservatism. In particular, his defence of the virtues of tradition and prejudice in Reflections on the Revolution in France is considered exemplary as a statement of conservative principles.However, there is more to Burke’s philosophy than a simple celebration of the established social order. Not least, it is suffused with a thorough going scepticism about the character and capabilities of human beings, which led him to reject the Enlightenment view that reason can be readily employed to the betterment of mankind.In this sense, Burke’s ideas can be seen as a counterblast against the sort of Enlightenment thinking that was sweeping through Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Image Source: globomidia.com.br ADVERTISEMENTS: The French Revolution, at least…

The various events which happen during a brief contraction, or single twitch of a verteb­rate striated muscle fibre, are as follows: Image Source: i.ytimg.com1. As soon as muscle fibre or muscle is stimulated, immediately electrical events in the form of action potentials appear over the surface of muscle fibre. ADVERTISEMENTS: 2. These electrical events travel over the sarcolemma and down the numerous transverse tubules to the interior of the muscle.3. As a result calcium ions are released from the T-sarcotubular system or cisternae of the sarcoplasmic reticulum.4. Free liberated calcium ions bring about the sliding of the actin filaments in spaces between the myosin filaments, with the result contraction is effected in the muscle.This process requires energy which is derived from the breakdown of the ATP to ADP+ inorganic phosphate.…

We can observe most of the good and bad effects of competition within the school. The same thing happens in the world outside— only on a larger scale.In a school, we have examinations; inter-school, inter-house and inter-class sporting events; and debating, elocution, quiz, essay and other contests. They constitute the highlights of school life.Most often, students study best (and hardest) before an examination. Sometimes, during this period, they absorb in a single week a quantity of academic matter they had not been able to digest in the preceding few months! Importance attached to an examination acts as a spur to their mental powers and they discover new levels of ability in themselves. image source: petroleumkings.com/ ADVERTISEMENTS: If one were to strike out all the examinations, and therefore all competition, from…

41 Questions with Answers and Explanations on “Endocrine System” for Biology Students.1. MSH of pars intermedia of middle pituitary is responsible for (a) darkening of skin in lower vertebrates Image Source: davincicharter.org ADVERTISEMENTS: (b) light colouration of skin in lower vertebrates(c) both A and B(d) darkening of skin in human beings. ADVERTISEMENTS: Answer and Explanation:1. (a): Pars intermedia is the boundary between the anterior and posterior lobes of the pituitary. It contains three types of cells – basophils, chromophobes and colloid- filled cysts. This area produces melanocyte stimulating hormone or MSH. It stimulates the synthesis of black pigment melanin in the skin and also causes dispersion of melanin granules in the pigment cells, thereby darkening the colour in certain animals (fishes; amphibians). In man it has no such role.2. Which…

Legal Provisions of Section 201 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender:The section makes causing disappearance of evidence of an offence, or giving false information to screen an offender of an offence. It states that whoever, either knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been committed, causes disappearance of evidence of the commission of that offence, with the intention either of screening the offender from punishment under law, or with intention gives any information in respect of the offence about which he has knowledge or belief that it is false, shall be punished with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a term extending up to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine, if the offence which…

Unlike the Hindu rulers the kings and nobles of Medieval India were very much interested in the contemporary source material which helps in studying the history of different dynasties which ruled at Delhi from time to time. The historians of this period Took great pains in writing the history of the contemporary period.The Medieval rulers employed court historians and diarists in order to maintain the records of their activities in a systematic way. They mostly stressed the political events but in the works of the following significant writers, we get stray references of the cultural history also.Besides the descriptions of the contemporary historians, Mughal rulers like Babar and Jahangir also wrote their autobiographies which are the important source material. Archaeological records and various texts written in Turki, Arabic, Hindi and…

Salmond defines a legal right as an interest recognised and protected by a rule of legal justice. In order that an interest may become a legal right, it must obtain not merely legal protection but also legal recognition. Image Source: venturegalleries.comHolland defines a legal right as, “a capacity residing in one man of controlling, with the assent and assistance of the State, the actions, of others.” ADVERTISEMENTS: Austin defines a right as, “a faculty which resides in a determi­nate party or parties by virtue of a given law and which avails against a partly or parties other than the party or parties in whom it resides.” He observes that a person has a right when another or others are bound or obliged by law to do or forbear towards or…

Legal Provisions of Section 354 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty:This section punishes an assault on, or use of criminal force to, a woman with the intention of outraging her modesty or with the knowledge that it is likely that he will thereby outrage her modesty. The section says that whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman with the intention of outraging her modesty or with the knowledge that it is likely that he will thereby outrage her modesty, shall be punished with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a term extending up to two years, or with fine, or with both. Image Source: baytoday.ca ADVERTISEMENTS: There must be either an assault or use of criminal force against a…

53 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with Answers on “Psychiatric History and Examination” for Psychiatry Post Graduate Students: image source: d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net1. Confabulation means: A. Conversation with an imaginary person ADVERTISEMENTS: B. Misinterpretation of stimuliC. Perception in the absence of stimuliD. Making up stories to fill up gaps in memory ADVERTISEMENTS: Confabulation—uses imaginary events in the early phase of the illness.Chronic alcoholism causesWernicke’s – Korsakoff’s syndromeWernicke’s encephalopathy is the acute phase of delirium preceding the amnesic syndrome, while Korsakoff’s syndrome is the chronic phase of amnesic syndrome. ADVERTISEMENTS: Treatment for chronic alcoholism causing Wernicke’s encephalopathy – thiamine (high doses) Prognosis is often poor in Korsakoff’s syndrome.2. The active substance in hashish is: A. MorphineB. LSDC. Mescaline D. Tetrahydrocannabinol3. Physical withdrawal symptoms are absent in patientsA. AlcoholB. CannabisC. OpiumD. PethidineComplications of cannabis include:1.…