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Assistive Technologies for Inclusion

Exceptional children are those children who are different or deviate from normal or average children either to the lower or higher side in relation to mental, physical emotional and social characteristics. Mental characteristics considered as super intelligence, sub- normal intelligence and feeble mindless etc. Emotional characteristics like psychoneurotic, psychotics, character irregularities, emotionally disturbed. Social characteristics considered as socially maladjusted, isolated and delinquents and physical dimensions includes visual and hearing deficiencies, speech disorder, chronic illness, psychosomatic disease, epilepsy and superior physique. Crow & Crow “the term exceptional is applied to a trait or to a person possessing traits up to the extent of deviation from the normal possession of the trait so great that because of it the individual warrants or receives special attention from his fellow and his behavior responses and activities are thereby affected”. A concept ...

Positive Thinking

Positive thinking is a psychological attitude in which you expect good and constructive results. A positive mind waits for cheerfulness, wellbeing and a happy start or ending in any situation. As it is rightly said, “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”  - Stephen King . Positive thinking sounds useful on the shell. But, “positive thinking” is also a flexible and downy term that is easy to dismiss. Positive thinking improves the overall mood of an individual. He/she is always hopeful regardless of the circumstances. Positive thinking also effects the person’s mental growth. The power of positive thinking helps in curing depression, which is most common now-a-days. Persistence in positive thinking is the key to achieve a permanent positive approach. Problems will still come your way, but it is always easier to deal with any conditions with an affirmative attitude. When we practi...

THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

When our constitution was drafted it did not contain any specific provisions on environment but there are certain provisions which to great extent had direct bearing on the environment such as improvement of public health, protection of natural monuments from spoliation, disfigurement etc. Article 47 of the Constitution is considered to be more important, because it imposes the primary duty on the State to provide public with improved health, raised level of nutrition and ultimately improved standard of living. Public health can be assured to the public only by offering the safe and protected environment to live in. This enabled the framers of our Constitution to be more conscious on the environmental concern. India is also one of the signatories of the Stockholm Declaration which is known as Magna Carta on human environment. Based upon the Stockholm conference, the Indian parliament passed the forty second amendment to the constitution in the year 1976 and incorporated specially tw...

SURROGACY- A WOMB ON RENT

Nature has bestowed the beautiful capacity to procreate a life within woman and every woman cherishes the experience of motherhood. Unfortunately, some women due to certain physiological and medical conditions are not able to give birth to their own children. The desire to be a mother leads them to search for alternative solutions, and surrogacy presents itself as the most viable alternative. Advances in assisted reproductive techniques such as donor insemination and, embryo transfer methods, have revolutionized the reproductive environment, resulting in surrogacy‘, as the most desirable option. The system of surrogacy has given hope to many infertile couples, who long to have a child of their own. Taking advantage of the advanced medical facilities, they seek alternative solutions like Artificial Reproductive Technology (ART), In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and, Intra-Uterine Injections (IUI), in the hope of having a child of their own. In the past, surrogacy arrangements were gener...

WEB-JACKING

Illegally seeking control of a website by taking over a domain is known as Web Jacking. It is similar to Hi-jacking. In this, actual website is never touched. Instead DNS is compromised. In these kinds of offences the hacker gains access and control over the web site of another. The hacker may even mutilate or change the information on the site. This may be done for fulfilling political objectives or for money. E.g. recently the site of MIT (Ministry of Information Technology) was hacked by the Pakistani hackers and some obscene matter was placed therein. Further the site of Bombay crime branch was also web jacked. Another case of web jacking is that of the ‘gold fish’ case. In this case the site was hacked and the information pertaining to gold fish was changed. Further a ransom of US $ 1 million was demanded as ransom. Thus web jacking is a process whereby control over the site of another is made backed by some consideration for it. The Web Jacking Attack Vector i...

RFID SYSTEM

Radio Frequency Identification System  is a technology based identification system which helps identifying objects just through the tags attached to them, without requiring any light of sight between the tags and the tag reader. All that is needed is radio communication between the tag and the reader Main Components of a RFID System A RFID tag:  It consists of a silicon microchip attached to a small antenna and mounted on a substrate and encapsulated in different materials like plastic or glass veil and with an adhesive on the back side to be attached to objects. A reader:  It consists of a scanner with antennas to transmit and receive signals and is responsible for communication with the tag and receives the information from the tag. A Processor or a Controller : It can be a host computer with a Microprocessor or a microcontroller which receives the reader input and process the data. Types of RFID Systems: Active RFID system:  These are ...

SEBI TAKEOVER CODE

Introduction- “ Takeover code” is framed in order to promote fairness in the capital market and to protect the Interest of small investors.  It is commonly known as SEBI regulation for Acquisition of shares and takeover of listed companies. Takeover of companies is a strategy for corporate growth.  As per the SEBI (Substantial acquisition of Shares) Regulation, a Takeover Bid implies that an acquirer acquires substantial quantity of shares (directly or indirectly ) carrying voting rights in excess of the limits specified, in a target listed company to gain or acquire control over the management of such a company. Acquirer means any Individual including the person acting in concert or company or other legal entity acquiring the shares or voting power or control over a target company. Person acting in concert' means Individual or companies or other legal entities acting together for a common purpose of substantial acquisition of shares or voting rights or gaining con...

SECTION 498 A IPC: AN EVOLVING JURISPRUDENCE

Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, often referred to as "the Anti-Cruelty Statute" has broadens the prohibitions laid out in the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 and expands its coverage to other acts of cruelty, threats, or violence related to dowry demands. Section 498 A IPC has been introduced in the statute in 1983 to protect the constitutional rights of liberty, dignity and equal respect for women who are deprived of their rights due to several social and cultural factors. Section 498A, IPC a substantive offence of cruelty by husband, in-laws and relatives of a married woman, is in debate due to various factors including its misuse by women. It has been noticed in many judgments of the Apex Court that many false cases are being filed against in -laws and relatives who have no connection with the crime. In most of these cases, women lodges FIR against the husband or his relatives due to a sudden emotional upheaval. Mostly complaints under s.498A are being filed with an ...