Benami transactions were not illegal in India before the 1988 Act and there was no punishment or bar for entering into Benami transactions. The... View Article
According to The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988; Benami transaction means any transaction in which property is transferred to one... View Article
Pen Chao (also known as Ban Chao) was the Chinese general who was successful in defeating Kanishka. As per the book of the Later Han Dynasty, Hou... View Article
Kanishka, also known as Kanishka the Great, is referred to as a second Ashoka due to his role in the propagation of Buddhism. Due to his... View Article
The Kushan Empire was administered from two capitals. One was Purushapura (modern-day Peshawar in Pakistan) and the other from Mathura in... View Article
Jainism was patronised by the Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta. His grandson Ashoka would later go on to patronise Buddhism. Chandragupta Maurya was... View Article
Kanishka was a follower of Buddhism. Known as Kanishka the Great, he was an emperor of the Kushan Empire in the 2nd century AD. He is famous for... View Article
The Aryan Invasion Theory is a hypothesis developed in the 20th century that states that a group of people called Aryans invaded northern India... View Article
Chilika Lake in Orissa and Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan were recognised as the first Ramsar sites in India. There are 46 Ramsar sites in... View Article
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.... View Article
Depending on the geography of the wetlands, the type of waters present in a wetland can be either freshwater, brackish, or saltwater. A wetland... View Article
The Persistent Organic Pollutants banned under the Stockholm Convention are as follows: Chlordecone Hexabromobiphenyl Hexabromodiphenyl ether... View Article
As far as multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) are concerned, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is considered a... View Article
The Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent Procedures is a legally binding instrument, which was adopted on 10th September 1998 by a... View Article
The Stockholm Convention is a legally binding international instrument, designed to lead to gradual decrease of the presence of persistent... View Article
About 183 countries around the world are party to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) North Korea and South Sudan are... View Article
North Korea and South Sudan are the countries which are not part of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). As such... View Article
