English Roe V Wade legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the Court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a woman’s constitutional right …
English On 19th July 1969, the government of India under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi nationalized 14 private-sector banks by means of an ordinance. The ordinance was called the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) ordinance, which was followed by an act of the same name.Under this ordinance, the ownership of 14 major commercial private …
English Indira Gandhi is perhaps one of the most popular Indian leaders in the world, today. Apart from being the daughter of one of the nation’s founding fathers, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, she was also India’s first and only female Prime Minister. Her strong presence in the international scenario helped establish India’s position as an emerging …
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During Nehru’s regime, Potti Sreeramulu, a revolutionary, went on a hunger strike demanding formation of an Indian state for the Telugu-speaking population of Madras Presidency. Sardar Patel and Rajendra Prasad warned Nehru not to give in to Sreeramulu’s demands on the basis of language. They said that division in terms of linguistics would only create …
Creator of India’s Economic Troubles Nehru propagated and implemented socialism and went against the capital systems, which led to an economic crisis in the 1960s. Exports were diminished and the public sector was strengthened. This led to rising inflation, shrinking exports, constrained agricultural growth with an annual average growth rate of 4%, which was lower …