
Bangladesh (/ ˌ b æ ŋ ɡ l ə ˈ d ɛ ʃ, ˌ b ɑː ŋ-/; Bengali: বাংলাদেশ, pronounced [ˈbaŋlaˌdeʃ] ()), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi). ...

Religion is the opium of the people—this dictum by Marx is the corner-stone of the whole Marxist outlook on religion. Marxism has always regarded all modern religions and churches, and each and every religious organisation, as instruments of bourgeois reaction that serve to defend exploitation and to befuddle the working class.

This is a list of notable crowd collapses and crushes.Many such accidents are also in the list of accidents and disasters by death toll. (The term "stampede" is often misused in popular media since it refers specifically to panicked flight from danger.Most of these events were crowd crushes, caused by poor event management.) India has had the most documented notable …

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Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little income.Poverty can have diverse social, economic, and political causes and effects. When evaluating poverty in statistics or economics there are two main measures: absolute poverty compares income against the amount needed to meet basic personal needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter; relative poverty …

Seppuku (, 'cutting [the] belly'), sometimes referred to as ' the only way to commit ritual suicide' (り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour but was also practised by other Japanese people during the Shōwa period (particularly …

Second World War. At the outbreak of the Second World War, only two armoured divisions (the 1st and 7th) had been formed, in comparison to the seven armoured divisions of the German Army. In September 1939, the British Army had a total of 892,697 officers and men in both the full-time regular army and part-time Territorial Army (TA). The regular army could muster …

The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מִלְחֶמֶת שֵׁשֶׁת הַיָּמִים, Miḥemet Šešet HaYamim; Arabic: النكسة, an-Naksah, lit. 'The Setback' or حرب 1967, Harb 1967, 'War of 1967') or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 June ...

Human contact or interaction, esp. as a means of compensating for the impersonal or dehumanizing aspects of technology; the…" high touch, n. and adj., sense B.1: "Chiefly Business. Of a service provided to a customer, client, etc.: highly personalized; specifically tailored to individual needs; (also) involving…"

After the dense and highly self-conscious earlier chapters, these pages condense the entire line of thought into a vivid image. Sisyphus demonstrates that we can live with "the certainty of a crushing fate, without the resignation that ought to accompany it" (MS, 54). For Camus, Sisyphus reminds us that we cannot help seeking to understand ...

Child labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such exploitation is prohibited by legislation worldwide, although these laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by ...

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa Kenya is the 29th most populous country in the world. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest, currently second largest city, and first capital is the coastal city of Mombasa. Kisumu City is the third-largest city and also an inland port on Lake Victoria. Other important …