Trade facilitation measures improve the trading environment by reducing transaction costs and thereby increasing the gains from trade.

The available literature on evolution of Indian culture and civilization reveals that although the ancient writers pretended to record their revered admiration for the womanhood yet in actual practice women have always been suppressed and exploited by the dominant male members of the society.

Prior to 1983, every form of violence committed within the family, either in the natal or the spousal home, was not considered an offence.