Bonded scholarship programmes in places like Singapore and Malaysia facilitate the ability of students to study abroad at elite universities. These programs are paid for by the state in return for the student being "bonded" to work for the state for a given period of time (3, 5, 10 years). Students may be bonded to specific departments or just bonded in general. It is possible for students to occasionally default on their bond and pay back the cost of education at a large premium.

1. Byju's is an edutech platform that runs on a freemium model offering educational content for primary and secondary education. In October 2018, the app expanded to the United Kingdom, United States and other English-speaking countries. In 2019, the company announced that it would launch its app in regional Indian languages.
2. In recent times, Byju’s, and its subsidiary WhiteHar Jr. have been accused of sacking employees, alleged harsh and "abusive" work culture, reported debt piling up against the edutech unicorn, and multiple instances of misleading advertisements.

Eco-terrorism refers to the use of violence for the purpose of
furthering environmental change.
Eg.: sabotage industrial production, assassinating oil corporate
executives, freeing animals from factory farms.

Sustained global effort has led to skyrocketing electric car sales
around the world. Through industrial policies, almost half of
European new-car sales are expected to be battery electric vehicles
by 2030. The Government of India (GoI) is pushing for the
adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) to reduce fuel consumption,
through tax benefits, waiver of road tax and registration fee for
electric vehicle buyers at the Central and State levels.
Cobalt is a common material used in batteries. 70% of the worlds
cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where
mining practices include dangerous work conditions, and child
labor. In December of 2019, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dell and
Tesla were named as defendants in a suit over deaths of children
working in cobalt mines in the DRC.

In 2016, a secretly recorded tape of XXXTenacion talking with his
acquaintances contains his confessions to committing domestic abuse
and other violent crimes. XXXTenacion is an American rapper & singersongwriter who gained a cult following among his young fanbase during
his short career, and as of October 2020 he’d sold more than 60 million
records in the United States.
In 2019 Cogeco Media, owner of 23 radio stations, announced it would
no longer play Michael Jackson. The Quebec company made its decision
the morning after HBO broadcasted “Leaving Neverland,
” a documentary in which two men described how Jackson groomed and
molested them as children. Dubbed the king of pop, as one of the most
significant cultural figures of the 20th century with 13 Billboard Hot 100
singles and 15 Grammy Awards.

The Bechdel test is a measure of the representation of women in
film and in fiction in general. The test asks whether a film features
at least two women talking to each other about something other
than a man.
The usual criteria of the Bechdel Test are
that at least two women are featured,
that these women talk to each other, and
that they discuss something other than a man

"Off the Field"" conduct means the actions and behaviour of a player when they are not in the field of play e.g. in their private life or during the offseason. In American sports, The Hall of Fame is the highest award that a sportsperson can achieve. Five years after retirement; a player becomes eligible to be voted into the Hall. The Panel of Voters are journalists and reporters who tend to be white. At present they are unable to vote based on a player's off the field conduct, and must make decisions based on their sporting performance.

Anatoliy Tymoshchuk is one of Ukraine's greatest ever football players; someone who put his nation on the map. Since the invasion from Russia began, he failed to condemn Russia and continue to work for Zenit St. Petersburg, one of Russia's most popular football clubs. The Ukrainian football association is set to strip him off all his accolades including but not limited to all his titles and his 144 caps. The Ukrainian FA will also ask the government to take away all honorary titles he has been a

Open-source software is computer software that grants users the rights
to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to
anyone and for any purpose.

Mustafa Kemal 'Ataturk' came to power in Turkey after the first world war. He was determined to put an end to the Institution of Khalifa in the public life of Turkey. Ataturk was convinced that only a clear break from traditional thinking and expression could elevate Turkey from the sorry state that it was in. He set out in an aggressive manner to modernise and secularise Turkey. The Fez, a traditional cap worn by Muslims, was banned by the Hat Law. The Western (Gregorian) Calendar replaced the traditional Turkish Calendar.

Pt. Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India, wanted a secular state to be one that "protects all religions, but does not favour one at the expense of others and does not itself adopt any religion as the state religion. For him, Secularism was not hostility towards religion. He was not in favour of complete separation between religion and state. A secular state may interfere in matters of religion to bring about social reform.

For Nehru, secularism meant complete opposition to communalism, especially to the brand of communalism propagated by the majority. While for Ataturk, Secularism meant a complete break from religion and associated tradition.

In Greek mythology, Pandora, the first human woman created by the gods was given a box which she was told she must never open under any circumstances.

One day, curiosity got the better of Pandora and she lifted the lid off the box which released all the evils of the world. These terrible things included disease, war, vice, toil, strife, disease, hatred, death, madness, violence, hatred, and jealousy, which went on to wreak havoc in the world. However, one thing remained in the box – Hope.