People take advantage of what nature offers them but they don’t care to protect it much. The condition of our environment is becoming worse and worse. People produce a lot of pollution and wastes that destroy our natural environment. Many of us realize that we shouldn’t disregard these problems. Let me give you some examples how development and urbanization count against natural environment. Firstly‚ carbon dioxide and other waste gases that are given off in large quantities by factories and power
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WORLDCOM’s WHISTLEBLOWER Introduction: What began as a routine internal audit‚ transformed into the largest accounting manipulation of all time. Worldcom‚ a leading telecommunications company built from over 70 acquisitions‚ found itself ranked at the top of its class for illegal and creative accounting practices. Worldcom leaders successfully managed to erode the company market value from $180 billion in 1999 to approximately $350 million today. In June of 2002‚ Cynthia Cooper‚ Vice President
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Whistleblower Policy HR-PO718‚ | 1.1 Sharda Centre‚ Off Karve Road‚ Erandwane‚ Pune‚ Maharashtra‚ India 411004 www.techmahindra.com Copyright © 2013‚ Tech Mahindra. All rights reserved. WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY Company-Confidential Table of Contents 1. OBJECTIVE .................................................................................................................................. 3 2. SCOPE .........................................................................................
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The Whistleblowers Protection bill The Union Cabinet has cleared a bill to protect whistleblowers and punish those exposing identity of people disclosing information. The proposed legislation‚ Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons Making The Disclosure Bill‚ 2010‚ provides the Central Vigilance Commission powers of a civil court to hand down harsh penalty to people revealing identity of whistleblowers. The CVC will be empowered to take action against those who reveal the identity
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1. What is a questioned document? Describe at least one example of something that might be a questioned document. A questioned document is any document with handwriting or typed writing that is questioned to its authenticity. One example would be a letter that was written from the suspect or anybody. 2. What is an exemplar? What are the best types of exemplars? An exemplar is an authentic sample that is compared to the questioned document. The best ones are the
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Whistleblowers have made headlines in media for much of modern American history. The viewpoints regarding whistleblowers are conflicted: some view them as heroes who rightfully expose government truths while others see them as criminals that should be punished with the fullest extend of the law. In fact‚ according to the “Whistleblowers” article in the Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection‚ “many whistleblowers are considered renegades or even traitors‚ and they may suffer both legally and in terms
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Kerr-McGee’s Karen Silkwood and Sherron Watkins of Enron are all on the same list of famous whistleblowers. All of these people have become famous because they provided information with the sole purpose of revealing wrongdoings by someone or a company. Some believe whistleblowers are traitors and should be punished: while others believe they are heroes and should be honored. Whistleblowers are being acknowledged as a great threat to companies and managers are realizing that they need to know
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Are We Really Being Protected By The Police In Our Communities? A middle age man rides through his city of Los Angeles intoxicated. Who would have ever thought he’ll get pulled over before making it home? King did not expect for his night to become a disaster after having a wonderful time out with friends. Although driving under the influence in any state is illegal; what made this particular case make the front page of multiple news articles? King led officers on a high- speed chase endangering
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Important Observations of the Supreme Court and Murders of Whistleblowers. In Indirect Tax Practitioners’ Association v R.K.Jain the Supreme Court gave a precise meaning to the word whistleblower. “A whistleblower is a person who raises a concern about the wrongdoing occurring in an organisation or body of people. Usually this person would be from that same organisation. The revealed misconduct may be classified in many ways; for example‚ a violation of a law‚ rule‚ regulation and/or a direct
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population‚ or it can represent the rate at which the urban proportion is increasing. Urbanisation is not merely a modern phenomenon‚ but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale‚ whereby predominantly village culture is being rapidly replaced by predominantly urban culture. The last major change in settlement patterns was the accumulation of hunter-gatherers into villages many thousand years ago. Village culture is characterised by common bloodlines‚ intimate relationships
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