The past few months remained a carnival between government and farmers across the country on recently passed farm bills. It’s quite clear in the history of India, the farmers and agriculture sector always played a significant part in economy.
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A look at the history of civilisation, and we know the world has so far faced a number of disasters – natural and human-made. From the most devastating tropical cyclones, tsunamis, forest fires, volcanoes, earthquakes, pandemics and epidemics to two world wars, this earth has survived a lot.
We don’t have to wait for a day for a newspaper to come and we will know what had happened in entire past day. We don’t have to start our television set to know what is the current breaking news surfacing on every next channel.
As farmers, wage earners and entrepreneurs, women contribute a major share in rural economy. Their unpaid work is huge in terms of households, where they took care of whole family, including children and elderly people.
Humanity has been facing and fighting the ill of corruption since ages. But it’s also the humanity which has been critical in making this battle tougher for many centuries. If you go into the history, you will see a number of records of corruptions during the reign of almost every dynasty.
Tourism sector plays a significant role in the economies of almost every country, employing a large number of people worldwide. In current times, we cannot even imagine a real growth and development of any region in the absence of tourism.
A large number of people are facing chronic pain worldwide, finding no lasting way-out. The ongoing pain, that lasts usually more than six months, can continue even after the treatment and healing of an injury or illness that caused the pain. Inflammation or dysfunctional nerves can cause.
Generosity and kindness not only make you happy and satisfied in life but also posses long-term benefits more than anything. Whether you are generous with unknown people in need or are kind with your own kith and kin. You make your life more beautiful, meaningful and worth living.
United Nations has sounded alarm on how the coronavirus pandemic has exasperated discrimination and other human rights violations, which are capable of fuelling conflict in the world. In the most vulnerable nations, the indirect consequences of Covid 19 pandemic are much larger than the virus’ direct impacts.
The coronavirus pandemic has drastically affected not only lives of adults but also of children, especially from vulnerable communities. Not only they are missing their schools but being pushed into child trafficking, child marriages and child labour.
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No respect for diverse opinion in Pakistan
In more than 70 years of its history, Pakistan has never safeguarded interests of its people. Human rights have always been a game for the country’s politics, which is free to play with sentiments of the population in any and every of its provinces. The country lost East Pakistan in 1971 due to violations of human rights of people.
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PoK, Azad Kashmir Protest Against China
People in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) don’t want Chinese interference in their region, that’s why they often raise their voices against its presence. People last night gathered for massive protest and torch rally against construction of two mega-dams by China in the region. The people took to the streets in Muzaffarabad district, and slammed the proposed construction over the rivers – Neelam and Jhelum.
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Global Peace, Security Threats During Corona
Though a generation may have felt the cruelty of a pandemic that occurred last time 102 years ago, yet the present crisis is first kind of an experience for the current humanity. The world was going its way, maybe at times on right way and other times on wrong way, but there was a way. There is still a way after the outbreak of coronavirus, but the means of our travel will change.
A pandemic does more damage to the world than just giving a disease. The current crisis of coronavirus is no exception. On one hand Covid 19 has infected around over 27 million people, leaving more than 0.88 million dead so far, on the other hand the problem of livelihood is getting bigger for vulnerable sections and regions.
If you think that human has done changes to land area only, and their modification to ocean area of the planet is not that rampant, you are wrong. Human modification in ocean is as widespread as their urbanization on land, says a recent study. The research has been able to map the global extent of human interference in oceans of the earth. Even waves could not remove human footprints in the sea.
Human has been harming the nature for their own economic benefits since ages now. That is because humanity has placed materialism above the nature, and forgot that the real treasure is what the nature offers them. There is still a way where we can have more economic perks too if we take care of our environment a little more.
Though Covid 19 pandemic has impacted the lives in all sides of the world, yet among the worst hit are the women, especially from the vulnerable sections. From losing sources of livelihood and bearing enormous pressure of household activities, its women who have also been the victims of domestic violence since the coronavirus lockdown in most of the countries.
Terrorist activities are meeting no full stop even after a year of abolition of Article 370 and 35A in Jammu & Kashmir. Pakistan-backed terrorism is still getting native support to carry on disturbance in the valley. However, our security forces are quite active, with busting every next plan of the terror suppliers in the region.
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India’s GDP Worst Among G20 Nations
Covid 19 has taken toll to the health of people as well as economies across the world. Most of the countries had to lockdown themselves as a measure to contain coronavirus, that has infected over 26 million people around the world, leaving more than 0.86 million dead.
Can you expect a world without tourism? Though we can see the remotest parts of the world in pictures available on internet, and indeed have a virtual tour to anywhere, nothing can replace the idea of being at a new place in person. That’s the reason why traveling to new destinations is so imperative and unmatchable experience for the wanderers.
With emergence of information technology and people taking up mostly sitting work, their lifestyle, especially in urban areas, has become sedentary. On the other hand, we are becoming more materialistic by adopting an approach of having more and more newly invented appliances and equipment to help and support us in everyday life.
When life was simple in good old days, people used to live a quite long and healthy life. But the lifestyle of people in modern days is so much complicated that it takes toll on their health severely. People are paying the cost of their complex lifestyle sometimes even with many years of their life.
Do we really need any JEE or NEET at this moment? It’s totally ridiculous to even think about any such common entrance test or academic session this year, when this country is making the most notorious records of coronavirus cases in the entire world.What people need is a vaccine, not such exams and sessions, that can be done next year too.
Supreme Court of India today slammed the Centre for problems in economy created by government’s coronavirus lockdown measures. “You locked down the whole country, now give relief”, the apex court told to Central Government while hearing a petition seeking waiver of interest on loan repayment.The court gave centre time till September 1 to have its stand clear on the same.
If not everything, yet many things have changed in our lives, from using mask to social distancing to keeping hygiene. But think of people from lower socio-economic background. Is life has changed in same way for all? Absolutely not, because coronavirus pandemic has broaden the socio-economic chasm among people.
Coronavirus pandemic has changed the lifestyle of people all over the globe in one way or other. But the pandemic has impacted much adversely most of the socio-economically challenged communities. The worst hit by the pandemic are vulnerable sections and children across the world.
The secret deal between two communist governments of Asia is no secret from the world. As per reports months back, China has paid huge sum to poor Nepal for survival. Kathmandu is paying back to Beijing by making claims of Indian land in border areas time and again, and breaking old ties with New Delhi.
The Border Security Force today shot dead five intruders near India-Pakistan International Border in Punjab. The alert BSF troops noticed the movements of intruders violating IB in Tarn Taran district of Punjab early this morning, said senior BSF officer.The incident occurred near Dal village of Bhikhiwind sub-division in the district.
What is something we keep chasing whole life but we find it only within us? We think money can buy everything in life, but it’s true that even money cannot buy it. It’s happiness. If we have everything but not happiness, we have nothing. If we have nothing but happiness, we have everything. We keep seeking happiness.
This is not the time to travel anywhere as coronavirus pandemic has closed the doors around you. Being inside has been boring and irritating for many of us. But think about travel enthusiasts. How they have controlled themselves from going out to touch the wall in some other part of the world.
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Volunteering Brings Good Health, Happiness
It has been around eight months with coronavirus pandemic and we don’t know when we are going to come out of it. We also don’t know when will everything be same as it was before the virus.Amid all these uncertainties, what we can do is just wait and watch. And we are doing that only in current times.
With life being more complicated everyday, depression has been increasing in people across the world over the years and decades. However, the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown measures taken to contain it have significantly increased rates of stress, anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation among people across the world.
Your surrounding has a huge impact on your well being, physical and mental. How you feel, live or act is very much dependent on the attitude of people around you. Your happy or sad mood cannot be separate from the vibes you are getting from other people there. Everything is connected.
Do you work from home? Obviously, you have to work from home during coronavirus pandemic. But how many days, weeks or month you will like to spend working at home. You are not sure about this because Covid is deadly and this is question of your safety. However, the one thing you must be sure about, more on less.
Coronavirus pandemic is forcing more and more children from the most vulnerable communities in India to leave their schools and work at farms, factories and construction sites. This has worsened the issue of child labour in the country,which is already one of the biggest child labour hub in the world.
Widespread flooding has been major issue for the last few months in India. The wrath of flood shows no sign to stop in several parts of the country. The scenes and images of the flood areas are heart-wrenching.People are wishing rain and rivers to show some kindness after months of catastrophe but they have to look at water everywhere.
Industries are luring migrant workers with promises of advance wages, free travel tickets, free accommodation and medical insurance and check ups if they return to the jobs.The same companies, which had totally forgotten about migrants when they needed food and shelter,are wooing them with new promises.
A huge crowd gathers at a bus stop or railway station in Delhi, Mumbai or other big city. After hours of waiting and expectations, no bus or train arrives, but police come to scatter the crowd with the use of teargas or lathi-charge (baton-charge). An official statement says rumors were going round about the availability of some bus or train, that’s why migrants gathered. And that’s done.
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Mental Illness Rising in Youth Amid Corona
Nobody in this world has been untouched by coronavirus pandemic effects. Youngsters have been comparatively more immune to coronavirus, mostly either escaping infection by the virus or defeating the disease comparatively sooner if got infected. If not the direct heath impact, the pandemic is taking the toll on youngsters in indirect ways.
Take air inside yourself, slowly. Blow it out again, slowly. You say, you do it by default and it’s called breathing. Yes, you are correct, I too asked you to breathe but slowly. You are breathing alright but this kind of breath work concrete huge impact, inside out of you. It’s like a healing for your mind, body and soul.
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Child Marriage Cases on Boom During Corona
With rapidly growing Covid infection rate in India, simultaneously increasing is the number of child marriages in many regions across the country and other parts of the world. It took decades to control the immensely high rate of child marriages and we still could not have managed to eliminate it totally.
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More Human Trafficking in Corona Times
With the growing cases of coronavirus victims, also are increasing trafficking incidents of women and minor children. Since the coronavirus lockdown, millions of people have lost their livelihood sources. To cover up their loses, many people from vulnerable families in India and other countries have been reported to get into this crime of child and women trafficking.
During and after the months of coronavirus lockdown,a lot of people lost their sources of livelihood and many undesirable elements found it easy to make quick income sources through digital frauds by the use of internet. In a result, cases of cyber-crime have seen a boost across the world. In the last a few months of pandemic, a sharp rise in cyber crime has been reported by global agencies.
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Corona Hits One Billion Students Worldwide
Its direct impacts are very well-known.There are many other implications, which will take decades to get mitigated.Humanity will have to pay cost of the coronavirus outbreak with huge individual, social and economic losses. Vulnerable sections and children are worst hit by the Covid 19 pandemic. The deadly virus has infected over 20 million people so far, leaving more than0.7 million dead worldwide.
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Corona Measures Major Hit by Water Crisis
India, the country of rivers, is struggling for water, and that during coronavirus outbreak when over 1.30 billion people in the country need safe water to wash hands, body and things regularly in order to keep hygiene. It’s an irony that a number of regions are struggling with flood; other regions are looking at drought. Both in flood areas and drought regions, people are facing even drinking water crunch.
We may be continuously hearing about drastic flooding in many states of the country, yet there are a number of regions that are presenting more than enough proofs of drought situation in the country. While thousands of houses are drawn, people are homeless, humanity is displaced, in same states have many parts where farmers are looking at the sky in the hope of rain.
Like in past decades, nature doesn’t seem to be equally loving and caring for all the regions in India this year and decade too. Amid coronavirus lockdown, when human was in home, nature was healing but all is not well. Owing to drastic impacts of climate change, while some regions of the country saw devastating flood due to way above average rains, some of the states faced drought situation with little to no rains at all this year.
The biggest disease the world is suffering from is not due to a virus because the coronavirus is just an outcome of a bigger virus. This bigger virus is sickening and corrupting human minds with a more dangerous disease i.e. power hunger. This lethal disease affects drastically the mental heath of humans and makes them wild with obsession of being super power of the universe.
The coronavirus pandemic seems to be making dire economic impacts on humanity, even more than its health impacts. Millions of parents are forced to push their children into begging, child labor and child marriage for survival in the absence of livelihood sources, says a study. A number of other studies also prove that more children are falling prey to covid-related hunger worldwide.
Nepal government is stuck to its fake claims on Indian land. Neither these claims are worth having attention of India nor Nepal has any option except just showing India’s territory in its map and be happy seeing it in closed doors. As a totally selfish neighbor, Nepal wants whatever facilities they can have from India, and also eyeing at its land.
Since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, the world has seen a number of changes so far. Many changes may be temporary and we will be again doing things soon the way we did during pre-corona times. However, many changes are going to be permanent and these are likely to remain with us for many years or decades.
Coronavirus pandemic has put immense pressure on physical and mental health of children worldwide, especially children from vulnerable sections or regions, where having meal of two-times a day was a luxury even in fine days.The situation is so devastating that many women are too malnourished to nurse their infants.
On one hand half of the country is facing devastating flooding, on the other acute water crisis has become big problem for farmers in India. Due to the effect of climate change and extreme weather conditions, a number of people in Asia’s third largest economy are being displaced, losing livelihoods and dying either in result of flood situation or water crunch.
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Flood During Corona: Children Worst Affected
Flood situation in India is worsening at present. Among the most affected states, the condition in eastern state of Bihar and north-eastern state of Assam is worst due to the continuous rains. Among millions of people, who have been affected due to ongoing flooding in India, there are a large number of children
Don’t be prey of fraud employment agencies and fake job rackets and always be careful before applying online for any government or private job. If it is not an official website or source, where the job information is surfacing, think twice before you go head with application.
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Larger Roles for Women in Indian Forces
Finally, there is a good news and sigh of relief for woman officers of Indian Army. They can now provide their services in more streams of the organization and complete their term with more years of services, to be eligible to command and entitles for pension.
Despite many state governments claims of providing for all their needs or employment, the migrant workers are forced to live in a vulnerable and abandoned state in almost all the regions. Since India announced coronavirus lockdown in most of the regions on March 22 and in the entire country later, plights of migrant laborers have not ended so far.
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Corona Lockdown: Farmers Among Worst Hit
Suffering is not new for Indian farmers as they are well accustomed to the term. But like other people, this year has been worst nightmare for agriculture and farmers’ sufferings have doubled up. Many farmers are saying no to vegetable farming this season, making you miss vegetables in your plates soon.
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Covid Vaccine in India to Take More Time
An appropriate vaccine for treatment of Covid 19 cannot be available for market use before the end 2020. It will take more time, say health experts. The trials of vaccine, named as Covaxin, have begun in the country with claims of developers working at rapid speed to bring out the final vaccine by August 15.
As Coronavirus cases are rocketing in India, there are all chances that many regions may be facing Covid 19 community transmission. What is stopping government to acknowledge community spread in India, ask health experts.
Global economy will take a lot of time to get back to previous position as the recession is deepest. Coronavirus has severely affected the global economy this year so far. Triggered by worldwide lockdown measures taken to contain coronavirus outbreak, the global economic slowdown is deepest in many aspects.
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More Unemployment to Come During Slowdown
If you are being happy with some data released by a government on unemployment rates being better than their level in last few months, don’t be so excited. The world is facing a severe economic slowdown due to coronavirus outbreak.
Since the coronavirus has come into the scene, the most important thing world has realized is maintaining hygiene because without doing so, people cannot avoid even less powerful viruses and coronavirus is the most dangerous one ever experienced by present humanity.
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Start Safety Kits Business in Corona Times
Coronavirus pandemic has changed the life and lifestyle of people all over the world. While a few changes may be temporary, others are going to remain permanently with human lives.
In a big trade war between United States and China, who is in the gaining position? The answer is India. But this answer is wrong. After a huge trade war with the second largest economy and its contribution in coronavirus pandemic, the US significantly dropped imports from the latter.
India is in need to set up a regulator for non-personal data. A proposed data regulator will oversee various companies in their activities of collection, process, storing, monetization and destroying of non-personal data, a panel set up by Indian government said in a draft report.
Many parts of the world are fighting with one more menace in the age of coronavirus pandemic and that’s locust swarm. East African regions are among the worst hit by the locust attack in the world, with five million people expected to be at the risk of starvation.
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Locust Swarm 2020: More Challenges for India
A moment of big crisis has come for Indian farmers, who have to face from flood to drought situations every year. Apart from facing worst weather conditions amid coronavirus outbreak this year, farmers are suffering due to one more big problem and that is locust swarm.
Do you still believe that a person can have Covid 19 disease in just two ways – mild and severe? However, it seems that the things have gone much more far now. The deadly disease has many different flavors, not only mild and severe says a new study. And many other studies suggest that patient’s weakened immune system is key player in coronavirus deaths.
You may be trying to save yourself from the deadly transferable disease Covid 19 by wearing mask, keeping at least three feet of social distance, avoiding to touch a surface or washing and sanitizing your hands time and again. Are you sure, you safe now? You may be, but think again. You may be hiding yourself in a safe zone but if it makes its way towards you through air.
It’s true that we must save our lives from coronavirus in year 2020 and we may be able to look towards growth and development of the world from next year. But do you think that as the Covid 19 vaccine comes out, everything is going to be sorted out? You may be wrong.
What if you are having no symptoms but you have been asymptotic novel coronavirus affected in the last few these days? You seem to be all well and coming in contact of many people throughout the day due to your work or personal matters.
The war game of China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh of India is nothing but an attempt to divert focus of the world from Coronavirus, apparently a Wuhan-lab-made virus that has infected more than 12 million people and taken over half a million lives worldwide so far.
India finally got independence on August 15, 1947 from two-century of British rule after a struggle of a century. But not less than the cost it paid for the whole occasion was its own division to make a new nation – Pakistan.
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Time for China to move on from Aksai Chin
China can now count its final days of illegal control over the land of Ladakh in lndia, which it claims to be its own Aksai Chin. At the time when it is quite obvious that China is playing hide and seek on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India only to divert the focus of the world from Wuhan-lab-made Coronavirus.
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Pakistan cannot Retain PoK for Long Now
It’s high time Pakistan should understand that it cannot retain the India’s land, including Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, for long now. At the time when border tension with China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is at its peak, war of words between India and Pakistan is also heating up over Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The responsibility of an organization, like WHO, becomes huge in terms of recognizing and signalling something bad at the time of the early stages of a pandemic. Where was WHO when Coronavirus was just making its first knocks at the door of the world from Wuhan in China?
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Human played with nature; now nature’s turn
Pandemics, epidemics, infectious deceases, floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, forest fires and excessive weather conditions are nature’s gift for human in a complete package. Is it a coincident that all these calamities, having power to shatter the humanity, have come to existence at the same time? It’s certainly not.
Why do we have to divert focus from Coronavirus to border tensions? While the world is facing Coronavirus pandemic outbreak, border problems have again become centre of attention in national and international politics and debates for India and neighbouring countries.
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Year 2020 Marks Coronavirus, Not Prosperity
This year is tough, very tough, for entire world. The year 2020 was much awaited, more than other new year because it was not only the new year but also this was the beginning of a new decade. Everyone seemed to be so much excited and filled with lots of hope and positive vibes with this new beginning.