Defence Minister Rajanth Singh has said that the construction of strategic roads, bridges and tunnels in the border areas will be expedited. Mr. Singh said, Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is working vigorously towards this goal. The Minister reviewed the ongoing infrastructure projects of BRO at a high-level meeting in New Delhi yesterday.
 
During the meeting, the state of forward connectivity to border areas was reviewed and the consistent need of boosting the ongoing projects and to expedite the construction of strategic roads, bridges and tunnels in the border areas was discussed. The BRO has worked incessantly even during the restrictions imposed due to COVID-19 without affecting the progress of various projects.

Despite unprecedented snowfall, breaking 60 year old record, all strategic passes and roads were cleared this year for traffic about one month before their average yearly opening dates.
 
While lauding the BRO for its achievements, Mr. Singh exhorted it to continue its work to achieve even greater laurels. The BRO has also inducted latest equipment and machines and has introduced modern construction methods after successful trials to expedite works on surfacing with cementations base, use of plastics, geotextiles, and various techniques for slope stabilisation.

Trials have also been carried out successfully for indigenously produced modular bridges in collaboration. This will revolutionise the bridge laying capabilities in forward areas. 

Custodial violence primarily refers to violence in police and judicial custody. It includes death, rape and torture.

The recent death of a father-son duo from Tamil Nadu, allegedly due to custodial violence, has sparked anger across India.

The outrage and debates around the chilling custodial deaths of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu sound a bit too familiar to Sayyad Khwaja Hussain, 50. It has been happening for years. But nobody seems to care.

Hussain has seen it up close. He has even been at the centre of this discourse. He is the elder brother of Sayyad Khwaja Yunus, an engineer, who allegedly died in the custody of Mumbai Police in January 2003 at the age of 27. “We keep having the same debates after a case but nothing changes on the ground,” says Hussain, “And if the families want justice, the legal formalities take up your life.”Seventeen years since Khwaja Yunus died in Mumbai Police custody, Indian cops still unaccountable for custodial deaths.Deaths in custody are unfortunately not isolated incidents. Police in India routinely use torture and flout arrest procedures with little or no accountability. The magistrate investigating the recent deaths reported that the police did not cooperate during his inquiry, insulted him, and destroyed evidence.

On June 19, police in Tamil Nadu state detained P. Jayaraj, 60, and his son J. Fenix, 31, allegedly for keeping their mobile phone shop open longer than allowed under Covid-19 lockdown rules. Four days later, both were dead.The deaths of Jayaraj and Fenix happened soon after the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in the United States, igniting protests against police use of excessive force against Black people. It has prompted calls for police reform in India as well, including meaningful steps to ensure accountability. India should ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and strictly enforce laws and guidelines on arrest and detention set out in the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Reasons Behind Custodial Violence:

Absence of Strong Legislation: India does not have an anti-torture legislation and is yet to criminalise custodial violence, while action against culpable officials remains illusory.

• The Indian state either denies the existence of torture in the country or defends its resistance to enact a law by claiming there are sufficient provisions in the domestic legal framework to prohibit and penalise torture.
• These claims however remain superficial and without any such protections.
• Excessive Force: The use of excessive force including torture to target marginalised communities and control people participating in movements or propagating ideologies which the state perceives as opposed to its stature.
• Constitutional and Legal Provisions:

• Protection from torture is a fundamental right enshrined under Article 21 (Right to Life) of the Indian constitution.
• The right to counsel is also a fundamental right under Article 22(1) of the India constitution.
• Section 41 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) was amended in 2009 to include safeguards under 41A, 41B, 41C and 41D, so that arrests and detentions for interrogation have reasonable grounds and documented procedures, arrests are made transparent to family, friends and public, and there is protection through legal representation.

What should be done?

• India should ratify the UN Convention Against Torture: It will mandate a systematic review of colonial rules, methods, practices and arrangements for the custody and treatment of persons subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment.
  • It will also mean that exclusive mechanisms of redress and compensation will be set up for the victim besides institutions such as the Board of Visitors.
• Police Reforms: Guidelines should also be formulated on educating and training officials involved in the cases involving deprivation of liberty because torture cannot be effectively prevented till the senior police wisely anticipate the gravity of such issues and clear reorientation is devised from present practices.
• Implementation of Law Commission of India’s 273^rd Report: The report recommends that those accused of committing custodial torture – be it policemen, military and paramilitary personnel – should be criminally prosecuted instead of facing mere administrative action establishing an effective deterrent.

Why don’t we call menstruation by its name? why? it is untouchable? why girls are not allowed to go temple kitchen ? is it her fault?

Menstruation stigma is a form of misogyny. Negative taboos condition us to understand menstrual function as something to be hidden, something shameful. And by not naming a thing, we reinforce the idea that the thing should not be named.

Some menstrual customs can act as tools that enhance female autonomy, granting social control and relief from work, among other benefits.

symptoms of periods

• Abdominal or pelvic cramping.
• Lower back pain.
• Bloating and sore breasts.
• Food cravings.
• Mood swings and irritability.
• Headache.
• Fatigue.
• Do you ever think how painfully we are tolerating this in this condition you are saying please don’t go in the kitchen n all why? please just because of this you all are here and there is nothing to hide .
• Menstruation is the natural part of the reproductive cycle in which blood from the uterus exits through the vagina. It is a natural process that first occurs in girls usually between the age of 11 and 14 years and is one of the indicators of the onset of puberty among them. Despite being a phenomenon unique to girls, this has always been surrounded by secrecy and myths in many societies. Taboos surrounding menstruation exclude women and girls from many aspects of social and cultural life. Some of these are helpful, but others have potentially harmful implications.

Many girls and women are subject to restrictions in their daily lives simply because they are menstruating. Not entering the “puja” room is the major restriction among urban girls whereas, not entering the kitchen is the main restriction among the rural girls during menstruation. Menstruating girls and women are also restricted from offering prayers and touching holy books. The underlying basis for this myth is also the cultural beliefs of impurity associated with menstruation. It is further believed that menstruating women are unhygienic and unclean and hence the food they prepare or handle can get contaminated.

Such taboos about menstruation present in many societies impact on girls’ and women’s emotional state, mentality and lifestyle and most importantly, health. Large numbers of girls in many less economically developed countries drop out of school when they begin menstruating. This includes over 23% of girls in India.

In Delhi, there are an estimated 132 public toilets for women, only 8% the number of the 1534 for men.

Low cost sanitary napkins can be locally made and distributed particularly in rural and slum areas as these are the areas where access to the product is difficult. Government of India has approved a scheme to improve menstrual hygiene for 1.5 Crore adolescent girls by distributing low cost sanitary napkins in rural areas under the National Rural Health Mission since 2010.

it is becoming clear that multi-sectoral approaches are needed. We need to link physical infrastructure and water and sanitation projects to health education and reproductive health programs and address the issue in more holistic ways.Menstruation is nothing but a very normal biological phenomenon, and adolescent girls and women should understand that they have the power of procreation only because of this virtue.

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.

Divya Patni

Indian Railways came-up with a new idea as soon as airline customers can book their desired seat for their convenience and comfort. Railways recently floated a Qualization request inviting private organizations to use passenger trains on its network. The decision to charge passengers for these services will be for private use, officials said. In the document, he said that the taxpayers, depending on their financial situation, would have to provide the bulk of the proceeds of the proposal in the process. While Railways has given private players the freedom to adjust the fare to be paid to passengers, they will have the freedom to explore new revenue generating methods, according to the RFQ. Interpretation of the revenue, considered is as below. Any money that comes to a concessionaire a private corporation from passengers or other company from the provision of the following passenger services as a result of rushing trains under the concession agreement: the amount printed on the ticket purchase price from the various seats, luggage, luggage, luggage, package (if not included in the ticket ticket) means the RFQ. Price from on-board services such as – catering, roll roll, complimentary Wi-fi content if not included in the ticket ticket. Any amount resulting from the concessionaire due to advertising, branding and naming rights in accordance with the implied consent agreement. The chairman of the Railway Board at a press conference expressed concern that the prices of private train tickets would be expensive and said that they would be marketed and subject to competitive pricing. In its first railway initiative, Indian Railways has requested proposals from private companies to run 151 modern passenger trains of national routes across the project that will cost the private sector a total of Rs 30,000. The private organization will be free to purchase trains and trains from a source of choice, provided that those trains and trains comply with the specifications and standards specified in the consent agreement. However, the permit agreement will include provisions relating to the demand for compelling domestic product in India for a period of time. Railways also said that the running time taken by a private train from the train station to its destination would be comparable to the fast train running between the same stations. The railway lines will provide non-discriminatory access to trains operated by private entities without the aforementioned new train leaving between the same stations within 60 minutes from the private train. Each train must have at least 16 trainers equal to 384 meters in length, buffer to buffer and a maximum of the longest passenger train operating on that route. These trains will be run at the speed of 160 kmph so, the passengers can reach their destination faster than before and more efficiently. Also, People can see significant improvement in the railway community department and will be able to book tickets online rather than standing for hours at ticket counter, This will help Indian Railways as well as its consumers to use services in a more polished way and faster access to it. Indian Railways will include internet connectivity in all coaches so that people can access online content such as surfing internet or watching their favorite movies on the go.

Why don’t we call menstruation by its name? is it ashamed ?

A girl who has periods cannot enter temple because she is impure ,A girl who has periods cannot touch anything that is offered to god but Isn’t periods given by god himself ?

so how the is it impure.

Menstruation is the natural part of the reproductive cycle in which blood from the uterus exits through the vagina. It is a natural process that first occurs in girls usually between the age of 11 and 14 years and is one of the indicators of the onset of puberty among them. Despite being a phenomenon unique to girls, this has always been surrounded by secrecy and myths in many societies. Taboos surrounding menstruation exclude women and girls from many aspects of social and cultural life. Some of these are helpful, but others have potentially harmful implications.

Culturally in many parts of India, menstruation is still considered to be dirty and impure. The origin of this myth dates back to the Vedic times and is often been linked to Indra’s slaying of Vritras. For, it has been declared in the Veda that guilt, of killing a brahmana-murder, appears every month as menstrual flow as women had taken upon themselves a part of Indra’s guilt. Further, in the Hindu faith, women are prohibited from participating in normal life while menstruating. She must be “purified” before she is allowed to return to her family and day to day chores of her life. 

Many girls and women are subject to restrictions in their daily lives simply because they are menstruating. Not entering the “puja” room is the major restriction among urban girls whereas, not entering the kitchen is the main restriction among the rural girls during menstruation. Menstruating girls and women are also restricted from offering prayers and touching holy books.

World Menstrual Hygiene Day is observed on May 28. The main idea behind marking this day is to change the social stigma associated with menstruation.

The date May 28 was chosen to observe the day because on an average the menstrual cycle for most women is 28 days and the menstruation period for most women is for five days. Hence, the date was kept as 28/5.

What are the symptoms of menstruation?

• Abdominal or pelvic cramping.
• Lower back pain.
• Bloating and sore breasts.
• Food cravings.
• Mood swings and irritability.
• Headache.
• Fatigue.

Do people ever think what the situation we all girls are facing during periods time ? No but still they have to speak useless .

at this movement you have to support by giving chocolates or whatever she wants just because of her mood swings.

There are health and hygiene issues also to consider relating to girls and menstruation. Over 77% of menstruating girls and women in India use an old cloth, which is often reused. Further, 88% of women in India sometimes resort to using ashes, newspapers, dried leaves and husk sand to aid absorption. Poor protection and inadequate washing facilities may increases susceptibility to infection, with the odor of menstrual blood putting girls at risk of being stigmatized. The latter may have significant implications for their mental health.we have to be very careful in this sanitary is a basic needs for us.

it is becoming clear that multi-sectoral approaches are needed. We need to link physical infrastructure and water and sanitation projects to health education and reproductive health programs and address the issue in more holistic ways. Menstruation is nothing but a very normal biological phenomenon, and adolescent girls and women should understand that they have the power of procreation only because of this virtue.

Divya Patni

Jaipur: OnePlus kicked off its competition in the market in the department of TV journey with the debut of premium QLED smart TVs earlier last year. However,  Pricing in India will be consciously well put together market, and OnePlus seems to behave finally understood this. Thus, OnePlus has decided to take the real competition against Xiaomi, Vu, and others in the budget segment market with the launch of its U0 and Y- series smart TVs in India nearly about this week. The new U- and Y- series joins the existing OnePlus TV Q1 series. They do not include QLED panels in it. The Y- series includes a 32-inch and 43-inch variants while the U- series would be official will only with a single 55-inch smart TV. If we talk about the star of the segment, the 55-inch 4k OnePlus TV U1, followed bt the Y-series in India.

OnePlus TV U1:55-inch 4K TV

The Chinese manufacturer OnePlus may be looking to price its smart TVs more aggressively in the market but it’s not losing out the premium factor. Will be featuring a bezel-less LED panel in the front with a thicker bottom bezel to accommodate the Oneplus branding. The rear of the TV looks similar to the Q1 series of TVs with a brushed metal finished up-top and a carbon fiber cover at the bottom on the TV.

Display Specs

This television will grab its attention with its display at its front, The OnePlus TV U1 will include a 55-inch 4k LED panel with a  resolution of 3840×2160 display resolution with 95 percent of screen to body ratio and 93 percent of DCI-P3 color gamut support. It also has HDR10+ as well as Dolby Vision certification. That’s not all though. One Plus has also included the same Gamma Engine found internationally in the Q1 series to offer features like MEMC, dynamic contrast Super Resolution, noise reduction, and more. MEMC also is known as Motion Estinatimation, Motion Compensation. It’s a feature that helps smoothen out the frames ad comes in super handy for viewing cricket matches and other sports or playing games on it.

Internals and Software

Under the hood, the 55-inch OnePlus TV U1 is powered by a quad-core Cortex A53 MediaTek MT8587 processor clocked up to 1.5GHz and Malu-G51 MP4 storage, along with Android TV 9.0 out of the box. It’s the stock Android TV UI that we’ve seen with the Q1 series, with Oxygen Play, a new Data Save Plus feaure, and a slew of pre-installed media streaming apps such as Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, MX Player, Jio Cinema, and more application will be pre-installed in the firmware of the TV. OnePlus TVs also come with music streaming apps, including JioSaava and Spotify pre-installed. The company seens to have expanding its partnership to include more apps out of the box and lower the cost for itself. This is a good tie to reveal that the OnePlus TV U1 is equipped with 30W speakers and four units rotated at 90-degrees, with two full-range full speakers and two dedicated tweetrs to cover high frequencies.

The Television itself can get the responses from the audience itself by its aggressive pricing and market strategies in the Indian Market in front of brand like Xiaomi, Vu and many more other brands that are playing well in the budget television market.

What will happen if there will be no hormony in the organisation ? What situation will come up when employees will not agree to work together because of the differences based on from where thery come.?

There will be havock right.? Lets understand The importance of Harmony management in the organisation so we can get away easily with these situations easily and make our life situation better.

As we all know an organisation is based on its employees working together in the office. Many religions,castes language,culture come under the one roof for the fulfillment of the company. So, it is imporant that harmony should be maintained in the organisation.

Lets understand what is Harmony, Harmony is an essential benefit. …  and Harmony is an ideal path.Harmony mean dealing with disputes and resolving conflicts fairly and properly with neutralization and Middle Way principles to further the welfare of each individual as well as the wellbeing of mankind as a whole.

Now Lets See how Harmony Management can be achieved,

Harmony is the secret principle that controls life – be it at the personal or Organisational level. Harmony manifests itself in good judgment and in the organizational context it means the efficiency or effectiveness of taking right decisions timely and avoiding organizational confrontation and conflict. Conflicts are a natural ingredient of any organization but do not mean there has to be conflict for good management. A man who cannot get along with others is a man who cannot get along with himself. One who finds faults with others does not have a high regard for himself and this loss of self esteem is a cause of disharmony and conflict in organizations. Things are not as they appear to be, thanks to the limited scope of human perception! Instead of getting intimidated by organizational environments and circumstances if you first harmonise the situation with discriminative wisdom in your mind, the outcome will take care of itself! A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming disharmony; Harmony is a prolific source of power. This is true of any type of organization – any structure that has interacting parts, from nature as a whole to human relationships to corporate businesses and spiritual societies. Harmony is the soul of an organization; disharmony is death. Key words: Harmony in organizations, conflict resolution, ingredient, perception. 

Imagine suffering from a mental illness that causes you to believe that you are dead, or being able to feel what others feel- their pain or their joy, and moreover, thinking that your closed ones are replaced by imposters and are ready to harm you. Creepy, isn’t it?

There are some unusual syndromes that only a small percentage of people are forced to live with. But nearly 450 million people worldwide suffer from mental disorders. In fact, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), approximately one in five adults in the US suffer from mental illness each year.

Oliver Sacks’ classic book The man who mistook her his wife for a hat introduced us to some of the strangest brain disorders people suffer from, but that’s just a drop in the bucket. Here are a few of the most freakish mental conditions out there.

1. Cortard’s Syndrome: This disorder makes people think that they are dead.

Also known as The Walking Dead syndrome, is a rare condition marked by the false belief that you and your body parts are dead, dying or don’t exist. it usually occurs with severe depression and some psychotic disorders. In some cases, people believe that they are immortal.

People with this syndrome often become much less social. Sometimes, they may stop speaking at all. Some hear voices that tell them they’re dead or dying. Other’s may refuse to eat because they see no point since they are dead, while some even try to harm themselves.

2.Mirror Touch Synesthesia: this disorder makes people feel what others are feeling.

Mirror- Touch Synesthesia is a rare condition which causes individuals to experience a similar sensation in the same part or opposite part of the body that another person feels.

Imagine you are with a friend and she falls and twists her ankle. All of a sudden, you feel the pain in your ankle. Or you see, if someone is hugged by another person and you feel the same sensations of the hug. These are the symptoms of this rare condition.

3.Alien Hand Syndrome: some people are convinced that their hand doesn’t belong to them.

It is a rare phenomenon in which one hand is not under control of the mind. The person loses the control of the hand, and it acts as if it has a mind of its own. Sometimes one leg is affected, though this isn’t as common.

The affected hands feels foreign to its owner during these episodes and seems to move deliberately to carry out tasks that are unintentional. While it can affect children, usually alien hands occurs in adults.

4.Alice in the Wonderland Syndrome: Some people perceive the size of their body parts incorrectly.

It is rare condition that causes temporary episodes of of distorted perception and disorientation. You may feel larger or shorter than you actually are. You may also find that the room you’re in or the surrounding furniture seems to shift and feel further away or closer than it really is.

These episodes aren’t the result of a problem with your eyes or a hallucinations. They are caused by changes in how your brain perceives the environment you’re in and how your body looks. The syndrome can affect multiple senses, including vision, touch, and hearing. You may also loose the sense of time as the time may seem to pass faster or slower than you think.

Ever felt left out from the crowd or your peer group? Or not being the centre of focus of your own life? As if you were the supporting character being dominated by the main character and thinking that the story revolves around him while you are playing the role of a mere extra.

I know exactly what it feels like pretending to be a loner while you want to interact with people, make friends and enjoy your life. But, all are you doing is observing others being the centre of attention and having the fullest of their lives. It hits hard. And eventually, you lose the ability to feel enthusiastic about things. You’re just dragging your boring life.

But you know what, it’s not others who turned your life dull and boring, it’s you who made it like that. You treated yourself as an extra, you thought that you can’t enjoy your life. But the thing here is that your thoughts are not you.

Don’t believe everything you think. It’s your life, live the way you want to. Why treating yourself as an extra while you can, actually no, YOU ARE the main character of your life. You only have one life so find even the smallest joy, maybe that joy can be the reason to be the main lead. So what if people doesn’t give you attention, have you ever seen a protagonist begging for people’s attention? No, right? So why doing it? You are enough for yourself. And believe me, when you’ll start doing it people will be automatically attracted towards you. It’s human nature, we are attracted towards the bold and confident one. Just like when you admired the person whom you thought was the main character and was dominating you for being the supporting character.

Now here the main question arises, “How to manage this change?”. I know it’s not easy to suddenly flip your thoughts and change them completely. There are certain steps that you need to follow: first, try to observe your thoughts. Give a reason to your thoughts, for example; why you think that you are an extra? Don’t let your thoughts take over your mind.

Second, don’t judge yourself. Sometimes it’s okay to think bad, you are also a human after all. And as I have said before, your thoughts are not you. Having negative thoughts doesn’t mean you are weak, believing it makes you weak. Third, Learn to say no. Express your true feelings, don’t hide them in order to maintain your image in front of people or concerning yourself with what others will think. This is the way you feel so what’s wrong in expressing it. Even if it is a relationship you don’t want to be in then just say it, it’s your point of view.

Fourth, you come first. It isn’t bad to care for people but you should prioritize yourself more from other people. Think about yourself first.

Just try these things and don’t waste this precious life thinking that you are just an extra. Believe in yourself, you are way more better and important than that.

At an age when many people choose to rest and spend time with their families, he at the age of 79 years who knocks on the doors of the rich to collect medicines for the poor, walks 5-7 kms a day collecting leftover medicines from the rich in Delhi. Meet our own ‘Medicine Baba’, the selfless man who dreams of setting up a medicine bank for those who cannot afford treatment.

Omkarnath Sharma, better known as the Medicine Baba, is a retired blood bank technician executing a very difficult mission to start a free medicine bank for the poor and the needy. And for this he walks around the streets of Delhi, knocking the doors of the privileged ones to collect leftover medicines.

His motto “Bachi dawai daan me, na ki kudedaan me, Medicine Baba ka ek hi sapna, gareebo ka medicine bank ho apna.” , made people realize who don’t even know that the medicine they think are useless can be used to save those in need. “All of us have some medicines lying around in our houses but we end up throwing them in the dustbin” said Sharma.

His telephone number is proudly displayed on his orange kurta, he wears plush slippers, both indoors and outdoors. Omkarnath Sharma is phenomenon that catches your eye. In his self designed outfit, he announces himself as a vendor’s cry: ‘The Medicine Baba is here! Give me your old medicines! Don’t throw them away, they can save the lives of the poor!’

In Sharma’s messy, garage- sized room located in the poor quarter of Manglapuri, the shelves are overflowing with boxes of medicines in all colors of the rainbow, opened blister packs, half- full medicine bottles, are all alphabetically arranged.

He has been working like this since 2008, when an under-construction Delhi Metro bridge in Laxmi Nagar collapsed and Omkarnath witnessed many injured people suffering because of the lack of adequate medical care. He saw how the nearest hospital turned away patients saying it did not have the required medicines. Being at no fault, the injured people had to rush here and there to find a place that could provide proper treatment. Omkar was shocked.

He found this situation painfully ironic, on one hand there were no medicines in the hospitals for the people who were dying and on the other hand there were large quantities of usable medicines being discarded by households every day. That was day when something striked to Omkarnath and he decided to become the Medicine Baba.

Medicine Baba is a blessing for many people. At present, he’s trying to help some people suffering from cancer and kidney ailments. He’s trying his best to arrange money for their treatment. Moving around in Delhi wearing an orange shirt that highlights his mission bold. He is a source of hope for many. Let’s all wish that his dream of setting up a medicine bank gets fulfilled.