The verdict on different petitions filed by students against UGC in demand to scrape off final year/terminal semester university examinations in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic will be pronounced tomorrow by the Supreme Court. It will be presided over by a 3-judge bench whose head will be Justice Ashok Bhushan, who will be ruling the verdict at 10:30 in the morning. UGC (University Grants Commission) had in its July 6 regulation had asked the universities to commence final year exams by the end of September. 

As soon as the guideline came into view, many students and organizations went against it in the wake of the prevalent pandemic. One of the petitioners was a COVID-19 patient himself. Along with then Shiv Sena’s youth wing Yuva Sena also joined the hands against the UGC guidelines. They have been demanding full scrapping of final year exams online or offline, both and also the declaration of results based on previous academic performances or internal assessment. 

On April 29, UGC had published regulations for universities and colleges to follow to hold exams by July, 2020. It was regulated by an expert committee headed by Chairperson of Central University of Haryana, R C Kuhad. According to the guideline’s universities had the authorization of administering exams either in online or offline mode by following social-distancing measures.

As COVID-19 is not abating, UGC issued a new guideline in June, reassessing it by holding an expert’s meeting again and in the fresh guideline issued on July 6, it was mentioned that examinations should be commenced by the end of September. States where the COVID situation was worse, their universities took a step of not conducting examinations, which were – Delhi, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh. The Disaster Management Act of 2005 was invoked by Delhi and Maharashtra governments to cancel the exams as they didn’t see it fit for students to undertake examinations. This law renders central and state governments to act and take stronger actions to attenuate disaster situations.    

On the other hand, UGC advocated that final year exams are necessary steps. It implied that “Final-year/ terminal semester examinations are important because the learning process of a dynamic interaction where the only way to figure out what the students know is to seek evidence of their knowledge. Academic evaluation of final-year students is, therefore, a very important milestone in any education system.” So, it is utmost necessary for students to go through exams as degrees cannot be granted without it and to go for exams or not is the power vested to UGC only, state governments don’t have a say in this. The Ministry of Home Affairs backed UGC on this matter and filed an affidavit before Apex Court asserting that educational institutions will be opening for holding final year exams only.

Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has announced that all the tuberculosis patients have to be screened for COVID-19 and vice-versa according to the new guidelines. People having ILI (Influenza Like Illness) or Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) will be screened for Tuberculosis and COVID-19 as these two diseases share common symptoms mentioned above. 

The guidelines came in the view that since COVID-19 came into existence an overall decline by 26 percent in Tuberculosis was seen as compared to previous year. There have been many studies which indicate that COVID-19 patients showed significant symptoms of Tuberculosis in them which ranges between 0.37- 4.47 percent. There were some studies which showed that there was activity of Tuberculosis symptoms in the patients which is really a twofold risk factor for the patients. 

Now, the patients who are diagnosed with Tuberculosis and COVID-19, will undergo two treatments at a time. The ministry has also asked the governments to facilitate the centers where a patient can go undergo medication for both for better management of patients. 

Wisdom of the head as well as wisdom of heart is most sought after rarities in the world. Wisdom can be linked to divine maturity that I’d gained after a lot experience. The wisdom of head can be linked to short intelligence, whereas wisdom of heart can be inked to super emotional intelligence guided by intuition.

Wisdom of head is generally the rational behavior or thought which concludes the final decision based on scientific data and after analyzing all the pros and cons! A person with biologically-bent mind always prefer wisdom of head before performing any action or drawing any conclusions. This can also mean that wisdom you can attain with your conscious part of your soul. The thoughts you are building in your life about yourself about the people and the world in general.

Wisdom of heart is completely emotion or intuitive in nature. You do what you believe right or what your inner feeling is telling you. You do not care to analyse it’s pros and construction logically before performing the task. This is not necessary wrong. Wisdom of heart means wisdom of your higher self. It is the voice of pure positive higher self speaking to you through conscience and intuition. When you experience a bad feeling, you have negative emotions. You have formulated consciously and subconsciously negative thoughts. The higher self is guiding you with this bad feeling, to signal you to change your thought from negative into positive to feel good again. This is one of the guidance in life that we have to stay on the pure positive path in life. Many have lost touch with this wisdom.

Wisdom of heart some time may well agree with the wisdom of head also but sometimes it seems to contradict. Though emotional nature is generally considered as stupidity in our calculated life style, it has its down value. Sometimes wisdom of heart comes out to be the winner when all head thinkers bang their head……

In this what the writer had brought is he has conflicts between the Heart and the Head. The head always speaks about the things that are not emotionally attached, which have no connection with the emotions.

The descision you take, the choice you make can be of both types but more often than not it will be in the form head, and when it comes to heart your heart does not calculate, manipulate or extract the finance, texts and results rather that it follows your intuition [you heart is nowhere related], your thoughts you will do to something, to go and ask about something.

Sometimes people say, “Take your brain your head with heart”.

But I think heart and emotions can never be wrong. If your heart is as pure as bliss of the sunshine then it will teach it’s pure nature and if your head is out of all the negative thoughts of your own egoistic, greedy and negative ego perspective and tends to grow above the negatives of life, formulating pure positive thoughts in good and bad situations, it will be good for you for all people in the world and good for nature also.

This is the truth, nothing more and nothing less – you can reject it or accept it. It is yout choice after “There is wisdom of heart and wisdom of head”.

After over six months in lockdown doors of colleges could open up once again in Karnataka this October.
Ever since the lockdown began in Karnataka in the month of March, students, parents and teachers have pondered over the question, when will schools and colleges reopen?

Well, it looks like the date is near, as the state govt has decided that the academic year for degree courses will commence from the 1st of September. Initially, it will only be online classes, however, from the 1st of October, the state plans to open the doors of the colleges for offline classes as well. While the state has begun making preparations in this regard as per UGC guidelines, the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Ashwath Narayan has clarified that they will wait for a green signal & guidelines form the central government for the same.

“The academic year for degree colleges will commence from the 1st of September via online classes. Offline classes will begin in October. In accordance with the current UGC guidelines, we have already made comprehensive preparations for starting classes. The state government will follow any additional directions from the central government as they come,” the Deputy Chief Minister said.

Now that almost everything has taken the online route it has become necessary that personal informations of people be kept safe. For this every company has to make sure that they have a strong cyber network. And this is is made possible by hiring Cyber Law experts. The work of cyber law expert is to check on the cyber crimes which has affected the customers and to make sure that for the such things don’t happen. They prepare case for the customer investigate it and then advocate for them. Thus, their work is related to both technology and law.

Some of the leading institutes where you can train are Faculty of Law Delhi University, Indian Law institute, University School of Law and Legal Studies, Faculty of Law Lucknow university, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad and National Law University Jodhpur. After completing the course you can become Cyber lawyer, Data Privacy Officer, Data Security Officer, Legal Advisor, Cyber Assistant and Cyber Forensic Specialist.

The second book in the Harappa Series , Pralay opens up with a flashback of what happened in the first book. This made the whole reading process a lot simple for no one would have the time to read the first book all over again and then pick the second one.

Plot 

The plot of this book is similar like the first part. The story takes place in various dimensions and as the pages keep turning we travel to different dimensions throughout the book. The plot is a mix of mythology and fiction and equal weightage is given to both the genres. With the introduction of new characters the plot got interesting and gripping.
However , with too much going on I completely lost interest in the middle and had to keep the book down. It was hard to keep a track and I had to go back to the previous pages and then continue reading.
As compared to the previous book , the end again left me baffled waiting for the next book.

Writing 

The writing is more technical and gripping this time as compared to the previous book. The writer has kept the pace fast this time with the action scenes more vivid and lively which kept me hooked.

Final Verdict 

With new character developments , more action scenes and mythology blended with thriller , you can definitely pick this one up without a second thought.

The book is an autobiography of Helen Keller, who is one of the most respected and internationally recognised visually impaired and deaf ladies, who struggled against all odds to educate herself.

Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was rendered deaf and blind at 19 months of age, when she contracted an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain (perhaps Scarlet Fever or Meningitis). From then on, she struggled to communicate with others. As a child, she would often be frustrated and would go in a rage, as she failed to communicate with her family.

Eventually, after a lot of struggle, her parents find a teacher for her, Anne Sullivan, who goes on to change Keller’s entire life and teaches her how to communicate with her family and the outside world, without depending on anyone.

The Story of My Life is a heart rending story of the challenges Keller and her teacher Sullivan face to communicate with each other until Sullivan tries the method of finger-spelling the words on Keller’s hand. With this method, Keller gets a breakthrough into the world of communication. For the first time, Keller recognises the word ‘Water’ through this method, and as she goes on to describe it in her book, “that living word, awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free.” With the help of her teacher, Keller learns to read and write and speak in different languages, including learning braille.

The long-pending registration for admission of students whose parents want them transferred from private to government schools opens on Thursday, albeit only online.

This process of ‘non-plan’ admission — or admission apart from transfer from feeder schools — usually begins in April every year. The process for classes VI to IX, which begins on Thursday, will extend until September 8. An education department official said that sorting out the process contributed to the delay.

“We are doing the application process online this year to prevent crowding at schools and so that the form can be filled even by families which are not in Delhi now… We also had to make sure that the online process was simple enough so that it can be done without any kind of support,” said the official.

The financial strain of the lockdown has led to several families waiting for admissions at government schools to open, since they can’t afford private school education for their children.

Help desks will be available at schools to assist parents in filling online forms, and a helpline has also been made available. After they are allotted a school, the applicants will have to report there with documents for verification.

Education department officials said the circular for admission of students in older classes will follow soon.

Indian Cricket team’s Captain Virat Kohli and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma (her wife) announced the pregnancy of actress. The couple is expecting their first child in Jan 2021. Anushka announced this through her instagram post, in which she is seen flaunting her baby bump as she stands next to Virat. “And then, we were three! Arriving Jan 2021,” she wrote. Virat Kohli also posted the same on his instagram & twitter handle.

This couple first met on an advertisement shoot. From then, they both became very good friends and also started dating in each other. After living few years in a relationship, they finally got married in 2017 in Italy. The photographs of their marriage went viral on every social media platforms and the couple was really looking so happy after being married.

Recently, Virat and Anushka took a fun quiz on Instagram to test each other’s knowledge about their respective professions. They also answered questions about how well they know each other. The video was viewed by many of their fans and followers. In fact, it was also reposted on official page of instagram. This couple is best known for their trustworthy and loving nature towards eachother.

Apart from this, Virat also became the most followed celebrity on Instagram from Asia. He has 76M followers on Instagram.

Also, many players of Indian Cricket team are giving such news. Few weeks ago, all-rounder Hardik Pandya was also blessed with a baby boy. Pandya got engaged to an Indian based Serbian dancer and model Natasa Stankovic. Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal also surprised his fans recently when he posted the photograph of his engagement ceremony. He got engaged to youtuber and choreographer Dhanashree Verma on 8th August 2020.