In Chitrakoot, minor girls (aged 12-14) from poor families are forced to work in illegal mines but the contactors and middlemen don’t pay then daily wages easily. These girls have to trade off their bodies in exchange for their wages. “We are helpless, we agree to it. They give us a job, exploit us and then don’t pay us our wages full. When we refuse their sexual advances, they threaten they will not employ us any longer. What will we eat if we don’t work? We eventually agree.” – A resident of Karvi. Another victim, a resident of Dafai says, “The contractors don’t reveal their names and if we refuse their advances they threaten to throw us down the hill.” Their parents are aware of this exploitation but say they are equally helpless to do anything. Feeding the family is daily struggle. “They have put some beds behind the hill near the mines. They take us down there and take turns to exploit us. We have to go there one by one. When we refuse they beat us. It pains, we scream but we bear it. What else can we do? We feel sad about all this and think of dying or running away.”
“If we go to the mines without make-up, the contractors ask what we do with our wages. What can anyone do with Rs. 100?”- Another girl of Karvi.
The provisions on the Indian Penal Code do not reach these hills in Chitrakoot, neither do laws whose sole purpose are to protect children from sexual abuse.
Fed up with the rampant, many women have stopped working and sending their daughters to the mines. Dr. Vishesh Gupta, chairperson of UP Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said, “We have taken note of matter and we will send a team to investigate this.”
RS Pandey, ASP Chitrkoot, said, “We have not heard of any such incident. We are fully alert ad have asked the village guards to remain vigilant and report every incident in the villages. We are gathering information.”

Biju Raveendran a Malayali from Pullukulangara has managed to become a national hero in Croatia because of his bravery and quick thinking. Without bothering about his safety, Biju rescued a local woman and her two children stuck inside a three-storey building which had caught fire. He was feted by the local government for the act of bravado. The event took place on 10th July at 2am according to Croatian time. The top floor of the building in which Biju lived at ground floor caught fire. Biju was woken up due to the loud noise and scrambled out of the building with hs 2 Malayali friends.
After realising a family was trapped in the building, Biju borrowed ladder from another resident and scaled the building. After getting in through the ventilator the trapped woman, Helena Roobilu handed over her children while Biju passed her small ladder to help her get out. He later used the big ladder to get her out to safety. He was assisted by his friends Varghese and Jobi from Pathanamthitta with whom he shared the apartment.
Biju had come to Croatia 14 months ago from Gulf. His wife and daughter live in his native village. After the incident he is being offered jobs by many Croatian company.
Dario Hrebak, Mayor of Bjelovar, invited him to his office and felicitated him.

On 31st May, two minor girls were raped by 8 men, including a cousin of theirs’. The incident unfolded in Baloda bazaar district of Chattisgarh, when both these girls were out with their male friends.
On their way back, 8 drunkard men approached them, thrashed all the four, scared the two boys away and raped both the girls, in a deserted area, the girls were silenced of the fact that they had made a video and would circulate it, therefore there was no report made immediately.
After the incident, there was no peace for these girls, as they were called every day, blackmailed for circulating a video, the threatening escalated to a point that after two months, one of the girls called the women helpline, subsequently an FIR was filed.
Consequently 11 people are booked under various sections of IPC and POCSO, the two friends were booked for kidnapping as the girls were minor.

Sex education is the process of acquiring information and forming attitudes and beliefs about sex, sexual identity, relationships and intimacy. Sex education is also about developing young people’s skills so that they make informed choices about their behaviour and feel confident and competent about acting on these choices. It is widely accepted that young people have a right to sex education. This is because it is a means by which they are helped to protect themselves against abuse, exploitation, unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases like HIV and AIDS. Sex education aims to reduce the risks of potentially negative outcomes from sexual behaviour, such as unwanted or unplanned pregnancies and infection with sexually transmitted diseases including HIV. It also aims to contribute to young people’s positive experience of their sexuality by enhancing the quality of their relationships and their ability to make informed decisions over their lifetime. Sex education also helps equip young people with the skills to be able to differentiate between accurate and inaccurate information and to discuss a range of moral and social issues and perspectives on sex and sexuality, including different cultural attitudes and sensitive issues like sexuality, abortion and contraception.

Slums have constituted an integral part of India’s urban landscape. Many people who migrate from villages to towns in search of better income opportunities stay in slum colonies for the lack of a better alternative. Slum-dwellers stay in shanty structures in an unhygienic environment, as formal housing is unaffordable and much beyond their income levels. There is no electricity, running water or sanitation in these slums.
Affordable, low cost and planned housing will contribute immensely in this regard. This, in turn, will bring about a marked improvement in health and hygiene of the residents as well as raising the level of public hygiene. Another important aspect is availability of sustained employment opportunities for the slum people. Once a steady flow of earnings is maintained rather than ad-hoc menial work, one can hope for a quality of life far better than that in slums. All these steps in conjunction with long-term steps to decentralise economic activities will help a great deal in slum rehabilitation.

Media is misleading today’s youth. It has become a very powerful mode of disseminating information. Youth is exposed to a lot of unwanted information at a very young age. This is adversely affecting their mentality and psychology. They get distracted and, without analysing the whole scenario, grasp things according to their convenience. Social Media is the most powerful mode of the media, as it reaches every home. It is because of Social media that our youth is getting attracted to Western culture and forgetting their own rich values and culture. Also, too many options and distorted information in many forms of media confuse them in making decisions in life. People should check and think thorough before posting anything. Other forms of media should also understand their responsibility and use their liberty to guide youth instead of misleading them. Media is a pillar on which rests the progress of any society. Thus, its power should be positively harnessed to reap the maximum benefits for all.

Today, the greatest numbers of crimes are committed against women. They are harassed, tortured and ill-treated. The lure of making easy money has led to outrageous demands for dowry. Brides are harassed and burnt alive if they do not bring sufficient dowry. Many such newly married women commit suicide to save their parents from humiliation. Some become call-girls and prostitutes after going through harrowing experiences in married life. All these actions are possible because women are considered physically weaker than men and find it very difficult to retaliate to physical violence. The basic reason behind all this is the patriarchal nature of our society, in which men are dominating in all spheres of life.

Today, it is possible to determine the sex of the unborn child. This has led to the abhorrent practice of female foeticide. Even though this practice has been outlawed many years ago, it continues due to pressure from the society.

Eve-teasing is common everywhere and women are treated as sex objects Abduction and rape are everyday occurrences. Even minor girls are not spared Working women are exploited at their workplaces, especially by their male seniors. They are subjected to sexual harassment frequently. Women are criminally assaulted in police lock-ups and even the so-called protective homes are not safe for them. The remedy lies in women’s education and economic independence. Stringent laws must be made to protect the interests of women. Above all, the moral atmosphere of society must undergo a complete transformation.

Arranging all the rhetorical questions about calculating rational amount of information regarding what a certain business influencer is putting in , critical examinations amongst the current influencers make the picture clear with the utmost material oriented strategies for technical purposes. But that’s where it all goes wrong and all the calculations that are been made in order to put strategies in a sequence order are just for the keepsake or company. It also gets into the facts hat completing this and actually putting together your very own influencer marketing strategy that you can share with others. All the strict scrutinization helps you calculate something that nobody thinks you can calculate. It is the return on your marketing investment. Now, I chose my words very carefully because there are a lot of people out there who will ask you to calculate your return on investment because you don’t know when you have the game going on in the business and when you don’t , as an influencer. Understanding how to calculate the return on marketing investment allows you to do lots of interesting things. One of the things that you can do is answer that rhetorical question I asked at the beginning. These cases of observations are skeptical but you want to be able to do these kind of calculations yourself before you look at any of the investments that you make in influencer marketing. By being able to do them, you will have differentiated yourself from the vast majority of influence marketers who are just hoping that this stuff works. You need to look at your incremental revenue attributable to marketing. That’s the first piece of data you need to have. Fortunately, we all have now learned how we can track this as a general form of information that is mainstream. That is where you get to learn and preach how to calculate your economic value and you can attribute it to your influencer marketing because you’ve got that tracking leg. This isn’t open for dispute, you’ve got it numbered down. The second member you need to know is your contribution margin or what a lot of companies will call their profit margin. Now this is harder to know. This is one of those things that most companies try to keep secret, but if you work inside the organization you can basically explain if you want me to do the calculations, where I can calculate the profit you got to give me a number. And if they don’t give you a number, they are reluctant to give you a number you need to come up with some kind of reasonable estimate and we’re going to give you a couple here that you can work with.

Basic and minor details and credentials as such in a critical business game are actually tremendous in the eyes of market values and their strategies so you’re getting a normal return on marketing investment. But that’s the deal, that’s how you calculate this. It’s not just the incremental revenue you need to know that. But that incremental revenue is then divided by you got to pay for producing that product, you got to focus on profits which will set you apart. Growing through your focus and maintaining a fresh eye on how your business grows is one of the most carefully handled things and when one learns to do it tha actual game is on.

What is Passive euthanasia?
Passive euthanasia is a condition where there is withdrawal of medical treatment with the deliberate intention to hasten the death of a terminally-ill patient.Euthanasia  is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering.

The word “euthanasia” was first used in a medical context by Francis Bacon in the 17th century, to refer to an easy, painless, happy death, during which it was a “physician’s responsibility to alleviate the ‘physical sufferings’ of the body.” Bacon referred to an “outward euthanasia”—the term “outward” he used to distinguish from a spiritual concept—the euthanasia “which regards the preparation of the soul.”

In current usage, euthanasia has been defined as the “painless inducement of a quick death”

On 9 March 2018 the Supreme Court of India legalised passive euthanasia by means of the withdrawal of life support to patients in a permanent vegetative state. The decision was made as part of the verdict in a case involving Aruna Shanbaug, who had been in a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) until her death in 2015.

On 9 March 2018, the Supreme Court of India, passed a historic judgement-law permitting Passive Euthanasia in the country. This judgment was passed in wake of Pinki Virani’s plea to lust highest court in December 2009 under the Constitutional provision of “Next Friend”. It is a landmark law which places the power of choice in the hands of the individual, over government, medical or religious control which sees all suffering as “destiny”.

Active euthanasia, including the administration of lethal compounds for the purpose of ending life, is still illegal in India.

In 2018 the Supreme Court of India declared through a five-judge Constitution bench that, if strict guidelines are followed, the government would honor “living wills” allowing consenting patients to be passively euthanized if the patient suffers from a terminal illness or is in a vegetative state.

The Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment allowing “living will” where, an adult in his conscious mind, is permitted to refuse medical treatment or voluntarily decide not to take medical treatment to embrace death in a natural way. In the judgment, the court laid down a set of guidelines for “living will” and defined passive euthanasia and euthanasia as well.

The court stated the rights of a patient would not fall out of the purview of Article 21 (right to life and liberty) of the Indian Constitution.

NEW DIMENSION IN INDIAN HISTORY- ARUNA’s CASE

Aruna Shanbaug, who was working as a nurse at KEM Hospital, was assaulted on the night of November 27, 1973 by a ward boy. He sodomised Aruna after strangling her with a dog chain. The attack left Aruna blind, paralysed and speechless and she went into a coma from which she has never come out. She is cared for by KEM hospital nurses and doctors. The woman does not want to live any more. The doctors have told her that there is no chance of any improvement in her state. Her next friend (a legal term used for a person speaking on behalf of someone who is incapacitated) describes Shanbaug: “her bones are brittle. Her skin is like ‘Paper Mache’ stretched over a skeleton. Her wrists are twisted inwards; her fingers are bent and fisted towards her palms, resulting in growing nails tearing into the flesh very often. Her teeth are decayed and giving her immense pain. Food is completely mashed and given to her in semisolid form. She chokes on liquids and is in a persistent vegetative state.” So, she, through her ‘next friend’ Pinki Virani, decided to move the SC with a plea to direct the KEM Hospital not to force feed her. And on 16th December 2009, the Supreme Court of India admitted the woman’s plea to end her life. The Supreme Court bench compromising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices A K Ganguly and B S Chauhan agreed to examine the merits of the petition and sought responses from the Union Government, Commissioner of Mumbai Police and Dean of KEM Hospital.

On 24th January 2011, the Supreme Court of India responded to the plea for euthanasia filed by Aruna’s friend journalist Pinki Virani, by setting up a medical panel to examine her. The three-member medical committee subsequently set up under the Supreme Court’s directive, checked upon Aruna and concluded that she met “most of the criteria of being in a permanent vegetative state”. However, it turned down the mercy killing petition on 7th March, 2011. The court, in its landmark judgement, however allowed passive euthanasia in India. While rejecting Pinki Virani’s plea for Aruna Shanbaug’s euthanasia, the court laid out guidelines for passive euthanasia. According to these guidelines, passive euthanasia involves the withdrawing of treatment or food that would allow the patient to live.

Conclusion

Ms Shanbaug has, however, changed forever India’s approach to the contentious issue of euthanasia. The verdict on her case allows passive euthanasia contingent upon circumstances. So other Indians can now argue in court for the right to withhold medical treatment – take a patient off a ventilator, for example, in the case of an irreversible coma. This judgement makes it clear that passive euthanasia will “only be allowed in cases where the person is in persistent vegetative state or terminally ill.”

indian government has given green signal to ipl 2020 in UAE,ipl starting from SEP 19 th & final is on 10 th November at three venues in the UAE — Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi — subject to government approval, which is expected in the next couple of days.

Teams will be allowed to replace players in case they get unwell during the course of the tournament. The Governing Council met on Sunday to discuss the route map for the successful execution of IPL 2020 in United Arab Emirates (UAE).

IPL franchises will be allowed 24-player squads for the 13th edition of the tournament which is all set to go to the UAE