Do you often find your friends or your colleagues better than yourself? Do you often end up criticising yourself on baseless points and land up depressed? Well, this happens to many because of their low self-esteem.Some of the ways to boost and assist you overcome your low self-esteem are as follows-
1) Turn a deaf ear to your inner negative voice – people with low self-esteem often gives in to their inner judge. It is that inner voice of yours that observes and judges your thoughts and actions. It lowers our self-esteem consistently, when we listen to those terrible thoughts, ultimately hindering our self-worth. In order to overcome low self-esteem and get rid of our negative self-image, it is essential that you challenge these negative thoughts. You can do this by focusing on all the good qualities you have rather than constantly being worried about your flaws and focusing on all the negativities of life.
2) Self- acceptance– self- acceptance is essential for every individual to overcome their low self-esteem. You should learn to accept yourself first for others to truly accept you for who you are as a person. So try to treat yourself like a friend, silence your negative ideas and beleifs about yourself and accept yourself the way you are. Accept yourself with all the flaws you have,as no human alive is born flawless. This might not seem easy but this is vital for your mental well-being and for your overall personality development. Be kind to yourself always, no matter what! Always remember that “You” are unique and best in your own ways!
3) Stop comparisons- if you often find yourself comparing with others then it is the time to stop doing so.Comparison frequently brings in needless anxiety, and makes you feel worthless for no reason. As there’s a saying- “Comparison is the thief of joy!” What you have to apprehend is that there will always be people more beautiful, successful or smarter than you are, but it doesn’t necessarily make you an unsuccessful person.Everybody grows and moves towards success at their own pace and time. You will shine too, when your time comes, till then grow with your life experiences and enjoy the process of becoming your true self, harnessing your potential to the fullest. Keep chasing your dreams and you will soon be at your desired place in life.
4) Self-belief- Belief in yourself against the world’s disbeliefs! If you have a dream, but you are unsure about achieving it or you find it unachievable and fear even taking a step forward,because of what your inner critic or the people around you says, then do yourself a favour by just silencing all the irrational thoughts and fears and better focus on what you really want out of your life. Keep following what your heart says, follow your passion, work hard to make your dream come true and eventually you will find your self-esteem increasing with every goal you have accomplished so far.
5) Seek meaning- strive to do something significant in life. Work for something or do something that is beyond yourself. The act of kindness is one way to reap contentment and inner peace in life. Be kind to others for no reason. Do good to others without ever anticipating anything in return, this would add a meaning to your life. Volunteering for a cause you believe in and you always wanted to, is another example, for boosting your self-esteem and living a fulfilled life.
So dear readers, if you often struggle with low self-esteem, I hope the above mentioned ways would help you overcome your struggle. You are special in your own unique way, so don’t ever let the world or your own negative thoughts belittle you!
Day: September 18, 2020
Multiplayer Chess: Turning the Duels Into Battles
Chess in itself is a complicated game. Even with all the strategy, sometimes one can go only that much far. Also known as the game of kings, chess has evolved through the passage of time. It is said to have derived its roots from the indian game chaturanga. The standardized rules of chess that are followed unanimously now were discussed and fixed in the 19th century.
In this game, each player is alloted 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two bishops, two knights, two rooks and lastly, eight pawns. Each piece follows a different movement pattern, and the main objective of the game is to checkmate the opponent’s king. Checkmate refers to the position where the opponent’s king is in threat of capture, with no option to safeguard the piece.
It is a fact that change is the only thing that is constant. Same applies to chess too. Many variants of chess, on the basis of different criterias, are popular amongst the population. If anyone is keeping up with the chess developments, then they will surely know about three and four player variants of chess. So what are these variants? Let’s see…
Triple Trouble
Three player chess, also known as three way chess, or three handed chess is specially designed for three players. Usually a non-standardized board is used, and many variations of this form exist. The pieces of three players are usually separated on the basis of colours. Three way chess variants are more tough to design as for disbalance caused by teaming up of two players will be a great disadvantage for the third one, and also not easily lovercomable. Hence, some variants declare the first player to checkmate any of the other two players as the winner. The third player might be declared to have lost, alongside the checkmated player, or, might be rewarded a half point.
The strategy in three way chess differs greatly from the traditional chess variant, as for the face against two opponents, the usual opening and defenses might not hold strong. Also, the third player is given the most advantage when the other two players exchange their pieces. This point opens a plethora of new tactics in the game. Also, in the games where the first one to checkmate wins, the players not only have to build on their attack and defense, but also have to make sure that no other player checksmates before them. Also, checkmate from both the opposing players simultaneously is a tricky situation. As for if the checkmated piece is captured by the second player, which in turn, is captured by the third player, then it is considered that the ultimate checkmate is given by the third player. But with all these complications, three way chess pushes the mind to evaluate the game even with more concentration and critical thinking.
Some variants of three way chess are:
- Boards with triangular cells: Patented by Russian Ilshat Tagiev in 2008, this variant uses a hexagonal board with triangular cells. The cells which are not adjacent to the perimeter have three cells adjacent in an oblique fashion.
- Boards with quadrilateral cells: Under this, variants can be sub classified on the basis of the geometry of the boards.
- Hexagonal board: Some variants under this category are Three Man Chess (96 cell board), Self’s Three Handed Chess (144 cell board), Waidder’s Three Handed Chess (126 cell board), etc.
- Other Boards: Megachess (roughly triangular board with 130 cells), Mad Threeparty Chess (10X10 board) etc.
- Boards with hexagonal cells: In this type of board, usually three bishops are alloted to each player, in order to include all the cells of the hex- playing field. Some variants with this type of cells are- Chesh, HEXChess etc.
- Circular boards: Usually has three or four sided cells. One such variant is Three Man Chess.
From all the directions
Four player chess, also known as four way chess and four man chess, is relatively simpler to understand. It follows some basic rules of traditional chess. The board itself, though, is different. The common board format is the standard 8X8 squares, with an extension of three rows, each of eight cells, on each side. The pieces are again differentiated on the basis of colours. Played in both team and single format, the objective is to mate the opponent kings (two in case of team game and three in case of singles). In a team game, check mating only one king successfully leads to a draw. A fun fact: If two or more players team up during a game, then also it is considered legal.
Four player chess, incidentally, has a set of common rules. Those are:
- Pieces of a certain colour can only be moved at their own turns.
- Pawn can move diagonally forward only in an attacking case, otherwise it has to move forward in a straight line.
- A pawn, on successfully reaching the King’s row of any of the other three opponents, has the option to upgrade to a queen, rook, knight or bishop.
- In most of the variations, if the move of one opponent directly places another opponent in a mate position due to the presence of a piece of third opponent, the third opponent is forbidden to capture the mated King, until the mated opponent gets the opportunity to play something in order to defend their king.
The variation in the chess world is much, much more widespread than this. If this seems interesting, check out the other variations too!
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Descendants of the sun :MUST WATCH KOREAN SHOW
Whether you love this show or hate it; whether you think it’s the drama gods’ gift to mankind or the most ludicrous thing to ever grace our screens – heck, whether you even watch kdrama or not – you just can’t ignore it.
When I first started watching Descendants of the Sun sometime last week, I had no idea how popular it was. During its original run in South Korea, it broke record ratings with a 28.5 percent viewership surpassing another insanely popular kdrama from two years ago called My Love From Another Star (that one was so popular, there’s going to be an American remake, although I don’t know what happened with that project) in only six episodes. It then continued to surpass its own ratings as the show went on. It currently has over 440 million views in China on legal and not-so-legal streaming sites and has been sold to 27 countries and translated into 32 languages.
I watched the first episode and at about maybe 20 minutes into the first episode, I had fallen head-over-heels in love.
The story revolves around a special task force officer, Yoo Shi-Jin (Song Joong-Ki) and a surgeon Kang Mo-Yeon (Song Hye-Kyo) who meet under extraordinary circumstances. Their fate seems to collide again and again and they slowly realise their feelings for each other. Either their relationship will be strong enough to handle everything or will one be left behind forever.
Yoo Shi-Jin and Kang Mo-Yeon😍 indeed meet under extraordinary circumstances which leads to a misunderstanding. Yoo Shi-Jin is immediately attracted to the feisty surgeon but they don’t get enough time to know each other. When Kang Mo-Yeon and her team are sent to Urk for medical works, they come face to face once again and their incomplete story begins again. This show is kind of cheesy too but it’s worth it! I couldn’t stop smiling at some of the moments and most of their interaction was pretty hilarious!
But the story had its serious moments too, especially when the earthquake happened and everything was in chaos, also when the epidemic broke out, I loved how the characters handled things. It kept me on edge and I was glued to the screen to know what happened next! There were also a loooot of side characters and I definitely enjoyed the fact that all the main focus was on always on the main leads but we were getting to know about the others as well.
Anyway, their precious moments were interrupted a lot due to Yoo Shi-Jin emergency duty calls but they took their chance in the small moments possible. Their chemistry was crystal clear from the very start although the relationship slowly develops. (And I loooooove that now they are married in real life!!!) Trust was one of the most important factors and their trust in each other was the strongest! I absolutely loved the romance.
Also, I absolutely loved the secondary pair. Seo Dae-Young (Jin Goo) and Yoon Myeong-Joo (Kim Ji-Won) were just adorable!! Yoon Myeong-Joo was an army doctor but due to her father who was the General, Seo Dae-Young was forced to stay away from her. It broke my heart to see those two hurting but I loved when they finally stood up for each other!
Descendants of the Sun was a fantastic watch! One that will stay will me forever! The plot although a little cliched was executed perfectly and loved the characters and the romance!! But the last two episodes were kind of crazy, I didn’t feel it was necessary to do that of an extreme thing but well, I was satisfied in the end!
Bollywood Songs That Shouldn’t Be Played Anymore
Songs have a lasting impact on our mind and leave us humming the same tune for weeks. However, we often don’t pay attention to the lyrics and its meaning. Most of the Bollywood songs are racist, sexist, promote rape culture, and dismiss consent as being essential. Covering the lyrics with peppy beats and catchy lines, Bollywood songs never fail to objectify women. People tend to focus on the extravagant choreography, the glamorous clothes and the actors rather than judging the quality of the song’s lyrics. It is a dire need to raise our voices against such songs especially at this time when songs are easily available and can be streamed anytime and anywhere. Censorship needs to be more strict with respect to such lyrics as Bollywood songs reach about 17% of the world’s population and influence young as well as mature minds.
Some of the songs that need to be removed from streaming platforms are-
• Jumma Chumma Dede
A super-hit song from a well-recognised movie, Hum, is rather an example of harassment but everyone sings this song without acknowledging its problematic concept. We should take a second to analyse its lyrics-
“Are tu boli thi pichhle jumme ko
Chumma dungi agle jumme ko
Aaj jumma hai to aaja aaja
Aaja aaja aaja aaja”
These lines harass a woman by constantly asking her to give a kiss which she had promised last week. The repetition of the word ‘aaja’ which means come, is abusive.
• Samundar Mei Nahake
One of the most hit among the old songs, Samundar Mei Nahake is seen as a classic composed by R. D. Burman in the movie Pukar. This song shows women objectification by attributing salty as a quality to the female actress in the song. Here are its lyrics-
“Samundar mei naha ke
Tuma ur bhi namkeen ho gayi ho”
Constantly listening or singing along with these songs somehow reinforce these values. We need to unlearn these concepts we have integrated into our minds and it is such songs and movies of Bollywood which have popularised them.
• Gandi Baat
This song of R.Rajkumar promotes rape culture, disregard consent from women, normalise sexual and emotional harassment. Its lyrics are self-explanatory- Achhi batein karli bohot ab karunga tere saath gandi baat (which is a direct rape threat). Another line of this song is “Mooh se kya kya kya, Bol na na na, Mann to mann mann mann ho gaya” which is based on assuming that the woman is also in agreement without taking any kind of consent.
• Yaad Piya ki Aane Lagi
The romanticisation of problematic behaviour is very frequently represented in Bollywood. One such song is Yaad Piya ki Aane Lagi, even though it is one of the recent songs it still portrays values which should’ve been left behind. It shows the backwardness of our cinema industry.
The lyrics of this song is – Hum dheere dheere dheere paagal ho rahe hai
Main to mar jaana haye wo na jo milne aaye
Main to mar jaana haye wo na jo milne aaye
Saansein meri hai unke hathon mein
In this, words like ‘paagal’ are ableist and should not be used. This song shows unhealthy dependability on your partner.
These songs need to be eliminated from our industry as they are negatively influencing the youth along with the rest of the audience.
HOSTAGES 2 REVIEW😀
Hostages Season 2’ picks up from where Season 1 had left off. It shifts its attention from Dr. Anand’s family, who were held hostage by Singh and his gang in the previous season. This time around, the hostage-taker’s plan is a bit too personal — he needs the CM’s bone marrow to save his wife’s life. But nothing goes as planned because of Saba’s (Shriswara Dubey) deteriorating health conditions and they now must halt their journey and take shelter in an abandoned house (Purani Kothi) on the Delhi-Gurgaon Highway. But that’s not all, the CM’s head of security, Subramanian (Mohan Kapur), hunts the gang down, and gunshots are fired which attracts local cops’ attention. Just as things get rolling, events conspire to set up a brand-new hostage situation — will Prithvi be successful in finding a way out of this mess and getting the bone marrow transplant for his wife?
The screenplay is a bit slow but manages to keep the audience hooked as the tension between the main characters has been highlighted quite well. While a few subplots feel a bit forced everything falls into place once the show reaches the business end.The death of a key character too has been executed with a fair deal of competence and makes the desired impact. The last two episodes in particular pack a punch as it has a strong emotional connect. The climax has a strong ‘shock value’.
Coming to the performances, Ronit Roy is the heart and soul of Hostages 2 and does full justice to a layered character. His raw and natural intensity adds a new dimension to the show, upping the recall value. He also handles the emotional sequences rather well.
Divya Dutta is sincere and makes a decent impact in the opening episodes. Dino Morea looks stylish but fails to add much to Hostages 2. Veteran actor Dalip Tahil delivers an effective performance, proving that he has still got it. Kanwalijit Singh,however, fails to make an impact as he is burdened with a generic and one-dimensional character.
While not quite as riveting as its precursor, this season has impressive production values and fine performances. Among them are Ronit Bose Roy, who returns as the mastermind Prithvi Singh, Aashim Gulati as Prithvi’s sensitive and steadfast brother-in-law Aman and Divya Dutta as the perceptive negotiator. Kanwaljit Singh provides the temperance associated with a commanding police officer. Amit Sial, Mohan Kapur, Faezeh Jalali, Dalip Tahhil and Shriswara Dubey reprise their roles as Peter, Subramanian, Sarah, Handa and Saba respectively.
The background music could have a lot better as it does not up the thrill quotient associated with Hostages 2, The action sequences, however, are upto the mark and have a realistic feel. The other technical aspects have been handled well .
Conserve Nature, Conserve life !
Look around yourself. The air we breathe , the water we drink , the soil we live on ,the rays of the sun and the blossom of a flower . The trees and the fauna everything is just so beautiful. Mother Nature has blessed us with magnificent things which of course we humans have taken it for granted. The human race has already done a lot of damage to the environment. In the greed of reaching heights we have badly affected our environment. Pollution levels have increased drastically and exploitation of resources has been immense. The ground water has depleted. The rains have turned into acid rain. The rivers are no longer purest. The regular cutting down of trees has led to deforestation. The effect of global warming, the increase of greenhouses gases, the depletion of the ozone layer and the alarming levels of pollution are all an indicator of an impending catastrophe. Industrialization has been a major source to pollution. With the increase in factories ,fuel , waste disposal everything has destroyed the purity of nature. To compensate our needs of fuel we have consumed the non renewable sources to a great extent. There is an urgent need for sustainable development. Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
We need to realize our responsibilities towards our Mother Earth and do every bit to conserve her. There are certain things we can do to save the upcoming disaster. The steps we can take are –
Sustainable living – It is important that we use the current resources by keeping in mind that there is a future ahead of us and also a generation that will live in it.
Plant trees as much as possible – There is no better way then planting trees / saplings. Nurture a sapling and that is the best you can do . We need to do Aforestation and Reforestation top save our environment.
Pollution control – Air, water or soil. There is a need to control all kinds of pollution . We should stop dumping wastage on the ground or stop disposing them in the rivers. The diesel and petrol vehicles should replace it by CNG for reduced air pollution.
Go Eco friendly – Use Biodegradable / Disposable Waste Bag, replace plastic bags with paper bags, reuse and recycle, do not waste paper , use terracotta products etc. Use Bulbs and tube lights that are energy efficient to save energy. Solar panels and rechargeable batteries can be used as alternative sources of energy. Compost bins can be set up to produce manure instead of using fertilizers.
There are several programs run by our government too , The National Afforestation Programme (NAP) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests is a 100 percent centrally sponsored scheme for afforestation and tree plantation and eco-restoration of degraded forests and adjoining areas in the country.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) was established on October 18, 2010 under the National Green Tribunal Act 2010.It has been set up for effective and expeditious disposal of cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources including enforcement of any legal right relating to environment and giving relief and compensation for damages to persons and property and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Green skill development program , green skills’ refers to those that contribute to preserve and restore environment and create a sustainable future. Hence, the programme focuses on developing skills among the youth in the environment and forest sector.
Swacchh Bharat Abhiyan, Launched on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary on October 2, 2014,Over the years, different versions of the campaign were started. This includes Gramin Swachh Bharat Mission and Bal Swachhata Abhiyan.
Toilet before Temples, ‘Pehle shauchalaya, phir devalaya’ .Implemented as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission, the government claims to have built over nine crore household toilets and 32 states or Union Territories have been declared open defecation-free since October 2, 2014.
So let’s promise ourselves to contribute everything we can to make this world a better place to live in! It is our duty to save the environment. Do something GREEN everyday .
Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji was also regarded as the ‘Great Old Man of India’ and ‘Oficial Ambassador of India’ as an Indian Parsi scholar, merchants and politicians and was the first Asian to be an Indian MP, despite the British MP David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre who was disenfranchised on the grounds of corruption in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895. Naoroji was one of the Indian National Congress’ founding members.
The Indian drain of wealth in Britain was brought to light in his Book Poverty and the United Kingdom rule in India. He clarified in it his principle of draining of capital. He and Kautsky and Plekhanov were also participants of the Second International. The congress works of Dadabhai Naoroji are deserving of praise. He was elected president of INC three times in 1886, 1893 and 1906. The Dadabhai Naoroji Awards for services to United Kingdom and India were opened in 2014 by Vice-Premier Nick Clegg. In 1963, 1997 and 2017 Naoroji was seen in the Indian Post on stamps.
In a Gujarati-speaking family, Naoroji was born in Navsari and taught at the Elphinstone Institute School. He was patronised by Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the Baroda Maharaja, and began his career as a dewan in 1874. On 1 August 1851, Naoroji established the Rahnumae Mazdayasne Sabha in order to restore its original purity and simplicity to the Zoroastrian faith. In 1854 he founded a quintessential gujarati journal, the Rast Goftar, in order to explain Zoroastrian concepts and to encourage social reforms in Parsi. He was named Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the Bombay University of Elphinstone in December 1855 and was the first Indian to hold this position in the academia. He also published an additional newspaper called The Voice of India. In 1855, he visited London to become a Cama & Co partner, opening an office in Liverpool in order to create the first Indian company in England. He resigned for legal reasons within three years. In 1859, he set up his own Dadabhai Naoroji & Co. cotton trade firm. Later, at University College , London, he became Professor of Gujarati.
Naoroji led the London Indian Society in 1865 and launched it with a view to addressing Indian political , social and literary problems. In 1861, together with Muncherjee Hormusji Cama, Naoroji founded The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe. He also helped set up in 1867 the East India Association, one of the Indian National Congress’ predecessors with the intention of providing the British public with an Indian perspective. The Association played a part in combating the propaganda of the London Ethnological Society, which tried to demonstrate the Asians were inferior to the European in 1866.
In the colonial rule of India, Dadabhai Naoroji concentrated on the drain of riches from India to England. One of the reasons for Naoroji’s drain theory is its choice to estimate India’s net national benefit and, by extension, its impact on the economy. By interacting with the economy, Naoroji tried to show that Great Britain drained money from India. Six factors led to external drain have been identified by Naorojis. First of all, India’s foreign government is controlled. Secondly, India does not attract immigration that contributes to economic growth through labour and capital. Third, India pays for the civil and occupational army of Britain. Fourthly, India carries in and outside its borders the burden of building an empire. Fifth, the country’s opening to free trade was in fact a way to manipulate India by supplying international workers with high paying jobs. Finally, the key income-makers would buy or leave the revenue, as most foreign workers, outside India. In Naoroji’s ‘Poverty’ book, he estimated that the income of India in Great Britain was losing about 200-300 million pounds. Naoroji described it as vampirism with money as a blood metaphor that made India human and tried to display the conduct of Britain as monstrous as a way to sympathise with the nationalist movement.
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2020
The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for sports and games is the highest sporting award of India. The award is named after, Rajiv Gandhi former Prime Minister of India. This award will be given annually for those sports persons who make india proud that year. This is not such an easy award to win. Out of several sports persons of different sports who contribute their efforts for making India proud, only three will ne selected as recipients of the award. But in 2020, there were 5 finalists for receiving this award. Let us see those Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award 2020 recipients.
The final recipients of Rajiv Gandhi khel Ratna award 2020 are:
- Shri Rohit Sharma
- Shri Mariyappan Thangavelu.
- Ms. Rani Rampal
- Ms. Vinesh Phogat
- Ms. Manika Batra
This is the first time that five five sports persons received Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award on the occasion of the National Sports Day on 29th August 2020.
Shri Rohit Sharma is the fourth Indian cricketer to win Khel Ratna. Our Master, Sachin Tendulkar won Khel Ratna in 1997-98 and was the first cricketer to win followed by MS Dhoni in 2007-08 and Virat Kohli in 2018. Rohith Sharma was the highest run getter(648 runs) with 5 centuries in ODI 2019. He is also the most successful IPL captain with 4 titles.
Shri Mariyappan T. is the third Indian Para Athlet to win Khel Ratna after Devendra Jhajharia in 2017 and Deepa Malik in 2019.
Mariyappan created history by winning gold medal for India in men’s High Jump under T-42 Category at the 2016 paralympic games in Rio.
Ms. Rani Rampal is the third Indian Hockey player to receive Khel Ratna after Dhanraj Pillay in 1999-2000 and Sardar Singh in 2017. She has a silver and a bronze medal in Asia Games and a Junior World Cup bronze medal in her cabinet. She also won ‘Best young player of the tournament’ title for her performance in Women’s Hockey World Cup in 2010.
Ms. Vinesh Phogat is the fourth Indian Wrestler to receive Khel Ratna after Sushil kumar in 2009,Sakshi Malik in 2016 and Bajrang Punia in 2019. Vinesh created history by winning the gold medal in the 50 kg category of freestyle wrestling. This was never achieved by a female wrestler before which made a stunning mark on her profile.
Ms. Manika Batra is the first Indian Table Tennis player to receive Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award which is for highest sports honor in India. Batra is the highest ranked India table tennis player in the world. She created history by winning four medals at the Commonwealth Games. She is top ranked female table tennis player in India and ranked 47th in the world.
Rohit Sharma who was in UAE for IPL 2020 couldn’t attend for the ceremony as it was only allowed those who are currently in India had to take part in the ceremony. Vinesh Phogat who was supposed to be in Sonepat, had to be in quarantine after she tested positive for Covid-19 on the eve of award ceremony. Rani Rampal and Mariyappan attended the ceremony from Bengaluru and Commonwealth Games champion paddler Manika Batra joined from Pune.
Social Media : A Social Dilemma
Recently a Netflix documentary has stirred up a lot of controversies on the usage of social media. I believe that some certain parts of our childhood went as an experiment into the growing of the technology. There was this certain period of time when all our answers were found in the libraries and not in the e- resource lab. Our minds have changed in alternative way, changing the way we think and respond. And most importantly Concentration gap has considerably decreased for most of the teenagers due to their constant usage of phone. It has all turned us time some creature who no longer uses their brain, but just their fingertips.
Media, especially social media has turned around the way our minds work, we are no longer owners of our brain but we are its prisoners. Our minds have turned against ourselves. Sometimes we find ourselves in situations we cannot explain or relate too. It has passively affected the way our minds work. It got into our system and rewired our brain. Quitting can come up as an easy solution but for long will you quit, give up on something that connects you to everyone.
One of the major problems of using internet is that we forget to rely on ourselves sometimes. Assignments, projects are now all googled up and copy pasted and submitted, the student no longer reads a book. Even if someone attempts too, their concentration span has gone down so low that they wont be able to focus for more than 20 minutes. Are we on the path to self-destruction? That was a constantly asked question around the world. The technology that we build is now turning against us. The worst part of this is that we do not even realize how much of it has affected us and our mind.
A major impact social media has on teenagers is that it has wired our brains to believe that our potential lies in getting likes or comments from certain posts. Our brain functions in a way where it becomes happy with the mere likes we get on social media and it can turn into depression and a feeling of inferiority when we do not get likes. Social media creates a segregation between the rich and poor. It has become a platform where people show off what they have, this inflicts a sense of disappointment for the ones who do not own a luxury.
What makes human beings so much more different from other creatures on earth is the fact that they have a very capable and efficient brain. Across these years from the time of humanity, human beings have grown in lot of possible different ways. Human beings had made life smooth with various inventions, it has become so easy that we sometimes simply not use our brains anymore. Life had become so easy with the push of a button that we forget the entire process that had existed once before.
A major reason why we don’t get sleep is because of the tiny screens. We spend so much time using that we no longer become aware of the time. It can cause sleeping disorders as well as eye problems too.
Usage of phones have so much impact on our lives that we sometimes cannot give it up. We can simply never quit from this technological advancement, all we can do is adjust ourselves in a way that it doesn’t become an addiction.
OCD and Dopamine
Obsessive compulsive disorder. You might have read this term in many articles,memes and so many places. But…..OCD is not something to be considered as a joke.
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The disorder is a psychological disorder which includes a ‘certain’ compulsive disorder. Meaning, a person with OCD always has a way of things,and when it does not go that way,it often results in agitation,hypervigilance(increased state of alertness), repetitive movements and so much more.Now you might be like, ‘ Ya,so what?’ The thing is the person with OCD cannot even control their actions. They just simply can’t control their thoughts at all.They often isolate themselves from socialising. Often anxiety , depression and panics are observed within the patients. Now this does not mean that every second person out there has OCD. Obsessive Compulsive disorder is not being annoyed from your room not being clean. Suppose,you have to save a particular presentation. So, you’ll click the save button once a day your work is done. But an OCD patient will click the save button multiple times. And they don’t have a dominance over it. It sort of becomes a natural tendency after sometime. Our brain is a pretty complex concept. It has various components and chemicals which make us experience various types of emotions. One of them is dopamine. What is dopamine? Suppose you like to eat chocolates every day single day. And it quiet makes you happy. Sure,but when you eat that chocolate, dopamine oxytocin etc. are released within your whole brain. Whenever you do something amusing and mind blowing, dopamine gets released within your body. At some point of time it becomes an obsession. Then you cannot live without it. Why? Because your brain likes to adapt itself in any given condition. Scientists have proven this by experiments,suppose you wear a wristwatch for 3 days straight. After a point of time,your brain eliminates the feeling of the mass of the watch at all. Exactly the reason why we don’t always notice our heartbeat or breathing unless we go for a long run,when the heart has to pump the blood with more intensity,that’s when you sort of feel the heartbeat without actually putting your hand over your heart. Anyways,once your brain gets used to a particular habit,it’s capacity increases day by day. Suppose the first day you drank a cup of coffee,and continued for quite some time . Now your body is used to the caffeine rush of one cup,and now you have to drink about two cups of coffee to get the same effect as before. Dopamine rush, kind of works similarly. Once you acquire it as an habit,your capacity to hold dopamine increases,and a time comes when you cannot control it at all. Dopamine is a natural component. It will be released in the brain. But the intensity through which it rushes is always up to you. There is one more enzyme which is released when you are desperate to make a decision. The liquid,maybe flows into the brain and makes it very hard for you to make the decision. The purpose? Well,it might be a n indirect indication of the body to calm down and take the decision wisely and with all factors into the point of view. Thereforevice,experts advise to use dopamine as a reward for whatever good work you do. Make use of this dopamine as a reward for accomplishing small activities which you planned.
So let’s get back to OCD. The major cause of this phenomenon is not exactly known,but a few speculations are maybe made,but not every speculation is true now,is it? People with OCD often suffer with mood swings from few to depression etc. Some may distance themselves from almost everyone and get used to loneliness. And loneliness is the devil’s workshop. There are several cases of OCD as well. The disorder is not a joke.You might think it funny but the issue is more serious than you think.The people have common symptoms like constant nightmares, repeatedly overthinking about any incident that happened. Ya,now you might be like’ Oh my god, I do this as well!!’ But what you do would be milder than what a person with OCD suffers. It makes you sort of classify everything. Literally. From colours to number of bottles in your house etc. People with this avoid contact with any means like a handshake,door lock etc. Makes them have impulsive cleanliness everywhere. The problem may interfere with your social life,jobs etc.
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OCD is pretty rare and one of the mysteries still to be uncovered. Therefore,not much information is available and which is why awareness is not there within the people. That’s why they find it funny. But the things which are experienced from OCD are not funny.
To calm your panic attacks,here are some ideas you could use-
- Use a distraction- Concentrate on anything which does not remind you of the source of your panic
- Take a cool long and deep breath. Often people say that it helped them concentrate on their actual work
- Count any five to ten things which you find weird, amusing or distractive.
- Close your eyes for a minute and remember what could be the possible reason for your work to go Wrong. Once you hit the error, do your efficiently and steadily to avoid any mistake that you did in the past
These are some small tips,but can save from disasters happening!!
Financial Crimes in India
Financial crime is a crime committed against property, involving the unlawful conversion of the ownership of property (belonging to one person) to one’s own personal use and benefit. Financial crimes may involve fraud (cheque fraud, credit card fraud, mortgage fraud, medical fraud, corporate fraud, securities fraud (including insider trading), bank fraud, insurance fraud, market manipulation, payment (point of sale) fraud, health care fraud); theft; scams or confidence tricks; tax evasion; bribery; sedition; embezzlement; identity theft; money laundering; and forgery and counterfeiting, including the production of Counterfeit money and consumer goods. Financial crimes may involve additional criminal acts, such as computer crime and elder abuse, even violent crimes such as robbery, armed robbery or murder. Financial crimes may be carried out by individuals, corporations, or by organized crime groups. Victims may include individuals, corporations, governments, and entire economies.
The main types of financial crimes in India include : bank fraud, electronic crime, money laundering, bribery and corruption, market abuse and insider dealing, information security, market manipulation, tax evasion.
Bank Fraud:
Bank fraud is the use of potentially illegal means to obtain money, assets, or other property owned or held by a financial institution, or to obtain money from depositors by fraudulently posing as a bank or other financial institution. In many instances, bank fraud is a criminal offence. While the specific elements of particular banking fraud laws vary depending on jurisdictions, the term bank fraud applies to actions that employ a scheme or artifice, as opposed to bank robbery or theft. For this reason, bank fraud is sometimes considered a white-collar crime. In order to hide serious financial problems, some businesses have been known to use fraudulent bookkeeping to overstate sales and income, inflate the worth of the company’s assets, or state a profit when the company is operating at a loss. These tampered records are then used to seek investment in the company’s bond or security issues or to make fraudulent loan applications in a final attempt to obtain more money to delay the inevitable collapse of an unprofitable or mismanaged firm.
Electronic Crime:
Computer fraud is any dishonest misrepresentation of fact intended to let another to do or refrain from doing something which causes loss. In this context, the fraud will result in obtaining a benefit by: Altering in an unauthorized way. This requires little technical expertise and is a common form of theft by employees altering the data before entry or entering false data, or by entering unauthorized instructions or using unauthorized processes; Altering, destroying, suppressing, or stealing output, usually to conceal unauthorized transactions. This is difficult to detect Altering or deleting stored data. Other forms of fraud may be facilitated using computer systems, including bank fraud, carding, identity theft, extortion, and theft of classified information. These types of crime often result in the loss of private information or monetary information.
Money Laundering:
Money laundering is the illegal process of concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions. The overall scheme of this process returns the “clean” money to the launderer in an obscure and indirect way. One problem of criminal activities is accounting for the proceeds without raising the suspicion of law enforcement agencies. Considerable time and effort may be put into strategies that enable the safe use of those proceeds without raising unwanted suspicion. Implementing such strategies is generally called money laundering. After money has been laundered, it can be used for legitimate purposes.
Bribery and Corruption:
A bribe is an illegal or unethical gift or lobbying effort bestowed to influence the recipient’s conduct. It may be money, goods, rights in action, property, preferment, privilege, emolument, objects of value, advantage, or merely a promise to induce or influence the action, vote, or influence of a person in an official or public capacity.
Many types of payments or favors may be fairly or unfairly labeled as bribes: tip, gift, sop, perk, skim, favor, discount, waived fee/ticket, free food, free ad, free trip, free tickets, sweetheart deal, kickback/payback, funding, inflated sale of an object or property, lucrative contract, donation, campaign contribution, fundraiser, sponsorship/backing, higher paying job, stock options, secret commission, or promotion (rise of position/rank).
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or criminal offense undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one’s private gain. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement, though it may also involve practices that are legal in many countries. Political corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain.
Corruption can occur on different scales, corruption ranges from small favors between a small number of people (petty corruption), to corruption that affects the government on a large scale (grand corruption), and corruption that is so prevalent that it is part of the everyday structure of society, including corruption as one of the symptoms of organized crime. Corruption and crime are endemic sociological occurrences which appear with regular frequency in virtually all countries on a global scale in varying degree and proportion. Individual nations each allocate domestic resources for the control and regulation of corruption and crime. Strategies to counter corruption are often summarized under the umbrella term anti-corruption.
Market Abuse:
Market abuse may arise in circumstances where financial market investors have been unreasonably disadvantaged, directly or indirectly, by others who:
- have used information which is not publicly available (insider dealing)
- have distorted the price-setting mechanism of financial instruments
- have disseminated false or misleading information
Market Abuse is split into two different aspects (under EU definitions):
- Insider dealing: where a person who has information not available to other investors (for example, a director with knowledge of a takeover bid) makes use of that information for personal gain
- Market manipulation: where a person knowingly gives out false or misleading information (for instance, about a company’s financial circumstances) in order to influence the price of a share for personal gain
Phishing (Information security scams):
Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Typically carried out by email spoofing, instant messaging, and text messaging, phishing often directs users to enter personal information at a fake website which matches the look and feel of the legitimate site.
Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to deceive users. Users are lured by communications purporting to be from trusted parties such as social web sites, auction sites, banks, colleagues/executives, online payment processors or IT administrators.
Market Manipulation:
Market manipulation is a type of market abuse where there is a deliberate attempt to interfere with the free and fair operation of the market and create artificial, false or misleading appearances with respect to the price of, or market for, a product, security, commodity or currency. A type of manipulation possible when financial instruments are settled based on benchmarks set by the trading of physical commodities, for example in United States Natural Gas Markets. The manipulator takes a large long (short) financial position that will benefit from the benchmark settling at a higher (lower) price, then trades in the physical commodity markets at such a large volume as to influence the benchmark price in the direction that will benefit their financial position.
Tax Evasion:
Tax evasion is the illegal evasion of taxes by individuals, corporations, and trusts. Tax evasion often entails taxpayers deliberately misrepresenting the true state of their affairs to the tax authorities to reduce their tax liability and includes dishonest tax reporting, such as declaring less income, profits or gains than the amounts actually earned, or overstating deductions.
Tax evasion is an activity commonly associated with the informal economy. One measure of the extent of tax evasion (the “tax gap”) is the amount of unreported income, which is the difference between the amount of income that should be reported to the tax authorities and the actual amount reported.
In contrast, tax avoidance is the legal use of tax laws to reduce one’s tax burden. Both tax evasion and avoidance can be viewed as forms of tax noncompliance, as they describe a range of activities that intend to subvert a state’s tax system, although such classification of tax avoidance is not indisputable, given that avoidance is lawful, within self-creating systems.
Indian Literature : Our Biggest Asset
Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The earliest works of Indian literature were orally transmitted. Sanskrit literature begins with the oral literature of the Rig Veda a collection of literature dating to the period 1500–1200 BCE. The Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata were subsequently codified and appeared towards the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. Classical Sanskrit literature developed rapidly during the first few centuries of the first millennium BCE, as did the Tamil Sangam literature, and the Pāli Canon. In the medieval period, literature in Kannada and Telugu appeared in the 6th and 11th centuries respectively. Later, literature in Marathi, Assamese, Odia, Bengali and Maithili appeared. Thereafter literature in various dialects of Hindi, Persian and Urdu began to appear as well. In 1913, Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore became India’s first Nobel laureate in literature. In contemporary Indian literature, there are two major literary awards; these are the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship and the Jnanpith Award. Eight Jnanpith Awards each have been awarded in Hindi and Kannada, followed by five in Bengali and Malayalam, four in Odia, four in Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu and Urdu, two each in Assamese and Tamil, and one in Sanskrit.
Vedic Literature:
The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. There are four Vedas: the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda and the Atharvaveda. Each Veda has four subdivisions – the Samhitas (mantras and benedictions), the Aranyakas (text on rituals, ceremonies, sacrifices and symbolic-sacrifices), the Brahmanas (commentaries on rituals, ceremonies and sacrifices), and the Upanishads (texts discussing meditation, philosophy and spiritual knowledge). Some scholars add a fifth category – the Upasanas. The texts of the Upanishads discuss ideas akin to the heterodox sramana-traditions.
Sanskrit Literature:
Sanskrit literature refers to texts composed in Sanskrit language since the 2nd-millennium BCE. Many of the prominent texts are associated with Indian religions, i.e., Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and were composed in ancient India. However, others were composed central, East or Southeast Asia and the canon includes works covering secular sciences and the arts. Early works of Sanskrit literature were transmitted through an oral tradition for centuries before they were written down in manuscript form. Dramas, poems and stories were written in Sanskrit language in ancient India.
Pali Literature:
Pali literature is concerned mainly with Theravada Buddhism, of which Pali is the traditional language. The earliest and most important Pali literature constitutes the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravada school. From the 15th century onwards, Pali literature has been dominated by Burma, though some has also been written in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, as well as Ceylon. This Burmese literature has in turn been dominated by writings directly or indirectly concerned with the Abhidhamma Pitaka, the part of the Canon variously described as philosophy, psychology, metaphysics etc.
Sangam Literature:
The Sangam literature, sometimes referred to as the Cankam literature or Koodal literature connotes the ancient Tamil literature and is the earliest known literature of South India. The Tamil tradition and legends link it to three literary gatherings around Madurai (Pandyan capital): the first over 4,440 years, the second over 3,700 years, and the third over 1,850 years before the start of the common era. Scholars consider this Tamil tradition-based chronology as ahistorical and mythical. Some of these scholars suggest the historical Sangam literature era spanned from c. 300-BCE to 300-CE while others variously place this early classical Tamil literature period a bit later and more narrowly but all before 300 CE.
Indian Persian Literature:
During the early Muslim period, Persian became the official language of the northern part of Indian subcontinent, used by most of the educated and the government. The language had, from its earliest days in the 11th century AD, been imported to the subcontinent by various culturally Persianised Central Asian-Turkic and Afghan dynasties.[28] Several Indians became major Persian poets later on, the most notable being Amir Khusro and, in more modern times, Muhammad Iqbal. Much of the older Sanskrit literature was also translated into Persian. For a time, it remained the court language of the Mughals, soon to be replaced by Urdu. Persian still held its status, despite the spread of Urdu, well into the early years of the British rule in India. Most British officials had to learn Persian on coming to India and concluded their conversations in Persian. In 1837, however, the British, in an effort to expand their influence, made a government ruling to discontinue the use of Persian and commence the use of English instead. Thus started the decline of Persian as most of the subcontinent’s official governmental language, a position to be taken up by the new language of the British Raj, English. Many modern Indian languages still show signs of relatively heavy Persian influence, most notably Urdu and Hindi.
Paytm removed from play store: Payment app accused of playing fantasy cricket; Google said – Paytm broke our rules
Priya Yadav,
The famous digital payment service app Paytm has been removed from the Google Play Store (Paytm removed from Google play store). According to reports, Paytm’s app was in violation of some of Google’s policies. Paytm said in a statement that customers can continue using his app and their money is safe. However, other apps of Paytm such as Paytm Money and Paytm Mall are still intact on Google Play.
Google does not allow any type of gambling or betting app on its platform. The user was being redirected from Paytm’s app to a betting app. Google had earlier issued notice to Paytm developers. But with no action, the company has finally removed the app.
Paytm said don’t worry
After removing the app from the Play Store, Paytm’s favor has also come. In a tweet, the company has asked users not to be disturbed. The tweet said, “Paytm’s Android app is temporarily unavailable for new downloads or updates on Google’s Play Store. It will be available again soon. All your money is absolutely safe and you can use your Paytm app normally Can use it.
Google said – no online casinos are allowed
Google has said that it cannot allow illegal gambling, facilitating online casinos and sports betting. Suzanne Frey, vice president of Google’s product, Android Security and Privacy, said in a blog post, “When an app violates these policies, we inform the developer. The app is removed from the Play Store until the developer makes changes as per the policy.
Paytm is also competing with Google Pay
Paytm is one of the big startups in the country. Paytm also has a direct competition from Google’s payment platform Google-Pay. Paytm’s revenue has increased to Rs 3 thousand 629 crore in the financial year 2019-20 ended on 31 March.
Offer to win up to 5 crore paytm cash
According to the information available on the FAQ (frequently asked questions) on the website of Paytm First Games, Paytm Cash can win up to Rs 5 crore in a player’s special tournament on Paytm First Games. Apart from this, there are other cash prizes for players. Rummy, fantasy, Ludo, and other types of multi-player games can be played on this platform. According to the website, players can win up to one lakh rupees daily in an exclusive tournament.
Other Paytm apps still exist on Play Store
Google has only removed the Paytm payment app from the Play Store. Other Paytm apps are still available on the Play Store. This includes Paytm Mall, Paytm for Business, Paytm Money, Paytm Instore Orders, Paytm Insider, and Paytm Store Manager.
Big shock for Paytm before IPL
Paytm recently launched the Paytm First Games app, considering the popularity of IPL. Paytm had targeted to raise more than 100 million users during the IPL through its gaming. The company had planned to host more than 200 live events over the next 6 months. Paytm made cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar the brand ambassador of Paytm First Games this week. There are more than 50 games available on Paytm First.
Vaccination and COVID-19
How long has it been since we went to school met our friends or had a family dinner at some restaurant? Since March 2020, we have all been advised to stay home and sanitise ourselves in order to stay safe. Sanitizers and masks have been added to our daily use products, all because of one tiny yet dangerous virus Covid-19!
The world is now waiting anxiously for a vaccine against this dreaded virus. Researchers around the world are working round the clock to develop vaccines to combat the pandemic. Currently, more than 165 vaccines against the corona virus are under process and 27 vaccines are undergoing human trials. Vaccines typically require years of research and testing before reaching the clinic. Today, scientists all over the world are racing to produce a safe and effective vaccine by next year.
• When did the efforts start
Efforts to make a successful Covid-19 vaccine began in January 2020 with the deciphering of the SARS-CoV -2 genome. The first vaccine safety trials in humans started in March but the road ahead remains uncertain. Some trials will fail and others may end without a clear result. But a few may succeed in stimulating the immune system to produce effective antibodies against the virus.
• India and vaccine against Covid-19
Like many other countries, India too is immersed in the efforts to develop successful vaccines to counter Covid-19. Thirty different Indian companies are trying to produce a vaccine to fight the infection. 7 out of these have received approval from the World Health Organization. These vaccines are in different stages of testing and clinical trials now.
COVAXIN
COVAXIN is developed by Hyderabad based Bharat Biotech International Limited in collaboration with ICMR and NIV, Pune. This is the first vaccine from India to get regulatory approval. The vaccine makes us an inactive version of a virus to spike up production of antibodies in the host body. It recently initiated Phase I and Phase II of clinical testing.
ZyCoV-D
ZyCoV-D is being developed by Zydus Cadila based in Ahmedabad. The Phase I trials of the vaccine have already begun. Extensive research was done regarding the same in collaboration with medical labs in Europe and US.
• Russia and vaccine against Covid-19
Russia is one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19. The country has been pushing extensively for a Covid-19 vaccine for quite some time now; Russia too is a part of the race to produce the world’s first Covid vaccine. It is possible that Russia would be ready with its first domestic corona virus vaccine soon. The clinical trials were conducted by the Gamaleya National Research centre of Epidemiology and microbiology. There seem to be no reports of side effects on the volunteers. All the participants showed immunity and the country is planning for the serial production of the vaccine by September. By the beginning of next year, Russia hopes to manufacture several million doses of corona virus vaccines per month.
• Oxford University’s efforts to develop a vaccine
The university of Oxford has partnered with AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company to develop an adenovirus vector vaccine to combat Covid-19. The vaccine prototype is currently in Phase III of testing. Trials of the vaccine developed by Oxford University show it can trigger an immune response. The vaccine which has so far been found to be safe and effective is expected to be made available for the masses by the end of 2020. This vaccine would also be the first such vaccine to have a large scale testing in India. The observatory data for this vaccine is expected to be available by November this year. The company has tied up with Pune based serum institute of India to mass produce the vaccine once the company gets required approvals and licensing from medical boards.
• Some methods used to make vaccines for Covid-19
Different scientists across the world try different techniques and formulas to develop vaccines. The Oxford researchers have put small sections of the corona virus genetic code into a harmless virus that infects chimpanzees. They appear to have developed a safe virus that looks enough like the corona virus to produce an immune system. Some other scientists have used pieces of raw genetic code, either DNA or RNA. When these are injected into the body it would start producing bits of viral proteins which the immune system can learn to fight. There is also work on corona virus vaccines called ‘plug and play’ vaccines. This method is new and less tested.
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Google explains the reason for removing Paytm from Play Store
Paytm has been removed from the Play Store and now users are not able to download this payment app
The popular mobile payment application Paytm has been deleted from the Google Play Store. After which the users cannot download this app from the play store. However, if you already have the Paytm app downloaded then you can use it, but this app cannot be downloaded. At the same time, Google has given the reason to delete Paytm.
After deleting Paytm, now Google has given the reason for this. Google said in its statement, ‘We do not allow any type of online casino nor do we support unregulated gambling apps that promote sports betting. It also includes all the apps that send customers links to websites where they can win money or cash prizes in paid tournaments and this is a violation of our policies. ‘
On the removal of Paytm from the app store, Product Security and Privacy Vice President Susan Frye of Android Security has released a statement. “We do not allow online casinos of any kind nor support unregulated gambling apps that promote sports betting. This includes apps that direct customers to external websites where you can win real money or cash prizes in paid tournaments, it is a violation of our policies. “
Google states that ‘Our policy is applicable to all developers and if anyone violates our policies, we notify them and remove the app from the Play Store. We can take more serious action by repeatedly violating policies. Apps that violate the rules will not be given space on the play store. ‘
Paytm gave statement
Paytm has explained to its users that this app has not been available for download on the Google Play Store for some time but we will return soon. All your money is absolutely safe and you can use your Paytm app normally.
Available on App Store
Remember that Android phone users cannot download Paytm from Google Play Store. While this app for iPhone users is still available to download on the App Store.
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