45 days after the incident that shook one of the most powerful nations in the world, a bill was hastily passed. The Patriot Act . This changed the world.The patriot act was passed by US president George Bush as an direct response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.It was a effort to tighten U.S. national security, particularly as it related to foreign terrorism. In general, the act included three main provisions:
It expanded abilities of law enforcement to surveil, including by tapping domestic and international phones
It eased interagency communication to allow federal agencies to more effectively use all available resources in counterterrorism efforts; and
It increased penalties for terrorism crimes and an expanded list of activities which would qualify someone to be charged with terrorism.
Since it was not possible for the US government to collect all data, they outsourced it. This is where we come in the picture. Many companies emerged in true american entrepreneurial spirit to meet the government’s demands. For example, Edward Snowden worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm that describes itself as a leading provider of management and technology services to “government clients in defense, intelligence, and the civil sectors.” Yet Booz Allen Hamilton is just one of many private contractors.Even right now 70% of the U.S. Intelligence Budget Goes to Private Contractors. This is what created the big data craze. Other government agencies obviously followed the United States NSA, for example britain’s GCHQ.
As of now we know all the big countries are actively spying on their own citizens. Although this is not confirmed FOR India per se, it may be possible that we are also under surveillance.
So what does mass surveillance change for you?
Mass surveillance is a threat to human democracy as we know it. Time and again we have seen governments justifying mass surveilllence in the name of stopping terrorism but in reality this did not happen..
“If you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.
As absurd as it sounds, this is a common statement used to justify mass surveillance. It introduces this kind of notion that you are a traitor to your country if you can’t sacrifice your privacy for the greater good. This idea is nonsensical. If you look into evidence of what the NSA used all of its data collection for, it was found that only 1% of it was related to terrorist activities. People not wanting to share literally everything about their life doesn’t make them traitors or selfish. Right to privacy is a basic human right .
So what is the solution?
Throw away that little tracking device in our pockets? Go live in a cave?
No. Humans shouldn’t have to live under false identity to escape surveillance. It is our right to demand stricter laws and have no tolerance towards any kind of surveillance. We shouldn’t let data leaks by big companies slide.It’s time to start a movement. Otherwise, we all are going to have to read George Orwell’s ‘1984’ as a buyer guide!
Abusing is something which is injurious, harmful or offensive to a person, animal or environment. Abuse is mainly of three types- Social, domestic and sexual violences. Social abuse is something that prevents a person from keeping contact with friends, relatives. Sexual abuse is the harrasment that is experienced sexually. Sexual harassment includes molestation, abusive sexual behaviour by one person upon another. Any sexual behaviour done by one person without another person’s consent is molestation. Trying to have sexual contact against another person’s consent is rape. (Woman rapes a man )- this percentage is much more than (man rapes a woman). Domestic Violence is the torture a person face mentally, physically, psychologically, emotionally etc. The most common abuse a person face nowadays are sexual harassment and domestic violence. Domestic violence is a crime but the laws vary between jurisdiction for men and women.
Domestic Violence Against Men:- Domestic violence occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner dominates the other one mentally, physically or psychologically.In maximum cases the victim is ashamed or afraid of further abuse.For this reason they don’t report the abuse. Domestic Violence has different ways of occurrence but the effects are always negative. We all know as standard “man” is the abuser and woman is “abused”. There are many men who are suffering from domestic violence emotionally and physically from their partner. Domestic violence against men remains unrecognised in most cases since men are scared of embarrassment, lack support. Due to these stereotypical male images, men don’t have the courage to file a report against domestic violence. Society is aware of male victims but treats him as a joke thus making him feel insecure, ridiculous and embarrassed. MYTHS : There are certain myths regarding violence. We always expect men to take all the responsibilities of their actions. When a female is violent society has lots of excuses to support the woman like postnatal depression, mood swings, stress etc but when a man gives the same excuse we do not accept it even if he is really suffering from depression and stress. PARENTING: When a woman is violent we don’t say she is a bad mother but when the same thing happens with a man we automatically assume him to be a bad parent. If a man is a victim of domestic violence , during the separation with his partner the woman gets the legal custody of their children. The man is left with no other option except to leave the house. So we can also say that fear of losing the child is also a reason for which a man doesn’t file a report against domestic violence. WHY DO MAN STAY IN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP? This question cannot be answered very easily. If a man is harassed physically or sexually by his wife or partner, no one will believe him.No one will support him and make him feel ridiculous. There are many reasons why men don’t report abuse. They are as follows- Fear of disbelief Fear of being denied access to their children Fear of being judged Fear of revenge by the abuser Fear of false allegations against him Fear of being left alone and homeless. EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON MEN : The adverse effects of the abuse can be very long lasting. Men who have been abused by someone often suffer from different traumas like low self-esteem, anger, sleeping problems, inability to work, depression, joblessness. Sometimes this effects become so depressing that it may destroy a man’s career causing him to attempt suicide. UNRECOGNITION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST MAN : Violence against men remains unrecognised because of many reasons such as- It has taken years of advocacy and support to encourage women to report the abuse but literally no one is there to support a man. People don’t even think that men can also be victims of domestic violence. For this reason many men don’t even attempt to report the situation. In some cases physical damage becomes less apparent for which we do not believe them. Even if they report, they don’t get any support and help from anyone, not even the social workers or the law and most importantly they are not believed by anyone. SOCIETY REACTION : If men file a report against the violence they are met with discrimination and disbelief. Usually people’s reaction would be about men’s size, that he may deserve this for his previous dids and all. Even the police don’t believe the man and say in support of a woman. CONCLUSION : Even if a man takes various actions to stop domestic violence, these attacks will not stop. Abused men are not cowards but their actions can be misinterpreted. It is a pity to see a strongest man succumb to the old fashioned way of thinking. If they report they will be seen as well. Laws should be applied regardless of gender so that many women will think twice before abusing a man if they knew they could be arrested like any men in the same situation. Domestic Violence against men is a topic that many people will not be willing to start. Abuse is abuse no matter to whom it is done. Men are disadvantaged and the hurdles they are facing are almost impossible to overcome. So to stop Domestic Violence against men at first we have to believe them.They are also human beings and they do feel depressed. So we must not be biased to a particular gender and must not ignore men’s emotions. Social workers and police must be educated about the fact that men can also be a victim. Maybe this could change the lives of many men who are the victims of domestic violence.
Copa America 2021 is all set to begin on Monday early morning IST where Brazil and Venezuela are scheduled to kick off at Mane Garrincha stadium in Brazil.
Copa America 2020 was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic and recently, Brazil got the nod to host the Copa America 2021. But Brazil have reported approximately more than 17.3 million cases of COVID-19 which includes at least 486,000 deaths, the second-highest number in the world.
Why Brazil is hosting Copa America 2021?
Earlier Colombia and Argentina were scheduled to host Copa America 2020 which got postponed due to Corona virus pandemic. Argentina was not given the nod this year due to increased rising cases of COVID-19 in the country while Colombia was rejected to host the tournament following the protests against President Ivan Duque.
What is up with the national side?
It seems Brazil as a team is not happy with the decision of Copa America being played in their country. However, they hesitantly agreed to participate in the tournament despite concerns over the late decision to host the tournament in their home country.
Brazilian players on social media published a message saying they are “unsatisfied” with South American football’s governing body, CONMEBOL, which decided to move the tournament to Brazil. They didn’t wanted this tournament to become a result of political debate although.
How is the public responding to the tournament ?
A poll was set based on 1000 interviews which was conducted between June 7 to June 10. The poll showed nearly two-third of Brazilian population opposed the country hosting the event amidst rising cases of COVID-19 in Brazil.
How many players tested COVID-19 positive ?
Eight Venezuelans and three Bolivian players has been tested positive even before the tournament started. Venezuela which is playing their first match on Sunday has called for 15 other players in their squad to enhance their bench strength. Along with those eight players, three of their coaching staff are also infected with COVID-19 virus.
Bolivia is playing their first match against Paraguay on Monday.
In response to the rising cases, South American soccer body CONMEBOL issued a statement which stated “the matches will be played as scheduled”.
How many teams are participating in Copa America 2021?
Earlier, the tournament was scheduled to play with 12 nations with Qatar and Australia coming in as guest nations. However, both of the teams pulled off from the tournament due to their prior commitments in the World Cup qualifier.
As of now, only 10 teams are participating in the tournament.
Group A: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Group B: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
What is the tournament format?
After completion of the round matches, the top four teams of each group will qualify for the quarter finals.
Dates to remember
Copa America 2021 is starting from June 14 as early as 2:30 am IST. The knockout phase will be starting from July 3 and the finals will be played on 11th of July.
Where you can watch Copa America 2021?
Copa America 2021 will be telecast live on Sony TEN 2, Sony TEN 2 HD, Sony SIX and Sony SIX HD TV channels in India. Live streaming of Copa America 2021 in India will be available on SonyLIV and Jio TV respectively.
Todays media has certain responsibilities towards its audience.
Media is called the mirror image of society, reflecting the face.
Mass communication specially, electronic media is developing nowadays.
Since, the discovery of television, media is encouraged by all the citizens of India. In late nineteens, DD Bharat or Durdarshan were the most famous programs on television but not TV channels like Aaj Tak, NBT News etc. have ushered in and shows a bundle of news consisting of suspiciousness, Bollywood but lacks information about the government and tries to gain TRPs. The facts which they present, discourage the people and gives pessimistic opinion about media.
It is well said that there is an unneglected position of media which can’t be neglected for it provides information related to politics, murder, creates awareness, but if seen the flip side of the coin, the religious channels shown by them, intervention in everybody’s personal life, their interviews with terrorist who are not even caught by Indian army. Even, they can forecast those shows, which can tell the future of people, which can help people to be saved from critical situations, make them aware, summits going around the world, our country’s politics, policies etc..
“People learn what they see on the top“.
At length it can be said that, news channels should understand the meaning of ‘Freedom Of Speech’. the constitutional right with which they have been provided instead of hiding crimes of riches and neglecting the right person.
One can know the status of the country, by knowing the position of women.
An indispensable part of the society, still her position is questioned, when one know that she can’t be inherited. A mother, a sister, a grandmother, a girl;
Why is she tortured, molested, raped and provided with all pains and sufferings ?
Why is she always taken for granted ?
The possible reason would be the patience due to which she bears all these things which is considered as her weakness.
Delhi, or India is considered the place, where no woman would like to reside due to gender conflict. About 90% of the cases of women rape has been reported to the police. The figure is alarming and speaks to the volume about the dereliction of duties by police, administrators, politicians, due to which women’s safety remains an issue of concern in the Capital of India. The results are proving catastrophic, due to which even foreign tourist decline to visit India, which affect the National economy.
The Capital city, Delhi consist of everything, except the respectable position and strata of women which can’t be inherited. Police should be ready 24 hours for protection of women. At length, it can be said,
The woman is the ultimate power and women’s safety should be top priority.
‘ no one in this world will understand me’ how can someone feel my pain? No one in this world will understand my situation?
There are lots of these types of questions that you may ask yourself once in a lifetime, or you saw people who are asking those types of questions from others, I am not saying that putting these questions is wrong but can you really try to find out the answer of these questions or you are always busy in blaming others.
When you blame someone for not understanding you? Will you realize that how many times you try to understand them. I think there is a chain of blaming in which we blame others for our situations and they blame us for their situations. Why we can’t understand that it is impossible to understand other people. In reality, no one will understand us completely, and also we can’t understand others completely.
There is a reason behind that problem that no one in this world will completely know about other person,
Take your example, people know about yourself only those things that you will tell them, or you know that what you will tell them,
And you will never be told about yourself completely to other people no matter how close they are,
So I think understanding yourself is a better idea to get rid of all these problems. Here are some ways that will help you to understand that how you will understand yourself. so let’s try to understand them one by one.
1) when you are angry, sad, depressed lonely, etc try to spend some time with yourself and understand your emotional life. and when you feel cry, please cry, don’t hold emotions. try to express them.
2) if you can understand yourself , your emotions you will definitely understand others feelings. At that time you are not have any expectation that somebody will understand you , so in this way your relations also become better.
3) understand that we all have some suffering in our lives, so don’t try to give the burden of emotions to others. Try to understand your emotions just like a responsibility towards yourself.
4) you know about yourself better than any other person, so if you have bad habit face them and get rid from them, and cheers yourself when you do something good.
5) always try to boost your confidence, never compare yourself with others this is the work of society, so do your work.
6) face all the struggles of your life with a warrior spirit, whatever the worst situation is you are the hero of your life.
7) you are the only one who have capacity to uplift your life so, whenever there is failure will come face that failure, and give your best to fight for your life.
8) whenever there is a mistakes will occur, don’t feel regret, but try to improve that mistakes because people only present not past. So don’t your time in regretting about something.
9) motivate yourself, the mind is like a child, if you feel that this work is hard mind blindly on it. and never think about that work, so treat the mind like a teacher.
10) try to be happy in this life, because the struggle is temporary.
Makar Sankranti is a festival in the Hindu calendar dedicated to the Sun God- Surya. Makar Sankranti is one of the few ancient Indian festivals that has been observed according to solar cycles. Makar Sankranti is set by the solar cycle of the Hindu lunisolar calendar, and is observed on a day which usually falls on 14 January of the Gregorian calendar, but sometimes on 15 January. This festival signifies the arrival of longer days. As per a legend, Lord Surya forgave his son Shani and his son visited him on Sankranti. And that’s why people distribute everyone sweets and urge them to let go of any negative or angry feelings
Every twelve years, Hindus organize the kumbh mela on makar sankranti which is one of the world’s largest pilgrimages, with about 40 to 100 million people attending it(too crowded right? Do not get lost!). At this event, they pray to the sun god and bathe in the ganga river.
The festivities associated with Makar Sankranti are known by various names such as Magh Bihu in Assam, Maghi in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, popular amongst both the Hindus and Sikhs, Sukarat in central India, Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Uttarayan in Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, Ghughuti in Uttarakhand, Makar Sankranti in Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, West Bengal, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh or as Sankranthi in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Celebrations:
On makar sankranti people conduct various social festivities such as decorating houses, singing songs in rural areas, organizing fairs(melas), performing dances, kite flying(my favourite) and feasts. Children go house to house distributing sweets.
In Maharashtra on Makar Sankranti, people exchange multicoloured halwa (those yummy sugar granules coated in sugar syrup) and til-gul laddoos. Puran poli with pure ghee is also cooked . While exchanging til-gul as tokens of goodwill people greet each other. Married women invite friends and neighbours and celebrate Haldi-Kunku. Guests are given til-gul and some small gifts, as a part of the ritual. While distributing sweets, the famous line “til gul ghya aani god god bola” (which means eat sweet and speak sweet words) is used in Maharashtra.
My experience:
I remember dressing up in new clothes and then going to each and every house asking for sweets, receiving chocolates and laddoos. My friends and I would wish everyone with “tilgul ghya aani gol gol bola” and it worked, just for a few days, after which the same old bitter quarrels began. Anyways, flying kites was certainly the best part. You can cut others’ kites and avenge yourself(or just have some good fun). You can compete with your neighbours to see who can fly the kite better. However, be careful with those deadly strings. They are truly fatal if you mess with them. Once my friends and I competed to see who could get the most candies, and whoever won would get the candies collected by others. It definitely did not go that well for us except my clever friend who won(she was kind and did not take our candies so phew). Makar sankranti is all about fun!
I would love to know your experiences in the comments below!
All of us need some motivation to do anything in our life, motivation is one of the most important keys that will unlock success in our life, but before that, we are also have some knowledge about motivation, you have any idea that when this word’ motivation ‘ will came in your life and become very important,
I am sure when you are in your school you have not any ideas about this word, and I am also sure at that time you were passed your school classes when you feel fear from something your teacher or your parents always said these types of a word like hey! Champ doesn’t afraid from these exams you will pass these exams, this is what if it is not motivation so motivation was always present behind every work in your life. but we become aware of that word by the social media, and also we become confused between the word inspiration and motivation.
When we learn from someone’s life situations it is an inspiration and when we do something from ourself it is motivation. The the following someone, or learn something from someone is very important in today’s life. This is one of the best things that we should learn in this life.
Learn from the great person is a very essential thing that we will do in our lives, for this we read great person biographies, see their interviews, meeting, learn their facts about life and also try to learn that how they see the problems of life and how they handle the problems of life. But this is an inspiration.
If you want to achieve something in your life, you have some purpose for that particular work, why behind the work, and you have to find out that way, if you want to be successful in your life.
In today’s world situation, when people see the interview of a successful person or his/her lifestyle on the social media and after that, they become so motivated they start the various project but after 1 or 2-week condition will be the same, disappointed, depressed and purposeless and in search of new motivation by the new person. and this process will continue.
So have you noticed that for doing something in your constantly you have required other thing instead of only motivation and that’s self-motivation which is inspired from someone life but have to work on your life purposes?
People say that they become distracted easily because they have to do something which they don’t like to do, if you are also having the same problem try one thing, do the work that you like most for 1 complete week, and after 1 week you will realize you also bored from this work. This is the nature of human beings that we will become bored after some time.
So the question is how we can work constantly, and for that difficult task self motivation is one most important thing, because whatever we are doing in our life we become bored from that work where self motivation will help us, there is always profit or loss, ups and downs takes place in the work, businesses or whatever we are doing for living, but with the help of self motivation, we will overcome these feeling and continue in our work.and one day will come that we will achieved what we dream in our life.
Try to find out motivation in your life and do hard work in order to uplift life from your present situation. if you are only trying to change the conditions day by day, one day you will definitely find out your true success.
So be happy in your life, and try to find out the real reason behind your work, when you have that particular reason, you will never distract from anything.
If you don’t want to go outside for work, Working as a freelancer is a very good option nowadays because people want to work According to them. freelancing is one of the great options when you want to work from home.
The pattern of work was changed, with the digital world development, now you can easily join the company, for this first you have to apply online for the position in some company according to your skills and after that, you get the job under few hours
But it does not mean that going outside for a job is a wrong pattern. In today’s world the pattern of work, selection criteria, and companies requirement changed with the development of the digital world. So there are points that will be focused on the fact that why freelancing is preferred by the people.
1) working as a freelancer, people have options to choose their schedules, they don’t have to follow other schedules, they can work according to their time. they don’t follow the office timing to complete the projects. The only demand of the projects is to be completed before deadlines, so people feel free and easy to work a freelancer.
2) when you are working as a freelancer, you can easily join the company by some online websites after that you can start your work from home by only sitting in front of a laptop or desktop. for this, you don’t have to go outside in the company. By this, you can easily work for extra hours and use that work to uplift your work.you have not any requirement to go outside and find out the work so in this way, you can use your travel time in work also.
3) when you are choosing to work as freelancers, you don’t have the requirement of higher academic qualifications. If you have some less academic qualification with that you can easily start your career, in the freelancing field there is the demand of skill, so if you have skills which have demand and also have future, you can start your career with that particular skill. and also learn new skills while working on different projects.
4) when you are working as a freelancer, there is not any limit of work, you can work according to your capacity, and as a freelancer, you are not limited for work only for the company where you live but you have options to work with any company which is located anywhere in the world. So by this option you also various other working skills and know some different work. For this first, you have to sign up for a freelancer online website. And make your profile and also write about your working experience, your skills, and after that place the project according to your skills and the charge that you will charge for that particular project also with the time in which you can complete that project.
5) freelancing is a very good option for students, housewives, and those who want to work and earn some money but have less time. This is also a good option for the college student who wants to work part-time and earn some extra money. For these people, freelance is good because in this you don’t have work for 7month or 1year to confirm your job if you have some skills that are demanding in the field so you can easily work on the project according to your time.
There are millions of people nowadays who work as freelancers and earn lots of money, they not only earn money but doing different projects they also have chance to polished their skill and increase their skills according to the competition.
If you’re someone who wants to learn some skills that are demanding in the world, you can easily find out them on the freelancer website without any extra charge. so by this, you can easily learn the demanding skills.
educationThe starting of one’s career is always from the best colleges. Good colleges have good faculty, libraries, intelligent peers and out of the box thinking of the people there. But how does one gets into a good college ? And in the end is a good college enough to get one through life ?
There were many questions in my mind when I was searching for a good college, I had the confidence that I would get enough marks that I’ll not be embarrassed of myself.
Delhi University is famous for its cut offs too. The sky high cut offs meant only for the super super intelligent breed of students. There are many dreams that are crushed by the cut offs , the marks that one requires to get the course they want. I have been very disappointed in myself not getting into The Delhi University , but I have found my path and the journey has been beautiful. Though there is always a piece that will always be missing. The things that life teaches us in college is always with us . One should always dream higher even if they don’t have enough marks to get into a good college.
Are you trying to lose weight and tone your body? You will lose weight more effectively if you create a weekly weight loss exercise plan. When creating a weight loss training plan, there is no last guess when it comes down to it. Time to Exercise And if workouts are planned in advance, the more likely you will complete them and reach your ideal weight.
Plan for Beginners The department of health recommends that you get 150- three hundred mins in step with a week of moderate-depth workout in step with week. This would possibly sound like a lot, however in case you spoil it down it is handiest approximately 20 or half-hour in step with day. Plus while you are first beginning your weight reduction exercise plan, you may begin on the low give up of that recommendation.
As a beginning-stage exerciser, your principal aim must virtually be to finish a few workout on maximum days of the week. Choose sports which you experience and which are smooth in an effort to do. Walking is a amazing desire for lots new exercisers due to the fact you may do it nearly everywhere and it does not require any fancy equipment. Online workout routines and domestic energy education workout routines are exact on your frame, too. Before you begin any weekly workout application you must test together along with your medical doctor and observe his different suggestions or regulations to live healthy. Then you may integrate numerous distinctive sports to create a full-frame weightloss exercise time table to shed pounds and burn fat.
Monday (half-hour): Moderate depth walk Tuesday (20 mins): Simple domestic energy education exercise Wednesday (half-hour): Moderate depth walk Thursday (20 mins): Simple domestic energy education exercise Friday (30) mins): Moderate depth walk Saturday (20 mins): Online rest yoga Sunday: (half-hour) Fun and smooth cross-education day (motorcycle ride, swim or on line aerobics class)
Total weekly workout: one hundred eighty mins.
Plan for Advanced Exercisers As you get more potent and extra fit, you may be capable of uploading a couple of minutes to every of your day by day workout routines.
Your weight reduction exercise plan needs to additionally get more difficult as your degree of health increases. The fine workout routines to burn fats are extra hard to do. As you get more potent you may be capable of encompass them for your exercising program (so long as you’re healthful sufficient for lively activity).
This pattern weekly exercising habitual consists of electricity schooling to construct muscle, cardio workout routines to burn fats and versatility schooling to lessen strain and preserve your frame health..
Monday (forty five mins): Moderate depth circuit exercise with weights Tuesday (20 mins): HIIT exercise at domestic or outdoors Wednesday (30 mins): Easy healing day stretch and walk Thursday (forty five mins): Moderate depth circuit exercise with weights Friday (20 mins): High-depth day walk/run intervals Saturday (30 mins): healing day rest yoga Sunday (seventy five mins): moderate-depth jog, hike or walk Total weekly exercising: 265 mins
When You’ll See Results Many exercisers need to recognise how lengthy they ought to persist with their weekly exercise plan earlier than they start to see weight reduction results. The solution depends. If you figure out on a everyday basis, with the aid of using the second one week you ought to start to see enhancements withinside the manner your frame appears and feels. Of course, the quantity of weight you lose can even depend upon developing the proper electricity stability for weight reduction (i.e. ensuring you burn greater energy than you consume).
To make your exercise plan greater effective, ensure you integrate your exercising software with a healthful weight loss plan complete of lean protein, fruits, and veggies. One of the maximum not unusualplace errors that dieters make is to overeat after exercising. Don’t fall into that trap. Exercise every day, screen the range of energy you devour each day, and live heading in the right direction to get results.
If you take part in an entire and balanced exercising software, you ought to see full-size enhancements to your frame composition, size, and weight in a single to 3 months. You may also even attain your aim weight in that length of time. But recollect that to hold the burden off, you’ll want to retain exercising on an ordinary basis. Make modifications on your weekly exercise plan and locate new sports which you experience to live healthful and fit.
The efficacy of the Dutch Kit is quite similar like RTPCR for COVID-19, explains Dr. K Bhujang Shetty.
Black fungus or mucormycosis is a fatal condition which is seen recently in most of the patients who are recovered from COVID-19. Due to increase in number of patients affected by the deadly fungus, there is a severe shortage of Amphotericin B (the drug which is required for it’s treatement).
A doctor examines a COVID-19 patient for Black Fungus infection
Due to it’s recent advent in the market, people are unaware of it’s symptoms and when they are diagnosed with Black fungus, most of the damage is being done. Hence, to prevent that to happen Narayana Nethralaya’s Chairman, Dr. K Bhujang Shetty and his team have come up with a rapid solution for mucormycosis which they call it as the ‘Dutch Kit’.
According to Dr. Shetty, the efficacy of the Dutch kit is quite similar with RTPCR test of COVID-19. “We are seeing lot of patients who gets panic and rush to the hospital even if they have a slight nose block. As such there is no rapid tool which can diagnose mucormycosis. Presently what we have is, it takes minimum 10 days to confirm. Since the fungi needs to be cultured in lab before knowing the exact group. So we brought in this Dutch kit. As the name indicates, it is imported from The Netherlands. The kit as a whole efficiently detects fungal infection in 24 to 48 hours. All we need is the patient’s blood sample and lesion if possible. There are 5 main varieties of mucormycosis and it can be detected and differentiated easily through this method. And the accuracy is 100%” explains Dr. K Bhujang Shetty.
Narayana Nethralaya has already tested the Dutch Kit in approximately 25 people who were doubtful of the fungal infection. Several hospitals are looking for this kit, which can provide results quickly, with good efficacy and saves time as well. It has come as a big relief for people as they can check themselves whenever they are in doubt of the fungal infection after paying Rs- 7000 for the kit.
Mucormycosis if left untreated or diagnosied at a later stage can prove fatal. Some patients are also getting panicked by the mere thought of Black fungus and that stress is leading to further complications. Recently, a patient named Usha Rani got a severe headache one week after she tested negative for COVID-19. Being diabetic, she stressed about her symptoms and a mere fact that has been infected by COVID-19 earlier, she feared for Black fungus disease.
“Black fungus was the first thought that crossed my mind. I panicked and rushed to the hospital. Even if it was not a black fungus, I wanted to hear it from the doctor. They mentioned about this imported kit and I immediately went for it. After waiting for 24 hours or so the hospital called and said I tested negative for fungal infection. I can’t explain the relief I felt at that moment. And surprisingly my headache vanished soon after. Looks like the thought of another infection pushed me into stress resulting in headache”, says a much relieved Usha Rani.
The UNGA President, Abdulla Shahid, who is Minister of Foreign Affairs For Maldives as of 2018 election and the 76th President of the UNGA (United Nation’s General Assembly) as of June 7. He earned 143 votes out of 191 ballots cast in the 193-member General Assembly , winning against former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Dr Zalmai Rassoul, who got 48 votes.
Abdulla Shahid has expressed confidence that discussions on way to eliminate international terrorism at UN expedite under his presidency. In the interaction with TOI, he said he’ll will urge members to find solutions to such pending issues as soon as possible.
“The issue of terrorism is being discussed at a legal committee, Sixth committee and I’m sure this year will be increase in effort by many countries to expedite the matter. Of course, expected to any incoming President to clear most of the agenda items as expeditiously as possible, I would like a number of pending issues to be finalized. I’d urge members to conclude and find solution to such pending issues as soon as possible,” said Shahid 76th President of UNGA
The Sixth committee is the primary forum for consideration of legal questions in the General Assembly, has been interminably discussing the comprehensive convention on international terrorism without any real progress.
As Shahid acknowledged, India was among first countries to formally endorse Maldives’ India continued to publicly support Shahid.
“We are grateful for that, especially when two of the Sarcc members were competing. It was very important for a candidate to have a clear position from India in the public. I thank PM Modi and Foreign minister S Jaishankar for it,” said Shahid.
When asked about response on Covid-19 failing to meet the expectations of developing countries and their confidence in UN beginning to wane, Shahid said one of the main issue he promised to deal with is speedy supply of vaccination.
“In my vision statement, I’ve outlined the issues that need urgent attention, Number one is the strategy to deal with Covid-19 and the new strains that are coming up. Then, of course , is the vaccine. Vaccination in the world had to be the first priority because no one is safe until everyone is safe. I can see a lot of expectations from the membership for this to happen. I’ll be working very closely with GA membership for increasing the speed of vaccination,” said Shahid.
Mucormycosis or black fungus is a type of fungal infection. It’s relatively rare, but also very serious.
According to an advisory from the “Indian Council of Medical Research”, the recovered or recovering Covid-19 patients going through these following conditions could be at high-risk of developing this fungus: • Uncontrollable Diabetes • Weakened immune system due to the use of steroids • Post organ transplant/ cancer • Voriconazole therapy (used to treat severe fungal infection) • Protracted hospital stay.
In recent times, this infection is on the verge of spreading rapidly among the patients who have either recovered from covid or are recovering. Moreover, it’s high time for the diabetic patients or the people with low immunity to be on guard against this.
It’s important to get treatment as soon as possible. If left untreated, mucormycosis can be fatal.
What are the various Symptoms of Mucormycosis?
Starting as a skin infection in air pockets behind forehead, nose, or in between eyes and teeth, this disease starts spreading to eyes, lungs or even to the brain. Furthermore, it leads to blackening or discoloration over the nose, blurred or double vision, Chest pain, Breathing difficulties and also coughing of blood. Although, Indian Council of Medical Research has made it clear that not all cases of nose blockage should be mistaken with Mucormycosis or black fungus, particularly during/after treatment of Covid-19 patients. One must seek medical help for detecting fungus as early as possible.
How is it related to Covid-19?
A set of microorganisms known as “mucormycetes” is responsible for causing this disease. These are present naturally in our environment, seen commonly in soil and decaying organic matter like leaves, compost and piles.
Our body is immunized to fight such deadly fungus but due to the steroids and intake of certain medicines used in the treatment of covid-19 , our immunity is suppressed for the time being resulting in a high-risk of getting infected with mucormycosis or black fungus.
The disease is uncommon in those not having diabetes but can be fatal if not treated promptly. Chances of recovery depend upon early diagnosis and treatment.
How it’s treated?
The treatment of Mucormycosis can take about four to six weeks. The treatment starts from the process of identifying the disease. It’s better to have diagnosed it at an early stage as this fungus continues to get more fatal with each passing moment. Mucormycosis begins with skin infection in air pockets behind forehead, nose, or in between eyes and teeth. Furthermore, results in blackening or discoloration over the nose, blurred or double vision, Chest pain, Breathing difficulties and also coughing of blood.
To stop the spreading of black fungus and to end it, the patient might have to proceed for surgery as soon as possible. During surgery, the organs which are infected with fungus are to be removed. This may result in the loss of upper jaw or eyes.
Recently, doctors of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) reported to have surgically removed a cricket ball-sized black fungus or Mucormycosis from the brain of a 60 year old on Friday. A team led by Dr Brajesh Kumar operated on the patient with such precision that his eyes were not affected.
Be on guard
Reported around 31000 cases in last three weeks, the black fungus is rising on a all-time high rate. Nearly 2100 deaths have been reported so far from this fungus. It’s better to take preventive measures at this time. It is advised that after recovering from COVID-19, one should closely monitor and should not miss any warning signs and symptoms mentioned above, as the fungal infection is found to emerge even weeks or months after recovery. One should make judicial use of steroids as per doctor’s advice to avoid risk of infection. Early detection of the disease can ease the treatment of the fungal infection.
Life is itself a great lesson, but the tragedy is we are so engaged in solving the problems of life so we have no time to see the real game. and we never try to understand the game of life that was cleverly designed by God. If we will be focused on our life we found out that from birth to death person always stuck between right and wrong, I am not saying that we are always wrong but can we try even one time to find out the ‘why’ behind every one single problem.
In this post, we try to point out some problems of life with the help of the 10 best things about life.
1) we all know that behind every single problem of our life. there is some ‘why‘ but how many times we question ourselves and will try to find out that, no we are busy, but we have time to be depressed.
2) we all know that if there is a problem there is a solution to that particular problem. but how many times we try to find out the solution instead of being stressed by the problems and busy blaming God that why they choose us for this problem.
3) when we have questions or doubts related to ourselves, we know that we have the answer but also with that we always try to get the answer from others, but with that answer, we are not even satisfied.
4) life is designed just like a game by God. and if there is a game there are some rules, and if we want to live life fully, we have to follow the rules of life whatever we are happy with them or not.
5) life is not a path of roses for anyone. So don’t increase your imagination about life. from history till now, life is a struggle for everyone who will come on this planet. So learn to enjoy your struggle and do work hard.
6) life has some universal rules like if you want to achieve something you have to made sacrifices. so don’t get emotional when there is a demand for some sacrifices.
7) Be happy in your life, whatever the conditions are, try to be the happiest person in this world. Being sad or depressed will not get something to you. so why are you sad? Be happy and enjoy the struggle.
8) To get inspiration from someone is ok but don’t follow anyone blindly, learn lessons about success and failures from others but try to apply them in your life.
9) if your a zero don’t get depressed, do work hard, and try to become one, but at least try and change your current situation. Because you are the only one who can change your condition. No one else can do that without your efforts.
10) and we all know about all of these above points but can we follow them in our lives, very few people follow, in reality, we are a good adviser but not a good follower. so try to follow not all but at least some rules in the life .
These are some points that I discussed hope so this will help you.
The starting of one’s career is always from the best colleges. Good colleges have good faculty, libraries, intelligent peers and out of the box thinking of the people there. But how does one gets into a good college ? And in the end is a good college enough to get one through life ? 
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