Ethical Hacking and IT

Data Technology (IT) is one of the greatest and most mainstream businesses as far as building up a profession on the planet today. Industry 4.0 has invited various innovative headways because of which specific IT experts have discovered conspicuousness, in IT organizations as well as in different enterprises. Maybe, the most famous among them is a vocation in online protection.

More than 1 billion network safety experts are required to be sought after over the course of the following 2 years in this field, making it perhaps the most worthwhile profession ways on the planet today. Notwithstanding being a mammoth association, National Health Services couldn’t shield themselves from a huge scope hack. A main nourishment application, MyFitnessPal, likewise went through a monstrous security penetrate where the individual information of more than 150 million clients was taken. The recurrence of these assaults has expanded off-late, making network safety basic in each association.

Huge banks and gems stores regularly enlist proficient hoodlums to endeavor burglaries, to recognize provisos in their security frameworks. Through these preliminaries, these establishments can reliably redesign their security frameworks, to ultimately arrive at a phase of becoming invulnerable. Taking motivation from this interaction, the network protection space has likewise reversed the situation on hacking and made it a legitimized idea through moral hacking.

Moral hacking is a cycle through which experts are paid to hack into an association, to pinpoint weaknesses in the security framework that the association needs to fix. Ill-conceived programmers have likewise discovered lawful conspicuousness in the IT world today because of the developing significance of moral hacking as an idea.

Moral programmers are recruited and prepared to utilize a huge number of methods to attempt to penetrate various associations. They help in the identification of holes inside the security framework as well as during digital assaults.

Government associations wherein digital fighting holds extraordinary unmistakable quality, moral programmers are accustomed to balancing endeavors made by noxious programmers with the expectation of outmaneuvering them, and protecting the information. Another use of moral hacking is of supporting in the examination that follows a digital assault.

Law implementation offices frequently recruit moral programmers to follow the means of a programmer and distinguish the culprit.

Thinking about the incredibly specialized nature of the calling, a basic degree is for the most part insufficient to build up an effective vocation in the field a particular preparing is fundamental. Many driving IT organizations today offer affirmed courses in Ethical Hacking that involve the nuts and bolts of PC organizing as well as intricate methods and driving cycles for keeping up with digital protection.

Think inventively and out-of-the-box:

Aside from these specialized ideas, it is additionally fundamental for moral programmers to have the option to think imaginatively and out of the container. The explanation programmers are developing and can penetrate confounded security frameworks is that they are reliably attempting to concoct new ways and approaches for something very similar.

Another significant quality to have is critical thinking, as the expertise can be fortified after some time, and sharpened with experience and down to earth openness. In this manner, getting ready for a vocation in moral hacking needs to involve a decent blend of both, specialized and reasonable viewpoints.

Be that as it may, there is an exceptionally clear ability hole in the business today, and subsequently, an absence of qualified staff in the field. Attributable to the hole between the interest and supply of moral programmers, this vocation way has gotten very rewarding with monstrous extension later on.

Advent of Fast-food chain in Indian Market

 

We all are very much familiar with the fast-food chains. With the revolution in food, the world has become so fast-moving that it’s very difficult to keep a track. With the demand for fast-food came the entry of fast-food joints. It has garnered the market to a wide level.

(Photo: PMQ Pizza Magazine)

Increasing demand for fast food

Is there anyone who doesn’t like fast-food? It has become so inevitable and specially among children. The youth mainly crave for fast-food in everyday life. This increase in demand has benefitted the fast-food chains at a rapid pace. The children specially like burger and pizza more than dal or roti. Demand for McDonald’s, Subway, KFC has increased rapidly over the years. Who knew that they will capture the market at such a level?

Why they are so much in demand?

·       If we see from the customer’s view, we can say that it’s highly desirable.

·       The prices are also low as compared to dine in restaurants.

·       It is spread across many locations.

·       The taste is also good and it’s very convenient.

The fast-food has become very………Fast

If a fast-food restaurant wants to remain in business, then it has to be very fast. This pace has been very well maintained by the fast-food chains of Indian market. Many people after work grab their fast-food while going back to home.It’s everywhere and that’s why it is very convenient to order. The faster order arrives, the happier customer is. Delay in delivery should be prevented as it can cause dissatisfaction and it can also harm the goodwill of the fast-food chain.

Cuisines around the world under one roof

·       In this era of globalization, to be one step forward, this fast-food chain has turned towards different method to maintain its uniqueness.

·       It’s like a cat race. To be faster, you have to be better.

·       They think globally and apply it locally. The fast-food chain which offers more cuisine to its menu is more preferred by the customers.

·       Getting everything under one roof. What do you want more? For example, Haldiram offers south Indian, north Indian, street food, Chinese etc. It’s not just limited to one cuisine. There are many other examples too. Like Dunkin’ Donuts, KFC, McDonald’s. They aim at adding taste to your buds.

S   Smarter than You Think

     Fast-food chains adopt various approaches to target customers. They mainly target children as fast-food is more popular among children. They very well know how to sell their product and execute their plan accordingly. For example, the use of characters such as Ronald McDonald and The Trix Rabbit, it is a tactic to emotionally bond with the children. They also organize birthday parties and offer happy meal to give happiness to children. They keep kids hooked up on happy meals. This is what is called as “SMART PLAY”.

     The fast-food chain can be seen everywhere. It has increased rapidly around the globe. The demand for fast-food has also increased competition. In India, increase in disposable income has in turn increased the frequency of people going out for meals. India is now heavily dominated by global players. Despite of its potential growth, Indian food chain still faces many challenges due to the change in trend. So, we can say that India still has a long way to go.

 

 

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WHAT IS PHONOLOGY AND PHONEME?

Our speech sounds can produce a wide variety of speech sounds. However , each language makes use of only a selected group of sounds .These selected sounds are organized in different ways in different languages .This selection and organization of speech sounds in an individual language is called Phonology .

PHONEMES

Every language has a definite number of distinctive sound units .These sound units constitute the phonemes of that language .They are the most basic and smallest elements in the expression system of a language .A phoneme may be defined as the minimal ,distinctive sound unit of a language .By minimal we mean that it cannot be sub-divide ; by distinctive we mean that , when one phoneme is substituted by another it produces a meaning change .Thus the phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that forms the basis of distinction between words in a language .The two words , for example , bat and cat are distinguished and differentiated by the initial phonemes of these two words , /b/ and /k/ .

When /p/ is substituted by /b/ in the word pit it becomes bit . With substitution , a different word with a different meaning is formed . Thus /p/ and /b/ are contrastive in English and hence they are two phonemes in English. Phonemic symbols are enclosed with in slant lines ; phonetic symbols within square brackets indicate the precise phonetic qualities of sounds represented by the symbols . It is also to be noted that phonemes refers to sounds and never to spellings .

The English RP has a system of forty four phonemes .Hindi has forty six phonemes and Malayalam has fifty two .All these languages have their own language specific phonemes .As phonemes are contrastive units of sound in the sound system of a particular language , they have validity only in that language.

WHAT IS PHONOLOGY AND PHONEME?

Our speech sounds can produce a wide variety of speech sounds. However , each language makes use of only a selected group of sounds .These selected sounds are organized in different ways in different languages .This selection and organization of speech sounds in an individual language is called Phonology .

PHONEMES

Every language has a definite number of distinctive sound units .These sound units constitute the phonemes of that language .They are the most basic and smallest elements in the expression system of a language .A phoneme may be defined as the minimal ,distinctive sound unit of a language .By minimal we mean that it cannot be sub-divide ; by distinctive we mean that , when one phoneme is substituted by another it produces a meaning change .Thus the phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that forms the basis of distinction between words in a language .The two words , for example , bat and cat are distinguished and differentiated by the initial phonemes of these two words , /b/ and /k/ .

When /p/ is substituted by /b/ in the word pit it becomes bit . With substitution , a different word with a different meaning is formed . Thus /p/ and /b/ are contrastive in English and hence they are two phonemes in English. Phonemic symbols are enclosed with in slant lines ; phonetic symbols within square brackets indicate the precise phonetic qualities of sounds represented by the symbols . It is also to be noted that phonemes refers to sounds and never to spellings .

The English RP has a system of forty four phonemes .Hindi has forty six phonemes and Malayalam has fifty two .All these languages have their own language specific phonemes .As phonemes are contrastive units of sound in the sound system of a particular language , they have validity only in that language.

Why India’s gaming industry is on the rise ?

-India’s soaring gaming industry is valued at $930 million, and is number one in the world.
-India has over 560 million internet users, making it the second-largest internet consumer.
-Investors can expect a 10-year growth outlook with a $3.8 billion valuation by 2024.
-The first nine months of 2020 saw India rise to the number one spot in mobile game downloads worldwide, clocking 7.3 billion installs and raking in a 17% market share of the installs volume, as per SensorTower’s data.

Over 50% of India’s population is below the age of 25, and 60% of the nation’s gamers are under 25 years of age too. The gaming userbase surpassed 365 million in March 2020 as per KPMG’s media and entertainment report.

Mobiles staging the games

Mobile users form an overwhelming 85% of the industry, followed by PC users at 11% and tablet users at 4%. Internet penetration is 30%. Inc42 determined that the revenue of major Indian gaming and eSports companies was $68 million in 2019.

Mobile gaming takes the largest chunk of the gaming market thanks to access to affordable smartphones growing at 15% year-on-year for the past five years in India, high-speed 4G internet penetration and the world’s lowest data tariffs. Together with the rise of mobile games, these factors feed into India’s youth having a growing appetite for content.

At its peak, PUBG Mobile had an estimated 34 million Indians playing daily. Indians alone were responsible for downloading the battle royale genre title a whopping 175 million times.

A greater willingness to pay for services comes from improved disposable incomes at purchasing power parity (25% over 2016 levels) and wider adoption of digital payments as per Deloitte’s Telecom, Media and Telecommunications Predications report.

How COVID-19 turned us away from TV

The COVID-19 pandemic saw a shift in media and entertainment consumption trends, with KPMG estimating a 20% contraction in 2020 in typical segments such as film, TV and print. In contrast, they foresee rapid change to gaming and digital media consumption, projecting global growth bouncing up to 33% to reach $25.4 billion in 2021.

This is lent credence by gaming platforms such as Google Play and Apple App Storerecording 50% increases in engagement during lockdown. BARC & Nielsen report that Indians now spend 218 minutes gaming versus 151 minutes before lockdown.

Investors including Sequoia Capital and Kalaari Capital have already increased their investments by 78% during 2020 to $173 million, as per Tracxn Technologies data. There are now over 400 gaming companies in India, as reported by Maple Capital Advisors.

The surge in gaming comes from a growing need for virtual entertainment with friends, family and peer groups, coupled with the rise in influencers encouraging Indians to play more games. With digital consumption becoming mainstream, the demand for more diverse content has also grown.

Portable games fill in as virtual social spaces satisfying purchasers’ necessities to interface in testing times. Gaming cuts across geologies and penetrates both level one and two urban areas, and metropolitan and rustic regions the same.

An Inc42 report on the eSports scene found that eSports in India represents 4% of the country’s userbase and shaped simply more than 9% of industry income before the pandemic. This area is required to develop 36% year-on-year in the following three years, with extended income of $95 for 2020. The Indian eSports crowd for serious gaming competitions previously arrived at 17 million out of 2020 versus 6 million out of 2017.

Newzoo predicts that IP-holders looking to carry their establishments to new mediums will pick versatile gaming as the favored stage in view of lower advancement costs and more limited time spans. The most mainstream gaming sorts are the hypercasual and easygoing classifications which incorporates well known games like Hunter Assassin, Talking Tom and Carrom Pool, separately.

Designers should keep on making versatile first encounters, however guzzle new points of view that are more comprehensive towards female crowds.

How publicizing is adjusting

Publicists can successfully target crowds who as of now mess around with credible brand informing. Gaming partners share comparable segment and conduct profiles.

Newzoo tracked down that 80% of Indians burn-through food or beverages consistently while messing around. This data is basic to FMCG brands in fostering their promoting methodology. Brands can use these channels to assemble trust and commitment with possible clients.

The Indian gaming industry has developed almost 60% throughout the most recent three years, and the area gives no indications of easing back. In the long haul, it might can possibly surpass Indian film industry incomes, which are by and by more than twofold that of the gaming business. The normal buyer is esteem cognizant and value touchy, and the item methodologies and adaptation models mirror this.

Most income in gaming is created from promoting, and a more modest extent comes from client in-application buys. Up until this point, the plan of action has been unequivocally allowed to-play and is the norm in versatile gaming, a low-section obstruction for would-be gamers.

This is changing; according to the white paper, Understanding Value in Media: Perspectives from Consumers and Industry, connected with gamers are bound to be down help membership endorsers than different media and amusement purchasers. This is not normal for the conduct of connected video, music and sports buyers.

Guideline and ability especially on the public authority’s radar

As gaming develops, the Indian government is relied upon to assume a more dynamic part in working with and directing the business.

As of late, Indian executive Narendra Modi required the improvement of content advancing native Indian culture. Controllers are now observing organization information protection arrangements, for example, stockpiling and the transmission of information having a place with Indian clients.

Then, at that point there’s the expanding dream sports section, which presently despises autonomous legitimate acknowledgment, despite the fact that it rounded up $338 million in the last monetary year. The public authority’s arranging think tank, Niti Aayog, distributed its first draft rules proposed for the lead and guideline of imagination sports, however noticed that the portion could draw in FDI inflows of $1 billion in the coming not many years.

The Indian government is likewise expected to set up industry and the scholarly world interfaces to cultivate new profession ways in gaming and to develop an impressive ability pool in the area.

Digital Marketing

In the present innovatively progressed world, computerized showcasing is the better approach to advance and sell items. Contrasted with customary showcasing, it is practical, effectively oversaw, and easy to dissect and learn. Missions can very quickly be changed to improve and sell more. Be that as it may, because of information mining, it has additionally gotten hazardous and in excess of a device. It is as though the client can turn into the item because of data sold.

Significance of Digital Marketing

As of now referenced, today we live in an innovatively progressed world where the sky is the limit through the web. Advanced promoting capacities and is conceivable simply because of the web and that’s it. It is the center of what advanced advertising is.

In a general public where we battle with shortage and rising costs, computerized advertising is the best approach to turn that around. The web is effectively available by everybody in any piece of the globe. It is as of now not just for a particular class of society. It is simpler to associate with individuals and without meeting them. Computerized promoting is a benefit for organizations in this period.

It is staggeringly advantageous for individuals to purchase anything needed from the web without taking a foot outside of their homes. It saves time and shows an individual the different audits individuals have left. An individual can undoubtedly analyze costs on different sites and pick what is most appropriate to their necessities. It is advantageous to the individuals who are crippled and can assist them with completing their work and carry on with an existence of freedom.

It additionally helps organizations themselves, huge or little. The brokers can promote for less cash, or in any event, free of charge on the off chance that one realizes how to do it well. Items can frequently circulate around the web with no cash being put resources into advertising. It helps private companies significantly and assists them with getting foothold.

The Problem With Digital Marketing

One fundamental issue with computerized advertising is information mining. No standards or laws have been set up to control the purchasing of clients’ information. It is utilized so much that it has been said that the client has become an item.

It is spoken as a fear inspired notion that we are being spied upon. In any case, that isn’t a long way from reality. Previous workers of Google, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and so on, have discussed how much information is put away by sites of clients that utilization web-based media locales. This data is offered to advertisers so they can target explicit crowds with their items. These destinations are intended to keep the individual returning and drawing in with the locales. Practically like a compulsion. Evidence of this is how much the paces of web based shopping expanded during the lockdown. This implies that online media is perilous and has gotten in excess of a device.

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Computerized promoting significantly helps all organizations, of all shapes and sizes, take off. It is essential nowadays and even assists with the business issue. This type of advertising is the way one can exploit innovation and further their business. However, it is additionally urgent for clients to be cautious about what data is put out on the web to remain safe. There should be an equilibrium of both, and organizations ought to be burdened on the measure of information they have.

A fairy tale is always a fantasy. This is about my life.

 Finally, decided to share the things which has always took place in my little brain. Let’s start with my journey hope it won’t be too boring. Please bear with me. Raw and its non-fiction. 

I’m in my early twenty. I grew up in very protective and loved environment and family with my parents and little sisters. Since childhood i never had one perfect goal or aim to achieve. Looking back now i regret why i don’t have one and why i didn’t tried harder for my future. Maybe back in time we were too busy in our little friendship circle that i forgot. I remember my friends back than whom i have drift apart now, with loving memories only. Teenage period have taught a lot about friendship and life. I unknowingly came across such events that i want to erase and i have done rebellious things that i regret sometimes but sometimes i feel like it taught me a great lesson.

Since childhood i was technically good in studies, i remember taking prizes by our school principal DT. my parents would be very proud when others appreciates my achievement but time passes and i don’t remember how i just neglected my studies. Though my puberty i can say was the turning point of my life. I suddenly got drastic change in my physical appearance which was the worst thing in my life till date. Body shaming was the common occurrence at point that i stopped reacting then i got my first real hard crush on a senior i was over the top like any other teenage one. I stalked him for year but in fantasy i got carried away and i have done my very first mistake which put a crack in my adolescence. I became someone whom i despise the most but i still believe it’s not 100% my fault. I trusted wrong friend.

But life goes on, year away i got off my little crushes here in there which lead to almost failing my last year of Middle school. From then i got little grief over my choices. I haven’t done anything all those years. And during my first Senior Year. I met the love of my life or i can say my first love story begun just like in a book, the aches to see every morning, break, lunch and meeting secretly after schools, celebrating birthday and what not but it lasted only for four year. He was Senior in same school. A  handsome person i ever wished for caring, loving, understanding and a social butterfly. During that time i got off my weight a lot which was a plus that’s how i got a boy else nope. Him having by my side i got over my Senior year in a giffy. 

I got in university where things started to drift apart. My dream fairy tale turned into Fights, misunderstanding and cheating at last. It was my first breakup with person whom i dream of having my future but as days went he got back to me and i eventually forgave him because i so in love with that person and i got on my life and year later i was back to with my family having my love side an needed nothing less. I Started working in my hometown but it said things which are not to be meant won’t last like my relationship, fairy tales are always lovely in a book rather than the reality at the end we didn’t work or i can say i got fed up. With lot of up and down in our relation we end up apart but i can say i am happy and content with my life now. I got over my fantasy of perfect little future with my first love.

I’m far away from fake friend. A relationship that never worked for me but at least i have my family and lovely dogs with me which is enough for me.

Issues looked in progress of training in India:

Education is that the most imperative phase out of various segments of a social foundation. The accomplished and suitably ready personnel will quicken the pace of financial development. Despite our earnest tries, our instructive improvement still stays at a coffee dimension.

Following area unit the principle problems looked within the advancement of training:

1. Absence of capital:

The absence of adequate assets is that the basic issue within the improvement of instruction. Associate degree expense for coaching in Multi-Year styles has been decreasing. Thanks to inadequate finances, most instructive institutions would like the framework, science gear and libraries and then on. Thanks to this reason, desired outcomes can’t be accomplished.

Every year there’s a separate budget on Education sector however it must be properly channelled through the acceptable pipeline in order that it reaches to every and each sector, wherever its required the foremost.

2. Expensive instructive movement

College, professional and specialised instruction have clad to be unconscionable in India. Expense structure of specialised and professional institutions like IIM’s is incredibly high; IIM’s charge Rs. Two 100000 for every semester for Master in Business categories. It’s past the vary of the regular man’s expenditure limit. Privatization of advanced education has prompted the event of profit hungry business individuals. Presently advanced education is far unconscionable endeavour

3. Disregard of Indian dialects

The medium of teaching, particularly in science subjects, is English. Therefore provincial understudies WHO aren’t knowledgeable in English, can’t ponder science fittingly in English. They need to suffer loads as a result of this. Customary distributions aren’t accessible in native Indian dialects.

4. The issue of cerebrum channel

Whenever wise, capable and deserving candidates don’t land affordable positions within the nation, they require to travel another country for trying to find employment. Therefore our nation is denied sensible ability. This surprise is termed ‘Brain Drain’. As a result of this, we’ve lost numerous skills that would be used in our nation for the betterment of education likewise as overall development of the country.

5. Mass ignorance

Notwithstanding protected mandates and monetary coming up with, we have a tendency to don’t seem to be able to accomplish 100% education. – Even currently thirty five percent of people keep uneducated. In India, the amount of illiterate people is incredibly nearly thirty third of the mixture uneducated individuals on the earth. Propelled nations are nearly 100% educated, and also the scenario in Asian country is incredibly inauspicious.

6. Wastage of assets

Our education system depends on General Education. The dropout rate is high in fundamental and helper measurement. The overwhelming majority of the understudies in 6-14 cohort leave the college before finishing their studies. It prompts wastage of economic and Human Resources.

7. General schooling focused

Our schooling system is of general instruction in nature. Advancement of specialised and skilled instruction is incredibly unacceptable. Thus our method of instruction is ineffective. Therefore the amount of educated out of work individuals is increasing by daily. This has become an excellent concern for state.

8. Issue of essential schooling

Our primary education is ridden with AN excessive variety of problems. A huge variety of elementary colleges don’t have any structures, elementary facilities like beverage, urinals and power, piece of furniture and study materials so forth. Substantial quantities of grade colleges are single pedagogue colleges and various colleges are even while not instructors. Therefore the drop rate is high and a reason for concern. Completing, we can say that there’s a quantitative extension of coaching nevertheless in subjective improvement we have a tendency to are till now falling behind.

What is Skill Development

Skill Development is the process of identification of the skills gap in youth and providing skilling training & employment benefits to them. Skill development programs aim to acknowledge the ability of the youth and extend their support by serving them with the proper guidance, infrastructure, opportunities, and encouragement that help them achieve their ambitions. Education and skills are essential for everyone, and they both walk hand in hand in everyone’s career journey. They are the roots behind the economic growth and community development of a country. Therefore, both central & state governments are continuously making efforts to provide skill development to the youth with their skilling partners around the country.
The benefits of Skill Development include increased business profits, improved performance, improved accuracy & quality, improved communication, complies with rules & regulations, improved recruitment & career opportunities, and development of good customer relations, at Track2Training we empower youths for future jobs. 
Challenges
Low intrinsic “aspiration quotient” resulting in low demand for vocational skilling programs.
Employers cite the shortage of skilled employees as a constraint
Skill development scenario is still evolving with different agencies handling the same agenda, absence of standards, lack of training capacity.
Mission for Skill Development
More than half of India’s population is the driving force of the economy, and at Track2Training, we adhere to providing skill development & enhancement programs for the youth. We impart skills training and provide employment opportunities to the young workforce, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, and provide workforce solutions to the industry. This skill development program will help you succeed in different national-level programs like Skill India, Digital India, Make in India, etc.
Vision: Track2Training‘s vision is to be the preferred skilling solution provider delivering excellence in skill training through empowered employees and a skilled workforce!
Mission Statement: Our Mission is to provide a robust institutional framework at the Centre and States to implement skilling activities in the country. We aim to impart skill training and knowledge sharing that significantly increase our course participants’ on-the-job productivity, thereby enhancing their contributions to the Nation’s goals. We aim to build a skilled workforce in India to fulfill the gap between demand and supply. 
Our Knowledge Sharing & Training Platforms
Smart Training Centres: We provide vocational training in diverse domains across the service and the manufacturing industry through our smart training centers. Under this program, we provide courses like Creative Writing, Digital marketing, Foundation skills and domain-specific areas that ud are aligned to the QP (qualification pack) and NOS (National Occupation Standards) as specified by the Sector Skill Council (SSC). 
Workshops & Webinars
For the reorganization and promotion of our country’s skill development ecosystem, Track2Training organizes several national-level workshops and training programs that led to the conception and operation of the National Skill Development Mission (NSDM) for unemployed youth.
Quality Content (E-Courses, Flyers, etc.) 
As a leading content development company, Acadecraft has an experienced team of subject matter experts (SMEs), editors, content writers, graphic designers, instructional designers, and proofreaders who are well versed in creating high-quality content for our training manuals, e-learning training modules, presentations, brochures, flyers and all kind of e-courses as per government guidelines.
Certified Mentoring Skills for Training
Under this skill training, we provide sessions to discuss all the mentoring perspectives and what it takes to be a mentor. This training program focuses specifically on what mentoring means, the mentoring model, benefits of mentoring, the roles and responsibilities of mentors & mentees, critical skills required by mentors, and potential phases in the mentoring relationship.

What is Open Access

 Open access is a broad international movement that seeks to grant free and open online access to academic information, such as publications and data. A publication is defined ‘open access’ when there are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it – that is to say when anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for and search within the information, or use it in education or in any other way within the legal agreements. 

Open access is a publishing model for scholarly communication that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which readers have access to scholarly information by paying a subscription (usually via libraries). 

One of the most important advantages of open access is that it increases the visibility and reuse of academic research results. There is also criticism, and the aspect of quality deserves extra effort. The principles of open access are set out in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003). This declaration has been signed by many international organisations for academic research, including all Dutch universities and research organisations.

There are different ways of publishinging open access: 

1) Full Open Access journals: publication via publisher platforms, in full open access journals. This route may involve a charge. The publication costs, known as ‘article processing charges’ (APCs), are covered by authors or by their institutions. Most research funders support open access and are willing to cover the costs themselves. A list of fully open access journals that are accessible worldwide can be found on the DOAJ website.

2) Hybrid Journals: publication via ‘hybrid’ journals. These journals are subscription journals that allow open access publication of individual articles on payment of an Article Processing Charge (APC). Thanks to a series of deals between the VSNU and several academic publishers, Dutch-affiliated researchers can publishing for free in thousands of hybridjournals.

  • The green route: the full text of academic publications is deposited in a trusted repository, a publicly accessible database managed by a research organisation. You can find all Dutch institutional repositories via NARCIS, the Dutch portal for research information. NARCIS gives access to all the publications in Dutch repositories.
  • The diamond route: publication via diamond journals/platforms that do not charge author-facing publication fees (APCs). Diamond open access journals are usually funded via library subsidy models, institutions or societies.


Importance of Training and Internship

Internships and training are also like practicing the theoretical lessons in reality. It gives exposure to real-world activities. Nowadays, when employers give so much attention to resume, it shows you a far better opportunity to have some internship involved and your studies. A practical background pays a lot of effect on your resume and job opportunities. When you are looking for gaining experience, internships and training look the best way. If you take part in an internship at your college time then it can give you a job even before completing your college. A summer internship can be a distinguishing factor for winning a job opportunity. There are a lot of NGOs which provide the internship free of cost to meritorious and able students. A few of them are SNSMKS, TZF, YEF, TCSion, etc.

So, In this article, I would be discussing a few special importance of Internships and training. The importance can be pointed as follows:-
The exposure to the real-world and work environment
There are differences among being a Student, Intern, and trainee. As a student, you just learn the things but as an intern or trainee, you practice the things. You convert your learned theories to work. Here you learn how to behave with your seniors, managers and how to react to people. These things help a lot when you get your first job. As it is quite specific towards that companies and industries so you become able to know a lot about that company and its job and work structure. It also gives you a chance to try new ideas as here responsibilities are quite limited and the people are quite helpful.
Teaches you the importance of resume and work experience
When you go for an internship, either paid or unpaid, they normally give you a completion certificate. But when you do excellent in your work then gives you a Letter of Recommendation, as that is just another certificate but this has quite an excellent effect upon your future work. Here you come to know the real value of a resume. So, try to build a resume so that it shows a mirror image of you.
It allows you to know yourself better as a professional person
When you would search your mind for answers of this importance you will find that there you pass your day as an employee. You are having some work pressure, and you will be getting few more new problems. As when I was doing my last internship of fundraising I found that I am having a quite limited connection with people so I can’t collect any funds just with the help of family and friends. So, there I came to know that I should build a better network with people so that whenever I am part of such things, I may tell them and complete the work.
Creating a big network of professional people
When you go for an internship, it connects you with a lot of people other than your academic career. Here you get a chance to come in contact with a lot of successful business professionals, with them you may create your own network that helps you a lot when you try to get a job in companies. There are a lot of companies which hire people mostly with skills along with a reference, as a reference helps to believe upon that new person.
Helps you to get a job as a full-time career
As an intern when you become part of a company or an NGO and work for them, they also invest their time and money in you so they have some expectation out of you. If you do far better in your work as an intern then they offer you a full-time job, immediately or in the future as a full-time career.
So, an internship is an important time in one’s life upon which one should focus.
Now coming to our next topic which is the role of NGOs to help students in their internship.
There are a lot of job seekers who belong to a poor family, they can not afford to pay for their internship. The different NGOs help such people by allowing them to feel the corporate world and learn to compete with them.

The Threat Of Mucormycosis Amid Covid-19

Mucormycosis Explained

It is a rare but dangerous fungal infection that has a mortality rate of 50%, caused by the fungus micromycetes commonly found as mould in the soil, decay and manure. It is also found in the mucus and nose of healthy people.

Affects people with diabetes, HIV/AIDS, cancer and much more. It affects the people who have a lower immune system or take medicines that affect the body’s ability to fight germs and sicknesses.

The initial effect is seen in the nose from where it spreads to the brain and can be treated by major surgery either by removing the eye or part of the skull or the jaw.

Symptoms to keep in check for the fungus

  • Swelling and pain in the eye;
  • Drooping eyelids;
  • Sinusitis – stuffy and bleeding nose;
  • Blackish discolouration over the bridge of the nose;
  • Chest pain, bloody vomits, coughing, headache;

Treatment

A drug that is effective against the disease is an anti-fungal intravenous injection which costs around Rs.3500 per dose and has to administer every day for up to 8 weeks.

In some cases, the only way to prevent the disease from spreading is by surgery. Where eventually it leads to loss of the upper jaw or at times even an eye.

Prevention is better than Cure

  • Use of masks when visiting construction sites.
  • Wear shoes, long trousers, long-sleeved shirts and gloves while gardening.
  • Maintain personal hygiene.
  • Control diabetes, monitor sugar levels after Covid-19 treatments.
  • Reduce the use of steroids.
  • Hydrate adequately.
  • Discontinue immunomodulating drugs.

Black Fungus linked to Covid-19 in India

More than 7,200 people have been reported with the fungus and around 291 have lost their lives. The risk of mucormycosis in Covid-19 patients is due to the overuse of steroids in the treatment of coronavirus which can compromise the immune system if taken for long periods.

Another way of contracting the fungus by covid-19 patients was when people in ventilators had their airways exposed to humidity and moisture.

Five states, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Odisha, Rajasthan and Telangana have declared the fungus as an epidemic.

Post Mucormycosis Surgery

Patients who have been operated on the jaw would have to come to terms with the loss of function – difficulty chewing, swallowing, self-esteem. But not to lose hope, whether it is the jaw or the eye, prosthetic replacement is possible by using artificial substitutes. This can be done once the patient stabilizes after surgery.

Dr B Srinivasan, a maxillofacial prosthodontist quoted that: “Prosthetic reconstruction can be effected after surgery, but interim solutions should be planned even before surgery of the jaws for better long-term outcomes. Prosthetic reconstruction can ensure that the cure is not more dreadful than the disease itself.

Job or business

 Many times people get confused What to choose as career like whether to do job or business 

Job demands pretty hard work to sustain while business require hard work in initial building of it 

Also one more disadvantage of business over education is It demands funding which become cumbersome specially for poor people 

Many people do job to gain financial support to start business which is quite good idea to build upon it 

Also doing job make expertise in respective field, treated as experienced wrt society and also it give experience in gaining expertise in team work 

5 Must Read Novels Written by Indian Authors!!

1. The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga


Winner of the Man Booker prize, the novel made arvind adiga the second youngest author ever to win the prize . And it’s not hard to see why, the novel succeeded in doing that what many before have tried to do and failed. It gave voice to the unspoken that exist in the darkness of the country, the colossal underclass and that too with an unmatched sense of wit and dark humor.  And we live and hear it all through one of the most edgy protagonists you’d come across in a novel: Balram  a village boy who works as a chauffeur to a rich landlord and then to Bangalore where he flees after committing murder. His story as twisted as it is represents much of the frustration of the youth in the country shackled by the invisible reins of steep class divide, caste divide and poverty ,

  

2. A Fine Balance by Robinton Mistry


 Set in “an unidentified city” in India, initially in 1975 and later in 1984 during the turmoil: the book concerns four characters from varied background related to each other by an unseen thread of love.The philosophy of the story is the secret of survival, to balance finely hope and despair.But to realize most often we can’t do so.Our balance of life tilts and we trip and are lost. Some embrace physical death ,some live half-alive. It exposes the changes in Indian society from independence in 1947 to the Emergency called by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. surprisingly she is never referred by name in the book 

3. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth


the novel is set in a newly post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows four families during 18 months, and centres on Mrs. Rupa Mehra’s efforts to arrange the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata, to a “suitable boy”. Lata is a 19-year-old university student who refuses to be influenced by her domineering mother or opinionated brother, Arun. Her story revolves around the choice she is forced to make between her suitors Kabir, Haresh, and Amit.

It begins in the fictional town of Brahmpur, located along the Ganges between Banares and Patna. Brahmpur, along with Calcutta, Delhi, Lucknow and other Indian cities, forms a colourful backdrop for the emerging stories.

4. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra


Weighing in at 900 pages, the novel is Dickensian in scope, and part Godfather as well. Sacred Games follows a world-weary cop and a larger-than-life crime boss. Add in the world’s largest film industry, Bollywood, a shady guru and the ever-present tension between India and Pakistan, and you have a full-blown literary potboiler.

The book is so full of gritty underworld slang that there’s a glossary to help readers navigate the language. Sartaj sing, gaitonde and mumbai are the main characters of the novel which unfold and grab you by the throat.

5.The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran desai 


Published to extraordinary acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. She illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of post-colonialism with a tapestry of colorful characters: an embittered old judge; Sai, his sixteen-year-old orphaned grand­daughter; a chatty cook; and the cook’s son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one miserable New York restaurant to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS.

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EXCEL ENGINEERING COLLEGE STUDENT HAILING FROM JAMMU AND KASHMIR GARNERS WORLD RENOWN

 Komarapalayam: Sahaj Sabharwal, a 1st Year student of Aeronautical Engineering of Excel Engineering College who is a published author, a public speaker and now a fully established poet has won international laurels for his creative work Stay Cool’ published by Write-to-Unite Publishing House from Peterborough, U.K.

Sahaj has been picked up from a select group of teenagers and adults who spared no efforts to spread positivity and enthuse the masses during the spells of recurring lockdowns in connection with the Covid19 pandemic. As are waiting for the first prints of ‘Stay Cool’ to hit the stands, his published copies of poems titled ‘Poems by Sahaj Sabharwal’ have reached the hands of the young and old as e-book as well as in paperback and his new book titled Pedagogical Thoughts Made Facts’  will be released worldwide in paper back and e-book with a hope to become the youngest best selling author with that book. The content will be based on motivational, social and inspirational thoughts, poems, quotes, articles and stories in one book for awareness among people regarding social issues and positive mindset.

‘The Children’s Magazine’ showered encomiums on Sahaj for his heart-touching story ‘Bampu and the Bear’ along with the article ‘Save Wildlife’ which won him the 4th Prize in both the categories. 

Sahaj Sabharwal, from Jammu city, J&K, India, who began to write poems at a tender age, won the 1st Prize for the on-the-spot Poem Writing Competition conducted by the English Literary Association of Excel Engineering College which was based on the topic ‘TEENAGE’. His nurtured talent later paved the way for his being unanimously elected as the Treasurer of the ELA.

Sahaj is a co-author of more than 20 Anthologies to which he contributed a lion’s share. Not long ago he even wrote a poem for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which made his poetic talent appreciated from various quarters. With his facebook and YouTube speeches harping on the themes of positivity and creativity, Sahaj has been recognized as a ‘Corona Warrior’, and the Principal of EEC openly acknowledged him as a prodigy who made the Institution proud of the opportunities it provided. The Hon’ble Chairman of the Excel Group Institutions, Prof. Dr. A. K. Natesan, conferred the title ‘The Student of the Year’ upon Sahaj Sabharwal.

The young Mr. Sabharwal not only applied his mind to Aeronautical Engineering, but instead to the social cause through his Research Project titled “Respirators other than Surgical Masks being the Preventive Measure against the Corona virus”.

Sahaj’s Professors, Literary Association Coordinators and classmates see in him a future hope for the nation and the world at large to give it a new hope and a new orientation. Excel Engineering College goes all the way to promote the all-round development of all its students. The Vice Chairman, Dr. Mathan Karthik, MBBS, MHSc, announced the opening of all the avenues for Sahaj’s climbing the highest peaks of excellence in all spheres.

His social media and other proofs/links -: 

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/sahajsabharwal

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/SahajSabharwalWriter

Twitter-

https://www.twitter.com/Sahaj_Sabharwal

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