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Centre asks states and UTs to allow smartphones and tablet devices for hospitalised COVID-19 patients

The Central Government has written to all states and Union Territories asking that smartphones and tablet devices should be allowed for hospitalised COVID-19 patients so that they can interact with family and friends through video conferencing.

This is expected to provide the patients psychological support. Though mobile phones are allowed in hospital wards, the letter was issued following some representation from the kin of patients alleging that mobile phones are not being allowed by the hospital administrations.

In the letter to the Principal Secretaries of health and medical education of States and UTs, Director General of Health Services in the Health Ministry, Dr Rajiv Garg said, appropriate protocols for disinfecting devices and allocating time slots can be developed by the hospital concerned to facilitate contact between patients and their family.

He stressed that administrative and medical teams should be responsive to the psychological needs of patients admitted in COVID-19 wards and ICUs.

Raped in Chitrakoot: Minor Girls are forced to trade bodies for Rs. 150-200 daily during lockdown

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

Femicide in Turkey

A social evil infesting our harmonious society
19 years old university student, Ozgecan Aslan was killed 5 years ago, by a minibus driver who attempted to rape her on her way home. Following Aslan’s death, a petition demanding an end to reduce sentences for perpetrators of gender-based violence gathered more than 1 million signatures. Despite the protests and petitions, there was a considerable surge in femicides. The “we will end femicide platform”, a women’s rights group, said almost 2000 women have been killed since February 2015, often by husbands or boyfriends. In 2019, 474 women were stain in turkey. Women’s rights activists said the necessary legal tools for the protection of women against violence already exist. Turkey was the first country to ratify the council called the ” Istanbul Convention”. This council focused on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. In 2011, a treaty was introduced specifically targeting violence against women. Law number 6248 which was passed to Protect the Family and Prevent Violence Against Women and introduced gender equality policies.
However, the problem is with the implementation of existing laws. The general attitude in society has not changed. Women are still urged to stay at home to serve and obey. In some cases, violence against women is still acceptable.” Ekin also mentioned that many kinds of violence against women weren’t even taken in consideration which includes psychological abuse or some different kind of degrading treatment. Measures stipulated by the Istanbul Convention, such as the provision of enough women’s shelters and rape crisis centres, were not being met, Ekin said. During a speech at an international women’s rights summit in 2014, Erdogan said women were not equal to men and that manual labour was not suitable for women because of their “delicate nature.” He has criticised women who chose work over having children as “half-persons” and equated abortion to “murder.” Numerous women’s rights NGOs were closed by emergency decree following the 2016 coup attempt. Despite mounting difficulties, the resolve of Turkey’s women’s rights activists has grown stronger and Ekin stressed that this yielded important successes. Due to close monitoring of femicide court cases by activists, courts rarely hand down reduced sentences for “unjust provocation,” a widespread practice until a few years ago. This is the result of our struggle and we will continue to fight for justice for women,” Ekin said.

India likely to miss target of eradicating AIDS by 2030: IMCR Study

Since The covid-19 pandemic several health care related programmes have been put on hold which is why the ICMR has warned India might not achieve the target to end AIDS by 2030. The warning comes in a study by the ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, Division of Strategic information – Surveillance and Epidemiology, and the National AIDS Control Organization under the ministry of health and family welfare. Also achieving the goal might be difficult because of the annual decline rate between 2010-2017 was found to be 27% as opposed to expected 75%. An estimated 2.1 million people were living with the AIDS virus, HIV, in 2017, with Maharashtra estimated to have the highest number. Telangana accounts for the largest share of new cases in the 88,000 that have been reported.
States with the highest number of people living with HIV in 2017 were Maharashtra (0.33 million), Andhra Pradesh (0.27 million) and Karnataka (0.24 million). Telangana, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar had between 0.2 and 0.1 million such patients.
The study highlighted that 15 states accounted for 87% of the total population of HIV-infected persons in 2017.
Another critical target to be achieved by 2020 was prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV virus. As per latest studies out of all cases 58.2% are on treatment as of 2018.
Rise of cases has been observed in low burden states such as Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Uttarakhand in 201y compared to 2010.

Uttarakhand to generate electricity from waste

The Uttarakhand government has decided to convert waste generated in the state to electricity under an initiative titled ‘Waste to Energy’. The government is ready with the draft and the chief minister would hold a meeting regarding it soon.
The hill state is said to produce about 900-tonnes of waste everyday. Out of which half is organic in nature while 17 per cent falls in a recyclable category followed by 21 per cent biomedical waste and 11 per cent of inert nature. The above amount of waste is speculated to generate 5 megawatts of electricity and the scheme also aims to solve the problem of unavailability of land fills to dispose of waste across the state.
Earlier, in January this year, Dehradun city featured as almost 11 times more polluted than prescribed standards of World Health Organization standards and worse than Kanpur according to a Greenpeace report. That is why Last month, UEPPCB approved the state fuel policy to reduce air pollution in the coming years including ban on the use of petroleum coke as fuel in a few years, which has a large-scale impact on air pollution. Petroleum coke also known as petcoke is a final solid by-product that derives from the oil refining process and is very rich in carbon. Given its high carbon content, it contributes more pollution, greenhouse gases. According to a meeting that was held in second week of June the government has set a deadline to ban the use of petroleum coke and furnace oil as fuel in the state which is March 2024.

Keralite braveheart is a national hero in Croatia

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

Chhattisgarh: Eight youths gang-rape two minor sisters, blackmail them with recorded video

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

Importance of sex education

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

Possible steps to deal with slums in india

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

Effect of media on today’s youth

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

Crime against women

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

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

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

Analyzing Administrative Adjudication

The Administrative Tribunals rendering Administrative equity comprise a side-effect of the government assistance state. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century when ‘free enterprise’ hypothesis held influence, law courts rose out as the caretaker of the rights and freedoms of the individual residents. On occasion they also ensured the privileges of the residents at the expense of the State authority.

With the rise of government assistance state, social intrigue started to be given a precedence over the individual rights. The current legal executive neglected to maintain the new framework. In the expressions of Robson, “with the expansion during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of the functions of the legislature to one new field after another, with the dynamic confinement of the privileges of the people in light of a legitimate concern for the wellbeing, security and general government assistance of the community overall, with the improvement of aggregate power over the states of work and way of living and the rudimentary necessities of the individuals changed. There has emerged a requirement for a method of settling better fitted to react to the social prerequisites of the time than the intricate and exorbitant arrangement of choice gave by case in the courtrooms. In brief the new arrangement of authoritative arbitration fit new social finishes upheld by a government assistance state. It demonstrated a potential instrument for authorizing social arrangement and enactment.

Anything which tends or might be viewed as tending to make an individual choose a case in any case than on proof must be held to be one-sided. The primary prerequisite is that the appointed authority ought to be unprejudiced and common and must be liberated from inclination. One can’t go about as judge of a reason in which he himself has some intrigue either monetary or in any case as it manages the most grounded evidence against impartiality. One must be in a situation to act judicially and to choose the issue impartially. In the event that the appointed authority is liable to
inclination for or against either gathering to the debate or is in a place that a predisposition can be accepted, he is precluded to go about as an adjudicator and the procedures will be vitiated.

Equity can never be checked whether a man goes about as an appointed authority in his own motivation or is himself keen on its result. This rule applied not exclusively to legal procedures yet in addition to semi legal and managerial procedures. In responding to the inquiry with respect to what alleviation the individual is qualified for on account of the court when the disappointment of characteristic equity has happened, it is that down to earth contemplations ought to win as opposed to attempting to address the inquiry by applying such unfeeling words as “void” and “voidable” or theoretical rationale.

The cases don’t delineate uniform methodology in the matter of giving extreme alleviation by the court when the
disappointment of regular equity including giving of reasons has happened. In the matter of disappointment of Audi alteram partem the courts have received any of the three options as the equity of the circumstance requested—just subduing the request, not suppress the request yet keeping up the state of affairs and guiding the administration to give a consultation, lastly suppress as well as disallowing the legislature from reexamining the issue.

Further, the Supreme Court has faltered in giving further help normally spilling out of the subduing of the request. Most definitely, where the reasons host nor been provided to the get-together nor to the court, the assignment of the legal executive is to some degree simple. The courts have pretty much suppressed the regulatory request. In such a case, there isn’t the main disappointment of common equity however the non-correspondence of reasons might be demonstrative of the way that the authority has not applied its psyche to the issue. Where, be that as it may, the reasons have been given to the court, however not to the gathering, the cases don’t portray a uniform methodology.

In various cases, the court has maintained the authoritative request once it is fulfilled that the reasons set under the
steady gaze of the court legitimized the equivalent. There are a couple of cases likewise despite what might be expected. Here maybe the issue may must be settled based on equity however the idea of equity is a liquid and escaping one.

Dil Bechara – An Honest Review

The first time I read ‘The Fault In Our Stars,’ my heart skipped a beat with each page turn. This was before the book became popular. I always enjoyed books and music before it the bestselling charts.

Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters are one of a kind. They were burdened by cancer and their loved one’s hidden emotions. Until they found each other, they were alone amidst the crowd. They were each-others safe havens.

Hazel Grace’s grenade dialogue scene was heart-breaking and

When the Hollywood movie came out starring Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley, I was slightly disappointed. Like every other book made into a movie, it lost its touch.

I felt the same way when I watched Dil Bechara. The Bollywood make was a lot different from the book. They changed the book to a song, the author to a musician, Amsterdam to Paris. More than any of that this movie was so different than the book itself. Instead of creating a new identity for itself, it was just a loose compilation of scenes.

I understand that the movie was made for the Indian youth to relate to, but in the heavily social world, we are more modern than before.

Kizie was introduced attending strangers’ funerals to share her pain realizing that she too might die soon and her loved ones would go through the same. That unexplained scene gave the movie an edge. It was a beautiful scene. She, herself didn’t realize the reason she was drawn to funerals.

Manny’s funeral scene was heartbreaking and my friend described her want to crawl into the screen and give Kizie and Manny a tight hug each.

The songs weren’t that great, commercial success wise. But A. R. Rahman’s composition was peaceful and I loved them.

However, the new comer Sanjana Sanghi, playing Kizie did wonderful on her part. She was perfect when she needed to be stiff, stubborn, emotional and in love. She has an amazing career ahead of us and will be worthy of all the opportunities to hone her skills.

Sushant Singh Rajput, as Manny was as gracious as ever. He had his charming smile and adorable personality throughout.

I would have loved if both the great actors were playing their parts in a different plot. Stirring clear of John Greens book.

The movie had 95 million views in the first 24 hours. It was a tribute to Sushant Singh Rajput. Many shed tears, not with the characters but for the actor himself.

The slideshow tribute for Sushant in the end was comforting and warm. It was sweet and made a million people shed tears for him and his premature death. We loved Sushant and he will always have a special place in our hearts forever.

In the weeks after his death, many speculations were made, cases filed, trending hashtags. But it felt good to switch off from social media and watch his last movie. Hotstar and Disney+ did a great job letting viewers stream the movie for free.

You can watch the movie on Hotstar and Disney+.

You can stream all songs of the movie on YouTube and on any other music app.

When the movie came out starring Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley, I was slightly disappointed. Like every other book made into a movie, it lost its touch.

I felt the same way when I watched Dil Bechara. The Bollywood make was a lot different from the book. They changed the book to a song, the author to a musician, Amsterdam to Paris. More than any of that

Crisis on jobs in the Corona period.

By P.Bhoomika

Millions of people around the world have lost their jobs amid during the current covid-19.

The condition of industries in the country is suffering due to the Corona virus epidemic.Almost all of India’s business activities are at a standstill.

Because of this there has been a crisis on the jobs of millions of peoples.At the same time ,there are a fear of cuts in staff and non-appraisal staff.

According to a recent survey, currently one in every 5 Indian’s has a fear of losing their jobs.

20% fear of losing jobs in indian.

According to survey conducted by Interenet-Based Market Research and data analytics firm youGov, Corona virus can have a Profound impact on economy.

Due to the current situation, there is fear of losing jobs in most people.20% of Indians are afraid of losing the jobs.

The urban unemployment rate has increased to 30.9% overall the unemployment rate has rinse by 23.4% more than before.

According to survey, most of the companies are expected to lose more than 10% of their earings during the current quarter and the previous quarter and this could cause their profit to fall by more than 5% in both quarters.

This means that 19.5crore full-time jobs could end in the quarter alone due to the Corona virus.

Ordnance factories in India

Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) consisting of the Indian Ordnance Factories, it is an important department under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. It is engaged in research, development, production, testing, marketing and logistics of a comprehensive product range in the areas of air, land and sea systems. OFB comprises forty-one ordnance factories, nine training institutes, three regional marketing centres and four regional controllerates of safety, which are spread all across the country. Every year, 18 March is celebrated as the Ordnance Factory Day in India.

OFB is the world’s largest government-operated production organisation, and the oldest organisation run by the Government of India. It has a total workforce of about 80,000. It is often called the “Fourth Arm of Defence”, and the “Force Behind the Armed Forces” of India. OFB is the 37th largest defence equipment manufacturer in the world, 2nd largest in Asia, and the largest in India. According to a report by SIPRI, India is the largest producer in the category of ’emerging producers’ in 2017, with four companies ranked in the Top 100. Their combined arms sales of $7.5 billion in 2017 were 6.1 percent higher than in 2016. The two largest Indian arms producers, Indian Ordnance Factories and Hindustan Aeronautics are the highest ranking (37th and 38th respectively) companies in 2017 among countries in the emerging producers’ category. The report also says that the arm sales of OFB have increased by 8.5% in the year of 2017–18. OFB’s arms sales are 96% of its total sales in the year of 2017. Its total sales were at $2 billion (₹13687.22 crores) in the year 2017–’18.

Ordnance factories in India fall under the umbrella of Indian Ordnance Factories, which is a part of the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence. The Indian Ordnance Factories organisation is a conglomerate of 41 factories, nine training centres, four regional controllerates of safety and three regional marketing centres. Safety is a key issue in the running and maintenance of ordnance factories, which is why regional controllerates of safety have been established all over India. The primary objective of these 41 ordnance factories is to equip the Indian armed forces with state of the art defence equipment.   

The Indian Ordnance Factories organisation is the largest government operated production organisation in the world and the oldest industrial setup managed by the Indian government. Ordnance factories in India are divided into five categories – Ammunition and Explosives (A&E), Weapons, Vehicles, and Equipment (WV&E), Materials and Components (M&C), Armoured Vehicles (AV), and Ordnance Equipment Group of Factories (OEF) – depending on the products they manufacture and technologies they employ. For the safety of the citizens of India, these ordnance factories are located in remote areas, away from the hustle and bustle of city life. And the area occupied by each factory can range from a few hundred acres to a few thousand acres.   

Since factories are far from cities, the government has ensured that the towns in which these factories are located are self-sufficient. These towns have residential estates, post offices, banks, schools, grocery stores, recreational facilities, and hospitals, to name a few amenities. Ordnance factories are spread across India, with a majority of the factories in Maharashtra. There are ten factories in Maharashtra, eight in Uttar Pradesh, six in Madhya Pradesh, six in Tamil Nadu, four in West Bengal, two in Uttaranchal, and several others in Chandigarh, Andhra Pradesh, and Orissa.    Each ordnance factory is headed by a general manager, whose position is equivalent to that of the additional secretary of the government of India.   

The prime customers of ordnance factories in India are the Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Air Force, and the Indian Coast Guard. But apart from the armed forces, ordnance factories also supply weapons and bullet proof vehicles to police forces, Parliamentary Forces of India and the Special Forces of India. In the civil sector, some of the customers of ordnance factories are the Indian Railways, the Indian Space Research Organisation, and the Department of Telecommunications. Ordnance factories in India export their products – clothing, explosives, arms, and chemicals – to over 30 countries worldwide.   

Some of the countries to which these products are exported are Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, and USA, to name a few. The Indian Ordnance Factories organisation is among the top 100 arms manufacturers in the world and it has been ranked 48th in the world by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which focuses on research in conflicts, arms control, and disarmament. The recent sales of the ordnance factories in India (for 2011-2012) amounted to Rs 144 billion, with arms sales comprising 80% of the revenue.