33 year old Fahim Saleh found dead in his NewYork apartment on Tuesday, He was a CEO of two companies based in Nigeria and Bangladesh. He was killed brutually in his own apartment. Pieces of his corpes were found scattered around different parts of the apartment. An Electric saw was recovered from the crime scene. It is suspected to be the weapon used to cut his body into pieces. Police is considering it to be a case of business rivalry.
According to The NewYork Times, Fahim’s Sister arrived at his apartment and found the corpse scattered around the house. Police suspects that the murderer was present in the house when she arrived because the Electric saw was found running near the corpse. However, the killer escaped from another gate. The head and body of the corpse were found in a polythene bag. His hands, legs, head and torso were all cut separated. Fahim’s sister told that she came to meet her brother because he was not answering her calls.
Fahim was the CEO of Nigeria based Riding and Delivery app company. He ran a similar company in Bangladesh named “Patho”. He was among the richest young entrepreneurs. The apartment he was murdered in is reported to be around $22 lakhs.
Police has found some CCTV footages. In one of the footages, Fahim was seen near the elevator along with a person wearing a black suit, mask and gloves. Police suspects the killer was someone known and close to Fahim. Police is linking the matter to business rivalry. According to sources from the police, the killer was a professional and knew every part of the apartment. He wished to take the pieces of the corpse with him but his plan was failed by fahim’s sister’s arrival.
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The Cyber Threat
In the afternoon of 15th July an identical message tweeted by a series of high-profile verified Twitter accounts, asking people to donate Bitcoins, promising a double return.
The accounts were of U.S. presidential candidate of democrats Joe Biden, former U.S. President Barack Obama, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, reality television star Kim Kardashian, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, billionaire Elon Musk, and rapper Kanye West, among many others.
There have been hacks of prominent users before, including the infamous hack of Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, last year.
But the nature of this attack is one of the most pronounced security breaches on a social media site.
Jack Dorsey tweeted about the major breach that, “the company was diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened.” He called it a “tough day” at Twitter.
Cybersecurity experts have expressed their concern and warned that this type of breach, where influential accounts are taken over, could have devastating effects if used for something more dangerous than to take money from unsuspecting users. The consequences could be greater if it involved an account like Trump’s or spread misinformation on some type of global security threat.
Cyber law in India
Hacking is not the only offence related to the cyber world. In recent weeks you must have heard about some celebrities, complaining about rape and murder threats, they are getting on their social media accounts. After the death of young bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, on social media many of his fans blamed some of his contemporaries. And than a series of threat and abuse started pouring into these celebs’ social media accounts. All such type of bullying and threat comes under the cyber crime.
In year 2000 India had passed its first cyber-law, The Information Technology Act, 2000. The act deals with cyber-crime and electronic commerce. Some of the important sanctions of the law is defined here.
- Hacking and Data Theft: Sections 43 and 66 of the IT Act penalise a number of activities ranging from hacking into a computer network, data theft, introducing and spreading viruses through computer networks, damaging computers or computer networks or computer programmes, disrupting any computer or computer system or computer network, denying an authorised person access to a computer or computer network, damaging or destroying information residing in a computer etc. The maximum punishment for the above offences is imprisonment of up to three years or a fine or Rupees five lac or both.
- Tampering with computer, computer system, or computer network: Section 43(h) read with section 66 of the IT Act penalises an individual who charges the services availed of by a person to the account of another person by tampering with or manipulating any computer, computer system, or computer network. A person who tampers with the computer system of an electricity supplier and causes his neighbour to pay for his electricity consumption would fall under the aforesaid section 43(h) of the IT Act.
- Tampering with computer source documents: Section 65 of the IT Act prescribes punishment for tampering with computer source documents which includes listing of programs, computer commands, design and layout and programme analysis of computer resource in any form. The punishment for this offence is imprisonment for up to three years or with a fine which may extend to Rupees three lac or with both.
- Receipt of stolen property: Section 66B of the Act prescribes punishment for dishonestly receiving any stolen computer resource or communication device. The act should have been done dishonestly or should have reason to believe that it was stolen property. The punishment for this offence is imprisonment of up to three years or a fine of up to Rupees one lac or both.
- Identity theft and cheating by personation: Section 66C of the IT Act prescribes punishment for identity theft and provides that anyone who fraudulently or dishonestly makes use of the electronic signature, password or any other unique identification feature of any other person shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to Rupees one lac.
- Cheating by personation by using computer resource: Section 66D of the act prescribes the punishment for this crime and says that any person who by means of any communication device or computer resource cheats by personation, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to Rupees one lac.
- Violation of privacy: Section 66E of the IT Act prescribes punishment for violation of privacy and provides that any person who intentionally or knowingly captures, publishes or transmits the image of a private area of any person without his or her consent, under circumstances violating the privacy of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three years or with fine not exceeding Rupees two lac or with both.
- Obscenity: Sections 67, 67A and 67B of the IT Act prescribe punishment for publishing or transmitting, in electronic form: (i) obscene material; (ii) material containing sexually explicit act, etc.; and (iii) material depicting children in sexually explicit act, etc. respectively.
- Cyber terrorism: Whoever, with intent to threaten the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India or to strike terror in the people or any section of the people, denies or causes the denial of access to any person authorized to access a computer resource, or attempts to penetrate or access a computer resource without authorisation or exceeding authorised access, or introduces or causes the introduction of any computer contaminant, and by means of such conduct causes or is likely to cause death or injuries to persons or damage to or destruction of property or disrupts or knowing that it is likely to cause damage or disruption of supplies or services essential to the life of the community or adversely affect critical information infrastructure, is guilty of ‘cyber terrorism’. Section 66F of the IT Act prescribes punishment for cyber terrorism the imprisonment may extend to imprisonment for life.
Complaint & Procedure
The very first step to file a cyber crime complaint is to register a written complaint with the cyber crime cell. According to the IT Act, 2000, a cyber crime comes under the purview of global jurisdiction. Means that a cyber crime complaint can be registered with any of the cyber cells in India, irrespective of the place where it was originally committed.
In some cities, online complaint can also be filed. But if one has no access to cyber cell than a first information report can be registered at the local police station. In case complaint is not accepted there, one can directly approach the Commissioner or the city’s Judicial Magistrate.
Twitter accounts of many renowned personalities including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama hacked
• Accounts of Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, Famous Investor Warren Buffet are also hacked.
• Expert says if the hackers get access to Dm’s they can blackmail people.
Twitter accounts of several personalities and Companies including, Bill Gates Co-Founder of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon, Elon Musk CEO of Tesla, and Former President of USA Barack Obama were hacked on Wednesday. Companies like Apple and Uber were also targeted. Hackers resorted to big names for crypto currency fraud.
List of hacked accounts:
Bill Gates (Co-Founder, Microsoft)
Jeff Bezos (CEO, Amazon)
Warren Beff (Famous Investor)
Elon Musk (CEO, Tesla)
Barack Obama (Former US President)
Joe Biden (Former Vice President of America)
Kim Kardashian West (Media Celebrity)
Mike Bloomberg (Businessman, Politician)
Kanye West (Singer)
Apple (Iphone Company)
Uber (Cab Service)
Hackers intended a Crypto currency fraud in names of big personalities and companies. Hackers posted a message on the hacked twitter accounts promising to help people. They asked them to transfer bitcoins into their accounts and in return they will be transferring double dollar value of the bitcoins received.
According to blackchain.com, website that monitors crypto currency transactions, Bitcoins worth $1.16 lakh were already transferred to the fraud account whose link was shared through hacked accounts before they found out.
Theresa Payton, CEO of cyber security company Fortalis Solutions says, they’re not sure how much information is stolen. If the hackers get access to direct messages then they can blackmail people. They can also cause trouble in the upcoming elections or any other big Events this year. The follower counts of hacked accounts are in billions.
Jack Darcy, CEO Twitter tweeted, “Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened. We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened…” Twitter has currently disabled all hacked accounts and removed fraud tweets.
Last year in August, Jack Darcy’s account was also hacked and hackers tried to spread racism and hate.
9 years of zindagi na milegi dobara:zoya Akhtar reminisce moments from the shoot along with Hrithik, Farhan and Abhay
Zindagi Naa Milegi Dobara completed 9 years of its release on 15th July. On this occasion, film’s director Zoya Akhtar shared a post on her social media, recalling the moments from the making of the film.
In the photo Zoya shared, Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, and Abhay Deol are seen previewing a shot on the camera screen with Zoya. She captioned the photo, I think we got it. #znmd # 9yearstoday #besttimeever. “
The film was released on 15 July 2011 in direction of Zoya Akhtar Featuring Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, Katrina Kaif, Kalki Koechlin, and Naseeruddin Shah in lead roles. The storyline goes on the life of three friends, who go on a bachelor trip to different countries of the world. The music of the film was given by Shankar-Ahsan-Loy.
Abhay Deol was angry over Nepotism: After the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, He expressed his displeasure on social media referring to Zindagi Na Milegi Dobaara.
He had said, in almost all award functions, I and Farhan were ignored by the nominations as Lead actors and were nominated only for ‘supporting actors’. While Hrithik and Katrina were nominated for ‘Actors in Lead Role’.
That according to the logic of the industry, this film was only about a man and woman falling in love.
RDDBI, SARFAESI AND IBC
RDDBI 1993
Banks and financial institutions have been experiencing considerable difficulties in recovering loans and enforcement of securities charge with them. The procedure for recovery of debts due to the banks and financial institutions, which is being followed, has resulted in a significant portion of the funds being blocked.
The Committee on the Financial System has considered the setting up of the Special Tribunals with special powers for adjudication of such matters and speedy recovery as critical to the successful implementation of the financial sector reforms. An urgent need was, therefore, felt to work out a suitable mechanism through which the dues, to the banks and financial institutions could be realised. In 1981 a committee had examined the legal and other difficulties, faced by banks and financial institutions and suggested remedial measures including changes in law. This committee also suggested setting up of Special Tribunals for recovery of dues of the banks and financial institutions by following a summary procedure. Keeping in view the recommendations of the above Committees, the Recovery of Debts due to Bank and Financial Institutions Bill, 1993 was introduced in the Parliament.
THE RECOVERY OF DEBTS DUE TO BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ACT, 1993
An Act to provide for the establishment of Tribunals for expeditious adjudication and recovery of debts due to banks and financial institutions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
After a decade or working of the (RDDBI ACT) it was felt that RDDBI act was unable to achieve the desired result of efficiently recovering money from the borrower’s. This led to the enactment of the Securitization and reconstruction of final assets and enforcement of security interest act 2002.
SARFAESI 2002
The SARFAESI Act was passed on December 17, 2002, in order to lay down processes to help Indian lenders recover their dues quickly. The SARFAESI Act essentially empowers banks and other financial institutions to directly auction residential or commercial properties that have been pledged with them to recover loans from borrowers. Before this Act took effect, financial institutions had to take recourse to civil suits in the courts to recover their dues, which is a lengthy and time-consuming process.
As per the SARFAESI Act, if a borrower defaults on a loan financed by a bank against collateral, then the bank gets sweeping powers to recover its dues from the borrower. After giving a notice period of 60 days, the lender can take possession of the pledged assets of the borrower, take over the management of such assets, appoint any person to manage them or ask debtors of the borrower to pay their dues too, with respect to the asset. This recovery procedure saves banks and financial institutions a lot of time which otherwise would be long drawn out due to the intervention of courts.
With an attempt to revamp the slow pace of recovery of defaulting loans and mounting levels or non performing assets of banks and financial institutions. The SARFAESI act provides the secured creditor the right to enforce the security without the intervention of either court or tribunal by following procedure prescribed under section 13 of SARFEASI act. Thereafter the constitutional validity of SARFAESI act was challenged in Mardia chemicals Ltd V Union of India.
In the landmark judgement delivered in Mardia chemicals V Union of India the hon’ble supreme court held that provision of the securitization and reconstruction of financial assets and enforcement of security interest act 2002, SARFAESI ACT 2002, are valid except section 17 (2). Which is ultra vires of article 14 of the constitution of India.
It’s a new weapon to strengthen the hands of co-operative banks, but a small one still.
IBC 2016
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 offers a uniform comprehensive insolvency legislation to Corporations, Firms and Individuals (other than financial firms).
One of the fundamental features of the Code is that it allows creditors to assess the viability of a debtor as a business decision, and agree upon a plan for its revival or a speedy liquidation.
The IBC creates a new institutional framework, consisting of a regulator, insolvency professionals, information utilities and adjudicatory mechanisms, that will facilitate a formal and time bound insolvency resolution process and liquidation.
Insolvency and Bankruptcy code is a sound legal framework of bankruptcy law is required for achieving the following objectives:-
Improved handling of conflicts between creditors and the debtor It can provide procedural certainty about the process of negotiation, in such a way as to reduce problems of common property and reduce information asymmetry for all economic participants.
To consolidate and amend the laws relating to re-organization and insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms, and individuals. To fix time periods for execution of the law in a time-bound settlement of insolvency (i.e. 180 days).To maximize the value of assets of interested persons.
To establish higher levels of debt financing across a wide variety of debt instruments. To deal with cross-border insolvency .To resolve India’s bad debt problem by creating a database of defaulter list.
In short we can say that SARFAESI is upgraded version of RDDBI, and IBC is upgraded version of SARFAESI.
Online training Or Offline training in organisation: Which is the best choice…?
New people, new proceedings, new clients. The reasons why organizations undertake training processes are many and very diverse.
This is why we are certain that for the question: “What is the best option for my company: online training or offline training?” There’s only one answer: it depends.
Ok, that’s not the answer you were looking for. The truth is there are many variables to take into consideration regarding each particular case. Just to name a few:
- Objectives: What does your organization want to achieve with the training process? For how long?
- Budget: How much money do you count with?
- Audience: Who will receive the courses? How old will they be? Are they going to be clients or employees?
- Resources: Do you have your own training venue/classroom? Do you have a technical team or person assigned to your training project? When should the training start?
- Results: How are you going to measure your success?
You need to have answers to all these questions before you start evaluating training options. Your organization needs and goals are your real guidelines to define what is better for you.
Once you know your organization objectives and what resources you count with, it is time to compare options. Here, we are going to help you compare online training vs traditional classroom training.
In order to make this comparison possible, we are going to focus on this five aspects: logistics, costs, audience, tradition and organizational culture & structure.
Logistics
Organizing a course or workshop for a group of people requires a logistics work, even if the group is small.
You need to find a date when the instructor, the venue, and the attendees are available. This is not always an easy task and in many cases, some might be disappointed. And of course, don’t forget about the coffee break: find some food everybody enjoys.
Learning through an eLearning platform is completely different. In this scenario, you only need to upload all your courses to your platform once and use them as it’s needed.
Therefore, assigning courses to students is easy. Meanwhile, students will be able to access the content anytime and anywhere.
What you need to know
These are the questions you need to find an answer regarding the logistics of your training program:
- Quantity of people to be trained. Are they going to be tens, hundreds or thousands? Is this process going to repeat over time? Maybe right now you only need to train 10 people, but if you’re going to be doing it monthly, it changes the whole scenario.
- Location of the people to be trained. Are all the people to be trained in the same city/building/office?
- Schedules and work styles of the people to be trained. Is administrative or operational staff? Are they visiting clients constantly or are they more in-the-office people?
Costs
Lets know about a research that showed how virtual education has helped organizations save between 40% and 60% of training costs when they recur to online training.
Offline training is expensive because there are many factors added to the final bill: instructor fees, venue fees, transportation fees and so on. The worst of all is that you pay for this every single time you have people to train.
Additionally, you need to add to the list people’s opportunity cost. When people goes to the training session, they stop doing their job. So maybe a seller would have to delay a meeting with a potential client in order to assist the training.
On the other hand, the savings coming from an eLearning platform directly depends on of the resources you have and your needs.
For example, Moodle is a free and open-source software eLearning platform. Yes, it is really free. But there is a hidden cost. To make it work, you’re going to need a technically skilled person to manage the system.
Another option to create a distance learning program for your organization is a cloud LMS (Learning Management System). These systems don’t require an installation process and you only need to pay a monthly fee to keep them working.
What you need to know
If you think you can reduce costs of your training program with eLearning, think about this:
- Does training repeat over time? For example: induction and onboarding, compliance and industry updates, etc.
- Do you have a venue/classroom for the training sessions?
- Instructors and students are located in the same city? Do you need to pay for transportation? Where are students located?
- Do you count with an IT department/person to manage an online training system? Who would be in charge of working with the eLearning platform: someone technical skilled or someone more HR like?
Audience
We all know what to expect from a traditional classroom training: you go there, listen to the instructor for a few hours, maybe you make a comment or two, and you’re done. That’s easy.
The story is not the same for online training. Whichever choice you make people will have to learn how to use the eLearning platform.
Then, if people receiving the training is not used to digital environments, either by age or any other reason, maybe offline training is the best option for you.
Nevertheless, LMS platforms have evolved to be simple or easy to use for everyone: the ones managing the system, the ones creating courses and the ones taking courses. So, if these platforms help you achieve your training program objectives do not discard them at first sight, do a little research and find out how they work.
What you need to know
There’s only room for one question:
- Who is going to receive the training? From this question, you can learn: how do these persons feel about technology? Are they going to be happy with their own virtual learning space?
Tradition
“This is how things have always been done”. That’s something that people working for a change hears a lot.
And yet, in this case, that phrase is very real. The word “always” goes beyond the learning process within the organization, classroom training is how learning is done in college, in school, etc. But that learning has been done in classrooms for the last century doesn’t mean that it is the best way to do it.
A review commissioned by the World Health Organization and carried out by the Imperial College of London showed that eLearning is as good as or better than traditional training in terms of acquiring new knowledge for health professionals.
Each one of the methods has its own benefits. It is true that live interaction is lost in an eLearning program, but people gains the ability to learn at their own pace and focus on what is most important for them.
Additionally, with eLearning people can revisit the lessons and courses every time they want. Have you ever seen people asking an instructor for their slides at the end of a course or workshop? Well, in an eLearning platform people don’t only have the slides, they have the whole course.
What you need to know
Tradition can be challenged with the right arguments. These questions are going to help you decide if eLearning is right for you:
- Is there any training or practical exercise that is going to be diminished in a virtual environment?
- How are going to be measured the training results? Is there any evaluation at the end of the training? Would you like to have a tool that allows you to evaluate and see people’s achievements?
- Would it be easy for people to learn in a virtual environment?
Culture and Structure
As mentioned earlier in this post, the particular characteristics of your organization will have a great weight to determine where the balance is tilted.
If your organization is small, it is probable that the easiest way to train your people is the offline method. In this case, costs are not so high and by making people come together to learn something, you will create a place to exchange ideas.
On the other hand, if your organization is big or you have offices in different cities, an eLearning platform will offer you benefits regarding costs and logistics.
Online training environments are usually associated with isolation and lack of interaction. But, depending on how they’re used, they can be a source of inspiration for learning just for the pleasure of it.
What you need to know
- Organizational culture is a very important aspect to take into account when deciding the best way of training for your organization:
- Does your organization promote employee independence and proactivity?
- Is people motivated to learn new things?
- Does people has a high sense of responsibility and are motivated to achieve the goals set for them?
- What size is your organization? (number of people, number of cities, etc.)
Girls outshine boys once again in Class 10th CBSE examination results
Girls once again outshone the boys in the Class 10th Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examinations results that were announced throughout the country today.
The overall pass percentage in this examination stands at 91.46 per cent. The pass percentage of girls stands at 93.31 per cent as compared to 90.14 percent of boys and 78.95 of transgenders. Among the regions, Trivandrum recorded the highest pass percentage of 99.28 while Guwahati registered the lowest at 79.12 percent.
CBSE said there has been a marginal increase in the pass percentage since last year. Students can check their results at cbse.nic.in or cbseresults.nic.in. The results can also be checked via DigiLocker and Umang apps.
In a tweet, Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank congratulated everyone for making this possible and reiterated that student’s health and quality education are the government’s priority.
WHO, UNICEF warn against decline in number of children receiving life saving vaccines around world due to pandemic
The World Health Organization and UNICEF have warned of an alarming decline in the number of children receiving life-saving vaccines around the world. This is due to disruptions in the delivery and uptake of immunization services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to new data by WHO and UNICEF, these disruptions threaten to reverse hard-won progress to reach more children and adolescents with a wider range of vaccines, which has already been hampered by a decade of stalling coverage.
The latest data on vaccine coverage estimates from WHO and UNICEF for 2019 shows that improvements such as the expansion of the Human PapillomaVirus vaccine to 106 countries and greater protection for children against more diseases are in danger of lapsing
UNICEF and WHO said, they conducted a survey in collaboration with the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, which revealed three-quarters of the 82 countries that responded reported COVID-19-related disruptions in their immunization programmes as of May 2020.
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore has said that COVID-19 has made previously routine vaccination a daunting challenge.
Recovery rate from COVID-19 infection improves to 63.24 pct
Union Health Ministry has said that the recovery rate from COVID-19 infection has now climbed up to 63.24 per cent and recovered cases reached close to six lakh. The Ministry said, 20,572 people infected from the virus were cured during the last 24 hours taking the total number of recovered cases to 5,92,031.
The Ministry said that the surge in recovered cases is driven by aggressive testing, timely diagnosis and effective management of the patients either through supervised home isolation or under active medical attention in the hospitals.
It said, the actual case load of COVID-19 is only 3,19,840 active cases. It said, the gap between recovered and active cases has been consistently growing and it stands at 2,72,191 today. The Ministry added that Medical infrastructure in India to treat COVID-19 patients includes 1,378 dedicated COVID Hospitals, 3,077 dedicated COVID Health Centres and 10,351 COVID Care Centres.
They have a total of 21,738 ventilators, 46,487 ICU beds and over 1.65 lakh Oxygen beds to treat COVID-19 patients.
The Central government has distributed around 231 lakh N95 masks, 123 lakh PPEs and 11,660 ventilators to States, UTs and Central institutions to ensure effective clinical management of COVID-19.
Fortnight-long lockdown imposed in Bihar from today to control spread of Coronavirus
In Bihar, a complete lockdown has been imposed from today for 16 days in the entire state to contain the spread of COVID-19. It will be effective till 31st of July. The decision has been taken due to an alarming spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state during the last three weeks.
All government offices, public corporations and educational institutions will remain closed. Private and commercial establishments will remain closed.
However, ration shops, dairy, vegetable and meat shops will remain open. All places of worship will also remain closed and religious gatherings will not be permitted. All kinds of e-commerce and home delivery will be allowed. Public transport service will also be allowed in the lockdown period.
However, private vehicles will be limited to essential works only. Train and flight services and all construction related activities will be allowed along with the functioning of construction related shops. Similarly, agriculture related activities will also be allowed.
Meanwhile, 1,320 new COVID-19 cases were reported during the last 24 hours. The total number of affected people in the state has reached 20,173 while 13,533 people have recovered so far. The recovery rate in Bihar stands at over 67 per cent. In all, 174 people including two doctors have died due to Coronavirus in the state so far. Apart from this, 69 security officials of Raj Bhawan and Patna High Court also tested positive.
AIR correspondent reports, except essential services all government offices, public corporations and educational institutions will remain closed. Private and commercial establishments will remain closed. However, ration shops, dairy, vegetable and meat shops will remain open. All places of worship will also remain closed and religious gatherings will not be permitted. All kinds of e-commerce and home delivery will be allowed. Public transport service will also be allowed in the lockdown period.
However, private vehicles will be limited to essential works only. Train and flight services and all construction related activities will be allowed along with the functioning of construction related shops. Similarly, agriculture related activities will also be allowed.
PM presents new Mantra of ‘skill, reskill and upskill’ for youth to remain relevant in changing business environment
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today also addressed a virtual conclave on World Youth Skills Day organised by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on the vital role of skilled migrant workers in changing the local economy.
Referring to the portal launched recently for mapping the skilled employees and employers, Mr Modi stated that it will help the skilled workers, including the migrant workers who have returned to their homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to access jobs easily and the employers to contact skilled employees at the click of a mouse.
The Prime Minister presented a new mantra for the youth to skill, reskill and upskill in order to remain relevant in the rapidly changing business environment and market conditions. He stated that the Skill India Mission launched five years back on the same day has led to creation of a vast infrastructure for skilling, reskilling and upskilling and enhancing opportunities to access employment both locally and globally.
It has led to hundreds of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras being set up across the country and increase in the capacity of the ITI ecosystem. Due to these concerted efforts, more than five crore youth have been skilled in the last five years.
The Prime Minister said, the Corona crisis has changed the nature of jobs and the work culture.
India-EU partnership can play important role in economic reconstruction and humanity-centric globalization: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said, India and the European Union are natural partners and their partnership is significant for peace and stability in the world. The Prime Minister was addressing the 15th meeting of the India-European Union Summit being held in virtual mode this afternoon.
Mr Modi said, an action-oriented agenda should be made which can be implemented within the stipulated time frame.
The Prime Minister said, his government is committed to strengthen and deepen the relations between India and the European Union and highlighted the need to adopt a long-term strategic perspective for this.
The Prime Minister pointed out that both the health and prosperity of citizens are facing challenges today and there are different types of pressures on rules-based international order. He said that in such a situation, India-EU partnership can play an important role in economic reconstruction, and in building a human-centric and humanity-centric globalisation.
The Prime Minister said that apart from the current challenges, long-term challenges like climate change are also a priority for both India and the EU. He invited investments and technology from Europe in India’s efforts to increase the use of renewable energy in the country. He hoped that India – EU relations will gain momentum through this virtual summit.
The 15th meeting of the India-European Union Summit was co-chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President of European Council Charles Michel and President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
The Third Gender: The Everyday Struggle as “Other”
Before the case of National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India affirmed the term ‘The third gender’, India had different expressions for people who tick on the ‘other’ checkboxes. The gender is defined as people who do not conform to the organic sex’s identification or conduct. After this ostracised gender went through derogatory behaviours and name calling, our society has finally changed a lot to accept their existence. But the acceptance is still bound by “what they are” and “how they are”. This estimated one million community has never got a ‘first class’ lifestyle. The disparities are not restricted to the societal stigma on their existence but also every day discrimination and denial of human rights.
The Constitution of India guarantees rights and protections to all humans in general. The only distinction in this regard are the reasonable restrictions except which no discrimination on the grounds of sex, religion, caste or creed is not tolerated. Even after the constitutionally guaranteed political and other benefits, the third gender community still finds itself in the same position. The issue that these laws are not implemented, that the gender finds itself more often than not without a job in the respectable positions is an unavoidable truth in which inequality is an everyday affair.
This particular issue took the light when Air India was brought to the court for refusing an airhostess job claiming she was a transgender and that the post was only reserved for women. The denial is an act which is banned by law. The question on how the gender forms a reasonable nexus with the description of job calibre is arbitrary and undoubtedly, is an infringement of equality under Article 14. The denial also violates Article 15 for infringing the prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex. Article 21 fnds as the personal dignity of the gender stands into question. The struggle as ‘other’ is not merely the name calling but also the opportunities since that lies as the only one through which the gender would be respected and could also afford to grow in their lives. Most of this gender related issues are not only connected to the societal issue but also because of their lifestyle due to the lack of resources and opportunities limiting them to only begging, which more often than not, is a bad business with no security.
When the Constitution sought to remove the untouchability issues, along with the guaranteed rights under Article 17, there were also reservations and job opportunities that the issue has almost been demolished and seen in only backward areas.
But a major issue that crosses between the blinking of an eye is the fact that the reservations bring lifelong recognition under the same society. The passing of Transgender Protection Act, 2019 starts on the wrong foot. The various instances where the Act does not take in the consideration of trans-activists puts the first question on the upliftment.
The most serious flaw that remains is the process of trans-people changing their documents to reflect the identity. The new law sets up a two-step process. Firstly, it requires the person to apply for a “transgender certificate” from the District Magistrate of the particular location. This specific part can be done on the basis of the person’s self-declared identity. Only for this step does the certificate holder gets eligible to apply for a “change in gender certificate,” which is to change the legally declared gender to a male or female. However, this second step requires the person to provide different documents such as surgery proof, issued by a hospital official, which is again sent to the District Magistrate for a second evaluation. It also requires the officials to be “satisfied with the correctness of such certificate.”
One important factor to notice here is that it sets an extraordinary amount of power with one government officer who might have the only power to abuse the position or arbitrarily “qualify” to the gender as required to be recognized as who they are. It also pressurizes people into medical procedures they might not want or might be comfortable with. Such a forceful act is in itself a fundamental rights violation made by the government officials.
Repetitively the Indian courts have long held that trans people deserve the government’s recognition on their own terms and with actions which are assimilated from their demands, without mandatory intervention or discrimination but the same has been dismissed.
Improvement in the status of the transgender community needs to be a collective effort in order to empower the discussed community in the workplace and to reduce the social stigmas which could also end up improving their economic position. Although the Act only puts an onus and does not place legal requirements on the people concerned, in view of the changing the dynamic status. However, preparing such an Indian workspace for an inclusive approach towards transgender individuals is going to be a continuing uphill task and accommodating such societal change of this magnitude is definitely going to be a slow process in India.
FIRING THE BLAME BULLET
The popular game PUBG has weapon attachments that reduces weapon recoil. It makes life easier for the players. Recoil is the backward movement of a gun when a bullet is discharged. It is helpful to know which attachments help players to shoot better and more effectively without hurting themselves in the process due to the tremendous force at which the shots are fired.
In real life when we point the gun at someone, how badly are we affected?
Well fortunately for us, in India, there exists some tight Gun laws except for the water guns’ kids play with during Holi and Gangsters. Hence here I talk about the abstract gun which fires the Bullets of Blame on others. Pointing finger at anybody who is in sight, was my favorite thing to do in any situation.
The blaming gun can also point upwards or inwards. When it points upwards, we blame the Creator for being unintelligent or uncaring or even non-existent. When it points inwards, we beat ourselves down with self-recrimination, “I am good-for-nothing,” ending up unnecessarily with inferiority complex.
How many of you, like me; are blamers? How many of you, when something goes wrong, the first thing you want to know is whose fault it is? Well Hello there, I’m the former winner of the Miss Blamer Pageant and the magnitude to which I blamed others with respect to everything that went wrong in my life was comical.
I’m in my house. I have on white slacks and a pink sweater. I’m drinking a full cup of coffee in my kitchen. I drop it on the tiled floor. It goes into a million pieces and splashes up all over me. And a millisecond after it hit the floor, right out of my mouth comes this: “DAMN YOU CHINA!” For purposefully making these cups so shiny and slippery. Now my entire kitchen is infected by the tiny pieces of ceramic (China clay). The kitchen has to be quarantined until I clean it up…or somebody else cleans it up, never mind.
Now as I have aged, I realized- I’d rather it be my fault than no one’s fault. BUT WHY? Cause it gives me some semblance of control. Blame is simply the discharging of discomfort and pain. It has an inverse relation with accountability. What is the difference? Well accountability by definition is a vulnerable process wherein I confide to you, “Hey my feelings were really hurt by the things you said/did.” Blaming is simply a way to express anger.
People who blame a lot seldom have the tenacity and grit to actually hold people accountable because we spend all of our energy raging for 15 seconds and figuring out whose fault something is. Blaming’s very corrosive in relationships and it’s one of the reasons we miss our opportunities for empathy. Because when something happens and we hear the story, we’re not really listening, we’re in the place where I was – making the connections as quickly as we can about whose fault it was.
SO, DO I START BLAMING MYSELF FOR EVERYTHING?!
In the spiritual path, self-blame is the most dangerous thing. Firstly, stop blaming yourself and others. We don’t have to point the gun at others or our own heads. Let us drop the gun and never pick it up, ever again.
Secondly, we need to come out of the Destiny’s Illusion. Never focus on what you can’t do, focus on what you can do. If we keep on focusing on what we can do- Then even if you believe in destiny, it will be a good one for you. Blaming your destiny will close doors to all the wonderful opportunities waiting for you.
A child runs a race with his full speed & energy and yet comes last in it. Losing the race was not his fault but taking part in the wrong race is definitely a mistake worth correcting. To simplify- Making a mistake is not your fault but doing it without your interest in it, is a mistake that can be rectified.
To solve the problem, we need; not a blaming bullet, but a helping hatchet. Not a blaming finger but a helping hand. Making mistake is in our nature. Acceptance of mistake shows our culture and correcting the mistake is progress. I do accept that spilling that damn coffee was my fault, however damn you CHINA for making the cup which broke and spread on the entire floor leaving my kitchen dangerous to walk on freely. * Gun drop * I meant MIC DROP…..phew!
Soldiers:Real heroes of the nation
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of your motherland. Therefore rest in peace. You, the mothers, who sent their sons far away for the nation wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace.After having lost their lives on the name of motherland. These heroes martyrs for us. So that we can sleep peacefully and untroubled at our home The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame
it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one
They are the defenders of the border,the words cannot describe about the abdication of the soldiers.
Salute to those mothers who gave birth to these soldiers
Whether with joy or sorrow, these mothers are portrayed as accepting the necessity of the sacrifice.
Eduindex 
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