In Bihar, AIIMS, Patna has started human trial of Corona virus vaccine on 10 volunteers selected by hospital authority. Several people offered to take part in trial, but only 10 people were selected for the process. The first dose has been given to selected people and after interval of 14 days, second dose will be given. Doctors are keeping strict vigil of the those people who have taken dose of vaccine. For this a team of doctors has been constituted.
After completion of scheduled period, check-up of people will be undertaken for after effects of vaccine. The vaccine jointly developed by the National Institute of Virology, Pune and Hyedrabad – based Bharat Biotech International Limited in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research. It is the first indigenous vaccine developed in India. AIIMS – Patna is one of the 12 medical institutes in the country to have been shortlisted by ICMR for conducting human trial of the indigenous vaccine .
Meanwhile, positive cases in the state have risen to 17,421. Patients who have recovered are 12,364 while 4992 patients are undergoing treatment in hospitals. Recovery rate in Bihar stands at 71 per cent. The state recorded 14 deaths during 24 hours including the first Coronavirus death of a doctor, taking the toll to 134.
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India is among the most open economies in the world: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India is among the most open economies in the world. He was interacting with the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai through video conferencing yesterday. The Prime Minister said that Indians are adjusting to and adopting technology at a rapid pace.
Mr. Modi and Mr. Pichai spoke on a wide range of subjects, particularly leveraging the power of technology to transform the lives of India’s farmers, youngsters and entrepreneurs. Mr. Modi also spoke about the recent steps taken by the government towards reforming agriculture and creating new job opportunities.
The Prime Minister explored the idea of virtual labs that can be used by students as well as farmers. On issue of data security and cyber safety, he said, tech companies need to put in efforts to bridge the trust deficit. Technological solutions to expand the scope of online education, access to technology in native language, use of augmented reality and virtual reality to give a stadium-like viewing experience in sports and progress in the area of digital payments were also discussed.
The Prime Minister said, he was delighted to know more about the efforts of Google in several sectors, be it in education, learning, digital payments and more. Sundar Pichai briefed the Prime Minister about new products and initiatives of Google in India.
He mentioned the launch of Artificial Intelligence Research Lab in Bengaluru while highlighting the benefits of Google’s flood forecasting efforts. Mr. Pichai also briefed about the efforts undertaken by Google in spreading awareness and providing reliable information about COVID-19.
He said, a strong step of lockdown initiated by the Prime Minister set up a very strong foundation of India’s battle against the pandemic. Mr. Modi appreciated the proactive role played by Google in battling misinformation and conveying information about necessary precautions.
WHO calls upon countries for comprehensive strategies to deal with Covid pandemic
World Health Organization has warned that the pandemic is worsening globally and that there will be no return to the old normal for the foreseeable future.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the virus’ spread is worsening in many countries.
He called for countries to come up with comprehensive strategies to deal with the pandemic, and noted that roughly half of all new cases are in the Americas.
His remarks came a day after Florida shattered the record among US states for the largest single-day increase in new confirmed cases, with more than 15,000.
19 States, UTs report higher recovery rate than national average of 63.01%
The total number of recovered people affected with coronavirus yesterday crossed the 5.5 lakh mark. The Central Government said, a total of 5, 53,471 people have recovered in the country so far and with this the recovery rate reached 63.01 per cent.
During the last 24 hours, 18,850 people have recovered from Covid-19. There are 19 States and Union Territories which have a higher recovery rate than the national average of recovery rate.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry said a total of 28,701 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the country within 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 8,78,254. This is the highest number of fresh cases recorded in one day since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in India.
Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 3,01,609. In a single day, 500 deaths have been reported taking the nationwide toll to 23,174. With this the Covid fatality rate reached 2.63 per cent in the country. 30 States and Union Territories have the lowest fatality rate than the national average of fatality rate.
Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said, that a total of 2,19,103 tests of corona virus samples were conducted by the various laboratories in the country within 24 hours. So far 1,18,6,256 tests have been conducted.Testing per million is 8,555 in the country.
ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for Covid-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories. As of now, total 1,200 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct the test for Covid-19 including 852 government laboratories and 348 private laboratories’ chains.
Govt aims to increase public health expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by 2025
The Union Health Ministry has pushed for an increased expenditure on public health. In a meeting with the 15th Finance Commission, the Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan, yesterday highlighted that the government aims at gradually increasing the public health expenditure to 2.5 per cent of the nation’s GDP by the year 2025.
The Minister asserted that the outlay for primary health expenditure will also be made nearly two third of the total public health expenditure in the country. Reiterating the government’s target of the National Health Policy 2017, Dr. Vardhan emphasized on the importance of increasing the state’s health sector spending to nearly 8 per cent of their total budget.
The Health Ministry apprised the Finance Commission of the need to further strengthen the public health sector, surveillance and public health management, preventive and promotive health care system in the country.
The Health Ministry has also revised its requirement of around 4.9 lakh crores to 6.04 lakh crores in view of the COVID pandemic. It has asked for additional resources for the States which would be utilized for achievement of the National Health Policy targets.
Political crisis continues in Rajasthan; Congress calls another legislative party meet in Jaipur today
In Rajasthan, Congress calls another legislative party meet in Jaipur today. Yesterday, Congress Legislature Party has passed resolution supporting Ashok Gehlot-led government. The Congress Legislative Party, CLP meeting was held at Jaipur Monday afternoon amid differences in the Rajasthan government.
The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress Government plunged into crisis after Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot declared open rebellion. Mr Pilot had claimed that the Gehlot Government has been reduced to minority as over 30 Congress MLAs are supporting him.
The CLP demanded strict disciplinary action against members of the party who are involved in anti-party activity. Apart from Congress, MLAs from CPI- M, Bharatiya Tribal Party and RLD also attended the meeting. The Bhartiya Tribal Party has directed both its MLAs to remain neutral.
Party President Hamesh Bhai Vasava has said in his letter that in case of the floor test, the both MLAs will not support either the BJP or the Congress. He said that disciplinary action will be taken if they violate the whip. The Congress has claimed that the government has an absolute majority and will complete five years term.
Earlier, Congress made an appeal to its rebellion MLAs and Ministers to attend the meeting of the party legislature. Meanwhile, state BJP president Satish Poonia told media that the party is keeping an eye on the entire development and the top leadership will take appropriate decisions when needed.
AIR correspondent reports, by showcasing the support of more than 101 MLAs, which is the magical figure in Rajasthan assembly, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot claimed that the Congress government is safe and stable. On the other hand, Sachin Pilot is also talking about having the support of more than two dozen MLAs including some senior leaders.
In such a situation, the Gehlot government, though safe at the moment, is not taking any chances and has shifted all its supporting MLAs to a hotel amidst tight security. This is believed to be the reason for the soft stance of Congress towards Sachin Pilot. Despite Pilot’s rebellion, Congress has yet not taken any action against him. Overall, all eyes are now on Sachin Pilot who has not made his stance official as yet.
India, China to hold Corps Commander-level talks at Chushul in Eastern Ladakh today
The fourth round of Commander-level talks between India and China will take place today at Chushul Border post in Eastern Ladakh. The last meeting also was held at the same venue on 30th June. Army sources said, the talks mainly focus on the second phase of disengagement along the Line of Actual Control. AIR correspondent reports that to follow up the work in progress, the army commanders are meeting today.
The meeting between the Army commanders is important after the conservation between the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Mr Wang Yi, on 5th July. In the meeting they have agreed that both sides should complete the ongoing disengagement process along the LAC, to de-escalate the tensions in the region. The PLA has already retreated back as per the agreement, by two kilometres in the friction points like Galwan valley, Gogra and Hot Springs. Similarly, the Indian side also has moved back as per the mutual disengagement agreed upon during the last Corps Commander-level talks.
However, the Army sources said that today’s talks mainly focus on complete disengament at Finger -4 and further at Pangong Tso and Depsang plains. Indian delegation will be lead by GoC of Fire and Fury corps Lt General Harinder Singh and South Xinjiang Military Province Commander Major General Liu Lin will lead the Chinese side.
Beautiful soul is better than beautiful appearence
In today’s world, almost every individual is obsessed with fair complexion. The obsession of fair skin has led the companies producing fairness products to earn profit more than any other business in the market.
The obsession for fair complexion is mostly found in the youth, who waste their money in buying expensive products hoping for a fairer skin but end up harming it.
You must have seen that the matrimonial Columns seem to be incomplete without people showing their desire for fair complexion in their spouse. The colour discrimination leads to alot of mental health issues for many individuals. People commit suicide under societal pressure for fair complexion and outer appearance.
We must understand that “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder” and the colour of one’s skin is just concerned with the outer appearance and we cannot judge them because of it.
An individual is beautiful by their heart not by their appearance.
Hunger
According to Jayanta Mahapatra “hunger” is the expression of solitude. The poet in his poem “hunger” explores his memories about his life. And defines his loneliness and need for a company and spiritual intimacy. The material love he was deprived of kept searching for that.
Humans are born with hunger. The desire is endless. Once you get the thing you want, you need something else. The need is endless.
In the poem ‘ Hunger’, the poet defines two types of hunger, one is sexual hunger or hunger for spiritual intimacy and another is about real hunger, the hunger for food.
The poem is like a short story that unfolds the slice of life. The poet found himself before a fisherman who is willing to compromise his daughter to get relief from the hunger of food. The insensitivity in the word of the father was probably to sanctify his guilt. According to the poet, even prostitutes have their command over their body but the girl doesn’t. A fifteen years old girl l, fully grown in flesh and beauty finds herself with some strangers who are coming to accomplish their hunger for sex.
There is a certain realization that comes about the real meaning of hunger. This is not coming from certain displeasure, but dismal of property. The girl meets the inevitability without any fight. This is a complete surrender to life and hunger.
There are several cases in India where the parents for the sake of money and with the desire to be rich throw their child to the darkness. Even there are many cases where the girl died due to being beaten up brutally because of refusing to be involved in sex work. Sometimes even hunger compelled to kill the parental emotion and throw the girls to be killed each day.
Supreme Court panels to ensure better work conditions for prostitutes recommended that the police can’t take criminal action against the adult sex workers “participating with consent”. The panel recommended deleting the offense of soliciting under section 8 of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act. Soliciting or seducing for the prostitution works is the punishable offense which will end up with 6 months jail and fine of 500.
The report says the majority of India’s estimated 1.2 million prostitutes are forced into the trade by crushing property.
The panel suggested putting the sex workers into a correctional home rather than to jail while they are found plying in a public place. The decision was taken to stop the victimization of traffic.
When the girl in the poem opens her wormy legs to allow the person to enter her, the person sees the real hunger. The nonchalant surrender leads his libido to confront her real hunger slithering between two legs. The myth of inevitability reflects the picture of society. The compulsion of father and the misery of the daughter is stitched together in the never-ending poverty and helplessness.
The poem refers to the society’s image where we find how the girl was being treated not as a human but as commodities. In-room two hunger meets their need. Both are caught in the same net of situations where an indifferent god is accepting the worm-eaten offering.
Cyber Security: Cyber Crime
Technology and New Media has been a revolutionary medium in human life communication. But, the implementations of cyber security are being the hardest obstacle and leading students to dig their own grave. Sometimes the higher cyber security in academic campuses restricts students like a giant to access the number of websites, portals of quality information, and knowledge by blocking them, though there are ethical concerns as well. Now our daily using medium, Facebook, WhatsApp now under thread. The Data Security Council of India has established many practices and initiatives in data security and privacy. As the most established Industrial Control Systems Cyber Security Event in Europe, the ICS cyber security conference brings together leading practitioners, operators, and decision-makers from across Europe to share a wealth of practical experience in implementing cyber security in organizations, and best practice on defending against cyber security risk to Industrial Control Systems. Cyber attacks are usually aimed at accessing, changing, or destroying sensitive information; extorting money from users; or interrupting normal business processes. Implementing effective cyber security measures is particularly challenging today because there are more devices than people, and attackers are becoming more innovative. India can play a major role in global security. It also can build a cyber security data and services industry of USD 35 billion by 2025 and can cope up with the world booming demand.
In this era of technological emergence, it has become very essential to protect the data. The ethical hackers and the bug bounty program all find a way of vulnerability into the system before the cyber criminals to do unauthorized access. Now the companies do hire ethical hackers to secure their data privacy. When the illegal and unauthorized hacking is popping up constantly, the companies are trying to put ethical hackers to ensure their data privacy.
Now many applications have been banned in India to secure data privacy. There are different types of cyber security like critical infrastructure security, application security, network security, cloud security, internet of things security, etc. Though many sites have been blocked by the mobile network companies itself to prevent the data leakages and to avoid the miserable consequences.
Research says, 27.24% of cyber attack to be initiated by China. Moreover, it is also said that from the various estimation, 41% of the world’s cyber attacks trace their genesis back to China. Whereas the USA initiated 17.12% cyber attacks, Turkey has a 4.7% share to global cyber attack trafficking and 10.24% cyber attacks are done by Turkish hackers. There are countries like Brazil, Russia who comes under the list of potential hackers. Though most of the hackers are unknown the major attack sources are coming from these countries.
Cyber attacks are being in course as far back as the internet has come to the identification. But with time it has got exponential growth which brings the thread to governments and all other institutions all over the world. But the unrestricted access of different sites by the students on the phone is leading to serious hamartia to their life. The youngsters are also being the victim of cyber crimes.
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Munchausen Syndrome
Munchausen syndrome is a mental disorder in which, the person thinks or acts to be sick physically or mentally when the person is not. It is a factitious disorder. It is considered to be a severe mental illness because it gives emotional difficulties as well.
The Munchausen name has come after the name of a German officer who used to weave stories about his life and experiences. This is the most severe factitious disorder. Most of the people associated with this mental disorder related to chest pain, stomach pain, rather than a mental disorder.
Symptoms
- The people who are suffering from this problem may fake to their illness and exaggerate their sickness. Moreover, they even hurt themselves to bring the symptoms.
- The symptoms of this mental disorder are not so prominent rather the problem can get increased if it is not treated properly, also can get changed with proper care.
- Excessive knowledge of medical terminology, illness, and hospitals
- One can see the presence of symptoms when the person is getting observed
- The person doesn’t want the doctor to meet their family
- The patient might have a history of visiting numerous hospitals
- Problem with self-esteem
Though there is no such cause is found for Munchausen syndrome but the researchers are looking for it. But from some theories, a justification has come that might be the abuse or neglect from
How to diagnose
This is very difficult to diagnose Munchausen syndrome because their dishonesty is involved. The doctor needs to diagnose the patient physically to be sure if the person has the problem or it is a mental disorder. The psychiatrist will understand through the way the patient describes their problem. To detect the syndrome doctor takes some assessment tools or other interview sessions. This includes the observation of the patient’s attitude. When the treatment starts, the first thing to do is to reduce the patient’s misuse or overuse of medical sources. Once it is done the treatment moves forward and doctors seek if there is an underlying syndrome. Sometimes the patients go to those doctors who are unaware of their syndrome.
Though no reliable statistical numbers of patients. The syndrome is considered to be a very rare condition. Because dishonesty is common with weakness. The person who has this syndrome goes for different health facilities which can lead to misleading statistics. This mental disorder is common to men more than women as per the survey. But this affects young adults the most.
Primarily the syndrome can be cured by psychological therapy to talk therapy. The first job is to change the way of thinking and behavior. In this regard, family therapy is also included so that they do not reinforce the problem again to arise. No medication is there to help from the factitious disorder. As there are many other mental disorders like depression, those medications can be used. But while the medicine is being applied to the patient if Munchausen syndrome should be under proper monitoring.
The Fates of Chinese Uighur Muslims
Uighur (Uyghur) Muslims are among the oldest Turkic-speaking people mostly residing in the northwestern part of China, in Xinjiang. The main Uighur populated cities are Kashgar, Silk Road, and Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang.
When China re-established control after crushing the short-lived state of East Turkestan, a large population of Han Chinese (the majority ethnic Chinese) migrated to Xinjiang. This move caused a lot of economic disparities and ethnic tensions grew as the Uyghurs were mistreated and discriminated against.
A 2009 protest in Urumqi turned violent, killing 200 and injuring about 800 people. Violence increased soon after including knife-attacks, suicide-bombers, and bomb blasts. Most of these attacks were pinned to Uighur Muslims and they were tied to overseas Muslim terrorist groups.
China identifies itself as a “socialist state under the people’s democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants.” The current political leadership has been termed a “consultative democracy,” “people’s democratic dictatorship” and “socialism with Chinese characteristics” by its leaders.
In recent years, with the disclosure of the mistreatment of Uighur Muslims, China has been criticized for a lot more trouble. The UN and other Human Rights activists have been trying to help protect the oppressed.
Uighur Muslims have been subjected to many constraints. Those who’ve fled the country have many stories of torture to speak. Those who’ve returned have been separated and punished.
A New York Times article wrote about Abdurahman Tohti, who left Xinjiang and immigrated to Turkey in 2013. “When his wife and two young children returned to China for a visit a few years ago, they disappeared. He heard that his wife was sent to prison, like many Uighurs who have traveled abroad and returned to China. His parents were detained too. The fate of his children, though, was a mystery. He spotted his 4-year-old son, years later, in a video on Chinese social media that had apparently been recorded by a teacher. The boy seemed to be at a state-run boarding school and was speaking Chinese, a language his family did not use. Mr. Tohti, 30, said he was excited to see the child, and relieved he was safe — but also gripped by desperation. “What I fear the most,” he said, “is that the Chinese government is teaching him to hate his parents and Uighur culture.””
Many countries including but not limited to Saudi Arabia, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Pakistan have written to the UN in support of the way China is handling the terrorizing groups, the Uyghurs. The letter these countries signed and sent included, “Faced with the grave challenge of terrorism and extremism, China has undertaken a series of counter-terrorism and deradicalization measures in Xinjiang, including setting up vocational education and training centers.” They attested to not finding any Human Rights violations in the “training centers” and added that since the people have been institutionalized, there hasn’t been even a single terror attack. Going as further as saying that the people “now enjoyed a stronger sense of happiness, fulfillment, and security.”
The Uighur activists have stated otherwise for decades, maintaining that the discrimination has persisted long before the “terror” attacks started. They have stood by their innocence in their involvement in the attacks and have also denied all ties to overseas terror organizations.
Below, is the timeline of a few (not all) key protests, attacks, and other decisions made with respect to the Uighur Muslims.
These are incidents that have been publicized internationally. It is quite possible that much more has been kept under wraps.
2003
- 21st December – Uighur “terrorists” demand freedom of expression and internet access
- A Muslim separatist group branded as “terrorists” by China has said it was willing to disband if the communist state offered freedom of expression and internet access to Uighur Muslim minorities.
2009
- July – Urumqi Han Chinese vs Uighurs Riots kill 200 and injure 1700
- Several hundred were arrested and students were shot at by the police
- More than 260 vehicles and 200 shops and houses were attacked and damaged.
- “False” news of claiming 6 boys raping two innocent girls made the rounds prior to the riots and as a response internet and messaging services were shut off.
2010
- June – Gheyret Niyaz, an Uighur journalist sentenced for 15 years
- Gheyret Niyaz was sentenced for 15 years for speaking to a foreign-journalists during the 2009 Urumqi riots.
- 30th July – 3 Uighurs jailed for website work
- Uyghur American Association (UAA) said that 3 men were sentenced to 10, 5, and 3 years respectively.
- Officials have not confirmed the charges despite already sentencing them.
- Their main offense is to found and manage an Uyghur-language website.
2011
- 18th July – – A knife and bomb attacks in Hotan
- Suspected to be Uighur terroritsts
- 30th – 31st July – A series of knife and bomb attacks in Kashgar
- 15th September – China sentences 4 to death over Xinjiang attacks
- The four Uighur men were found guilty of murder, arson, and running a terrorist organization.
- Accused to incidents in Kashgar and Hotan in July.
2012
- 2nd August – China jails 20 Uighurs for terrorism and separatism
- Charges against the accused include making explosive devices, promoting religious extremism and plotting “holy war”
2013
- October – 3 Uighur men sentenced over a fatal car crash in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
- December – 16 people killed in a riot in a village. Another 8 were killed later near Yarkland county.
2014
- 27th January – 12 dead in Xinjiang violence caused by “terrorists”
- Xinhua news agency described the incident as “organised, premeditated terrorist attacks”. But the report gave no reason why the hair salon and the market were targeted.
- February – Chinese authorities have shot dead eight people trying to attack police officers in Xinjiang,
- 1st March – mass knife attack at the Kunming train station.
- 30th April – knife and bomb attach at Urumqi’s central train station
- 22nd May – suicide-attack on an open-air market in Urumqi’s predominantly Han-populated Shayibake district killed 31 people and 94 injured.
- Officials blame Uighur Muslims
- Claim these “terrorists are swollen with arrogance.”
- 27th May – Chinese Police arrest Xinjiang “terror gang”
- 21st June – Police kill 13 assailants of the Xinjiang attackers
- Linking them to the October 2013 attacks, where 3 men were already sentenced.
- 30th June – China jails 113 Uighurs for terrorism
- 2nd July – China bans Uighurs Muslims from fasting for Ramadan.
- Not the first time.
- 5th July – Chinese Uighurs defy Ramadan fasting bans
- 11th July – Muslim students forced to eat during Ramadan
- 31st July – Imam of China’s largest mosque killed in Xinjiang
- Jume Tahir, 74, was reportedly stabbed after he led the early morning prayers at the Id Kah mosque.
- Reason of the death remains unclear
- A hasty burial was performed the same afternoon
- Police sealed off roads and cut internet and text messaging links.
- 3rd August – China claims Xinjiang “gangs” killed 37
- 59 of the 215 attackers were killed by security forces.
- 12th October – Kashgar attack killed 22.
- 18th November – Shache attack in which 15 were killed, including 11 attackers.
- 11th December – Xinjiang Officials hold debated to ban veils for Muslim women.
- 8th December – 6 people linked to the May 2014 market attack sentenced to death
2015
- 27th May – Chinese authorities claim having busted 181 terror groups in a yearlong operation.
- 14th July – 3 “Xinjiang Terrorists” shot dead by police
- A woman was also injured
- Police found “terrorist” suspects shouting Anti-China slogans
- Police also detained 28-year old Uighur woman, and 3 children.
- China police checkpoint attack kills 18 in Xinjiang
- China refused to comment
- Hospitals informed that many police officers here hurt
- Local radio reported that the attackers used knives and bombs while speeding through the checkpoint.
2016
- 7th June – police ordered residents to provide DNA samples and other biological data to apply for travel documents
- 19th October – Notice was issued, warning citizens
- Those who failed to turn in their passports risk being barred from leaving the country.
- 20th October – China confiscates passports of Xinjiang People
- Apparently aimed to combat terrorism.
- Hand in their travel documents to the police for “safekeeping”
- All residents must not apply for permission to leave the country before they can retrieve their passports
2017
- 15th February – Eight assailants dead in a knife attack after killing 5 and injuring 10.
- 1st April – no beards, no veils
- Only older men are allowed to have beards
- Women are not allowed veils as part of the “project: Beauty”
2018
- 10th August – China mosque demolition issue in Ningxia
- Hundreds of Muslims in north-western China are engaged in a standoff with authorities to prevent their mosque from being demolished.
- On 3rd August a notice was posted outside the mosque that it would be forcibly demolished
- Reason: it had not been granted the necessary planning and construction permits.
- Many asked why the construction hadn’t been halted during the 2 years of construction
- 31st August – UN alarmed by reports of China’s mass detention.
- UN criticized the “broad definition of terrorism and vague references to extremism and unclear definition of separatism in Chinese legislation”
- The UN committee called on Beijing to:
- End the practice of detention without lawful charge, trial and conviction;
- Immediately release individuals currently detained under these circumstances;
- Provide the number of people held as well as the grounds for their detention;
- Conduct “impartial investigations into all allegations of racial, ethnic and ethno-religious profiling”.
- 10th October – China Uighurs: Xinjiang legalises ‘re-education’ camps
2019
- February – Uighurs kids and youth ask china to show them that their parents are still live in the detention camps
- 2nd May – Chinese police monitor Xinjiang Citizens using an app
- 24th October – Jailed Uighur academic Ilham Tohti wins Sakharov Prize
- The Sakharov Prize for free speech is awarded by the EU Parliament annually in memory of Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.
- 28th November – Uighur activists claim China is running hundreds of more camps than it claims
- 23rd December – Hong Kong protesters rally in support of Uighurs
- 23rd December – TESCO finds a Christmas card with a cry for help message from the Uighur makers in China
- 28th December – In China’s Crackdown on Muslims, Children have not been Spared.
- Children of parents who have either been killed or detained are taken away from relatives and placed in state-run boarding schools.
- These schools are designed to “assimilate and indoctrinate children at an early age, away from the influence of their families.”
- These schools are tightly guarded and are off-limits
- Media and official documents cover this up by claiming “education is a key component of President Xi Jinping’s campaign to wipe out extremists’ violence in Xinjiang.”
- Many Xinjiang activists have described these schools as “incubators of a new generation of Uighurs who are secular and more loyal to both the party and the nation.
2020
- 15th January – Leaked reports reveal China’s human rights violations against Uighurs
- 27th February – UN demands unfettered access to China’s Uighur region
- 3rd March – Uighurs forced to work in Chinese factories for meagre pay
- 29th June – reports surfaced that China forced birth control on Uighurs to supress population.
- Chinese scholar, Adrian Zenz’s report prompted multiple international called for the United Nations to investigate
- Mr. Zenz’s report was based on a combination of official regional data, policy documents, and interviews with ethnic minority women in Xinjiang. It alleges that Uighur women and other ethnic minorities are being threatened with internment in the camps for refusing to abort pregnancies that exceed birth quotas.
- Women with fewer than 2 children were forced to get fitted with an IUD
- China denies allegations and calls them baseless.
- Uighur growth rates fall 84% since 2015.
- 13th August – China denies detaining 1 million Uighurs
- Uighurs enjoyed full rights but “those deceived by religious extremism… shall be assisted by resettlement and re-education”, officials said.
SUICIDE NOTE: FROM THE PAVEMENT OF ABETMENT TO THREAT
Suicide note is a document, not a mere goodbye or a mode of remembering, but one which has the potential to give access to the person’s inner thoughts and feelings even after they are long gone. From people who want their story to be told, often the person lives behind mentioning different people who might have affected their lives. Though the reasons can never be brought into a particular set but it can bring two sorts of people into the picture. One in a positive light and the other completely opposite. Most of the lost hopes varies from reacting to the feeling of burden on the relatives or close ones to giving up on repetitive trauma from a set of people or any one person specifically. Both the scenarios, however, bring in questions. The controversies regarding discourse on suicides in India is huge. The judicial system scrutinizes the action and grasps every loophole that could have had led the suicide. As suppose, could have abetted the suicide.
Abetment to suicide is a crime. Not namesake but one of the legal provisions as well. Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code criminalizes the offence. A person is considered guilty of abetment upon three instances. If he instigates the person, if he has been a part of the conspiracy behind it or if he has intentionally helped the victim to commit the act. And importantly, direct evidence is required against the accused to show the alleged crime. It definitely looks a two-way pavement until here but what lies beneath the surface are the eyes of the world around the suspect. The one in the middle of a mere mentioned name and a criminal- the one in middle of the trial.
A name mentioned in a suicide note includes the person as an accused under a non bailable offence where the person receives a summon or notice from the local police station. The investigation goes on and a charge sheet gets filed against the mentioned name. Post all of these, a trial stands before the court. This is a tedious and defaming process for any prudent person. And thus, gets abused more often than not. The process gets tamed every hour in India when a person uses different phrases as to ‘cut nerves’, ‘kill themselves’, ‘the police will take you’, ‘it will be your fault’, ‘you will be guilty forever’, in order to get something to which the other silently agrees because what lies on the other hand is unknown.
However, one does not need to worry about the process at any point of time if they are not guilty. Truth has prevailed for the entire history of manhood and if put forth in the investigation process shall as well help gain way out from the difficult times as such.
It is important to notice that most threats usually come to partners who look to end a relationship to which the co-partner cannot come to terms with. There stands no-win situation in a case like this. The level of uncertainty is huge and the loss could be unbearable.
The thin line between the law for actual abetment to the abuse of the law is not foreseeable. A person at the edge for the same should not misjudge the actual cry for help to the attention seekers. However, for a person who knew about the suicide and decided to not help the cause or did not make attempts to stop or discontinued the cause could become more than just regretful. They are probable criminals in the eyes of law.
It is true that once the threat turns the other way, there’s no turning back. However, one should always keep a few points in mind. First of all, a compassionate behavior with a person who we are no longer in terms with can go a long way. Next, professional advice should always be taken. One as it could save the person in question and also give you the green card of innocence even if mentioned in the note for any cause. It also gets very important to understand the habitual offenders and to take them seriously. The ridiculing of it being an everyday affair is not a healthy mentality. The repeated threats often bring in personal derangement which increases the risks. While one might consider obliging to all the demands put forward during such a crisis, it gets very important to involve very close and dear ones and let them to know about the threat.
The above-mentioned points are not just mere suggestions but also points out as “duty” in the law. The principle is evidentially prevalent in both civil and criminal matters. However, duty differs in different cases. From the perspective of duty in threatened suicide, if a help is promised in the form of care or companionship, it gets binding since there is an established duty of care. But the duty of care also depends on the type of relationship with the person at stake.
Summing up, the best way to get out of a situation is truth and actions which would leave no room for regret in the future. It is worth keeping in mind that, ‘to save another life, you must safeguard yours first’.
Techniques to improve Non-veebal communication- Aman sharma
Non-verbal communication is significant in the work environment since it influences the workplace. In a few regards, we can impart so a lot, if not more, non-verbally than we do with our expressed words.
Keep in touch
Build up eye to eye connection when addressing others. At the point when you look, it shows the other party that you’re keen on what he is stating. In the event that you should give an introduction at work, build up eye to eye connection with the crowd. It discloses to them that you are positive about what you are introducing.
Utilize Your Outward appearances
Your outward appearances pass on your feelings. Outward appearances are commonly general, which implies they pass on a similar message all inclusive. A scowling individual is generally vexed. Offer a grin when conversing with somebody, as long as it isn’t improper to the circumstance.
Be Circumspect of Individual Space
Focus on your closeness to other people. Various societies see nearness in different manners, so pay heed if the individual you’re speaking with is awkward.
Mind Your posture
Take a gander at your stance. Slumping shows that you are not intrigued by what an individual is stating. Your body development is additionally significant.
Know about Tones and Sounds
Your manner of speaking and the sounds you make can convey your contemplations to others without your in any event, talking. Talk delicately and serenely.
How I overcome the fear of public speaking
Try not to attempt to quiet down:
In astute examination, Harvard educator Alison Wood Streams requested that individuals give an open discourse on what might make them great associates. Uneasiness alert: they would be recorded and assessed by a panel. Over 90% of individuals said the best system was to quiet down. Be that as it may, it didn’t work.
Practice before a group of people:
At the point when I practiced my initial talks, I conveyed them solo. Exemplary examinations by the late Stanford analyst Robert Zajonc showed that the unimportant nearness of others raises our excitement. On the off chance that you practice alone, you won’t get an opportunity to conform to that excitement
Turn off the lights :
To diminish uneasiness during the discourse itself, I like to obscure the room. As appearances become less noticeable, my excitement drops. I as of late found that there’s a side advantage of diminish lighting: crowds chuckle more.
Handling rejections of life
- Set aside some effort to process it as opposed to constraining a grin all over.
Attempting to constrain good faith or to push ahead when you are still in a passionate strife or somewhat stunned for the most part don’t work that well.
So first simply set aside a touch of effort to process the musings and emotions that emerge when you’ve been dismissed.
- Concentrate on what you despite everything have in your life.
Set aside some effort for the contemplations that emerged.
Be that as it may, don’t stall out in abiding and in hauling yourself down into an expanse of self-uncertainty and pessimism.
Rather, move your concentration to what you in reality despite everything have in your life.
- Say no to your inner critic.
At the point when you’ve confronted dismissal at that point it’s anything but difficult to begin pulverizing yourself and to drag yourself further somewhere around tuning in to your internal pundit.
The inward pundit is the voice that murmurs or automatons on in your psyche about how you’re not alluring enough, not shrewd or clever enough or maybe that you’re ineffective throughout everyday life.
- Let it out to a companion or adored one.
Restraining the dismissal and this circumstance can cause it to feel and appear to be a great deal more terrible than it should be.
Allowing everything to all and talking it over with a companion, accomplice or relative can assist you with releasing your repressed feelings and to begin seeing the circumstance with clear and calm eyes.
- Try not to believe it’s everything about you.
It’s anything but difficult to fall into the snare of speculation there is some kind of problem with you in the event that you for instance don’t get a subsequent date.
In any case, not all things are about you.
- Be valuable and spotlight on what you can realize.
As I referenced above, not all things are about you on the off chance that you get dismissed. Also, getting dismissed is only a piece of an actual existence very much lived, of a real existence where you go outside of your usual range of familiarity.
E-commerce
Information Technology has been playing a vital role in the future development of financial sectors and the way of doing business in an emerging economy like India, Bangladesh etc. Increased use of smart mobile services and internet as a new distribution channel for business transactions and international trading requires more attention towards e-commerce security for reducing the fraudulent activities. The advancement of Information and Communication technology has brought a lot of changes in all spheres of daily life of human being. E-commerce has a lot of benefits and many acts which hurts the small businesses or business aspects. This study predicts some challenges in an emerging economy.
What is E-Commerce ?
E-commerce means buying and selling of goods over electronic and digital platforms. Thete have been many allegations that big e-commerce are responsible to harm healthy competition in the market. Economies of scale and advancement of logistical companies has helped e-commerce companies to ship goods to anywhere.
Why E-commerce?
With the increasing diffusion of ICTs, more specifically the Internet, the global business community is rapidly moving towards Business-to Business (B2B) e-Commerce. The buyers gain a clear advantage when the Internet gives them access to the global market, by which they can compare prices across regions, find out whether prices vary by order fragmentation and get awareness about substitute products. Due to transparency of the market, customer can compare the services of various e-commerce sites easily. For instant, in case of e-commerce the competitors are one click away from customer. If clients are not happy with the products, prices or services offered by a particular e-commerce site, they are able to change much more easily than in the physical. From the Sellers’ point of view, they don’t need to have physical existence of shop.
E-commerce Hegemony ?
Recently The competition commission of India ordered a probe into alleged competition law violations by Flipkart Amazon over allegations that the e-commerce major promoted and gave discounts to preferred sellers, entered into exclusive partnerships with smartphone brands and abused their dominant position.
Flipkart Amazon is good provider by online marketplace for selling goods in India. Flipkart and Amazon is a wholesaler which is in the business of seeking the good to reseller.
Section 4 of the competition act 2002 is very important as we know completion act is not against possessing dominant position in the market but is objects abusing such dominant position. Section 4 of this act deals with abuse of dominant position.
Dominant position in a market means positions of strength enjoyed by any enterprise in relevant market. Like any enterprise operate independently of competitive forces prevailing in the relevant market Affects it’s competitors or consumers or relevant market in its favor. Recent example of abuse of power should be Amazon Flipkart how they give heavy discounts to customer directly pick-up the good from company that hits the shopkeeper or small enterprises.
Conclusion
As e-commerce industry is emerging sector with high potential of growth govt has to introduce some policies to promote healthy competition in this industry. Govt has to anticipate current loophole in regulations and amend it is such a way that instead of harming msme sector. The e-commerce industry will be a leader with popularity in electronic business world in the upcoming years. The e-commerce revolution has fundamentally changed the business of transaction by giving new opportunities and breaking borders easily. In India, it has strongly impacted the traditional business system and changing the life of people by making it easier. While it gives benefits to customer and seller, e-commerce gives challenges to traditional business for competitive position. Developing countries face many obstacles that affect the successful implementation of e-commerce with the help of comparing with developed country. When the internet cost will be low then the e-commerce will flourish easily and will make many of traditional business to run out of their business. Convenience is one of the benefits that customer gets from the e-commerce and thus increasing customer satisfaction. This is due to customer can place a purchase an order from anywhere with internet connection. E-commerce business provider should give importance on every customer by giving smooth service and many options for payment and have more functions available online. Other benefits are expanded product offerings and expanded geographic reach. But e-commerce business faces a lot of challenges in flourishing their business.
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