World Password Day: Protect your privacy
By: Mohammad Hanief Established in 2013, the event is observed on the first Thursday of May every year with the goal of improving awareness of the importance of creating complex and unique passwords and adopting password best practices to keep sensitive information private and confidential. Passwords are now the most common way to secure accounts […]
Putting humanity to shame
By: Priyanka Saurabh Human trafficking involves transporting, recruiting, transferring, harboring, and obtaining persons using methods such as force, threat, or coercion. The ultimate objective of these acts and means is to use these individuals for exploitation. The exploitation of these persons takes various extremely abusive forms such as prostitution, organ trade, sexual exploitation, forced labor, […]
Family, the source of strength
By: Dr. Reyaz Ahmad Life is an exhilarating adventure full of joys and difficulties, successes, and failures. The tests and challenges that life throws at people are some of the hardest moments for them. Family comfort and support are crucial during such times. Family may provide a safety net of love, understanding, and support, which […]
AI can now generate entire songs on demand
By: Oliver Bown In March, we saw the launch of a “ChatGPT for music” called Suno, which uses generative AI to produce realistic songs on demand from short text prompts. A few weeks later, a similar competitor – Udio – arrived on the scene. I’ve been working with various creative computational tools for the past […]
Book review of Gashi Malar by Farooq Shaheen
By: Rayees Ahmad Kumar In the realm of Kashmiri language and literature, scholars, poets, critics and essayist who have profoundly enriched it and burnt their midnight oil for it’s development and promotion are always applauded and appreciated both at local and national level. Whether we talk about Mehjoor, Nazki, Azad, Shouq, Rahi, Margoob Or Shad […]
Animals too have a life
By: Dr. Satyavan Saurabh By amending the penal code, penalties were increased for causing unnecessary pain or suffering to animals and for killing or seriously ill-treating them. It discusses various forms of cruelty, exceptions, and where any cruelty to a suffering animal involves killing it, to save it from further suffering. The legislative intent of […]
POEM: To my beloved
By: Iram Zehra Today I am missing you a lot Because I need you at this time But I can only imagine you As you are an imagination now It has been sixteen years since you left this world! But today is the day when you left me alone in this brutal world I feel […]
Saving lives through immunization
By: Mohammad Hanief A major landmark study to be published by ‘The Lancet’ reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year – over the past 50 years. The vast majority of lives saved – 101 million – were those […]
Job scams are on the rise. How can you protect yourself?
By: Dimitrios Salampasis In the digital era, the job market is increasingly becoming a minefield – demanding and difficult to navigate. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the number of job vacancies fell by 6.1% between November 2023 and February 2024. Every click on a job ad can either open doors to amazing opportunities, […]
Poem: To My Maternal Aunt
By: Syed Mustafa Ahmad When rain doesn’t seem to go away, I am reminded of my beloved maternal aunt Her scintillating smile would melt the stone hearts Her presence was like a constant companion in the dreadful wilderness She would support us when everything was torn apart Sitting in the kitchen and gazing at our […]