Parental pressures do not help
By: Ulfat Zehra It is a fact that in today’s world, everybody is under pressure. Everybody is going through hard times and parents are not an exception. They are pressurized by society, friends and acquaintances. However, they give vent to their frustrations by putting undue pressure on their children. In other words, children become the […]
Insurgency in Balochistan
By: Priyanka Saurabh The Baloch tribe is a group of people from the Balochistan region and the region is divided into three regions. The northern part is in present-day Afghanistan, the western region is called the Sistan-Baluchistan region in Iran and the rest is in Pakistan. This area remained the center of power struggle during […]
The Timely Call for Change
PM’s Pariksha Pe Charcha and the Battle against exam induced fear By: Shahid Shabir Hussain Makhdoomi As the nation gears up for the 2024 examinations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visionary initiative, “Pariksha Pe Charcha,” takes on new significance with a focused vision for pioneering education reforms. Beyond being an annual event, this initiative represents a […]
The Solar System used to have nine planets
By: Sara Webb and Rebecca Allen Some of us remember August 24 2006 like it was yesterday. It was the day Pluto got booted from the exclusive “planets club”. I (Sara) was 11 years old, and my entire class began lunch break by passionately chanting “Pluto is a planet” in protest of the information we’d […]
Life’s dynamic canvas
By: Mahfooz Ahmad Bakshi I have been contemplating my high school mindset, and it’s the only thing that has been on my mind lately. Everybody has had memorable thoughts back in childhood, I guess. Our dreams, our goals—everything changes, and that’s how our perspectives evolve over time. Sometimes my own thoughts would obfuscate me, and […]
Bytes of Diplomacy: Navigating the New Age
By: Faheem ul Islam The term ‘digital diplomacy’ refers to a type of public diplomacy that involves communicating with the foreign public through digital technologies and social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Weibo, usually at no cost. The idea of digital diplomacy, focusing on the use of digital media in diplomacy and how nations […]
The intricacies of online identity
By: Dr Rohi In the digital age, online identity is a complex concept that affects almost every part of our life. People navigate a complicated network of personal representation, interaction, and data distribution in the wide and interconnected terrain of the internet, which gives birth to the complexities of online identity. Fundamentally, our online identity […]
Remembering Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur
By: Narendra Modi Today is the birth centenary of Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur Ji, whose relentless pursuit of social justice created a positive impact in the lives of crores of people. I never had the opportunity to meet Karpoori Ji but, I heard a lot about him from Kailashpati Mishra Ji, who worked closely with […]
Leadership in the Digital Ethos
By: Aubaid Ahmad Akhoon In the profound tapestry of human existence, the rise of a disconcerting trend echoes through our digital landscape, where individuals exploit the solemnity of funeral videos. Through the intricate web of YouTube links and personal messages on platforms like WhatsApp, a breach of legal boundaries unveils a disturbing facet of our […]
Dietary fibre affects more than your colon
By: Mark Wulczynski There’s no shortage of advice about what to eat, including hype about the latest superfoods that will help you live to 100, or about the newest restrictive diets that claim to help you lose weight and look beautiful. As a researcher from the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, I’m well aware […]