Herd immunity? It’s not going to happen
Shabir A. Madhi Any notion that COVID-19 was going to last for just a few months was very much misplaced in 2020. Especially after it was recognised that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was largely spread through the airborne route, all indications were that it would cause repeat bouts of waves. This is what happened in the […]
Pandemic shadow: Quality of life of street-connected kids needs to change
Vijay Garg The multiple and complex challenges we face today because of the Covid-19 pandemic have fallen hard on children who live, work, or play in the streets and are known as street-connected children. For them, it is often impossible to follow the basic guidelines to “stay at home” and “wash your hands”. It is […]
Humble diversions of yore!
Desh Bir Today’s children would never believe that some sixty years ago, we, as children, had such poor playthings as glass balls, Gilli Danda, home-spun hockey sticks made out of branches with natural sharp round bends at the bottom, circular peelings from a truck tyre to serve as rubber rings to be pushed on the […]
Online Mobile Banking and the risks involved
Rayees Ahmad Kumar Throughout the world, we are living more and more of our lives online every day. At the same time, we are conducting much of our online activity on our mobile devices. Banking is certainly following this trend. More than half of all web traffic now comes from mobile devices, and traffic to […]
The doomsday: Destruction of innocent humanity
M Ahmad “If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.”……………..Albert Einstein On August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy”, weighed 10,800 pounds, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and three days later, on August 9, it dropped another […]
The addiction of online games has become fatal
Vijay Garg The technological conveniences present in the fist have also created situations to put life at risk. The use of smart gadgets has created conditions of privacy for adults and directionlessness for children. In recent years, the addiction of online games has become fatal for children. In Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, a web of online […]
Letter to the Editor
Boost to digital payments Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves credit for launching e-RUPI, a person and purpose-specific digital payment system. This is a cashless and contactless digital payment tool. He emphasized that through connecting people’s lives with technology, the payment system will assist everyone in targeted, transparent, and leakage-free delivery. e-RUPI will make certain that […]
Agriculture can grow in leaps and bounds in Kashmir
Peer Muhammad Amir Qureshi Jammu and Kashmir is an agrarian UT and agriculture is the chief economic activity of people of Jammu and Kashmir. Agriculture is the backbone of UT’s economy as it provides employment to around 64% of the population directly or indirectly. The net sown area in the state constitutes only 30% of […]
Education for specially abled kids
Er. Prabhat Kishore In our society, there are children with disabilities, who face discrimination in day to day life in the form of negative attitude. They have certain disabilities which hamper them to act smoothly. The disability would be of any one or multiple types. Actually a large portion of such children are not handicapped […]
Gear up to defeat Covid-19
Dr Sudeep Singh Sachdev Hitting the Nation as well as globally, the COVID pandemic continues to be a growing health crisis day-by-day. With the year 2021 also being overshadowed by the virus, the geriatric population has been recorded to be affected the most and the age factor poses an extreme threat to mortality and rate […]
