The looming threat
Simrandeep Kour Coronavirus illness 2019 (COVID-19) is causing unlimited challenges to health care and wider social structures. Among the endangered populations are persons who smoke, use opioids or have a Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Because of direct challenges to respiratory health, those with SUD may be susceptible to infection by the virus that causes COVID-19. […]
Forex Risk Management through forwards, futures, options and swaps
Fahid Fayaz Darangay The losses that an international financial transaction incurs via currency fluctuations is called the Foreign Exchange risk also named as currency risk., FX risk and exchange-rate risk. This risk usually arises when a company does financial transactions in a currency other than his domestic currency. For example an Indian company does transactions […]
Gandhi Ji: As a Journalist
Er. Prabhat Kishore Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi was a great journalist and media crusader, not only because he was great in so many ways and his greatness was total, but because he had a gift of expression and communication. Journalism is not scholarship; it is a literature or history written in a hurry. In part […]
Remembering M K Gandhi
Rayees Ahmad Kumar Mohandas Karamchand Ghandhi was born in 1869 in the princely state of Porbandar, in modern-day Gujarat, where his father served as a government official. At the age of just 18, Gandhi sailed for London to study law, where he eventually passed the bar exam and qualified as a barrister. But any hopes […]
Real heroes in the fight against Corona
Desh Bir The last five months have been an extremely dark period of our lives when every man has been trying to stay safe from the invisible enemy which travelled from China via so many routes. This is a battle for life. It is very simple for anyone to feel concerned about oneself and one’s […]
The healing touch
N J Ravi Chander My maternal uncle, M D Umapathi, recalls a time in the 1950s when the life-threatening Typhoid struck him in Bengaluru. The bacterium spread through contaminated food or water, and symptoms included prolonged fever, fatigue, headache, nausea, abdominal pain, and constipation or diarrhea. Severe cases led to dire complications and even death. […]
Income Inequality: An increasing pain in the neck
Fahid Fayaz Darangay Income in its true economic sense means the remuneration (money or value) received for providing a good or service or through investing capital, both human capital and financial. For individuals, income is received in the form of wages or salary and business income can refer to a company’s remaining revenues after paying […]
Confidence: Way of giving meaning to Life
Simrandeep Kour Confidence means having the courage to express yourself fully; no matter what the other person thinks or feels about you and therefore, not being afraid of other peoples’ judgment. One is not born confident but gains it with the passage of time. Once you acquire confidence, use it; otherwise, you will lose it. […]
Returning to ones roots
K S S Pillai Bernard Heinrich, a German scientist and author, says that home is a place we long for most when we feel we have travelled too far, for too long. He returns every year to a beloved patch of woods in his native western Maine. It is the pull of nostalgia, he says. […]
Foreign Exchange: A trading opportunity
Fahid Fayaz Darangay Foreign Exchange acronymed as Forex or FX is the marketplace where almost all the national currencies are traded. Rather being a physical market or located at a centralized location, it is a virtual electronic network of banks, brokers, institutions, and individual traders which most of the times trade through these brokers or […]
