Now the Covid watching authority does not want to count the surging number of infections. They would count only serious hospitalisations. Couldn’t this equation have been workable earlier also? It could have. But that would have hit some businesses. But too much commotion did not create a corona-phobia after ruckus. It is time to prove that Covid is nothing but a fear that someone has created. The media and Covid experts have their stake in this. Now the media lens is shut on this once-hot scoop. The topic has expired, after an overdose Something that came like a pandemic is not serious now, experts believe. In the beginning, it was a necessity to get highlighted. Something which is not considered serious hardly creates a public fear. When you choose not to highlight an issue with a...
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Who is the custodian of our secrecies? Behind every offer of free operating systems and applications we use, boasting about our cellphones being storage of everything we have acquired in life, there is a big unknown trap. You are contributing to the tech giants’ hunger for data, which has become a precious business asset. Your secrets go into the belly of those who give you the so-called free service. Mind it, every moment of your life is under their scanner. Have we ever thought about who is the custodian of our confidential information? Is it within the darkness of our lockers? Is it in the hands of our spouse? Or, is it in the hands of any confidential assistance? The answer is simple, ‘No’. Not in our computers also, nor in the lockers, nor the hands of anyone. Not even in the...
Read MoreWe created many facilities for our better comfort and easy life only. As we grab everything slowly to build a paradise for ourselves, we deprive other living beings of their natural rights. Now we have started ruling them and invaded their space. We continue to move up with our activities with no concern about ensuing results. We are aware that every addiction has its adverse consequences. Yet we are unprepared for fending off the adversities. Success has many definitions and interpretations. The success of today may be a failure of tomorrow. Every enviable achievement of today may result in the agony of tomorrow. The US and Europe fought against all odds last century to build a high standard of living through economic growth. Today a third of the deaths caused by the top 10 dise...
Read MoreAnalysts must see how much it can create value for shareholders after it meets its mission of delivering to its policyholders. From over Rs 6 trillion on the final IPO price of Rs 949 per share, the market capitalisation of Life Insurance Corporation of India plunged to Rs 4.5 trillion by the time it broke the ground down to an all-time high at the market closing on 10th June. Since the day it was listed, the stock has seen a one-way fall. Market pundits began to recommend the equity a week ago when it fell to Rs 830, maybe with the hope that its equity had sealed the bottom. But buyers were not easily tamable. After a nine-day unremitting fall, its price fell further to Rs 708 when the market closed on 10th June for the week. Perhaps, no analyst might have foreseen such a fall, thanks...
Read MoreScience drives the modern world that boasts about many achievements and better human awareness. People became more educated and made efforts to dive into the mystery of nature as deep as possible. We used all possible instruments from the sophisticated telescopic camera and high-power microscopes to watch everything from other planets to viruses. We used a high-speed computer to calculate complicated sums. Everything was unequivocal to prove what we believed. At present, the modern world needs indisputable data to believe everything firmly and establish every claim. Equipped with new systems and fortunate to have better learning infrastructure, a new generation is more progressively educated. We call them lucky to have the luxury of a good education. We believe progressive education ma...
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