India G20: Globalize Digital Financial Inclusion
By: V. Anantha Nageswaran and Chanchal C. Sarkar Alternative titles: Digital Financial Inclusion: A Whole New World of Opportunities G20 India: Taking Financial Inclusion to the last of the last mile Bringing in the new revolution in digital financial inclusion Financial Inclusion has long been recognised as a key enabler of economic growth and development. […]
Russia and Turkiye Collaborate in Syria to Uncle Sam’s Chagrin
By: M.K. Bhadrakumar The curtain is coming down on the brutal 11-year old Syrian conflict, which former US President and Nobel Laureate Barack Obama initiated, as the Arab Spring swept through West Asia two decades ago. The United States has suffered yet another big setback in West Asia as the year 2022 draws to a […]
Title: Budget as an instrument of delivery
By: Karan Bhasin A quintessential feature of Indian politics has been promises – some of them have been kept while many remain unfulfilled. Manifestos, government programs and even budget exercises have been a victim of the electoral politics – or coalition compulsions – that require promises that are meant to be broken. In late 2018, […]
The rationale for secondary school students not pursuing mathematics in a higher secondary course
Is there a problem with mathematics education in Jammu and Kashmir? There has undoubtedly been some media coverage of this issue in recent years. In general, almost all higher secondary or intermediate schools in India, and particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, are experiencing a continuous decline in mathematics enrollment. This precipitous drop in mathematics enrollment […]
Braille Communication in the Technological Age
World Braille Day-A Tribute to Louis Braille
By: M Ahmad As per WHO report 2022, there are around 2.2 billion people in the world living with some form of visual impairment. Blind include those with moderate or severe distance vision impairment or blindness due to unaddressed refractive error (88.4 million), cataract (94 million), age-related macular degeneration (8 million), glaucoma (7.7 million), diabetic […]
The biggest challenge for the year 2023 is unemployment, mental health
By: Shakir Nisar Year 2023 has arrived with hopes and aspirations of millions of people to see a better tomorrow, find peace, find jobs, good friends, partners etc. Youth are particularly hoping to find employment, good revenue generating avenues, better work conditions, better placements and productivity. However, unemployment remains the most talked about topic in […]
New year dreams that don’t let India sleep!
By: Dr. Satyawan Saurabh “At midnight, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom”. This “Tryst with Destiny” speech of Jawaharlal Nehru was symbolic of the dream that our freedom fighters had fulfilled. It also gave us the vision of the next dream to be followed by the people of India. Gandhi’s […]
Charity, Poverty, Publicity and Society
“The best among you are those who bring greatest benefits to the rest of the mankind” Prophet Mohammad (s. a. w)
By: Lubna Shabir Since ages, people have been living together sharing common interests and culture among other things and therefore form societies. Diversities in various characteristics are found in all the societies of the world. One important aspect in which diversity is found in societies is “income”. All the societies can be stratified into different […]
Gaslighting – Word of the Year
By: Dr Rohi The word “gaslighting,” defined as “the act or practise of severely deceiving someone especially for one’s own advantage,” has been named the 2022 Word of the Year by US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster. Searches in the online dictionary show that interest in the term has increased by 1,740% during the previous years. Gas […]
‘Saksham Scholarship Scheme’ for differently-abled students
By: M Ahmad Saksham Scholarship Scheme 2022-23 is an initiative for differently-abled students admitted to the first year of technical degree/diploma courses in any of the AICTE-approved institutions. Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Scheme is being implemented by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) with an aim to encourage and support specially-abled […]
