Why News of Population Decline and Economic Slowdown Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing
The Wall Street Journal called China’s slowdown “disappointing.” But for the environment, it is welcome news.
By: Richard Heinberg On January 17, 2023, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the country’s population fell in 2022 by 850,000 people from 2021, which was the first population decline witnessed by the country in six decades. This has mostly resulted from low birth rates stemming from the imposition of China’s one-child policy […]
LIVING WITH HEARING LOSS & USE OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
World Hearing Day
By: M Ahmad A person is said to have hearing loss if he/she is not able to hear and it can be mild, moderate, moderately severe, severe or profound, and can affect one or both ears. Major causes of hearing loss include congenital or early onset childhood hearing loss, chronic middle ear infections, noise-induced hearing […]
Are the Holi colors fading
By: Priyanka Saurabh Holi is such a colorful festival, which is celebrated by people of all religions with great enthusiasm and fun. On the day of Holi, everyone used to hug each other forgetting all enmity. But this festival of social brotherhood and mutual love and harmony, Holi, is also now seeing a phase of […]
Consequences of Parental Conflict on Children
By: Arshid Qalmi Children are sensitive to the arguments between their parents for several reasons. Children have an emotional bond with their parents, and they look up to them for love, support, and security. When parents argue, it can create an environment of tension and insecurity, which can be very distressing for children. Children are […]
Railways – The Engine of New Growth and Development in North-East India
In 1882, the first locomotive of the Dibru–Sadiya Railway connected the distant tea gardens with the Brahmaputra so that the commodity could eventually reach Kolkata. Over the decades since then, the Railways has helped reduce travel time from Dibrugarh to Kolkata from 15 days to 24 hours. However, even till 2014, the footprint of the […]
Contribution of Muslim scholars to various sciences
By: Umer Riyaz Muslim scholars have had a great influence on many other civilizations with different sciences and made significant contributions in various fields as they made original discoveries, inventions and advancements in fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, history and other important sciences. Here are some notable contributions of Muslim scholars to […]
Mother Tongue: The building blocks of education
India is a multilingual country with a plethora of languages spoken in its different parts. Besides twenty-two languages in the eighth schedule of the Constitution and ninety-nine other languages spoken by more than ten thousand speakers, there are many other languages and mother tongues which are spoken in smaller linguistic communities. It is an inherent […]
Russia-Ukraine war marks anniversary: world’s biggest failure
By: Dr Arpita Hazarika On this day in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The possibility that Russia’s own security would be threatened if Ukraine joined NATO led Russia to launch a special campaign against Ukraine that has turned into a fierce and devastating war. In the current unstable world situation, the Russia-Ukraine war, which has been […]
How democratic is the American democracy conference?
By: Taslima Hyat Among the election promises of the current US President Joe Biden, if elected, he will organize a global democracy conference in the first year. According to that promise, the first democracy conference was held. The question of how democratic this democracy conference has been raised. Because the 112 countries that have been […]
Possibilities, apprehensions about newness in technology
By: Priyanka Saurabh ChatGPT, Open AI’s new chatbot, is an ‘interactive’ AI that answers questions like a human. It is a variant of (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) a large-scale neural network-based language model developed by Open AI. ChatGPT is a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence that can be used to ask questions. The chatbot has been […]
