Anupriya Patel, an Apna Dal MP from Uttar Pradesh demanded a ban on the web series ‘Mirzapur’, recently released on Amazon Prime, claiming that it was maligning the image of Mirzapur by portraying it as a ‘violent’ region. Also, earlier this year, there were demands to ban the series â...
At present, it seems that mankind is shrouded by chaos and violence. Caste, creed, faith, race, colour, language and religion are constantly playing a detrimental role in dividing mankind. At a time when intolerance has become the ‘new normal’, intellectuals are filled with doubts and disa...
Angus Deaton, Nobel-winning economist, in his 2013 book, ‘The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality’, wrote that the cholera epidemic in London in the mid-nineteenth century and the Spanish flu pandemic after the first World War made people and governments all over the...
India has the world's fastest growing outbreak of Covid-19 in absolute numbers - reporting more than 10.1 million infections as of December 22, 2020. Covid-19 has not only affected the economic growth of the country but has also impacted the core component of human development – a long and h...
According to the 2011 Census, there were 450 million internal migrants in India by the ‘Place of Last Residence’ metric which accounted for almost 37.7% of the total population (Registrar General of India 2011). An article titled, “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Internal Labour Migration in I...
In April, 2017, a report in The New Indian Express titled ‘Delayed payments of fellowships leave UGC students at Hyderabad in the lurch’ stated that the delay in disbursement of fellowship ranged between two to eight months. Again, in 2019, there were protests by the research scholars across the...
Researchers have been working worldwide to find a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has created unprecedented public/private partnerships with a few vaccines receiving authorisation till now. Operation Warp Speed (OWS) is a collaboration of s...
Various governments and municipalities are fighting against illegal construction of structures on non-permitted land holdings. Recently, the demolition of the illegal portion of Kangana Ranaut’s bungalow at Bhadra in Mumbai has initiated a lot of controversies and discussions. In this case, ...
At present, the digital marketing trends cannot be overlooked, irrespective of the services, products or ideas. Moreover, with the growing culture of work from home (WFH), especially with the Covid-19 pandemic, digital marketing has become all the more necessary than ever. In order to be compe...
A home-maker from Kolkata shared her experience with BE. Once she got a call from an unknown number claiming to be her bank representative, asking for her debit card details. According to her, “He said that my debit card had expired. So, he needed the details in order to start the rene...