Joe Biden is finally going to take oath as the President of the United States of America (US) after prolonged violence fuelled by angry Trump supporters. Biden had served as the Vice President (VP) during Barack Obama’s tenure. As President, Biden will probably try to create an example of no...
The Indian Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has shifted much of their focus towards motor vehicles aggregators since last year. Recently, the Union government has issued the Motor Vehicle Aggregator Guidelines for the country as per the requirements and provisions of the Motor Vehicles ...
Human development is concerned about expanding human freedoms and opening more choices. It is a common belief that with economic growth, scale of human development will improve. But this is not sacrosanct. Looking back United Nations Development Programme publish the Human Developmen...
Almost a year has passed since the Covid-19 virus struck. Scientists and researchers are presently busy in finding a permanent cure. However, there is a mountain of misinformation being widely circulated on Covid-19 including about vaccines against it. Types of negative messages include misinformati...
An actor - when shooting his debut film - starts writing a psychological biography of the character he is playing. He writes a whole personal diary of the character. Surprisingly, the young actor does this just for recognising and realising the essence of his role better. The actor was So...
The Indian government has recently published data informing that the last consecutive seven days have shown a decrease in the new number of infections among citizens nationally. But importantly, in few states, the recent festive season has increased the number of per day coronavirus case...
Digital engagements like scrolling social media platforms or reading newspapers online offer people entertainment or information. But behind this, a larger profitable business is going on by using the ‘users’ of these platforms. Along with data in government or public records, our in...
Social media bio-data is something that gives social network sites a direct exposure to the users’ personal lives. Personal information that is expected to be completely personal, whenever it is put into a social network, is no more private information. Immediately it becomes a tool to reach...
Oscar awardee filmmaker Martin Scorsese in his film, Gangs of New York (2002) in the backdrop of the American Civil War, showed a group of men shouting slogans, “Down with Lincoln. Lincoln will make all white men slaves,” referring to the great American leader, Abraham Lincoln - thro...
As the pandemic related lockdown was implemented, people started to order from online platforms even more. But delivery agents who stand at the last stage of the supply management chain are an essential part of this retail ecosystem. The socio-economic conditions of the delivery agents a...