Category: Face To Face

The Indian Army, on October 20, launched attacks on terrorist camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). The attacks were in retaliation to the Pakistan Army’s support to push terrorists into Indian territory, news agency ANI reported.   News agency PTI reported that at least four-five terrorists were killed in the shelling by the Indian Army. However, News18 reported that over 35 terrorists have been eliminated.   According to ANI, the Indian Army used artillery guns to target the terrorist camps opposite the Tangdhar sector, inflicting significant damage to the Pakistani side.   Sources…

The Indian railways, in a major policy shift has decided to do away with paper-based traditional tendering methods and assign an e-tendering process while bidding for parking, catering and parcel leasing, worth about Rs 3,000 crore a year.   Besides, the contracts for getting space at rail premises for ATMs, advertisements and other publicity-related matters will also go online to bring about transparency and thus making deadlock for unethical elements in the tendering process.   “There were complaints against the prevailing bidding system as the scope of formation of cartels…

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California.   Today, Google provides marketers like me with so much of your personal data that we can infer more about you from it than from any camera or microphone. There have never been more opportunities for marketers like me to exploit your…

The government took a number of steps and barred e-commerce firms from selling products of the companies in which they have equity stakes or management control. The commerce and industry ministry also prohibited e-commerce companies from entering into an agreement for exclusive sale of products. The law that will be enforced to keep an eye on the online marketplaces with foreign investment are going to help and hinder many. The new rule in the policy bars any entity related to ecommerce platforms from selling on that site and imposes a…

Last week, Quora announced that 100 million user accounts were compromised, including private activities like downvotes and direct messages, by a “malicious third party.” Data breaches are a frustrating part of the lifecycle of every online service – as they grow in popularity, they become a bigger and bigger target. Nearly every major online service has had a security breach – Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, Tumblr, Uber, Evernote, eBay, Adobe, Target, and Sony all extensively have faced data breach in the last few years. Security breaches like these are a…

Role of climate and weather in crop production and management   Climate and weather are significant factors affecting agriculture production around the world. Both seasonal and regional variability in weather directly influences crop yield potential. While advances in technology have enabled farmers to adopt modern techniques in agriculture and thus enhance their farm output, weather remains a major factor affecting their crops. From plantation to harvest, precipitation, temperature, sunshine hours and wind can affect the quality and quantity of a crop. The correlation between crop volumes and weather can result…

With the approaching Lok Sabha elections for the year 2019, one can anticipate the string of controversies that are going to sprout like weed in near future in addition to all the ones which have already engaged the masses like, the ongoing hunger strike, political parties taking pot shots, blaming each other for bad governance and finding faults with reservation policies.    The reservation system in modern India has become a political weapon to draw votes and brainwash youths. However, saying that reservation is not needed now would also be…

By Akshay Modi, VP, Olive Oil Association of India    Edible oils are under constant scrutiny and criticism for posing potential threat to health. While a significant number of the population is opting for a no-fat diet, health experts are voicing their concerns on fat-free diet. Nutritionists are of opinion that fat free diet does not fit into the mechanism of body as majority of human anatomy is made of fats such as cell tissues, brain. Brain needs fat to perform its neurological deliverables and in absence of fat in…

India can’t achieve developed nation status until it finds a way to bridge the gap created by gender bias in terms of employment. The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap index 2017 ranked India at 108th place on gender equality, behind China, Nepal and Bangladesh. We are stuck in an ugly situation as of now and the reasons for it are deeply disturbing. For starters, we have a stagnant job market despite the economy growing at more than 7% growth rate. Secondly, government’s various initiatives to create jobs have…

Every year in India, approximately 123000 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed and 68000 women die from this deadly disease. Maximum numbers of cases occur in rural areas as compared to urban areas because of lack of awareness, knowledge and facilities to diagnose. Fortunately the incidence is decreasing but unfortunately it is still one of the most common cancer in Indian women, along with breast cancer.   Cervical cancer is a cancer arising from the lower narrow part of the uterus which is the entrance to the womb. It…