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SMART PEOPLE USE SMARTPHONE,  BUT YOU ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH IF YOU DON'T USE ONLINE MODE OF PAYMENT  BECAUSE COVID IS SMARTER THAN YOU. If you have a smart phone and your phone number is already linked with the bank account, you can easily migrate to mobile banking. Lockdown or no lockdown, adopting digital payments is the way to go. Steps involved are simple—download, activate and start using—in flat five minutes, if not two minutes as is claimed by many. For downloading the mobile banking package of your bank, go to Play Store/App Store in your phone. As you open the app, it would lead you to activate your mobile banking and ask a few questions to validate whether you are the right customer. It may also ask you to create a user ID and password. You will find various functionalities in the mobile banking app—including payments through IMPS and NEFT. Many banks have integrated UPI, bill payments and e-commerce links in the bank app itself. Thus, you would have all thr...

How can both parties de-escalate the situation? Samir Saran  ( Doctor Samir Saran, the Vice President of India`s Observer Research Foundation, ) : Neither India nor China can afford to ignore the geopolitical implications of their actions. If the contest is to be resolved, the situation at Doklam must be de-escalated through the mutual withdrawal of troops, followed by a summit level conversation between the two countries. While a National Security Advisor level meeting amongst the BRICS countries has already taken place in July, possibly opening up space for a dialogue, the importance of the issue implies that it will have to be taken up at the leadership level. This is probably a good time to reinvigorate the Special Representatives dialogue process on boundary settlement. Both sides will have to dial down the rhetoric and more importantly, offer face saving concessions in order to placate domestic sentiments and larger strategic anxiety. This face-off is also a reminde...

An inspiring story from Nelson Mandela will keep you motivated this Lockdown Period. Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom  is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlah...

In  The Planetary Being  Dorothy Maclean wrote " I remind you that any action, however small, taken on behalf of the whole makes a tremendous contribution. Never consider yourselves powerless. Never consider that the situation is hopeless. In this time of great change you are the catalysts of change, part of Me in our ongoing, our unfolding, our purity. Together we are a blessing. " We are all experiencing the planetary crisis/opportunity of COVID-19. Even as we practice social distancing or self isolation, awareness is growing that we are one incredible family. It feels surreal, a global wake-up call, a critical juncture in humankind’s evolution and an invitation towards adaptation and resilience. And we can’t help but notice that with the human race on ‘pause’, there is a sense of spaciousness as the Earth finally has a chance to rest and heal too. 

From the mid of April,  191 countries  announced or implemented school or university closures, impacting millions of students. Many educational institutions started offering courses online to ensure education was not disrupted by quarantine measures. Technologies involved in distant learning are similar to those for remote work and also include  virtual reality, augmented reality, etc.   During this pandemic, technologies are playing a crucial role in keeping our society functional in a time of lockdowns and quarantines. And these technologies may have a long-lasting impact beyond COVID-19. Concerns about distance learning include the possibility the technologies could create a  wider divide  in terms of digital readiness and income level. Distance learning could also create  economic pressure  on parents – more often women – who need to stay home to watch their children and may face decreased productivity at work. One of the famous vid...

Over recent years, as the  United Nations  specialised agency for tourism, UNWTO has been regularly monitoring travel facilitation and observing a continuous trend towards more openness.  COVID-19 has dramatically interrupted this, the UNWTO said in a new report. Almost all global destinations have imposed restrictions on travel since January 2020, including complete bans on all travel as they work to contain the pandemic, it noted. "According to research carried out for the new report, as of April 6, 96% of all worldwide destinations have introduced travel restrictions in response to the pandemic. Around 90 destinations have completely or partially closed their borders to tourists, while a further 44 are closed to certain tourists depending on country of origin," it said. "With tourism suspended, the benefits the sector brings are under threat. Millions of jobs could be lost, and progress made in the fields of equality and sustainable economic growth could be rolled b...

Sushant Singh Rajput allegedly committed suicide at his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14. Rajput was an Indian television and movie actor who is best remembered for his work in the then-popular show Pavitra Rishta, where he played the role of Manav Deshmukh. He was associated with the show from 2009 to 2011, after which he bagged the role in  Abhishek Kapoor `s  Kai Po Che!  in 2013, for which he won a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Debut and three awards in the same category.  Suicide is never a new story in Bollywood. Just after his dimised, the questions of Nepotism kept of rising. But everytime when dis things happened provocative words like Nepotism rampants over Indian Media's. They will furnished some past evidence and start asking irrevalent questions and follow up by blaming some celebrities or the other. This is the culture that has been practicing for the past 50 years ,didn't we !. Instead of following the proof and evidences furnish...