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“Online classes aren’t real education: House panel,” reported Times of India, Mumbai edition dated 07 August, 2021. This was the conclusion made by the parliamentary standing committee on education. The committee said that disruption of physical school activities would likely to impair the cognitive capabilities of the students. The committee’s report observed that lack of digital facilities and adaptation either due to the inaccessibility of technology or the educational backgrounds of the parents to guide the students had contributed towards learning loss among students of all classes and regions. The report added that due to continued cessation of classes, learning loss had acquired critical dimensions. The report titled, ‘Plans to Bridge the Learning gap and Plans for Reopening of Schools,’ further reported that the learning loss of more than one whole academic year certainly would have weakened the foundational knowledge of the students in many subjects like mathematics, scien...

  ‘The Maharashtra state home department is likely to set aside the reinstatement of the police inspector Anand Bhoir following a Times of India Report,’ claimed the leading news paper of Mumbai on 15 July, 2021. Police inspector, Anand Bhoir was reinstated despite having been caught by the Anti Corruption Bureau for accepting a bribe of Rs. 22 lakh in 2019. He was dismissed from service by the then Police Commissioner in 2019, who was reinstated by the MoS, home. Sachin Vaze, the tainted Mumbai cop was earlier suspended, was reinstated after 16 years. Vaze was not only reinstated in 2020, but was also given important cases to probe by the government of Maharashtra. He wielded a lot of power in the police force because of the blessings of the political leadership. Sachin Vaze alleged that the former home minister of Maharashtra, Anil Deshmukh, forced him to extort Rs. 100 crore every month from Mumbai bars and restaurants. For 2020, Transparency International Corruption Index...

  Since the onslaught of the pandemic, several doctors, nurses and front line health workers have done unthinkable humanitarian service and saved several million people, risking their own lives. The Indian Medical Association (IMA), a voluntary organization of medical professionals, on May 17, 2021 released a list of doctors who died in the line of duty, battling the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In the first wave of pandemic in 2020, nearly 750 doctors had succumbed to the disaster. IMA also claimed that the second wave of Covid-19 has claimed the lives of almost 270 doctors. The list includes K K Agarwal, a 62 year old, former national president of the IMA, who died on May 17. MoS Health, Ashwini Choubey said in the Rajya Sabha that 162 doctors, 107 nurses and 44 ASHA workers died due to Covid in India till January, 2021. There could be a mismatch in the figures of the causality reported, but the fact remains that several doctors, nurses and healthcare workers sacrificed the...

                                                   Covid-19- Unsung Samaritans – Huge Respect This pandemic has adversely impacted each and every one of us in some way or the other. Every news channel competes with the other to ensure that its viewership is increased by feeding sensational and often one sided news. Various political parties are trying their best to exploit the pandemic to score political points at the cost of public welfare. The print media is not far behind and try their best to further create panic and hopelessness among the public. Also, there are some ghastly disgusting cases of individuals trying to make some fast money by black-marketing the life savings drugs and also by supplying spurious medicines.   USA has one of the best healthcare infrastructures, resources at its command and money. But still it underwent immense struggle ...

Indian Advertising- Falling Standards   The Indian advertising market was valued at nearly INR 670 billion in 2020. This market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11% during the forecast period of 2021-2026 and to reach INR 1253.2 billion by 2026. Indian advertising industry has come a long way from the time the first product was advertised on television. The product was Gwalior Suitings and that appeared on 1 Jan, 1976. Soon, several advertisements started appearing. Majority of these advertisements were watchable and could connect with the viewers. During the 1980’s, the following seven product advertisements became popular and were considered outstanding: 1.       Maggi noodles-  Woman preparing Maggi and assuring the kids that it would be ready in just two minutes,  a jingle in the backdrop ending with – Maggi, Maggi, Maggi 2.       Liril – A model taking bath in a natural water fall, with a jingle in the background - la...