National capitals are supposed to be the best cities that nations showcase to the world. But India cannot claim to such a glory as the toxic conditions in National Capital Region (NCR) is creating quite a menace. The entire region is covered in smoke, smog and pollution. This seems to have become a depressingly annual ritual for the Indian capital - a pollution blanket in winter, turning the city into so called "Gas-Chamber". A mix of various local factors, and huge scale crop residue burning in neighboring states, creates a situation dangerous enough for citizens' health and life. The level of carcinogenic pollutants in Delhi's air was roughly 10 times the reading in the Beijing, a city which is more globally infamous for its pollution. The Air Quality Index (AQI), in November 2017, in Delhi was 900+ while it was little over 100 in Beijing. Many experts are calling this situation of Delhi as a major public health emergency. The AQI in Delhi deteriorated since No...

The long burning issue of Rohingya Muslim has suddenly became the center point of political discussions in India, many petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court (by the Rohingyas themselves). Indian government is insisting on deportation of Rohingya linking this decision with the National Security. But the core issue with the deportation is that Myanmar does not consider Rohigyas as their citizens, but consider them as immigrants. (For more on Rohingya read my earlier blog  here ). Repercussion of violence in Rakhine state of Myanmar (Western part) are felt around the world,  particularly in the neighboring countries like Bangladesh, India and other South East Asian nations. Due to the ongoing tension in Myanmar many Rohingya people fled Myanmar and over 40,000 made their way to India, many of whom are registered with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), and stay in refugee camps. The U nion Minster of state for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju called them i...

About Rohingya: The controversy surrounding Myanmar's Rohingya people (Muslim) is evident in conflicting stories about the ethnic group's origin. Rohingya people are a stateless Indo-Aryan people from Rankine State Myanmar. The majority are Muslim, while a minority are Hindu. Rohingya Muslims numbers more than a million today in Myanmar.  The Burmese government and Burmese Historians argue that the Rohingya are actually Bengali Muslims, refusing to recognize the term "Rohingya".  They do not consider the Rohigyas as their citizens and consider them to be immigrants who brought in from Bangladesh during the British Colonial Era of 1824-1948. Majority of Rakhine Buddhists believe that "Rohingya" is a fabricated religious identity. They go on to cite historical document to claim that the Burmese past never had a community called Rohingya and that those who refer to themselves by the name are basically immigrants from modern day Bangladesh who were brough...

History of INDIA is very rich in terms of having Kingdoms, Architecture, Literature and many other things, and agriculture has always been in focus point for the economic activity. Over centuries growth of agriculture has contributed a lot in rise of civilisations. Before agriculture became the widespread activity, peoples were nomads. They roam around in search of food - hunting wild animals and gathering wild eatable plants - on daily basis. They were not settlers so they did not prosper. Eventually people learnt how to grow cereals and other edible roots, this was the turning point when they decided to settle down and live a life based on farming. Over some centuries dependence on agriculture increased heavily because of  which civilisations prosper a lot. Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) or Harappan Civilisation  (one of the several civilizations during that time period), which was situated on the bank on the river Indus, prosper because farming started producing surplus...

Eighteen soldiers were killed by four heavily armed terrorist/militant on September 18, 2016 in Uri area of Baramulla district (Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir). It is not the first time that some militant or terrorist group had attacked India. In early this year there was an attack on Pathankot Air Force Station, part of the Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force. From time to time India had faced many such terrorist attacks along with a constant insurgence by the militants/terrorist in state of Jammu and Kashmir (most Terrorist come from State of Pakistan). India had always tolerated it and tried to go by the procedure. But this time it was different as India had it all, now the Indian government is trying to reciprocate the actions done by the Pakistan, in a diplomatic manner. In this view the Modi government has embarked on a series of retaliatory steps including - sustained diplomatic offensive, reviewing 56-year-old water treaty, boycotting regional inter...

Congratulation to Badminton Player PV Sindhu for securing Silver Medal, Wrestler Player Sakshi Malik for her Bronze and Gymnast Dipa Karmakar for her creditable fourth position.   It is now the end of the Rio Olympics - 2016. Overall this Olympics was bad news for India. India was able to score only 2 medal (1 Silver and 1 Bronze) despite being a home of more than 1.3 billion people and tens of millions of sports fan. In the 21st Century this was the worst performance by India in Olympics.  Before the start of the event it is said that India will be able to able to get 12-14 medals but the results are not fruitful as the commitment. In the history of Olympics India was only able to score 28 medal (9 Gold, 7 Silver and 12 Silver) - equal to the Gold tally of Michael Phelps, American Swimmer, itself. The overall performance of India in each Olympics is summarize in the table below:  India has performed poor in this Olympics and every other Olympic g...

Earlier I have written about the  Evolution of Technology , in which I have talked about how inventions and innovations have happened to develop new technology and ideas in the past . Now in this blog I am going to talk the Miniaturization of technology in day-to-day term we call it 'Nanotechnology'.   This nanotechnology is the new upcoming ideas towards the future. It has already passed several steps, and yet it is in the process of refinement. Nanotechnology can be defined as a branch of technology and deals with dimensions and tolerance of less than 100 nano-meters, especially the manipulation of individual atom or molecule.  and engineering of functional or as engineering of functional system at the molecular scale. Some experts may still insist that nanotechnology can refer to measurement or visualization at the scale of 1-100 nano-meters, but a consensus seems to be forming around the that control and restructuring of matter at the nano-scale is a nec...

Becoming a superpower is one of the most intriguing dream of any person or country. When we talk about person we talk talk about domination of one person over the others, but when we talk about the country we are talking about the world domination. When a country think to dominate the world, it has to prove itself not just in one field, but in many. This process is not simple and easy as it sounds. Even though becoming the dominating power, being an authoritative and influential power to other countries of the world is not new, and its roots have deep embedded in our history. As we all know that today the world is a multi-polar world, means there are multiple emerging powers in different regions of the world, but one power above all is United States of America. But the situation has never been the same, there were times when other countries in the world has dominated the rest. It is an evolving process in which every country has got the chance if it fulfill the expectations/criteria...

Agriculture has been a primary activity since the early period of the human history, and it has remained the oldest economic activity. Around two-third of the population of India is involved in agriculture and its allied activities, making it the largest livelihood provider. Most of the production by the farmers is consumed domestically and very little is exported. Agriculture is the prime source of providing work to the rural India but its contribution in the GDP is minimal. Year-by-year the contribution of agriculture and its allied allied activities in the GDP decreased from 55% in 1950-51 to 18.2% in 2013-14, which is very sad. In fact India is the largest producer, consumer and exporter of spices and spice products. India's fruit production has grown faster than vegetables! making it the second largest fruit producer in the world. India's horticulture fruits, vegetables and spices reached to a record high of 283.5 million tonnes (MT) in 2014-15. It ranks third in fa...

The price of West Texas and Brent crude oil has dived below $34 per barrel! lowest in 11 years, world in shock. Reasons: 1. China's slow growth rate:  Asia's largest consumer of oil, and largest & fastest growing economy, has seen slowest growth of the generation. Its currency 'Yuan' is also depreciating in the global market. Trading on its stock markets has also been suspended (twice in a week), because of the same reason. The world Bank has predicted that China's trouble will also lead to decrease in commodity prices. The demand of oil in China has reduced significantly due to which global market is overwhelmed with the glut of oil. 2. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) undivided:  The breaking off of diplomatic relation between Iran and Saudi Arabia shows just how it is impossible for those rival countries to cooperate for the oil prices. The Saudi Arabia, largest producer in OPEC , is pumping excess of 10 million barrels-a-day to the...

Ancient Greek Philosopher Plato had once said that 'Necessity is the Mother of Invention'; means difficult/different problems and situations require whole new thoughts and ideas to counter it. These new ideas help in the invention or innovation, creation or development of machines, devices and computers, above all factories (where are these can be made or manufactured). These are used for the production of certain goods & services, and also for the accomplishment of certain scientific objectives. Earlier when it is thought that the resources present in the world are limited. To survive, these resources needs to be snatched from the others. This was the period when the idea of Mercantilism prevail in the world. Because of this thought most of the European Nations expanded themselves all over the world (esp. Great Britain). But in the  eighteenth century AD when industrial revolution began in United Kingdom, then the idea of  Mercantilism  faded. They started to th...

Some Facts and Comparison: India is a diversified country having populous of peoples belonging to different race, caste and religions. According to the recent census, 2011, the population of India is estimated as 1210 millions. India is ranked second largest populated country in the world, right behind China whose population is 1340 millions (census 2010). It is evident from the trend of the growth that India is going to leave behind China in coming years, and will become the most populated country in the the world. India holds 17.5% of the total world population but has only 2.4% of total land area in the world, while China hold 20% population and has 7% of land area. USA has 6% of world population and 7% of the land area, while Russia holds only 5% of the population and has 12% of the land area. Latest Trend of Population (source: google.co.in) Achievements and failures by Indian Governments in past 67 years: Achievements:  Governments since Independenc...

राष्ट्रभाषा किसी राष्ट्र के माथे का तिलक होता है। भाषा परस्पर विचार-विमर्श एवं मनोभावों तथा विचारो के आदान-प्रदान की सशक्त माध्यम है। भाषा अतीत तथा वर्तमान को भविष्य से जोड़ती है। भाषा ज्ञान-विज्ञानं की उन्नति तथा देश की सभ्यता और संस्कृति की सुरक्षा का आधार है।  भारत में अनेक भाषाओं का प्रयोग किया जाता है जिनमें हिंदी सर्वाधिक महत्वपूर्ण भाषा है। इसी कारण से भारत की राष्ट्रभाषा हिंदी है और हिंदी भारत की राष्ट्रभाषा होने के साथ-साथ राजभाषा भी है। हिंदी भारत की ही नहीं पूरे विश्व में एक विशाल क्षेत्र  जनसमूह की भाषा है, और विश्व की जनसंख्या का बहुत बड़ा भाग हिंदी बोलता, समझता तथा लिखता है। हिंदी भाषा और इसमें निहित भारत की सांस्कृतिक धरोहर इतनी सुदृढ़ एवं समृद्ध है कि इस ओर इसमें अधिक प्रयत्न न किये जाने पर भी इसके विकास की गति बहुत तेज है। ध्यान, योग और आयुर्वेद विषयो के साथ-साथ इनसे सम्बंधित हिंदी शब्दों का भी विश्व की दूसरी भाषाओ के साथ विलय हो रहा है।  भारतीय संगीत, हस्तकला, भोजन और वस्त्रो की मांग विदोशो में जैसी...