The very first digital currency of India: Will it aid in lessening the digital divide? Or create more division?

By : Satyaki Paul On August 02, 2021 our Hon’ble Prime Minister Modi introduced the new digital payment solution titled “E-RUPI”. In this context, the available information’s suggest that E-RUPI is a moneyless and contact-free digital payment method, which will be delivered to mobile phones of beneficiaries in form of an SMS-string or a QR […]

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Remembering the first medici of Kolkata: Prince Dwarkanath Tagore

By : Satyaki Paul The date August 01 marks the 175th death anniversary of Prince Dwarkanath Tagore (also colloquially known as Dwarkanath Thakur in Bengali). He was considered as the first medici due to the prominence of political and cultural renditions as similar to that of the Italian medici family. He was a renowned industrialist, […]

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Birsa Munda: The de jure leader of Munda Rebellion

By Satyaki Paul On June 9, 1900 Birsa Munda the young iconic tribal leader died in Ranchi Jail at Jharkhand (erstwhile Bihar). He was adorned with various names “Dharti Abba”, “Ulgulan”, “Bhagwan Birsa Munda”, etc. due to his high-spirited activism against the British Raj. Birsa Munda was born in the highly packed tribal region around […]

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British Medical Journal studies pesticide usage in India

By Sabatini Chatterjee On May 24, 2021 British Medical Journal published a research paper titled “Toxic Epidemiology of poisoning exhibited in Indian population from 2010 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis”. This paper opined on the malicious effect of pesticide poisoning which is increasing in the adult and young children in recent decades. The […]

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CHIME Experiment: detection of 535 new FRBs

By Satyaki Paul The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a Canadian radio telescope located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory. This is a national facility for astronomy operated by the National Research Council of Canada.This radio telescope was designed to answer major questions in astrophysics and cosmology. CHIME is aninnovative radio telescope that […]

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NASA’s Land Rover Snaps Pictures of Clouds in Mars

By Satyaki Paul The Curiosity rover was sent by NASA to explore Gale crater on Mars. It landed on Mars surface on August 6, 2012. The aim of the study was to observe Martian climatic conditions and Planetary habitability studies in preparation for anticipated future Human exploration. Around 2 years ago a research team first […]

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इस्लाम एक आधुनिक और अप-टू-डेट धर्म है

लेखक : अब्दुल रहमान       मतलब यह है कि इस्लाम हर स्थान और हर युग में पूरी तरह फिट हो जाने वाला धर्म है। आज दुनिया जिन समस्याओं से जूझ रही है, इस्लाम उनका बेहतरीन समाधान पेश करता है। आधुनिक युग की सबसे गंभीर समस्या निर्धनता है। कितने ऐसे देश हैं, जहां लोग भूख से […]

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মানবপাচার একবিংশ শতাব্দির একটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ সমস্যা

লেখিকা সাবাতিনি চ্যাটার্জী মানবপাচার একবিংশ শতাব্দিতে এসে একটি বৈশ্বিক সমস্যা হয়ে দাঁড়িয়েছে এবং ক্রমবর্ধমান পরিসংখ্যান অনুসারে এটি “অনেকটা আধুনিক দিনের দাসত্ব” হিসেবে কল্পনা করা হচ্ছে। মানব পাচারের সিংহভাগ তাই জোরপূর্বক শ্রম , আজীবন দাসত্ব, যৌন দাসত্ব বাণিজ্যিক যৌন শোষণ বা অঙ্গ উত্তোলন ইত্যাদি উদ্দেশ্যে মানুষ ব্যবসা করছেন।  এটি জঘন্যতম অপরাধ যা শুধু একটি দেশে সীমাবদ্ধ […]

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21वीं सदी में मानव तस्करी एक वैश्विक समस्या है

लेखिका :  सबातिनी चटर्जी       मानव तस्करी इक्कीसवीं सदी में एक वैश्विक समस्या बन गई है और इसकी कल्पना “आधुनिक दिनों की गुलामी” के रूप में की जा रही है। इसलिए मानव तस्करी में शेर का हिस्सा जबरन श्रम, आजीवन दासता, यौन दासता, व्यावसायिक यौन शोषण या अंग प्रत्यारोपण के उद्देश्य से है। यह सबसे […]

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