Neelam Chaudhary

New data shows that Indian men are shorter now than they were a decade ago. So are large numbers of women. Losing stature Distribution of mean height of men according to age. Source: Trends of adult height in India from 1998 to 2015: Evidence from the National Family and Health Survey. Distribution of mean height of women according to age. Source: Trends of adult height in India from 1998 to 2015: Evidence from the National Family and Health Survey. Why it matters India’s public health situation A new paper published on September 17 says that while the average height of people across the world is increasing, the average height of Indians is actually falling. The paper examines the trends in the heights of Indian men and women between the age groups of 15-25 and 26-50 based on the National Family and Health Surveys – and concludes that India’s indicators are actually getting worse. This is a worrying situation. Height is one of the most basic indicators of nutrition as well as ...

 Printing Paper- The term “GSM” stands for “grams per square meter.” What Are GSM Paper Types and How Are They Used? 35-55 gsm  – The lightest type of paper, ranging from translucent tracing paper to newsprint. 75-90 gsm  – You’ll find this weight of paper in sketchpads or notebooks. It’s thick enough to draw on with a pencil, but heavy ink or marker may bleed through. 90-100 gsm  – This is the weight of most types of household printer paper. 120-140 gsm  – The weight of your average promotional poster. Think movie posters hanging on a teenager’s bedroom walls or product posters hanging in store windows. 210-300 gsm  – This thicker type of paper is stiffer but still bendable. You’ll see it used for some magazine covers and higher-quality flyers. This is also the weight of most paper used for watercolours or painting. 350-450 gsm  – The highest GSM paper is pretty much cardstock. This is the stiffest, sturdiest paper and is used for business cards and i...

When can a cheque get bounced and dishonoured Presenting of the cheque to the Bank after 3 months Insufficient funds Alterations or overwriting in cheque Stopping of payment by the account holder Non-matching of signature Lack of sufficient funds in the bank account, or The amount on cheque exceeding the amount to be paid in agreement with the Bank Imprisonment extending up to two years, or Monetary fine which may extend to double the amount on the cheque, or Both of the above What Steps Should Be Taken By Payee If A Cheque Issued By A Company Is Dishonoured The cheque should be issued for the reason of discharge of a debt or liability, to invoke Section 138. Secondly, the   cheque needs to be submitted to the Bank within 3 months   from when it was drawn. After the cheque is returned unpaid by the bank, the  payee (receiver of money) should send a legal notice   to the Company demanding the Company to make the payment. If the Company has failed to reply or pay ...

  Me: Hey God. God: Hello, my love.  Me: I'm falling apart. Can you put me back together? God: I would rather not.  Me: 🤔 God: Because you are not a puzzle.   Me: What about all of the pieces of my life that are falling down onto the ground?   God: Let them stay there for a while. They fell off for a reason. Take some time and decide if you need any of those pieces back.   Me: You don't understand! I'm breaking down!    God: No - you don't understand. You are breaking through. What you are feeling is just growing pains. You are shedding the things and the people in your life that are holding you back. You are not falling apart. You are falling into place. Relax. Take some deep breaths and allow those things you don't need anymore to fall off of you. Quit holding onto the pieces that don't fit you anymore. Let them fall off.  Let them go.  Me: Once I start doing that, what will be left of me?   God: Only the very...

T. S. Tirumurti, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations   India joined the UNSC in January 2021 for a two-year term as one of the 10 rotating non-permanent members.  The ten elected or non-permanent members have a tenure of two years. At present, the non-permanent members are  Estonia, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Niger, Norway, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam .      Its previous terms were 1950-1951, 1967-1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1978, 1984-1985 , 1991-1992 and 2011-12 This is India's tenth tenure to  assume the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of August on Sunday.  The presidency of the Council is held by each of the members in turn for one month, following the English alphabetical order of the member states' names.  India will preside over the Council again for a month in 2022. June 1950,  September 1967,  December 1972,  October 1977,  February 1985,...

 (1) The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (2) The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 (3) Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (4) The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (PREVENTION, PROHIBITION and REDRESSAL) Act, 2013 (5) The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 (6) THE DOWRY PROHIBITION ACT, 1961 - THE DOWRY PROHIBITION ACT - THE DOWRY PROHIBITION ACT(RULES) (7) THE HARYANA STATE COMMISSION FOR WOMEN ACT,2012 (8) Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (9) Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (10) Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (i) Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017 (11) The Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation and Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 (12) The Payment of Wages (Procedure) Rules, 1935 (13) National Commission for Women, 1990 (14) The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (15) The Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques ( Regulation and Prevention Misuse) Rules, 1996 (16) I...

 Archery Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve Deepika Kumari, Women's Recurve Athletics KT Irfan, Men's 20km race walking Sandeep Kumar, Men's 20km race walking Rahul Rohilla, Men's 20km race walking Gurpreet Singh, Men's 50km race walking Bhawna Jat, Women's 20km race walking Priyanka Goswami, Women's 20km race walking Avinash Sable, Men's 3000m steeplechase Murali Sreeshankar, Men's long jump MP Jabir, Men's 400m hurdles Neeraj Chopra, Men's javelin throw Shivpal Singh, Men's javelin throw Annu Rani, Women's javelin throw Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Men's shot put Dutee Chand, Women's 100m and 200m Kamalpreet Kaur, Women's discus throw Seema Punia, Women's discus throw Badminton PV Sindhu, Women’s singles B Sai Praneeth, Men’s singles Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Men’s doubles Boxing Indian boxing queen MC Mary Kom.   Indian boxing queen MC Mary Kom.   Vikas Kri...

Pegasus is a software (spyware/program)  produced by the Israeli surveillance firm, NSO Group Technologies, a technology cybersecurity firm . Pegasus sends a malware link to the target user and once the user clicks on it, the code that allows the surveillance is installed on the person’s phone.  According to Citizen’s Lab, once Pegasus is installed and the phone is exploited, the attacker has complete access to the target user’s phone. It then begins contacting the operator’s command and control (C&C) servers to receive and execute operators’ commands and send back the target’s private data, including passwords, contact lists, calendar events, text messages, and live voice calls from popular mobile messaging apps. The operator can even turn on the phone’s camera and microphone to capture activity in the phone’s vicinity.  The use of Pegasus’s software to spy, first emerged in 2016, when Ahmed Mansoor, a human rights activist in the UAE, was targeted with an SMS link o...

 New Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad)  U.S., Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan (2021)- to promote the Afghan peace process, stability, trade-in region and enhancing regional connectivity, Meeting on 16th April 2021 of  6+2+1 Contact Group on Afghanistan 6= China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan  2 = United States and Russia 1= Afghanistan  India sidelined from regional discussions on Afghanistan India was conspicuous by its absence from the meeting on April 16, given its historical and strategic ties with Afghanistan, but not for the first time. In December 2001, for example, the Indian team led by special envoy Satinder Lambah arrived in Germany’s Petersberg hotel near Bonn, where the famous Bonn agreement was negotiated, to find no reservations had been made for them at the official venue. In January 2010, India was invited to attend the “London Conference” on Afghanistan but left out of the room during a crucial meeting that deci...

Sugarcane cultivation in India has expanded in the last few decades.  Factors that helped  India become the second-largest producer of sugar worldwide are the  policies that incentivize production-    A  minimum price Guaranteed sales of sugarcane   Public distribution of sugar  Factors  are paralysing the entire sugar sector.   rainfall deficit,  depleting groundwater table,  delayed payment to cane farmers,  lower net income (for the farmer) compared to other crops,  labour shortage and increasing cost of labour, followed by Covid-19 pandemic  As sugarcane is a cash crop, rectifying issues that grapple the sugarcane industry remains critical for Indian agriculture and doubling farmer’s income. Associated Challenges With Sugarcane Industry 1.Pricing Controls: In order to plug the demand-supply mismatch, the union & state governments have been controlling sugar prices through various policy intervention...

 List of UK Prime Ministers from  Margret Thatcher to Boris Johnson   Conservatives (Tories) Margaret Thatcher  (12 yrs) 1979-1990          (1925–2013) John Major,   (7 yrs) 1990-97 David Cameron (6 yrs) 2010-16   Theresa May (3 yrs) 2016-19   Boris Johnson (2 yrs) 2016 ----till date     Labour. (1997-2010) Tony Blair (10 yrs) 1997-2007 Gordon Brown (3 yrs) 2007-2010 Poster war   ( 30.06.2021) Boris Johnson’s decision not to condemn Narendra Modi over the Indian Prime Minister’s policies on Kashmir has become an issue in a British by-election that takes place on Thursday. The Labour Party is fighting to hold on to the constituency of 80,000 voters at Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire where it has a slim majority of 3,525 and where polling shows the Tories are in the lead. In an effort to appeal to the constituency’s 8,600 Muslim voters, mostly Pakistani, the Labour party has issued a provocativ...

 45 Famous Doordarshan Era Newsreaders and Anchors Salma Sultan, Neethi Ravindran, Gitanjali Aiyar, Minu Talwar,  Sarla Maheshwari, Shobhana Jagdish,, Gitanjali Iyer, Usha Albuquerque,   Minu Talwar, Shammi Narang, Manjari Joshi,  Sunit Tandon,   Avinash Kaur Sarin, Ved Prakash, Narottam Puri,   Baritone Tejeshwar Singh, Komal.G.B.Singh,  Sadhana Shrivastav, Ramu Damodaran, Tejeshwar Singh, Pratima Puri, Shammi Narang, Sunit Tandon, Vinod Dua, Neelam Sharma, Sashi Kumar,  Mukta Shrivastav, Sudha Chopra.,   Jyotsana Rai,   Veena Mishra, K.K. Raina, Kaveri Mukherjee,   Rama Pandey,Luku Sanyal, Rajiv Mehrotra, Prannoy Roy , Syed Shabir Ahmed, Shivendra Kundra,Pankaj Mohan,Sukanya Balakrishnan: Manju Singh Avinash Kaur Sarin  Salma Sultan Neethi Ravindran Neethi Ravindran   Gitanjali Aiyar, Minu Talwar, Neethi Ravindran and Salma Sultan Rini Simon. Sarla Maheshwari Shobhana Jagdish Shobhana Jagdis...