Author: Palak Dogra

NIOS is promoting 103 skill courses for kids to choose from. It will help school dropouts and specially-abled students. The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) organizes one hundred three courses based on skill development. The skill courses are curated for secondary and senior secondary students, and their main focus is on specially-disabled students. These courses will also be accessed by girl dropouts from Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya’s (KGBV) in Gujarat and Rajasthan. The chairman of NIOS, Saroj Sharma, said that the skill courses include courses on Cookery, IT Sector, Horticulture, Carpentry, Agriculture, Secretarial practices, Engineering, Home Science, Paramedical and…

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will hold webinars for teachers on January 27th as a part of their CBSE reading mission 2021-23 campaign.   About the webinar  The board notified the teachers of schools enrolled with CBSE about the webinar on January 26th. The board announced the webinar on their official Twitter handle. The tweet read, “CBSE under the Reading Mission Campaign announces webinars for teachers. Join us for a live session on January 27th 2022 The theme of the webinar is “storytelling as a pedagogy”. The programme will be a live session, and teachers can access it on…

Choosing outfits, matching accessories, and make-up is an everyday thing. However, as the pandemic struck the entire world, we stopped dressing up as we had nowhere to go. We always stay in our pyjamas, and to top it all, we had to listen to the disheartening and depressing news regarding COVID-19. Dopamine dressing or dressing for happiness is a trend of 2022 Fortunately, as the cases began to subside, people started going out, and for that, they had to dress up. One of the trends seen in the way people dressed up was “dopamine dressing”. Let’s have a look at…

From the time when pandemic struck the world, everything except the essential services came to a standstill. Tourism too came to a standstill as people had nowhere to go and were locked inside the four walls of their houses. NCAER said that up to 2026, it is difficult for Indian tourism to be similar to what it was before 2020. For good six to seven months, all tourism activities were on halt. The tourism industry has been the worst hit by the pandemic.     International Tourism  By the end of 2021, tourism started to revive as people were jabbed with COVID…

Two years ago, from today, the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world. Everything was at a standstill, including schools. However, as the vaccinations against COVID-19 started rolling out and the situation began to get better, nations worldwide opened schools for middle and high school children after months. Unfortunately, a new variant of COVID-19, called the Omicron virus, started to spread around the world and with that, schools were closed again. This consistent opening and closing of schools are hampering the development of children, especially for toddlers and pre-teens.   Many children didn’t even get to go to school because of their age,…

Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth went below Indian giants Gautam Adani, Mukesh Ambani’s net worth World’s tech giant and CEO of Meta, formerly known as Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, loses $29 billion as Meta saw a steep decrease in social media shares. About the event On Thursday, Meta had its most significant one-day drop in history, with its stock falling 26% and its market value collapsing by more than $230 billion. Its downfall came after a disappointing earnings report. On Wednesday, Zuckerberg outlined how Facebook was navigating a difficult transition from social networking to the metaverse, or virtual world. As per the…

District Collector, Shreya P. Singh, chaired a meeting of representatives of political parties at the District Collector on Thursday. Ms Shreya ordered the parties’ representatives to adhere to the code of conduct and avoid maximum violations. She said, “The model code of conduct would be in place at urban local bodies and in a five km radius of local bodies where elections have been announced.” She had observed that the rallies were being conducted in religious places and advised that doing the same was a violation of the poll code. She urged all the political parties to carry out rallies…

Usually, LGBTQ couples aren’t supported by their family for weddings. Hence, Dan Blevins started a tradition of stand-in parents in such marriages. LGBTQ couples, who do not receive the love, warmth and acceptance from their families, are usually found alone at their weddings. Thus, Dan Blevins started a tradition of “stand-in” parents so that the LGBTQ couples do not miss the presence of their parents on their special day.   What did Dan Blevins do?  To make this happen, Dan brought along thousands of “stand-in” parents from around the world who would act as parents to LGBTQ couples.   A dad and…

Milk cells in human breasts that were thought of as dead are alive and working, which ignites a ray of hope for many.   Research by Cambridge University found that dead breast milk cells are alive What happened?  Research conducted by members at Cambridge University has revealed that breast milk cells, which were thought of as dead, were alive. This piece of news comes as a blessing for many people battling breast cancer as these active milk cells can be used for treating breast cancer. This research is published in the journal “Nature Communications” this week.   These cells can give an…

Media acts as a magic bullet. What we see on television has an impact on the mind. Watching television at length can increase the fear of crime among individuals. All of us consume television daily, and mostly during prime time. As we know, whatever we see on the screens, has a direct impact on our minds. Be it violent shows, crime shows or happy/comedy shows. Violent shows will make us violent; crime shows might disturb us, and happy/comedy shows make us happy and cheerful. Probably, many of you here won’t accept my statement mentioned above and say that media doesn’t…