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Paid News Peddlers have Damaged Credibility of Profession
Paid News Peddlers have Damaged Credibility of Profession It hardly needs to be said that social and digital media have grown beyond all proportions in the last nearly two and half decades, due mainly to the easy availability and connectivity of the internet in all nooks and corners of the country. The speed has gained…
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Social Media: Empowering and Leveller Requires Regulatory Measures
A few days back Congress leader Sonia Gandhi read out a statement in the Lok Sabha about the negative role being played by social media like Facebook, Twitter and Utube etc. In fact, social media has been spreading all sorts of concocted and baseless stories more against the ruling dispensation than the opposition parties. Social…
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Nitish Kumar Must Apologise to the speaker for his Uncouth behaviour
It was a very sad and unfortunate spectacle to see the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar livid with rage against Assembly speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha yesterday on the floor of the House. Nitish Kumar is known for being a sober politician but the way he behaved with Speaker Shri Sinha was reprehensible, highly unbecoming of…
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Historic Victory of Yogi has Broken Many Myths and Superstitions
Yogi Adityanath has broken many myths in the UP-Assembly elections. He has successfully cast aside the superstition that any Chief Minister who visits NOIDA would soon lose the chair. Yogi has visited NOIDA many times as the Chief Minister and yet he has led his party to a spectacular win in the assembly elections. Those…
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Russia- Ukraine War: Throttling of Information by Western Media and Fascination for Half-baked Medical Degrees by Young Indians
Russia- Ukraine war has thrown two surprises before us. One is the enormity of Indian students, who go to Ukraine for medical education when the whole world knows that it is grossly sub-standard? In fact, the medical degrees of only Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America is recognised and…
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Why is no Muslim found to be a Kabirpanthi?
I have visited Maghar only twice, although it is only 25 Kilometres away from Gorakhpur, where I go almost every year to my in-law’s house. This place is famous because it is associated with the great saint Kabirdas. This place was earlier in the Basti District but now it falls in Sant Kabir Nagar, which…
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Galloping Progress of New Media
Galloping Progress of New Media The age-old principle of journalism has been to make headings short and attractive so that the reader, audience, or viewer may get interested in the news. The INTRO i.e., the introduction should be crispy, and it should be able to convey the gist of the news at the beginning itself.…
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Resolve Hijab Controversy by Enacting Uniform Civil Code
Hijab Row is Totally Absurd By Parmanand Pandey Hijab controversy is raging in the country. Ideally, there should be no objection to what one wears if it does not violate decency and decorum. Modern Muslim feminists like Wafa Sultan, Ayan Hirsi Ali have, in fact, been campaigning against those Islamic orthodoxies, which are retrogressive. They…
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Padma Vibhushan to late Radhey Shyam Khemka: A Well-Deserved Tribute to a Saintly Editor
Gorakhpur stands out for three things- Geeta Press, Gorakh Nath Mutt, and its Railway Station, which has perhaps one of the biggest platforms in the world. It was here in the Railway quarters, the world-renowned Kriya Yogi – Parmahansa Yoganand was born, who wrote the bestselling book, ‘An Autobiography of a Yogi’. Two Marwaris, Hanuman…
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Digitalisation of Currency will Revolutionise the Money Circulation
Digitalisation of Currency will Revolutionise the Money Circulation The biggest announcement that has been made in this year’s budget is that of the introduction of digital currency. It will, without doubt, revolutionise and transform the transaction of money sooner than we think. Evasion of taxes will become a thing of the past, but the biggest…