Sri Lankan customs officials recently returned yet another consignment of illegally dumped garbage from the United Kingdom. According to Sri Lankan authorities, between 2017 and 2019, 3000 tonnes of waste, packed in 263 containers, were shipped from the UK to Sri Lanka. The waste, after being labeled as ‘Used mattresses, carpets, rugs’, was illegally parked on Sri Lankan coasts. The investigation by Sri Lankan authorities also revealed that the importer of waste routed 180 tonnes of the garbage dumped in 2017, and 2018 to India and Dubai. This is not the first instance where a developed nation has dumped its waste into…
Author: NK Jha
भारत की स्वर कोकिला, लता मंगेशकर, अपने स्वरों के असीम वैभव को पीछे छोड़ व्योम में विलीन हो चलीं। 92 वर्ष की आयु में, आज सवेरे, मुंबई के ब्रीच कैंडी अस्पताल में स्वर साम्राज्ञी का निधन हुआ। सिनेमाई जगत के लिए लता मंगेशकर महज़ एक कलाकार नहीं थीं। उनके व्यक्तिगत जीवन के कई किस्से, उनके भीतर के मनुष्य की महानता का बयान है। एक ऐसा ही अध्याय हिंदी सिनेमा के ‘कोहिनूर’ दिलीप कुमार से जाकर जुड़ता है। लता मंगेशकर दिलीप कुमार को अपना मुंहबोला भाई मानती थीं। रक्षा बंधन के अवसर पर कई दफा वह उनको राखी बांधने जाया करतीं।…
While an alarming number of people in the civilised world continue to debate weather climate change and global warming is actually a thing, the very first physical manifestation of the doomsday are here already. Often nicknamed as Earth’s 8th continent, Madagascar, an island nation of African continent is the first to be hit by this phenomenon. Nearly 80% of plant and animal species found in this country exist nowhere else on the planet. This island nation is considered as one of the hottest ecological hotspot on the planet. However, today the nation is facing what experts call the first climate…
Mermaids are probably the most fantasized beings in human imagination. Part fish-part women mythological beings, the mermaids are lost somewhere in the folklores today. On the brink of vanishing into the folklores are the creatures (Dugongs) who happen to be their nearest living resemblance and the muse behind the folk tales. The Voices explores the ecological significance of the species and roads to India’s first Dugong conservation park recently announced by Tamil Nadu Government. Dugongs Also known as “sea cows,” Dugongs graze on sea grasses in shallow coastal waters of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Dugongs are cousins of…
On September 2, 2021, The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Account Aggregator (AA) framework kicked off and eight of India’s major banks — State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, IDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, HDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank and Federal Bank announced their participation in the network as Financial Information Provider (FIP). RBI had approved AA as a new class of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) In 2016, entrusted with the task of facilitating the transfer of user’s financial data with their prior and explicit consent. Once operational to its full capacity, AA system is expected to ease…
The question if we are are the only intelligent sentient beings in the universe has baffled mankind for millennia. The good news is, we might be closer to finding an answer to this mystery than we believe. Astronomers at the University of Cambridge have identified a novel category of exoplanets (planets outside solar system), Hycean planets, as a potential class of habitable planets with “massive oceans and H2-rich atmospheres.” Research authored by astronomers Nikku Madhusudan, Anjali Piette, Savvas Constantinou from Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge recently appeared in The Astrophysical Journal. The research paper titled ‘Habitability and biosignatures of Hycean Worlds’ has infused a fresh perspective to the pursuit of…
There is an ongoing struggle to revive indigenious languages that are facing extinction
Eswatini (erstwhile Swaziland) continues to grapple with it’s destiny through a tug of war between pro democracy protestors and Africa’s last remaining Monarch King Mswati III who has been ruling the country for over 3 decades now. Pro democracy protests exploded all across the country after an Eswatini law student Thabani Nkomonye was allegedly shot dead by the Police. Experts believe the alleged murder of the student is just an immediate trigger to the unrest that was brewing subsurface for years now. Years of mis-governance, massive expenditure on state opulence, a political system devoid of space for opposition parties has…
क्या आप जानते हैं कि अभिनय सम्राट यूसुफ़ ख़ान का नाम ‘दिलीप कुमार’ कैसे पड़ा? क्यों दिलीप कुमार ने महबूब खान की ‘मदर इंडिया’ में काम करने से मना कर दिया? 1962 में चीन युद्ध के बाद कौनसी महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका उन्हें दी गयी? भारतीय संसद में वो कौनसा वक्तव्य था जिससे चौंक पड़े थे सब? आखिर कैसे दिलीप कुमार की हमराह हो गयीं सायरा बानू?जानिए हिंदी सिनेमा के ट्रेजेडी किंग, भारतीय सिनेमा के कोहिनूर दिलीप कुमार के सिनेमाई, सामाजिक और व्यक्तिगत जीवन के कुछ अनछुए पहलू दी वॉइसेस की इस ऑडियो स्टोरी ‘सफरनामा’ के माध्यम से। प्रस्तुति: एन. के. झा…
शम्मा रह गई है और परवाना चला गया है। लंबी बीमारी के बाद 98 वर्ष की उम्र में हिंदी सिनेमा के कोहिनूर और ट्रेजेडी किंग दिलीप कुमार ने मुंबई में कल अंतिम सांस ली। 1922 में पाकिस्तान के पेशावर में जन्मे दिलीप कुमार के वालिद पेशे से फलों के व्यापारी थे। कालांतर में, परिवार के साथ वह भी मुंबई आ गए। आरंभिक दौर में कांग्रेसी कैंटीन में नौकरी करने के उपरांत, एक रोज दिलीप कुमार मुंबई टॉकीज के दफ्तर पहुंचे जहां उनकी मुलाकात मशहूर अभिनेता अशोक कुमार और अभिनेत्री देविका रानी से हुई। गौरतलब है कि देविका रानी ने ही…