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Mobile addiction - a major issue for youth

Mobile Addiction has become a growing concern in our society now-a-days. Mobile phone addiction is quite easy but it is difficult to recover from it. Many people around the world are addicted to mobile phones. It gives us the freedom to quickly connect with anyone around the world. It also enable us to find all sort of information that we need and is a great source of entertainment. While mobile phones invention was done for empowering us, but it has now started dominating us. Smart phones enable us to engage in gaming, studying and online shopping. It also allow us to watch movies, click pictures, listen to music, surf the internet and enjoy various other activities. Due to high utility it results can be very harmful for us. Mobile addiction can become the main cause of many serious problems, such as headaches, weakening of eyesight, sleepiness, depression, social isolation, aggressive behavior, financial problems and less professional development. They are so addicted to their mo...

Responsibilities of a good citizen

We are the citizen of India and have acquired citizenship by virtue of our birth. Being a good citizen requires a lot of training and efforts as every citizen has some duties and certain rights. We also have a right to take part in judicial, legal, political, religious and social affairs of the country. “Citizenship consists in the service of the country.” said by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, this line explains that citizenship consists not merely in enjoying certain rights but also in discharging our duties towards the nation. A good citizen is always broad minded and ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of his country. He must love his country and also have firm and deep faith in laws of the land. He must consider himself as an Indian first and anything else afterwards. A good citizen also respects the cultural heritage, the heroes, the sages and saints of his country. He also raises the standard of living of his country by working hard honestly. A...

Internal Security challenges for India

Internal security is the security that lies within the borders of a country. It ensures the maintenance of peace, law & order and protection of sovereignty within territory of a country. Internal security is different from external security. External security is considered as the security against aggression by a foreign country. Maintaining the external security is the responsibility of the armed forces of the country such as the Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force in India. While internal security comes under the purview of the police, which can also be supported by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) as per the requirement. In India, the internal security matters are governed by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). If we look at the past, India’s internal security problems have multiplied because of linguistic riots, inter-state disputes and ethnic tensions. Our country was forced to redefine its inter state boundaries due to linguistic riots in 1956. After that, the ...

Importance of youth in society

Youth is considered as the greatest asset for a country as their intelligence and hard work will take the country on the path of success and prosperity. As every citizen has some responsibilities towards the nation, so the youth too. A youth is a person whose age is between 15 to 30 years without considering their gender. As the youth are the backbone of a society and hence they determine the future of any given society. It is so, because of all other age groups like the kids, teenagers, middle aged and the senior citizens rely on the youth and they have a lot of expectations from them. This makes the youth to be an important age group in today’s society and the future of society highly depends on them. Due to high dependency on youth in society, we all have a very important role to play as the future of our families, communities and the country lies in our hands. Youth can renew the current status of the society by their leadership, innovation and development skills. Youth are exp...

Essay on Fake news articles on social media

Fake news is a kind of yellow journalism which comprises intentional misinformation distributed through broadcasting news media, or via Internet-based social media. Fake news is intentionally written in order to gain financial or political exaggerated, or false headlines for capturing the attention of the people. Everyone with an internet connection and a social media presence is now a content generator. Free internet service has provided access to everyone to post whatever they want and hence created a trend of fake news spreading like wildfire. Everyone is in a hurry to like, share and comment instead of checking the authenticity of the news. It affects the spirit of common brotherhood and increases intolerance in the country. Fake news results in harassment and threatening of innocent people and damages their reputations. It can also result in deaths. For example, the rumours about child-lifters and cattle thieves led to mob attacks and deaths across India. It is unreasonable to...

Money Laundering challenges for india

Money laundering is the process of concealing the source of money obtained by illegal means such as embezzlement, insider trading, bribery, drug trafficking or terrorist activity. The process of converting ‘illegal or unclean money’ into ‘legal or clean money’ is referred to as money laundering. Money laundering is a grave financial crime that is usually employed by white collar and street level criminals. Most financial companies have anti-money laundering (AML) policies in place to detect and prevent these activity. Money laundering is a very important step in the success of drug trafficking and terrorist activities. Most people who financially support terrorist organizations do not provide the funds directly to terrorist groups. They send the money in roundabout ways that allow them to fund terrorism by maintaining anonymity. The process of money laundering usually involves three steps 1) placement 2) layering, and 3) integration. In the first step "dirty money“ is put into the...

Vocal for Local making India a greater hub

Vocal for Local is an initiative to boost the employment opportunities in India. Our PM Narendra Modi coined the term ‘Vocal for Local’ to encourage the people to promote the local products worldwide. He said in his Independence day speech on 15th August 2020, "The mindset of free India should be 'vocal for local'. We should appreciate our local products, if we don't do this then our products will not get the opportunity to do better and will not get encouraged," Vocal for Local initiative encourages the people to start producing their own products and hence, reducing the use of imported goods. The need of ‘Vocal for Local’ arose during the lockdown period when all the mediums of transport were on halt and the entire world realize the usefulness of local products. The positive effect of Vocal for Local is seen during the festive seasons like Diwali and Dashara. People of the country appreciated local products and purchased local made diya and many other things use...