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  • Rs 16.5 cr average cost of data breach for an Indian firm: Report
    IANS An Indian organisation paid nearly Rs 16.5 crore on average as cost of data breach in 2021 to date, an increase of 17.85 per cent from last year in the remote work and learning times, a new IBM study sh
  • Tears Behind a School Song..!
    This happened before Covid shut schools down.The call came while I was out. “Please come and hear your song.” It was the headmaster of a school. He had asked me some time ago, to write the school anthem and
  • Proud to be a Teacher
    Fr Dr P S Varghese “Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.”  American Jewish writer Max Leo Forman (1909-1
  • Sorry..!
    Quite often I see an apology in the newspapers for some news item wrongly reported, or see a lawyer movie where the slick lawyer says, “I’m sorry your honour!’ But in both cases, I know it was either the
  • PROUD TO BE A TEACHER
    Fr. Dr. P S Varghese Principal MGM College, Dimapur Good morning to all! Winston Churchill (1874-1965), the legendary leader of the United Kingdom, was once described as: “Success is not final, fai
  • A Showpiece Dagger..!
    It’s a small showpiece dagger I hold in my hand, a present from the Mayor of Batangas in the Philippines, when I’d visited the country many years ago. He was a young mayor and I heard quite a gangster and w
  • A Showpiece Dagger..!
    It’s a small showpiece dagger I hold in my hand, a present from the Mayor of Batangas in the Philippines, when I’d visited the country many years ago. He was a young mayor and I heard quite a gangster and w
  • Enjoy Your Joy..!
    My wife, a medical doctor, is quite strict about the sweets I am allowed to have, and when she does give me permission, laughs as I take it, sit on my favourite rocking chair, and relish the delicacy!“Why are
  • Pegasus: Courtier Behind the Closed Door..!
    Watching movies centred around old kingdoms, kings and courts, one is intrigued by the role played by courtiers who surround the king, or the ladies in waiting, bowing and curtsying a queen!But, their role was
  • The Bigger Fool Theory gaining traction as startups mount
    IANS Startup funding at stratospheric levels is following the Bigger Fool Theory, experts say. The rarified echelons of Higher Finance follow the Cardinal Principle of Advanced Investment Management. &
  • Harassment, Laws and Courts..!
    Laws like sedition and abetment to suicide are used conveniently by the police to harass the public. And because cunning people know such laws can be used to land you in jail, they threaten you with them. “I
  • Geopolitical indicators India cannot ignore
    D C Pathak IANS The long speech of President Xi Jinping at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on the occasion of the CPC's centenary celebration on July 1 and the address of US President Joe Biden to the
  • On COVID-19 testing order for healthcare workers
    Pelezoto Pius Kikhi Dimapur  With reference to the order on testing of healthcare workers who have not been vaccinated, every 15 days as and when they report for duty, in local dailies dated July 14, 2
  • Geopolitical indicators India cannot ignore
    D.C. Pathak IANS The long speech of President Xi Jinping at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on the occasion of the CPC's centenary celebration on July 1 and the address of US President Joe Biden to the join
  • Car Fun..!
    What part of the car causes the most accidents?Ans: The nut that holds the wheel!Opened the newspaper this morning and found a whole supplement devoted to cars so I said, well if you can't beat them, join them
  • The Sounds of Silence..!
    A wise old bird sat on an oak-The more he saw, the less he spoke,The less he spoke, the more he heard,Lord make me like that wise old bird.-AnonFor two weeks I’d stopped carrying my phone. My friends thought
  • Colonial Sedition and Democracy..!
    Even as I hear the Supreme Court calling sedition, a ‘colonial’ law, I also hear that a hundred farmers have been slapped with the same ‘colonial’ law for protesting!I agree, nobody likes his car stoppe
  • Those We Touch Everyday..!
    This happened on Valentines Day, a few months ago: I had just finished my jog and was sitting on a bench in the park, when a young girl, who had also been jogging came and sat next to me. “Happy Valentines Da
  • Peeping Out of the Window..!
    There’s a big difference between looking out of your window and peeping out, and generally the difference lies in the attitude of the person at the window: Does he or she want to be seen? If she doesn’t wan
  • God At Your Window..!
    Many of us have done something in the past which always makes us feel guilty, and which is also used by others to remind us of that guilt:There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was g
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