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  At the dawn of 1863, London hadn't opened its subway system.  London's metro builder roared, digging a hole below the city and started laying railroads. Fun Fact: a local minister complained to the construction company of trying to break into hell. Most civilians believed that this project worth 100 million dollars of today's estimation simply didn't work. But it did. On January 10, 1863, thirty thousand people speculated underground to travel on the world's first subway on a four-mile stretch rail. After three years of construction and few setbacks, the metro railway started to operate. The officials were a bit relieved. They were very desperate to reduce the traffic on the roads. London in the 60s and 70s was the world's largest and most prosperous city and was in a permanent state of catastrophe because of traffic.  Charles Pearson first thought of putting railways under the ground. He had persuaded people for underground trains throughout the 1840s, but th...

  Is your belly full you completed all your meals today? But, you can see millions of malnourished children out there on planet earth. Of course, this scenario is slowly changing the number of malnourished children is falling in every continent. In the large picture, at least half of the children under age five suffer from hunger. You can see three forms of malnutrition - undernutrition, hidden hunger, and overweight. You can see all these forms co-exist in a family. The sad part, no one country has shown progress in decreasing malnutrition in the past 20 years. Transition of nutrition Over a few decades, our world has changed a lot. More people started to move into the urban cities from rural areas. Women empowerment has become a thriving source now. Our new world has an intense impact on how food is produced, what we eat. Globalization may have increased our choices in choosing what we eat. But it is also expanded a market for junk foods and fast foods.  More than half of th...

  Is your clock ticking faster? Are you nearing retirement period? If so, is your plan ready? Retirement readiness always refers to one's financial stability even after his withdrawal from his employment. If you can meet your income goals so that the standard of living remains the same before and after retirement, then that is financial freedom. Financial specialists believe that you need between two-third and three-quarters of the income to lead a life the same as your pre-retirement self did. Not only financial readiness but emotional readiness also equally shares its part. Anthony Tran on Unsplash ARE YOU FINANCIALLY READY? Your retirement plan must include the amount you require to lead a healthy and comfortable lifestyle in your post-retirement period. For this, you have to calculate your monthly expenditures to live a desired life. Life expectancy plays a significant role in, number of years you are likely to live. From the point of retirement planning, inflation is one such...

  As a student in India, we have to choose whether to pursue medical or engineering. Most of us get scared by seeing the curriculum of MBBS(6 years), so, fortunately, we do engineering. But becoming a doctor is a few student's only choice to fulfil their dream. Our dreams have no limitation but our financial conditions though. You can see many such students in my country. Neither could they afford coaching classes for the entrance examination nor compensate great amounts drafted by private institutions. Have you ever been in a situation where you can see the chance slips from your hands? Yeah, I have gone through the same once. After looking, JEE-MAIN results, I saw my chance of getting into an NIT fading away. The same might happen to NEET aspirants. After NEET results, Indian students have two options. One, to prepare for examination once again and reappear. Two, pursue medical in other countries which demand a lesser fee than native private institutions. This is when the educ...

  India is one such country that is least ranked in the press freedom index. Some other countries with the same classification include China, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. According to a report from Niti Aayog , a French-based publishes yearly report purporting to evaluate the press freedom in 180 countries. The recently released 2020 press freedom index has ranked 142 out of 180 countries. A final qualitative analysis is combined with previous data on abuses and acts of violence against journalists during the period evaluated. The criteria evaluated in  the questionnaire  are pluralism, media independence, and other media indices that support the production of news and information.  source: Press Gazette Based on the data we have assigned each country a media freedom health rating based on a traffic-light system. Countries with a good track record on media freedom by international standards are awarded a green; countries where performance on media freedom raises cause f...