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Several websites including Paytm, Airbnb go down in the Edge DNS glitch

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Pragyan Jaiminy
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Yesterday night, a glitch in the Akamai’s Edge DNS took a major chunk of websites down with it. .

Yesterday night, a glitch in the Akamai’s Edge DNS took a major chunk of websites down with it. Popular websites including Paytm, Zomato, Airbnb, HBO were also affected by the issue. A message of “Service Unavailable- DNS failure” was been displayed to the users trying to access those sites. As per the DownDetector website, the glitch appeared to arise at around 9 pm(IST) on Thursday night and the Edge DNS issue was fixed by Akamai Technologies at 10:20 pm on the same night. Several news portals were also affected by this glitch.

Akamai Technologies, the company whose product Edge DNS faced an issue confirmed that the outage was not caused due to a cyber-attack. The number of internet services disruptions tells us that the level of traffic being handled by Akamai Technologies. Last month, Fastly CDN, a company working in a similar field as Akamai had also faced a similar issue which made websites like Twitter, Reddit goes down. Internet disruptions have become common since the pandemic had begun last year, primarily due to the increased internet traffic.

 What is DNS?

DNS or Domain Name System is like the directory of the internet, it translates whatever we search to IP addresses so that the web browsers can locate and load the servers/ resources/ pages we have demanded. Each device connecting to the internet has a unique address called an IP address, the DNS services eliminate the need for users to learn IP addresses to find the desired internet devices.

A few hours ago, Akamai said it fix for the issue it was having with its Edge DNS service. Many of the websites that were affected by the outage are starting to come back online, including PSN. Downdetector is also tracking fewer outage reports.

Later they wrote on Twitter – “We have implemented a fix for this issue and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated.”

Again they wrote, “Akamai is experiencing a service disruption. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide an update in 30 minutes”.

Also Read- The New Guidelines: An Overview

The New Guidelines: Harnessing Rural

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Jeewan Dahal
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Police Patrolling in rural after guidelines

After the Delta scare, the Administration has come up with a set of new Guidelines, which as usual does not make any sense in most cases.

If a single person in a village turns out positive, the entire ward will be contained is what the Guidelines say. Yes, well those advising such monumental and pathbreaking suggestions should be applauded and celebrated. For what joy has such a rule been framed? Is there any logic in declaring an entire ward a containment on detection of a single case? How will the villagers survive? The policymakers have made a mockery of the lives of the villagers.

Do they seriously believe that the villagers can survive if the entire ward is contained and put under lockdown? In the absence of any concrete relief measures from the Government, locking down an entire ward is such a foolish act. Earlier distribution of relief materials by individuals or NGOs was allowed. But now some wise man wants the Nutrella to be distributed through the concerned District Magistrate. Another feather in the crown of Administrators and Policy Makers. As usual, they will not collect Milk from containment zones, whereas bringing in 6 tankers of chemical-laced milk from Siliguri which has more Corona cases than the population of the entire state. Such pro-poor policies of the Government deserve applause. The policymakers think that a double vaccine is equivalent to obtaining immortality. The ones with double vaccination can bring in any Tom, Dick, and Harry into the state as tourists. Such nice arrangements and regulations were never heard of before.

The forceful implementation of the Odd-even rule with mass challaning of cars pressed into essential services was the most heroic act of the Government and Sikkim Police. Even Doctors and Media persons, who are recognized as frontliners were fined. Well, this was a masquerade for the “Hafta collection” of the dried-up accounts of Police Departments. They are still increasing the amount in their kitty by challaning daily wage earners and laborers.

If you think it’s logical try doing your morning jogging with your masks on. If you feel comfortable you can go on to harass the poor beings who sweat throughout the day doing tedious labour. Well, the policymakers can direct you not to carry on with your religious rituals, but allow scores of potential Alpha, Beta, and Delta carriers in the form of project workers, without an RTPCR test report with the direction of quarantine of 7 days, as if they hired laborers are sons-in-law of the Project Directors.

Such blasphemy was never heard of, or never will be. We are the luckiest to see it all and unluckiest of all to live with it Guidelines. God save us all.

Also, Read- South China Sea: A New Arena of Global Attention

South China Sea: A New Arena of Global Attention

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Aayush Singh
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South China Sea

Maritime Asia has emerged as a new geopolitical important area in recent years as the nations of Asia evolve into a major trading and resource-consuming powers with economic growth dependent on seaborne trade. China has been aggressively expanding its maritime influence, which may be seen through its activities within the South China Sea (SCS).

The South China Sea is an arm of the western Pacific Ocean in Southeast Asia. It is south of China, east & south of Vietnam, west of the Philippines, and north of the island of Borneo. Bordering states & territories (clockwise from north):

The People’s Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam. It is connected by Taiwan Strait with the East China Sea and by Luzon Strait with the Philippine Sea. It contains numerous shoals, reefs, atolls, and islands. The Paracel Islands, the Spratly Islands, and the Scarborough Shoal are the most important.

The Chinese assertions within the South China Sea and its hegemonic ambitions became an explanation for concern for peace and stability within the region.

Significance of South China Sea

The geographic location of the SCS is strategically important. As it links the Indian Ocean to the Pacific and maybe a critical shipping channel. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), one-third of the global shipping passes through it, carrying trillions of trade. Roughly two-thirds of South Korea’s energy supplies, nearly 60% of Japan’s and Taiwan’s energy supplies, and 80% of China’s petroleum imports come through the South China Sea.

SCS is believed to possess huge oil and gas reserves beneath its seabed. According to the World Bank, the South China Sea holds proven oil reserves of a minimum of seven billion barrels and an estimated 900 trillion cubic feet of gas.

The Strait of Malacca connects the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea and is

900 km long and is additionally a prominent trade route between East Asia and West Asia-Europe. The Strait of Malacca is a choke point, it is always in the interest of great powers to control such a strategic location. Thus, thanks to the presence of this chokepoint, SCS assumes much importance for China and other regional countries. In the context of naval diplomacy, it’s a geopolitical term wont to signify a world strait whose control could potentially affect commercial transit.

Encroaching Exclusive Economic Zone

(EEZ)

EEZ is a formula based on compromise and was recognized by the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea in 1976. It covers an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea: it can extend to a maximum of 200 nautical miles from the baselines.

Activities allowed in EEZ are the creation and use of artificial islands, installations, and structures.

Marine scientific research.

The protection and preservation of the marine environment.

In 1947, China took control of some islets within the South China Sea occupied by Japan in World War–II. Since 1953, China has been claiming almost the whole South China Sea, reflected during a map created with a 9-dash line to point out them as a neighborhood of China

In 2016, the Philippines had filed an arbitration case within the Permanent Court of Arbitration, seeking to strike down China’s expansive territorial claims within the South China Sea. The tribunal issued a choice finding that there’s no legal basis to say “historic rights” to islands within the South China Sea and therefore the 9-dash line is inconsistent with the Convention on the Law of the ocean. However, China refused to abide by the judgment.

China has asserted a maritime claim (based on historic rights) to an outsized part of the South China Sea that’s not according to international law. The SCS has quite a dozen overlapping EEZ in accordance with the 1982 Convention on the Law of the ocean (UNCLOS) a world treaty that sets out important maritime rules). As per UNCLOS, countries in their EEZ can explore oil, natural resource, living and non-living natural resources including resources under the ocean, seabed, and subsoil.

Great Wall of Sand

There are many interconnected disputes over who is responsible for the varied islands, rocks, shoals, and reefs scattered throughout the South China Sea waters.

The Paracel Islands are claimed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The Spratly Islands are claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, and the Philippines. The Scarborough Shoal is claimed by the Philippines, China, and Taiwan.

Further, since 2010, China has been converting uninhabited islets into artificial islets to bring them under UNCLOS (examples would come with Haven Reef, Johnson South Reef, and Fiery Cross Reef).

China has been changing the dimensions and structure of the reefs by modifying their physical land features. It has also established airstrips on Parcel and Spratly.

Chinese fishing fleets are “engaged in paramilitary work on behalf of the state instead of the commercial enterprise of fishing.

The US is extremely critical of this building of artificial islands and terms these actions of China as building a ‘great wall of sand’.

India’s Stand

India has maintained that it is not a party to the SCS dispute and its presence in the SCS is not to contain China but for its own economic interests, especially that of its energy security needs. However, China’s increasing ability to make a decision and expand its role within the South China Sea has compelled India to reevaluate its approach on the difficulty. As a key element of the Act East Policy, India has started internationalizing disputes in the Indo-Pacific region to psychological pressure on irritants (the recent mentions of

South China Sea dispute in bilateral statements between India-USA and India-France is a testimony to the fact). Further, India is aggressively using the soft tool of Buddhist legacy to reclaim the unique historical leverage to make a strong bond with the Southeast Asian region. India has also deployed its navy with Vietnam within the South China Sea for the cover of sea lanes of communication (SLOC), denying China any space for assertion. Also, India is a component of the Quad Initiative (India, US, Japan, Australia) and the lynchpin of the Indo-Pacific narrative. These initiatives are viewed as a containment strategy by China. Today’s world comprises extensive interconnections of countries and people. Any particular conflict, therefore, has the potential to possess a ripple effect on countries and institutions aside from the direct stakeholders. China must realize that it cannot continue with its bullying tactics and win the trust of its neighbors and respect from the International Community. It is therefore desirable that all the countries of this region should abide by rule-based international.

Also, Read- WHAT ROLE DOES PSYCHOLOGY PLAY IN SEO?

Psychology role in SEO – How it Play?

By
Aadhya Sharma
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Search engine marketing

The technology that we have today is like a boon for us and the one who invented it, “Hooman” has the psychology that made them create the best technology but have you ever thought of combining them both? we can create a successful SEO strategy, but before that, we should know that in which areas of SEO we can use psychology.


How does this technology come this far to us, it’s easy to understand it now but it took years to reach till here how easily we could just recall the time where the task of the marketer was to create his market by going physically to the people but then the digital revolution brought them in a phase where the game of communication just changed digitally and then marketers just need to understand about their audience and create a relationship with them by easily persuading them, for example by giving a buy 1 get 1 free offer, this time is true in the arena of search.


We have developed very well search engines that could easily build a relationship with a consumer, understand their needs, and deliver them want they want, maybe a product, meaning, study material, or anything else, these all have been brought up in the mobile-first era.


But as humans, we don’t have to settle for less and that’s why we are shifting to a new age of assistance where when every need from knowing something to going somewhere would be fulfilled by our own devices in which they can put the software.
Yes, you might have jumped to the right example of Siri in iPhone and google assistant in android the research showed that more than 1 billion devices with residing google assistant soon and Amazon has sold over 100 million Alexa devices. We the super lazy human need a super active assistant and that would be fulfilled by this.


The search era had still a communication gap between the marketer and the consumer as they have delivered new exceptional ideas every single day to the customer, they need to understand human psychology. So we need to fill this gap between them by understanding the audience and developing the skills we will need to thrive.


The direct relation between psychology and SEO
A good SEO always built the trust of the user, has to be authentic, needs to be consistent, socially active, and should have a good framework and designing all these things could be easily achieved through understanding human psychology. Now for understanding it much better let us take some examples, building trust is very important to drive that customer again to you for that you should include reviews, number of subscribers, third – party certifications, as the person will check and it would build their trust. If we connect the aspect of SEO to psychology so things will become much easier and convenient.


Uses of psychology in SEO
Some particular areas could be accelerated by the relationship between human psychology and technology :

  1. Customer insights:- AI can lead to new insights and brands audience as it could reveal the relationship between variables by understanding the audience psychology in a better way, by using this information you can also deliver better content to your customers.
  2. Uncovering intent:- just understanding about the need of your audience is not enough now, by the time you need to understand that why they do it for example, what job they want to complete ? or why does my audience use a specific search query? After knowing the answer to these questions you would know about their intent state.
  3. Incentives:- incentives are chosen by us, to take any action because they benefit us in some way, every brand should incorporate their knowledge into their site SEO strategy. If we know that what had lead people to link to the content, we can then create content that is much more effective. Sharing of content on social media differs from that of linking psychology.
  4. Visual content:- humans are mostly affected by the visual representation of things, research shows that 90% of information that is transmitted to the human brain is visual and we could identify images that we see for as little as 12 milliseconds. So visual content has a major impact on the audience and it is overlooked by SEO pros, but it’s a great opportunity to reach an audience.
  5. Social proof:- when we purchase something the first thing we use to do is to check customer reviews because that’s the only way to trust the product and that’s why feedback plays an important role because it provides a useful shortcut so that we need not try everything out by ourselves. SEO professionals should therefore maximize the potential of social proofs by giving special column like reviews.
  6. Professional development:- building the skills that will allow effective use of technology and communication skills could result in a good marketing team by understanding the relationship between marketing and technology, SEO professionals could elevate their career.
  7. Mindset for change:- it is clear that one can not do marketing until and less one is unable to change the negative mindset of a person, so a marketer should have the ability to thrive on change. Which aims to develop the right mindset and isolate the factors that would matter in setting SEO apart from their peers.

Summary
We are the ones who created these technologies and we differ from them in many ways like creativity, empathy and strategic perspective and the new evolution of technology needs the combination of them both. We could humanize our search strategies and develop a good deep understanding of what persuades our audience. The marketers who would be starting painting this new landscape to their board will definitely see a drastic improvement in their market.

Also Read- NASA intern expresses her love towards the culture

NASA intern expresses her love towards the culture

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Aadhya Sharma
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NASA Intern Pratima Roy

A NASA intern, Pratima Roy expresses her love towards the culture she is an Indian American who suffered toxic Hinduphobia after the national aeronautics and space administration in the united states of America had shared her photograph with her god on social media. Pratima Roy is a computer engineer graduate and data analyst intern at NASA.

Pratima Roy shared a post on Linkedin where she had stood by her faith unapologetically and thanked people for their support after the post she received kindness from people and so much support from people across the world.

Post by NASA intern Pratima Roy

She had written in her Linkedin post that she is an American-born Bengali who practices Hinduism and she always strives to preserve her culture and background. She also said that the love for her culture is evident in the photo which was shared by the NASA blog in march which sparked a lot of conversation about her faith after NASA published it.

She also said she respects everyone’s background whether it’s race, ethnicity, gender, or religious faith, and she encourages people to celebrate their beautiful differences as well. In last she wrote that she had hot a lot of positive support from people across the world and she is also grateful for her experience interning at NASA.

The photograph which was shared by NASA showed the sculpture of Hindu goddesses on her table and the wall which was plastered with photographs of Hindu gods and goddesses.

Also, Read – Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing

Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing

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Karan Arora
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Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Understanding Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketingin Digital Marketing

In the 21st Century, technology is getting advanced day by day which means the percentage of artificial intelligence is getting increased day by day. AI helps the business operations and practices to grow more efficiently in a sustained manner. There are around 47% of digitally mature organizations that have their AI advanced practices and have a well defines AI strategy. In the business market, 84% of business executives claim that with the help of AI they can sustain the competition in the market. Artificial Intelligence transforms and grows the industries starting from finance to tech and retailers, AI is a game-changer in the business. It is changing the concept to do business in a market and grow the business in less time but in an efficient manner. Digital Marketing helps the way so that brands can reach the audience.

Nowadays the technology is growing tremendously as now computers, laptops, and chrome books are manufactured in such a way that they include face and voice recognition, and decision making but before these functions came human intelligence was used to have these specializations. Now AI has helped a lot to have these features easily and these features work perfectly as it is a kind of machinery that we are using. In the starting or the mid of 2019 there were some predictions have been made that by the end of 2019 around 40% of digital transformation services will use AI and by 2025 the AI industry will grow to $190 billion.

How AI is changing Digital Marketing?

Artificial Intelligence is transforming customer problem-facing services for digital marketers by increasing efficiency and optimizing user experience. An example of AI is the use of chatbots to provide customer services to users.

The chatbots are the column where we can chat about the products or about the services that are being offered by the company or if the user is facing any problem regarding the same. Users do chat with and there is an automated message that comes as a solution and some of the companies or brand gives customers an option whether they want to do a live chat with an agent or customer service representative. Most of the foreigners, 64% of Americans believe that chatbots are perfect for them and they require these types of services every day and for 24 hours because when they fall asleep, it’s the chatbots that work for them.

AI in digital marketing is the use of personalization of content as when users seek a website the AI keeps a record of that and with the help of AI machines can track how much time a user is spending on which site and what is his/her preference and it starts sending the updates regarding that topic through notification banners, advertisement. This process will help segment your audience and can drive the customized sales.

Role of Artificial Intelligence in digital marketing

  • Real Time Tracking

There is a fact that every company has to face some amount as a customer churn rate and for acquiring new customers it costs higher than the existing or retained ones. By keeping this in mind the firms have learned the techniques and started tracking the data systematically and analyze the digital behavior and communication of their target groups.   

  • Improved security

The latest trend of catching up fast across industries is machine-to-machine interaction. This transformation is sure to have an impact even on the realm of marketing. Although artificial intelligence is employed too basic of digital marketing tasks already for example planning and conceiving of campaigns. This is based on the insights that are been extracted from the extensive data that are collected from previous campaigns.

The accuracy level of measuring the performance of the campaigns have also increased swiftly using the aid of AI tools, with effectively minimizing the guesswork that had been traditionally associated with marketing campaigns also machine learning takes precedence with conventional analysis, the ever-improving AI algorithms that are helping in making data-driven predictions which are much more precise than ever.

  • Advanced automation

One of the primary requirements in digitalization is to channelize the power to offer quick and efficient customer service. The exemplars that leading technology develops like text, chat, messaging apps can help the organization in meeting the challenge for the delivering of futuristic and professional service to their customers also while keeping the tap on the infrastructural expenditure.

For example, the text analysis tool used by the AI is capable of tracking analyzing, and responding to content generated but it can also perform those actions in real-time.

Tools that can be used:

  • Google Cloud AI :If someone wants to create his/her own chatbot or talented network then we can use Google Cloud AI. We can use a pre trained model or design in our own way on this cloud-based platform and we can easily get access to everything.
  • Market Brew: This is one of the best tools in SEO as it helps the SEO professionals to understand the changing concept of landscape of search engines. If you want to change anything in search engine then that change will be implemented after 60 days, but with the help of Market Brew’s you can make a change within 1.5-2 hours of time.
  • Conclusion:

If you are a beginner and you have started exploring the options with the use of artificial intelligence and also you don’t want to employ a full team of web developers so that they can change your website drastically then you can be opting for an AI-powered tool so that you can get the job done.

If we see according to Marketing profs, then businesses that are implying AI have been seeing 59% better close rates, 58% increased revenue, 54% more traffic and engagement also 52% more conversions. It’s time now to standardize your business with AI practice now!

 You can also choose many different tools so that you can target different areas within your market strategy. You can also opt for an AI tool that will help you to boost your advertising capabilities if you are having a small business but if you are having a large company then you can look up an edge over your competitors, by using an SEO based AI tool which would help you outrank them on SERPs.

So it doesn’t matter that you are marketing for a startup or large corporation, you can couple of AI tools for digital marketing.

Also Read- Cyber Security Threats in Digital Marketing

Cyber Security Threats in Digital Marketing

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Karan Arora
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Cyber security is increasingly becoming the focus of attention

Cyber attacks are dangerous and are expensive as it threatens the security of the user and can steal private information like that information may his include his details or his business details and by this, it can also affect the security of his business. The Cybersecurity experts predict that cyberattacks cost about $6 trillion in damages. And these attacks are not done by differentiating between small businesses and big corporations. If anyone gets cyber attacked whether he/she is doing any business he/she will be known as the victim of a cyber attack.

Based studies and researches show that small businesses can’t able to recover from it. And it is also said that there are maximum chances that cyber-attacks may increase in the future. We need to understand that if we are trying to reach a broad audience using marketing strategies, then the possibilities also get increased that we may face a cyber-attack by clicking on uncertain links.

What is cyber transformation?

Cyber transformation is the transformation done to keep advanced security so that anyone can’t get into the device and steal any information. Performing transformation also helps with risk management and cyber agenda. Cyber transformations reassure the employees that they have been protected under a shield where no one can steal the data and personal information. Every business demands that their transformation must be successful but they also have to make sure that it must have an effective price.

Top 5 Hacks Marketers Should Follow To Avoid Breaches

Implement two-step verification: This process doesn’t take a lot of time to complete, you just have to login into your email and shared drive accounts and there will be an option with the name double security or two-step verification, we have to keep that active and after that, it will be implemented. This step is done to avoid any third person login into your email and by this process, you’ll be notified first that someone is trying to getting into your account.

Only Use Trusted Device: We have to make sure that we have to login into trusted devices and on trusted applications, not on any third person’s device or any third-party application or link as we don’t know what type of virus does that device have.

Regularly Change your Passwords: Be sure that you have to change every month or at some intervals of time as most of the time emails are hacked and most of the time people use the same password everywhere so keep a check that you have to make changes in your password.

Encrypt Your Files: This step is perfect to protect your files by encrypting them. In this step on you and the recipient will only get access to the file. In case, if you or the recipient gets hacked then the encrypted will be safe.

Importance of Cybersecurity in Digital Marketing

Developing a good digital marketing strategy doesn’t mean that everything will work according to us but there are also security threats we have to face. However, we have to make a complete security check on everything such as on our website, emails, and social media. If we start neglecting this then we are one step away to get our data hacked by someone. There are some threats that a digital marketer faces

  • Malware infection from files downloaded or links clicked
  • Browser hijacking and redirection
  • Stealing of data and other sensitive information
  • Identity theft
  • The proliferation of fake news 
  • DDoS attacks on the website
  • WordPress malware

Tips to Protect Your Digital Marketing From Cyber Attacks

Email: Email marketing may seem like a way of doing marketing in an old-fashioned way, but email marketing is an effective way to do business online as it generates website traffic and conversion rate and email marketing has the highest ROI in digital marketing. Unfortunately, 90% of emails are known as hacker’s emails because hackers try to get into your account by sending an email or an attachment in the email and if we click on that email they can steal your personal information.

Word Press:  the platform vulnerabilities are mostly attacked or targeted by the audience and seeing WordPress here would be amazing if you get to know how it would help you protect your digital marketing if you will follow the cybersecurity news then you will understand the importance of WordPress get. WordPress is the most heavily – targeted CMS platform.

Social media:   we mostly see hacking cases of social media accounts, that’s because hackers love to target social media accounts.  Social media handles like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and WhatsApp have become the most effective digital marketing platforms, but it comes with a lot of danger. They could hack your account and steal your personal information also they can have your credentials by hacking your account and take some professional data too.  There are many risks involved with the social media account you can use two-factor authentication, use a password manager to protect your credentials or you can also use social media management tools.

CRM Software:  firstly you need to understand what is CRM software is an integral part of digital marketing this is because it where one usually store the data that is collected from the customer, it also helps to analyze the data which is collected and you could use it to draft a marketing strategy in your business. now if a hacker gets access to the internal data through the CRM software they will then get access to all those sensitive data and then they will use it for criminal activities this may result in a money breach and losing your company’s reputation but then how we can protect it from hacker just by using the strong password no actually most of the breaches comes from inside so you have to limit the access to on;y trusted employees and screen your staff before assigning them the responsibility.

Summary

The one who is part of digital marketing cannot ignore the fact of securing the data and take care of cybersecurity as if the data is leaked everyone would be responsible for it from the management to the staff. So having strong cybersecurity is a get must in the digital marketing strategy.

Also, Read- Riots against Indians in South Africa

Riots against Indians in South Africa

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Aadhya Sharma
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"South Africa Protest"

South Africa is in strife. The well-known President Cyril Ramaphosa called around 25 thousand troops to restrict the people that were banging with each other, fighting like enemies as they started looting and rioting last Friday. After Apartheid that was ended in 1994, this riot was considered as the worst spate of violence. From last week 72 people have been killed and more than 1700 people have been arrested in the riots by the troops.

There is a lot of destruction or violence has been caused by the people in the country, the people which have died had become the victim of shootings, arsons & explosives, as well as some of them, indulged in fights and they have trampled to death. There are instances that have been made to create more violence in the country there can be the rise of COVID cases as the population of South Africa is around 60 million and the country is also in the middle of facing the worst situation of COVID yet. This week on Monday Ramaphosa addressed the nation on TV and given the statement that “Our vaccination program has been severely disrupted just as it is gaining momentum” he also announced that there will be marshaling of military forces. In addition to that, he also that if the violence gets to its peak then there will be disruption of food and health services for upcoming weeks. The ex-president Jacob Zuma who was in the power from 2009 to 2018 was arrested due to some reasons and coincidentally the two days later the riots have been started.

When did the riots take place?

Protests broke out last Friday, just two days after Zuma’s arrest. KwaZulu- Natal is the home province of Zuma with the highest second biggest province in South Africa by the population where around 11 million live in this province. At the time when Zuma has to come out of his residence to handing himself, but before that, his supporters came into support and amassed in front of Zuma’s residence so that they can prevent the officials or the authorities from arresting him.

Supporters of Zuma have blocked the roads and started putting fire to the property such as in the shopping centers and factories and some people started looting in distributer centers of LG and Samsung. One Video Clip got viral which is showing that a woman was been forced to throw her baby from a burning building to a crowd below. Protests got spread to other provinces such as Gutenberg which is known as the smallest province in terms of landmass and biggest in terms of population and its capital is Johannesburg, the country’s financial center. In that people started attacking and looting supermarkets and stores, the food trucks were set up on fire and the national highway closed off. After that local police came into effect and simultaneously the president Cyril Ramaphosa stated the order to military armed forces to start taking action in both the provinces, in which 1200 people were arrested.

What is the reason for Rioting? 

This will be a dicey question for upcoming months, maybe there is something serious issues that can be overwhelmed. Explanations may include political violence, seek for looting, or dissatisfaction with poverty and discrimination.

Many of the blaming that the main reason for the violence is the Zuma’s family and the other reason is Zuma’s daughter compared the leadership of President Ramaphosa with Apartheid-era leadership and she also encouraged her 1 lakh, Twitter followers, to create violence all over the province by applauding the pictures and video of arson and obstruction. The Jacob G Zuma Foundation seemingly condoned the violent protests tweeting: The Foundation has noted the reactive righteous anger of the people of South Africa which others have seemed as violence. When they approached to the people and the people said that they are reacting to the violent provocation melted and betrayed by the confinement of President Zuma by trial.

It later tweeted that: “Peace and stability in South Africa are directly linked to the release of President Zuma with immediate effect.”

After this, Zuma’s supporters gathered in front of Zuma’s residence so that authorities can’t able to arrest him and South Africa must know their position because the country is in the mid of COVID cases as on July 13, 51 thousand COVID tests have been done out of which 12,500 have been positive which means out of every four tests one is positive and also South Africa has the highest unemployment rate in the world which is 32% and also in terms of crime rates South Africa has been in top named lists. The World Bank called South Africa the world’s most unequal country in the world in 2018 till now. President Ramaphosa said that these may be the reasons for looting driven by hardships and poverty. He also said that “the poor and the marginalized bear the ultimate brunt of the destruction that is underway. 

Also, Read – No more lockdown in Sikkim, Strict measures to follow

No more lockdown in Sikkim, Strict to follow

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Jeewan Dahal
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No more lock down in Sikkim due to covid

Gangtok, July 15 (IPR): Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Prem Singh Tamang chaired a high-level meeting at Samman Bhawan, Gangtok, today, to review the lockdown in the State and to deliberate on the way ahead.

The meeting had the presence and participation of Hon’ble Ministers, DGP, Additional Chief Secretaries, Heads of Departments, senior Government officials, District Collectors, Chief Medical Officers, Health Department officials, ADCs (Development), and officers of the Covid-19 Management Group.

The Hon’ble Chief Minister issued strict directives to the District Collectors, SPs, ADC Development and BDOs to ensure that strict measures are adopted to contain the spread of Covid-19 any further. He called for the need to review the containment measures. He further called for emphasis on home quarantine even for people who move out of their ward or village. He urged the District Administration to review the paid quarantine facilities for people entering the State through the inter-state borders. He further urged the Health Department officials to enhance mass testing.

The Hon’ble Chief Minister lauded the Health Department for the successful implementation of the vaccination programme. He called for additional measures to ensure 100% coverage.

The Hon’ble Chief Minister directed the Tourism Department to facilitate the smooth movement of tourists into the State, duly ensuring that all safety measures are strictly followed. Likewise, Labour Department and Police Department were directed to strictly monitor the movement of labour force into the State.

During the interactive session that followed the lockdown, the District Collectors presented the status of Covid-19 in their respective districts.

Director, Health Services, Dr. Sonam T. Ethenpa apprised about the status of vaccination and testing. He informed the media that mobile testing will commence next week.

Likewise, Chief Medical Officers of the four districts presented the statistics and ground situation under their respective jurisdiction.

Director-General of Police, Shri S.D. Negi and Special DGP, Law & Order, Shri Akshay Sachdeva also provided their inputs during the meeting.

DG-cum-Secretary Health, Dr. Pempa T. Bhutia summed up the present scenario from the medical point of view. He shared statistics from the past few months and presented a comparative report. He was also apprised about the steps being taken to enhance the existing health infrastructure, especially testing laboratories. He also presented the status of vaccination in the State.

Director, Panchayat, RDD, Shri Prabhakar Rai presented a brief report of the activities being carried out by rural development functionaries to contain Covid-19.

DIG Range Shri Prawin Gurung also placed his suggestions in the meeting. He appealed to the line departments and concerned agencies to coordinate and cooperate with the Police for enforcement of the laid down rules and guidelines.

Likewise, ADCs (Development) of all the four districts also placed their feedback and suggestions in the meeting.

M.S. STNM Hospital Dr. K.B. Gurung gave a brief outline of the caseload in the Hospital and the level of preparedness.

General Manager, SNT, and Member Covid Management Group, Shri Karma Namgyal Bhutia presented the status report of the availability of medical Oxygen in the State. He also gave a brief background of the accomplishment of the State Government in commissioning the required medical Oxygen for the State.

After detailed discussion, the following broad decisions were taken by the meeting:

  1. Complete ban for one month would be enforced on all socio-religious and entertainment related activities like marriage, pujas and birthday parties and other get-togethers, both in urban and rural areas.
  2. Keeping in view the present situation, the practice of serving food and beverages during funerals and last rites will be restricted during lockdown.
  3. IEC and mass awareness on Covid Appropriate Behaviour will be upscaled. It was decided to enforce strict penalties on people and establishments violating Covid-19 guidelines.
  4. The meeting also decided to put a complete end to the practice of issuing special permits, other than for health and police personnel.
  5. Police will strictly enforce the odd-even rule for vehicles without any exception during lockdown.
  6. After reviewing the containment measures, the meeting decided that now onwards, if any person in a ward or village tests positive, the entire ward will be declared a containment zone and strict measures will be enforced to prevent further spread. In case of urban or semi urban areas or towns, the entire building will be contained during lockdown.
  7. Any relief work, social or medical service should compulsorily be routed through the District Collectors.
  8. Only in-house puja or rituals will be allowed in religious places. There will be complete ban on visitors to any religious place or institution.

The meeting concluded with the concluding remarks by Principal Secretary, Home Department, Shri R. Telang. He thanked the Hon’ble Chief Minister for his guidance and for the timely decisions. He thanked everyone present in the meeting for their contribution.

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Health Minister Is Proud Of His Daughter For Becoming A Covid Warrior

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Saiket Sharma
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The minister captioned the post "My Daughter, My Pride.

Mansukh Mandaviya, the new Union Health Minister recently tweeted a photo of his daughter with the caption, “My daughter, my pride! Reportedly, Rajya Sabha MP and the new Health Minister Mandaviya’s daughter is a final year MBBS student of Vadodara Medical College, Gujarat. She has been assisting the junior doctors and has now started rendering service in a COVID Care Centre amidst the pandemic.

Reports say that in the past week, Mandaviya visited the facilities of three vaccine-makers — Zydus and Bharat Biotech in Ahmedabad and Serum Institute of India in Pune, albeit in his capacity as the minister of state for chemicals and fertilizers to ramp up indigenous vaccines in the long run. Earlier he came to the limelight when he rode a bicycle to the Parliament a few years back to promote a green environment.

Mandaviya was the youngest MLA to enter Gujarat Assembly at the age of 28 years in 2002. He also served as the Chairman of Gujarat Agro Industries Limited.

He is a Veterinary doctor by Profession and also has a Masters degree in Political Science from a reputed university. He is known to be an active social worker in various fields while being in Gujarat and had worked to promote menstrual hygiene immensely which was recognized by UNICEF in 2015. He delivered a speech in English in the General Assembly of the UN for the same that year.

Mandaviya was first elected as Rajya Sabha MP in 2012 and re-elected again in 2018 to finally get promoted as the Union Health Minister now in the recent Cabinet reshuffle in July 2021 and has a tough road ahead to ramp up vaccinations as well as tackle any further waves of the pandemic.

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