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INNOVATION IS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF NEW INDIA

                                                         "The best way to be a part of future is to shape it". The National award winning Bollywood movie Padman (2017) , features superstar Akshay Kumar, in which he plays the role of a middle class Indian husband who deeply loves his wife.  One fine day, the protagonist (played by Akshay Kumar) finds out that his wife had been using a dirty unhygienic piece of cloth in her mensural days as she was unable to afford expensive pads. This deeply hurts him, being the caring person he was in the movie. And this leads him to innovate an affordable, home made, mensural pad. This invention solves the rural women's problem of safe and affordable mensural hygiene in the movie. Such hundreds of common yet extraordinary stories of Innovation are shaping the future of new India. Innovation is defined as a creative solution that solves a problem reduces cost and adds value. In day to day Indian rhetoric some refer to it as ' Jugaad&#

A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF CYBER SECURITY IN INDIA

                                                                                                                            " Data is the New Oil " : Klaus Schwab ( Executive Chairman, W.E.F)   These were the words of world renowned intellectual Klaus Schwab, the founder of World Economic Forum at the recently concluded Davos summit in 2022. It shows the importance of cyber space in times to come. In this essay we are going to understand the causes and status of cyber crime, and finally delve into some pragmatic solutions at hand to increase cyber security at personal and organisational level starting from today.  As per a latest survey on Cyber Security, India stands at third highest in number of cyber attacks worldwide. And this number is likely to increase in forth coming decade as highlighted in Ground Zero Summit, 2016 held at New Delhi. This is largely because of data explosion and Internet affordability, accessibiliity, and availability especi