GROUP DISCUSSIONS - Career Preparation Articles
Small may not be beautiful all the time, but it is indeed complex, most of the times. I felt so after today's GD topic of whether 'Money can be the sixth sense that makes you enjoy the other five senses'. Initiating a discussion is like walking o ...
Last January, US President George W. Bush began his second term in office by declaring foreign policy objectives with clear imperial overtones that seem to promise increasing violence and disruption on a worldwide scale. Aside from the on-going illegal ...
TV adverts during kids' programmes should be banned because children are getting too hung up about the latest toys and gadgets, a new report says. A group of experts looked at how kids live their lives for the report called The Good Childh ...
Nicotine in high doses acts as an effective nerve poison and can have a number of potentially harmful side effects. It is extremely physically addicting, though estimates on the exact degree of addiction ra ...
History of Cricket A rudimentary form of the sport can be traced back to the 12th century. Written evidence exists for a sport known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I, in England in around 1300. In 1598 there was ...
India’s population is exploding and is likely to surpass China as the world’s biggest within a few decades. In a country where more than 25% of the people live in poverty, is that a good thing? One of the top executives at India’s premier pharma ...
Let's take a look at the facts below: Indian companies are overtaking foreign companies Sensex is touching its apex Foreign firms investing in India Foreign reserves are filled up to all time high</l ...
Introduction The development of protected designation of origin (PDO) for food products has been one of the most interesting phenomena in terms of extent and implications for the agro-marketing. In fact, PDO labels are a form of differentiating ...
‘Ethic’ is an idea or moral belief that influences the behavior, the attitudes, and the philosophy of a group of people. Ethics can change from people to people. What one man considers as an ethic may be a sin for another. Food on the other hand is ...
Greed can be found in almost any culture or society in the world, but what is it and why has it become so widespread? Greed can be described as "an excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to ...
The SENSEX, An abbreviation of the Bombay Exchange Sensitive Index (SENSEX), is a "Market Capitalization-Weighted" index of 30 stocks representing a sample of large, well-established and financially so ...
Finally, it has taken a man of honour, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to openly speak about the ills of the multi-party democracy which have almost castrated the nation and rendered effective governance impossible. Shedding his characteristic ‘ ...
Cultural evolution is inevitable. The world is experiencing unprecedented change in applications of knowledge, technology and know-how in every society. The demands and opportunities of our increasingly interdependent global economy have implications f ...
Sounds interesting!! And in fact ,it actually is! At least to those who spend innumerable nights getting hold of the orkut principles, because orkut has penetrated ...
One of the most prominent revolutionaries of India, Bhagat Singh was born on September 27, 1907 in a Sikh family in the village of Banga in Layalpur district of present-day Pakistan. The third son of Sardar Kishan Sing ...
Introduction Shooting champion Abhinav Bindra created history when he bagged India's first ever individual gold medal at the Olympics, Winning 10 ...
Socrates once said, “An unexamined life is not worth living” The examination system has been used for a long time. But has always been debatable whether it is really a good way to judge a student’s degree in education ? ...
Humans, like all animals, form cooperative groups to compete for limited resources. All life is ultimately competitive, because the natural tendency of any population is to explode, although it is kept in check by the limited food supply (and other fac ...
So finally Bapu is heading home ending years of ignomity and that too without any special effort from Congress led Indian government . Vijay Malya, a renowned businessman who always hogs the limelight for his sumptuous lifestyle emerged as India's sav ...
Assaulted the word must be striking many things to your mind but my dear friends if you are not prepared for the battlefield of placement you will just feel the word. So let's get prepared and win the battlefield and give the slap on face of the ...
How one can overcome the Common Admission Test (CAT) exam, an adversary, which changes its characteristics at will: essentially a chameleon? The answer is obvious: by becoming a chameleon yourself! Mercifully, even in these uncertain times, the ...
Independence we had heard a lot about the myth of Indian unity. A representative British view expressed by John Stracheyin 1888 held that 'there is not and never was an India... possessing, according to European ideas any sort of unity, physical, polit ...
Engineers' Day is celebrated every year throughout the country on September 15th to commemorate the birthday of Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvaraya. Let us see where engineering education of our country stands after 60 years of independence.</stron ...
Key Facts On December 3rd, 1984, thousands of people in Bhopal, India, were gassed to death after a catastrophic chemical leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant. More than 150,000 people were left severely disabled - of whom 22,000 have s ...
"Ignorance means nothing, zero." What is ignorance? Ignorance means the Self not knowing Itself. Everything is the Self, so ignorance is also the Self; it is the "not-knowingness of the Self." It is like a veil that the Self draws over Itself. ...
“There is virtual civil war in Afghanistan. There are three million Pashto speaking Afghan refugees in Pakistan. If the Afghan crisis is prolonged, both Afghan and NWFP Pashto speaking tribes might be expected to make common cause and ...
India is a land of many talents, but sports isn't really one of them. The performance of our sportsmen in the last 6 months or so is astounding, the Nehru Cup in football, the Asia cup in Hockey, good show by Sania Mirza ...
India a country of billion populations, India a country of youth, Youth who want to see their country shining out in this world, but the corrosion of age is stopping the shine of youth. Youth a word comprising of five letters but the word is ...
India has finally reached the pinnacle of glory . I am of course talking about India's greatest-ever achievement in the sports arena - beating Pakistan in the Final to become World Champions in Twenty20 Cricket. For all their toil and s ...
Travelling to a modern Olympics brings with it certain guarantees.You will feel the exquisite pain of a rip-off (i.e. US$5 for a cup of watery beer at the Atlanta games). You will be offered souvenir T-shirts whose bizarre designs suggest the artist ...
When the very first "major decision" listed by a government in its first anniversary-booklet is 'allowing Indian Oil Corporation to charter ships for oil imports directly instead of going through Transchart, an agency under Ministry of Shipping', and ...
RECENTLY OUR College has appointed a new professor, who had retired from IIT. He has amazing personality and is very friendly. Recently he raised a question to us - "How many of you would be willing to comeback as a teacher to this place?" No ...
Rural India In rural areas where a lot of people do not have access to sex determination facilities, female infanticide is shockingly common. The parents wait until the mother gives birth, and when they find out that a daughter is born, they go ...
Of all the Muslim rulers who ruled vast territories of India from 712 to 1857 CE, probably no one has received as much condemnation from Western and Hindu writers as Aurangzeb. He has been castigated as a religious Muslim who was anti-Hindu, who taxed ...
"…O North-East India! Is it not the base of ULFA's ? Here people of Bihar and that of Bangladesh are killed…. Isn't that so? Aren't the people there are man eaters? Portrayed in the Hindi film TANGO CHARLIE). Is rupee the currency there ? What a me ...
Alcohol is a drug. Drinking alcohol is dangerous for teens and teenagers and sometimes for adults, too. Many kids have their first drink at an early age, as young as 10 or 11 or even younger. What happens when people drink? Alcohol is a ...
Chandrayaan, India's first mission on moon was successfully launched on Wednesday. The spacecraft is doing fine and has completed four rounds in orbit. With the successful launch, India has now joined the exclusive club of nations who have sent mission ...
The "animal rights" movement has pulled off a deadly deception: promote a vicious, anti-human policy, while feigning benevolent, compassionate motives. The deception takes the form of opposing life-saving medical research--in the name of opposing cruel ...
It wud'nt be a wrong claim that Sri Lankans were brave enough to tour Pakistan. None of the nations including India were ready to play in the terrorist hit nation . The financial crisis was looming large on PCB as Sri Lankan board came to it's rescue a ...
HAVING WON A BATTLE AT HOME...INDIAN GOVERNMENT NOW FACES A ANOTHER TOUGH TEST ABROAD.... INDIA’S coalition government went to outlandish lengths to win a vote of ...
IT is more difficult to be grounded in happiness than in the sad moments. Actually its very important to digest your happiness sometimes...when sad-happy moments are all the same: two sides of a coin; then just as you have to be patient enough to toler ...
Does the end justify the means? Can it sometimes be right to use a bad means to achieve a good end? Don't the conditions of human life require some shadiness and deceit to achieve security and success? First, let's try to understand ...
In India, the space program was formerly launched in 1972 with the setting up of the Space Commission and the Department of Space. Advancement in areas of communication, meteorology, resources survey & management, develop satellites, launch vehicle ...
“If India wakes up to the world situation and readjusts her educational institutions, I have no doubt that the Universities will have a great and noble part to play in regard to the future of civilisation.” - Shri. Al ...
Leadership, of course, is much more than "individuals and their decisions and acts." Leadership as a quality may be more innate than acquired, but some qualities and characteristics can be identified and consciously brought to bear during complex ...
A DANGEROUS trend is engulfing the country's youth. This trend can be attributed to the technology, influence of west, lack of morality, etc. This dangerous trend is being 'cool'. This word is very subjective and its meaning has changed over the ...
THE DICTIONARY defines 'education' as the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgement, and generally preparing oneself or others intellectually for adult life. The definition sound ...
I think we all know nowthat we are now all hit by recession. This has become a globalphenomenon irrespective of any industry, country. sector etc. India hadbeen riding on the success of IT for almost a decade. The success of ITand the money power of IT ...
Water is ephemeral and though we see it everywhere, we have still not realized the importance of water in our daily life. We continue to waste water and now we are standing on the verge of a severe crisis. As i was writing this i came across the news o ...
CINEMA WAS born out of the impetus to represent the reality in a more convincing manner. After the nation gained independence, the cinema focused on post colonial issues such as poverty, illiteracy and unjustified social system. Satyajit Ray, Mr ...
“Womens are the ornaments of society” really the womens are the top of every summit. Then why was the condition of these womens worst in the past.does the same prevails in this society even now ?. The womens in the past were deprived of educa ...
Introduction Writing papers is an essential part of any educational process. Despite the fact that students have been writing them all their lives but sometimes it becomes difficult. There is so much one can write about but cho ...
IT WASN’T too long ago that people used to rejoice whenever the crow cawed at their window. Call it the victory of their superstitious belief or the reward for their honest love for friends and relatives, but more often than not the crow’s caw used ...
I N ONE of the most famous episodes in the Mahabharata , Dharmaraja, the embodiment of truth, is persuaded to announce ashwatthama hatah kunjarah — Ashwattha ...
When U.S. sneezes India catches cold - is nothing more than a famous old by word which is the emblem of the unawareness about globalization and liberalization. My friends' out here seem to be sitting still in the 80s where India was a ...
Time management is one of those skills no one teaches you in school but you have to learn. It doesn’t matter how smart you are if you can’t organize information well enough to take it in. And it doesn’t matter how skilled you are if procrastinati ...
Note: Below document was taken from one nice mail. Want to share with all Very good perspective on what makes a difference when we compare performances across people… Employee "A" in a company walked up to his man ...
As we have already celebrated the 60th anniversary of our Republic, we are justifiably proud of the success of our often anarchic democracy. But amid the pomp and pageantry, statistics in the latest Unicef report on India's children should be a soberin ...
We're constantly bombarded with facts and figures these days. Most of these data, in the raw form, is of no use to us. We maybe interested only in some amount of this data for our work. Filtering of the raw data is imperative to weed out the irr ...
Botulinum (BOTOX) Toxin Injection or BOTOX Therapy Botulinum toxin injection therapy (also known as "BOTOX® therapy") is used to treat dystonia - a neuromuscular disorder that produces involuntary muscle contractions, or spasm - that affects m ...
Inspite of the Government launching various schemes for the development and welfare of the girl child, it has become a moot point today to ask how far these schemes have been successful in ensuring the rights and privileges of the girl child, Chairpers ...
What are Quotations ? Quotation is the term used for the repetition of words that are used by somebody in the past. When speech or spoken words of a character from a play or novel are repeated, it is referred to as quoti ...
“Going to the doctor” is frightening under any circumstances, but the idea of seeing a doctor for “crazy people” brings about it’s own special fears, both for parent and child. Your child may or may not express these fears, but don’t take t ...
In today's world, at some point of time, everyone of us suffers from stress and overburden. Here is my survival list from overstress. 1. Be Positive in Life for Stressful Situations We can not avoid stressful situations. So, be ...
1 Engineers with the U.S. Olympic Committee keep improving timing and measurement technology. Light beams now record racers’ times to within a thousandth of a second. <img alt="" src="http://www.yfrindia.com/img/000 ...
It's well known that people say and do things in cyberspace that theywouldn't ordinarily say or do in the face-to-face world. They loosenup, feel more uninhibited, express themselves more openly. Researcherscall this the "disinhibition effect." It's a ...
Think of smoking as a horrible murderous monster (because it is!) When you smoke a cigarette you are killing yourself and it is even worse if kids do it. Kids start smoking because they think its cool. Smoking is not cool smoking is disgusting! Ever ...
Quartz crystal oscillators are often used in microprocessor and microcontroller applications to generate the clock pulses upon which all subsequent timing is based. Specialty oscillators, such as TCXOs and VCXOs are found in communication applications ...
It is an age old question in math classes: "Why do we have to learn this? When are we ever going to use this in our lives?" There is of course, a very fine answer to this that any teacher can be proud of. It consists of something along the lines ...
Hi! My name is Antarctica, the white continent of mother earth. I was leftby my fellow brothers near the South Pole. About 300 million years ago,we were all a part of one super continent, called Pangaea. In Greek, Pangaea means ‘All Land’. It was a ...
Do you waste time? Are you lazy and indolent or are you continuously on the go, using every minute to the maximum? If you are in the first category, there are a lot of very obvious things you can do to improve, but in this article I want to conce ...
Have you ever gotten caught on a slippery road and felt the wheels under you spinning and going nowhere? Well, you don't really need to be in a car to know what I'm talking about because this scene has been played out metaphorically many times as ...
Yes its a question that can not be answered. Every doubt you get about the life of a IT employee in 2009 is a question mark forever. IT is dependent on other sectors heavily for its existence. In the era of recession where all sectors are going down, I ...
Everyone tries to get happiness, but we do not get the desired results every time. Mostly, the results are not according to one's wishes, and this becomes the cause of unhappiness or sorrow. It is said even love causes unhappiness. Either the wife or t ...
Bullying is a big problem in our schools today. However, bullying has always been a problem. The main differences between bullying today from the past are the nature of the bullying and the violence that occurs in the aftermath. Cyberbullying is becomi ...
Maybe it’s part of the nature of astrology, but misinformation – myth, if you will – seems to rise up around it. Art, religion, science, pseudoscience, entertainment – do we even know, really, how to classify the thing? Think it over: in the me ...
Come August and everyeducational institute in India experiences a mass flow of studentstowards them. With high dreams and responsibilities of theirs, as wellas their parents, the young minds meet together to explore the worldand bring it on to their fe ...
Chain smoking generally refers to individuals who smoke frequently. A more accurate definition is someone who smokes one cigarette after another, often using the old cigarette to light a new one. Chain smoking most often refers to cigarettes but can in ...
A tattoo can be more than just a fashion statement. Tattooing is an invasive procedure done with a solid vibrating needle causing a wound and sufficient inflammation to prime the immune system. German scientist believe tattooing promises better v ...
Summary Humans, like all animals, form cooperative groups to competefor limited resources. All life is ultimately competitive, becausethe natural tendency of any population is to explode, althoughit is kept in check by the limi ...
People use alcohol and drugs in different ways - usually to experiment, to relax, or to get high. Because drugs and alcohol affect your mind as well as your body, they can have a strong effect on your feelings and thoughts. These effects usually wea ...
An adequate educational evaluation enhances instruction. Just as evaluation impacts student learning and motivation, it also influences the nature of instruction in the classroom. There has been considerable recent literature that has promoted evaluati ...
Pain –introduction Pain is an unpleasant subjective sensory and emotional response to a stimulus, which causes actual or potential tissue damage. It is a personal and subjective experience. The psychological aspect of pain is as important as ...
The case of ecological and environmental aspects of fields such as energy, industrial production & urbanization are hotly debated issues across the world. The environmental impact of IT hasn't as yet received due notice. Almost all of us are well-a ...
It seems that teachers have forgotten what summer vacation means. Only recently have I noticed the subtle switch from the summer break of yesterday to the summer prep-period that it has become today. More and more schools are sending their students off ...
Organ harvesting refers to the practice of removing usable organs from someone who is dead so that they can be transplanted into someone else. There is some dispute over the proper term for this procedure, since it involves delicate ethical and persona ...
Asthma is disease of urbanization Asthma is a disorder of characterised by chronic airway inflammation and increased airway responsiveness in symptoms of wheeze,cough,chest tightness and dyspnea.asthma is a disease of urbanization. Factors such ...
Lots of intellectuals within computer science within Eastern Europe have lots of knowledge and know how to play with computer systems and networks. However, they are struggling getting a computer related job. Especially during the recessions or depress ...
