Normal And Abnormal

India has a road network of 63.73 lakh km which is the second largest iin the world. This can be bifurcated as below. a) National Highways - 1,44,634 km. b) State Highways - 1,86,908 km. c) Other  roads - 59,02,539 km When we take Kerala,the state has 1,812 km National Highways, 4,342 km of state highways numbering about 72 and 25,394 km of major district roads. As per the quality of the roads, the following countries hold the top rankings. 1. Singapore 2. Netherlands  3. Switzerland  4. Japan 5. Denmark 6. Spain. As far as road accidents are concerned, as per available information, about 1.5 lakh people die in road accidents in an year in India. In other words it is 1130 accidents and 422 deaths every day. In 2021 there were 4,12,432 accidents reported taking 1,53,972 lives and causing injuries 3,84,448 people in the country. Now coming back to Kerala there were an average of 12 people died in road accidents every day in 2022. During the period of 2018-2022, ...

The  New Testament has 27 books written between AD 50 and 100. The Old Testament which is the origin of Bible written in Hebrew language, which is the fundamental scriptures of Jewish faith believed to have written between 1200 BC and 165 BC. The fundamental scriptures of Hinduism, the four Vedas Sama Veda, Atharva Veda, Rig Veda and Yajur Veda were written by Vyasa. Though a definite date cannot be said, it is believed that these Vedas were written between 1500 BC and 1200 BC. Faith,  rituals and commandments are the fundamental principles of religion. When it is democracy, the prime principles are liberty, fraternity and equality. But when these two join together the common principles become damage, demolish and destroy. We have been finding this throughout the world for centuries. Of late, we Indians have also joined in this destructive games. Here it is the very strong against the very weak; 79.8% Hindus against 2.3% Christians. It cannot be called a communal v...

The German language Relation aller Furnemmen und gedenckwurdigen Historien printed from 1605 onwards by Johann Caroller in Strasbourg is commonly accepted to have been the first newspaper. India has the world's largest number of paid newspapers.  There were 5,767 newspapers in 2013 and 7,871 in 2015. Now there are about 6,000 nos. This came upto 8,891 in early 20th century . The highest circulated newspapers in the world are: The Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan), The Asahi Shimbun (Japan), USA Today (USA), Dainik Bhaskar (India), Dainik Jagaran (India) & The Mainichi Newspaper (Japan) As per the latest survey the largest circulated newspapers in India are: Dainik Bhaskar (Hindi), Dainik Jagaran (Hindi) Malayala Manorama (Malayalam). On 19 December 1997 Brazilian daily newspaper - Di &# 224; Rio Oficial da Uni # 227;o - had 2,112 pages and weighed 5.27 kgs. In the 19th century Times of India employed more than 800 people. As of 2020 there were 6,567 newspaper companies in...

All politicians and government officials of our country are clean in all respects, it is said. None of them have any dirt in their hands. People and media  frequently come up with strong allegations against some of them. However, none of these allegations could be proved with the support of documents and witnesses. Better, therefore, to stop raising any allegations against them henceforth. It is also be ensured by our law making machinary that a law to be formulated that no one should raise any allegations against the elected representatives and government officials. If raised, it would be bound to be proved undoubtedly; failing which such complainants should be severely punished. This will surely find an end to unwanted corruption allegations in our country. Alongwith this another law may be formulated by all our elected representatives together that anyone in our country proved to have involved in any monetory corruption, irrespective of the value of it, should be sen...

People  who are working on different fronts can be primarily categorised into two groups. One is those working for the sake of work, nothing more than that. The other is those who want satisfac1tion for their doing. Such ones, if do not get satisfaction shall leave the work and move away. The former category shall continue to work until the scope of work is left. Whatever efforts we may put on something, but if it does not fetch any contentment, many of us may not be able to continue with it. Hence contentment is an essential return expected by many who put their efforts for anything. There are another category of people whose ultimate aim is not contentment alone but they find something more by sharing their contentment with the near and dear ones. And what they attain from this is happiness. Happiness is, therefore, derived from sharing our contentment with others. It is a state of ECSTASY. Then comes peace. Peace is not man made, it is divine. While many ...

        Waste to Energy plant in Delhi  We  Indians, surprisingly may not have the sense of cleanliness as required by our environment. Whether it is village, town or city heaps of waste can be found anywhere. There is no effective methods for collection of waste from houses and public places. When there are countless number of boards found at different places saying: 'Don't throw waste here', it is difficult to find any board anywhere saying 'Put waste here'. If places are allocated and proper boards are put people may reach there and dump their waste there. According to available source the amount of municipal solid waste (waste that comes from homes, businesses and other community activities) in India was above 1,70,300 tons per day in the financial year 2022. Over 50% of these waste is combustible. This shows that over 85,000 tons of combustible waste are available with us every day. The following countries in the world are generating electr...