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The Effect of TikTok Since 2017, TikTok  has completely taken over the youth of India. The youth is all gaga over the highly-addictive application. TikTok is a short-form, video-sharing app that allows users to create and share 15-second videos, on any topic. It was formerly called  musical.ly , but it was later taken over by a Chinese company ByteDance and its users were moved to Tik Tok. The influence and impact of TikTok has reached beyond our imagination. It has now amassed 500 million active users, up until Feb, 2019. A lot of celebrities have started endorsing Tiktok, and they also make use of other social media apps like Instagram & Facebook to promote Tiktok. It gained prominence owing to the alluring and competitive challenges that it made. The users, with the help of these challenges, gain more attention which result in more follower. This over-the-night and easy fame has become the underlining reason, as to why myriad of people are turning their head

President House of India On 26 th January, 1950, independent India became republic. In presiding of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar the constitution of India was applied. Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India. And a grand building built on Delhi’s Raysina hill was named as President House of India. It was built for the purpose of expansion in the imperialist power. But, it was written in its fate to become the part of world’s largest democracy. In New Delhi, on Raysina hills it is expanded in 300ekad. In many point of views it is defined as one of the world’s famous buildings. Today, it is not only the official residence of the President of world’s largest Republic but it is the largest house of any President in the world. Until 1911, the capital of the British rule, which ruled India, was Calcutta. But, it seemed to the Britishers that Calcutta was not right place to rule over such a large Indian. The English government then started looking for the new capital.

SOFT SKILLS Let’s talk about soft skills which are highly essential for an individual to survive at all the choc-a-bloc job interviews. Skills are basically the abilities of a person to complete any given task. So skills are of various types. For instance, a person who applies for a job or attends an interview has to acquire some skills which puts him out of the crowd attending the same. Technical skills or hard skills are the most basic requisites for an individual in his field of occupation to satisfy its needs. Apart from hard skills soft skills are more than required for a person to survive his job, profession, occupation or whatever. Soft skills are those transferable skills or say professional skills which only few select individuals acquire. But these soft skills are need of the hour for each and every individual aspiring for a job at reputable organizations or big corporate houses as to say. These skills are complete personal as they are less related to your qualific

ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP- 2019: PREVIEW   Just over a month to go and the 12 th edition of ICC World Cup is going to kick start, with the host nation taking on the Proteas, on 30 th May, at The Oval. This will be the 5 th instance of a World Cup being hosted in England, and for the first time in the history, it will be only played by 10 nations which includes India, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, West Indies, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and the hosts, England.   The host nation will start the campaign for the most coveted trophy as the favourites, along with the Men in Blue. But one must not underestimate the competition that teams like Pakistan and West Indies bring to the table. And then of course, the defending champions, Australia, entering the campaign on a series win each, in India and Pakistan, will look to defend the title and add one more feather to their hat, which already includes five such trophies.   The highlight would definitely be th

HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS- 2018 After what has been termed as a gruelling, semi-extremist and ill-financed election campaign, backed by a racist and shrewd political agenda; the citizens of Hungary have delivered a mandate that resulted in Viktor Orbán winning the parliamentary election by becoming the Prime Minister for the 4th time. ** By securing two-thirds of the seats in the parliament, Mr. Orbán's party Fidesz along with its ally, the Christian Democrats now have the power to change the constitution and further bend the nation to his will. The main narrative of the PM and the Fidesz's campaign was to keep migrants away. This rhetoric is considered damning, xenophobic and hostile by many people in general and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Many of the 'observers' or 'informed citizens' were quoted saying that the campaign and political agenda held no credibility and left no margin for a substantial debate

HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS- 2018 After what has been termed as a grueling , semi-extremist and ill-financed election campaign, backed by a racist and shrewd political agenda; the citizens of Hungary have delivered a mandate that resulted in Viktor Orbán winning the parliamentary election by becoming the Prime Minister for the 4th time. ** By securing two-thirds of the seats in the parliament, Mr. Orbán's party Fidesz along with its ally, the Christian Democrats now have the power to change the constitution and further bend the nation to his will. The main narrative of the PM and the Fidesz's campaign was to keep migrants away. This rhetoric is considered damning, xenophobic and hostile by many people in general and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Many of the 'observers' or 'informed citizens' were quoted saying that the campaign and political agenda held no credibility and left no margin for a substantial debat