The Veritas News Desk

  World Toilet Day World Toilet Day (WTD) is an official United Nations international observance day on 19 November to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. Worldwide, 4.2 billion people live without " safely managed sanitation " and around 673 million people practice open defecation. UN  Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to "Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all". In particular, target 6.2 is to "End open defecation and provide access to sanitation and hygiene". When the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020 was published, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said, " Today, Sustainable Development Goal 6 is badly off track " and it " is hindering progress on the 2030 Agenda, the realization of human rights and the achievement of peace and security around the world ". World Toilet Day exists to inform, engage and inspire people to take action toward achieving t...

  An Open Letter to all Journalists Dear Journalists, Thank you.  Journalism nowadays can be one of the most exhausting and demanding tasks in media. Despite this, you continue to provide us with unbiased and fact-based content. For this, we are extremely grateful. Though it can be quite easy to use raunchy headlines or irrelevant content to bump numbers up, you still choose to be truthful and maintain integrity.  The current youth needs to be educated to create an intelligent future. Educated not just in academics, but also in the field of current affairs. To truly understand the problem of others, we need to be empathetic. Empathy develops in people through communication and listening to their stories. Journalism, in essence, is the art of storytelling from different perspectives.  Building trust and connection between the readers and the writers, be it parasocial  in nature, can help a lot in content absorption. Accepting feedback from the community is also j...