Year: 2018

39 Indians Killed By ISIS In Iraq’s Mosul

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NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has confirmed that the 39 Indians who went missing in Mosul in Iraq in 2014 were killed by the ISIS.The minister said this in her statement in the Rajya Sabha. As many as 40 Indians were abducted by terrorist organisation ISIS in June 2014 from Mosul in Iraq but one of them escaped by posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh, Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha. Swaraj also said that the stranded Indians were kidnapped and most of them were from Punjab. The Union…

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World Water Day: Is Bengaluru headed the Cape Town way?

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By: Dakter Esse (Deputy Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Arunachal Pradesh) NEW DELHI: Warning bells have been sounded by Down To Earth, the magazine that Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) helps publish, on this year’s World Water Day (today) – many of the world’s leading cities will see Cape Town-like water crisis in the not too distant future. The magazine is carrying an exclusive assessment in its latest issue. In 2015, Cape Town, one of Africa’s richest cities, had bagged the C40 Cities Awards for its Water Conservation and Water Demand…

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Sonali Bendre Behl’s book club completes a year!

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Sonali Bendre Behl’s book club

MUMBAI : Being an actress, a voracious reader and a best-selling author, Sonali Bendre Behl dons many hats as she completes one year of successfully running her digital book club. A year ago, the gorgeous actress decided to give social media a chance for the love of reading and created ‘Sonali’s Book Club’ as an effort to resuscitate her reading habit. Not surprisingly, the idea worked! The book club that shares its anniversary with World Storytelling Day, turned reading into an in-thing as it steadily amassed followers. The online community…

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Awake, Arise, Achieve; the time for action is now

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Earth Hour

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Earth Hour, March 24,2018 : The countdown gains momentum The birth of the concept of  Earth Hour: KOLKATA : Earth Hour, a symbolic grassroots movement was first initiated in Australia by the World Wildlife Fund For Nature (WWF) to protest human activity driven carbon dioxide emissions, resulting in global warming. ‘Earth Hour’ was famously started as a “lights out “event in Sydney, Australia on March 31, 2007 by switching off non-essential lights from 7.30pm for an hour. How a local action spread worldwide : Earth Hour 2008 was…

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Role Of Agriculture In National Economy

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By: Prof. R K Yadav (Deptt of Genetics and Plant Breeding C.S. Azad Univ. of Agril. & Tech. Kanpur & Sr. Associate Editor-ICN Group) KANPUR: Agriculture is most important sector of national economic system and considered the backbone of the Indian economy. Despite the fact that in last six decades of planned development era since India became a republic, a tremendous success India has achieved in the field of industries, agriculture and allied activities of agriculture still continues to provide employment to around 60 per cent the total workforce. India is the world’s…

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Creativity Hacks

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By: Prof. Satyendra Kumar Singh, Editor-ICN The creativity has no bounds and should remain so. Let you unveil all your potentials and mark the show. But it is not that easy so as at times you find the whole stream of ideas pumping in while at times you sit with a fishing rod and no fishy idea catches up. And I know, you can’t sit the hippo way. So here follows the hacks for you: 1. Be with the nature even if you find that it is your workplace or…

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Appointed To Second 5-Year Term

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The approval of Li’s appointment comes a day after Xi was reappointed as China’s president BEIJING: China’s ceremonial legislature appointed Premier Li Keqiang, the No. 2 leader of the ruling Communist Party, to a second five-year term Sunday and approved the appointment of a director for a new anti-corruption agency with sweeping powers. China’s Premier traditionally serves as the country’s top economic official, but president Xi Jinping has stripped the post of its most prominent duties by appointing himself to lead party bodies that oversee economic reform and state industry. jNational…

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Nidahas Trophy Final: India Beat Bangladesh By 4 Wickets

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India beat Bangladesh by four wickets to win Nidahas T20 Tri-Series. What an innings from Dinesh Karthik. Hits SIX off the last ball to win it for India. COLOMBO: India needed 34 runs off two overs after Mustafizur Rahman just gave away just 1 run and got the all important wicket of Manish Pandey to turn the tide in Bangladesh’s favour. India win toss opt to bowl first, Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first. Unadkat, who came in to replace Siraj, began the proceeding but it was Washington Sundar…

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Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Resigns Over Credit Card Scandal

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Gurib-Fakim, Africa’s only female head of state, submitted her resignation in the “national interest,” her lawyer Yousouf Mohamed said. Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced earlier this month that Gurib-Fakim had agreed to resign, with a date set for her departure after last Monday’s ceremony celebrating the Indian Ocean archipelago nation’s 50 years of independence. Gurib-Fakim is an internationally renowned scientist and biologist. She was appointed president in 2015 and was previously a chemistry professor and science faculty dean at the University of Mauritius. Gurib-Fakim had vowed to fight the accusations that…

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