Year: 2018

How Relevant Are These Age-Old Proverbs In Today’s World?

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group  Disclaimer: The following analysis is meant for amusement purpose only and the reader is requested to read it “with a pinch of salt”. When in Rome do as the Romans do: The reverse, I believe is true. If you do as stated, you’ll be lost in the crowd and can never be the one among many. You have to do things differently if you wish to get noticed and receive acclaim. So, ‘When in Rome, do as the Americans do, do as the Greeks do or…

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Excellence With G.O.P.T.A.© Series: Part 7

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By: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Sr. Associate Editor-ICN Group KOLKATA: In our previous article no. 6 of this ‘Excellence With G.O.P.T.A.’ Series, we discussed about various benefits of ‘goals setting’ in life. You must be wondering, if the goal setting is so good and powerful and if it is so simple, why everybody does not set goals. Now let us see. Reasons, why people don’t set goals Most of the people do not set goals due to various reasons listed hereinafter:-The biggest reason is that most of the people don’t understand…

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Money Series: Part 41

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By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group On April 19, 2000, the Insurance Regulatory Development Act, 1999 was passed in India, and after the commencement of this Act, the insurance business was opened in India for the private sector also. In the year 1347 AD, the first insurance contract was mentioned in Geneva, which was pure insurance and in which no loan amount was secured, and such insurance contracts became increasingly popular in the next centuries and in these contracts, there was a provision of protection against future uncertainties to…

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WHAT’S ALLERGY ?

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By: Dr. Nosheen Ali, Bureau Chief-ICN MP BHOPAL: On exposure to various foreign substances viz., pollens , animal dander, latex, certain food items, dust mites etc.  our body produces varieties of responses immediately so as to combat its bad effects that may at times be life threatening. These responses are manifested as sneezing, coughing, running nose, watery eyes,  diarrhoea, vomiting, skin eruptions etc. Such type of reaction of an individual’s immune system to substances in environment that are usually harmless is termed allergy. And the substances are known as allergens. The…

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Secularism: A Discourse In Contemporary Socio-Political Environment

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By: Dr Elizabeth Imti & Dr Kumar Raka, Editor-ICN Secularism, the core essence of tolerance and co-existence of various religious groups, is a practical necessity of multi-religious nation. The concept of secularism was not expressly incorporated in the constitution of India at early stages; however, it was deeply embedded in its philosophy all the way through fundamental rights and directive principles. The ideals of secularism had always been present in debates and discussions in the world’s largest democracy and constituted one of the core pillars of the Constitution after independence.  …

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Benjamin Franklin: Who Made America A Great Nation In The World

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By: Dr.Mohammad Aleem, Editor-ICN Group  NEW DELHI: Benjamin was at heart a good writer, so he was a good observer of human feelings and sentiments also. He writes in the same chapter of the book while observing his men on the battlefield in these words: “This gave me occasion to observe, that, when men are employed, they are best contentented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day’s work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle…

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Excellence With G.O.P.T.A.© Series: Part 6

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By: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Sr. Associate Editor-ICN Group Benefits of Goals Setting KOLKATA: In our previous article no. 5 of this ‘Excellence With G.O.P.T.A.’ Series, we discussed about the main benefit of ‘goals setting’ in life. We saw that the biggest benefit of goals setting is gaining sense of ‘direction’. I left you pondering on the point as to where you are going in your life. Now let us move ahead. Most of the people wander here and there for their whole life pursuing nothing and there is no surprise…

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Money Series: Part 40

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By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group Do you know that the idea of insurance has been present in our human civilization since ancient times? During the preparation of the case, I thoroughly examined all trade and income-expenditure accounts of Yugant, and I was shocked. In a moment, the reason for the present adverse situation of Yugant’s family was revealed. During his lifetime, Yugant created a very good income, but he had always seen golden dreams of the future and had never predicted the uncertain tragedy of future. Yugant had…

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National Homoeopathy Conference Organized In Pondicherry

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National Homoeopathy Conference is organized in Pondicherry by Karnataka Qualified Homoeopathy Doctor’s Association, Research society of homoeopathy and  Sri Aurobindo Centre for Homoeopathy. PONDICHERRY: The conference was Inaugurated by Dr. Raman K. V Director health and medical services Pondicherry. In his speech he said the government of Pondicherry is promoting homeopathy. He also said homoeopathy has definite role in preventing diseases like Dengue, Chikunguniya in this last epidemic outbreak. Every day they use to see 100 cases per day. After using the homoeopathy medicines it came down drastically about 1…

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Former US President George HW Bush Dies At Age 94

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The longest living president in US history, one of his biggest achievements was steering America through the end of the Cold War. Former US President George H.W. Bush has died at age 94 in Houston, according to his spokesperson.Bush’s death comes after his wife of 73 years, Barbara Bush, passed away on April 17 at age 92. Bush had a form of Parkinson’s disease that forced him to use a wheelchair or motorized scooter in recent years, and he had been in and out of hospitals during that time as…

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