Year: 2018

Government Should Bring Law To Build Ram Mandir: Mohan Bhagwat

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NAGPUR: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat today delivered his annual Vijayadashmi Speech in Nagpur. Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi attended the even as the chief guest. Union minister Nitin Gadkari and other dignitaries were also present on this occasion. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday stressed on the need to further strengthen the armed forces to ensure enhanced “internal and external security” and pre-empt any subversive attempts from within or outside to harm the country’s unity and integrity. RSS Chief Bhagwat was delivering his annual Vijyadashmi speech at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur.Bhagwat said that “urban Maoism”…

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Russian Official: At Least 17 Dead In Crimea College Attack

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MOSCOW: A Russian official said a student attacked a vocational college Wednesday in Crimea, a rampage that killed 17 other students and left more than 40 people wounded, before killing himself. The preliminary examination of the bodies of the victims indicates that they died of gunshot wounds. Nobody was killed by the blast that rocked the college earlier on Wednesday, the Investigative Committee said. Russian officials at first reported a gas explosion, then said an explosive device ripped through the college canteen at lunchtime in a suspected terrorist attack. Olga…

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Is Social Media Really Social ?

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By: Dr. Sanchita Ghatak, Associate Editor-ICN  Watch India Watch! Where we will head if the figures don’t improve? Yes we will just have technology walking around us and making us “developed nation”. LUCKNOW: I was just going through a report by ministry of home affairs, GOI and was rather flabbergasted to see that the male female ratio in India, as given in 2017 is just 933 females per 1000 males, and more astonishing was that it’s the urban population where it is just 900 per 1000 males. We claim that we…

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Union Minister MJ Akbar Resigns Over #MeToo Allegations

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The #MeToo movement, which began as a hashtag on Twitter in 2017 amid the Weinstein incident, has now become a global phenomenon. NEW DELHI: Union Minister MJ Akbar, accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct in a tidal wave of #MeToo stories shared on social media, has resigned. 20 women have alleged that MJ Akbar sexually harassed them when he worked as a journalist. He also filed a defamation suit against senior journalist Priya Ramani who accused him of sexual harassment. On Monday, Akbar sued Priya Ramani, the first woman to name…

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Women Centric Films Ruled The 4th International Film Festival Of Shimla

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Among the many short films showcased during the 3 days film festival  women centric films won great applause as they portrayed women empowerment in the country which is also need of the hour.   Produced and directed by Akash Arun of Chhapra, Bihar the short film Womeniya was included in the special screening category at the 4th International Film Festival of Shimla on October 14, 2018. The film depicts the journey of a group of downtrodden women of a backward village Dhibra near Patna…

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SJVN Pays Final Dividend To Government Of India-Rs. 864.56 Crores Total Payout For FY 2017-18

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: On account of its annual financial performance for the year 2017-18, public sector SJVN Limited has  paid a total dividend of Rs.864.56 crores to its shareholders. While the Company had already paid an interim dividend of Rs. 504.76 crores to Govt. of India holding 63.79% equity in the Company, the final dividend cheque for Rs. 50.13 crores was handed over to the Union Minister of State (I/C) Power and New & Renewable Energy, R.K. Singh by Nand Lal Sharma, Chairman & Managing Director,…

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Fight Against Dirty And Lecherous Beasts

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By: Mehwash Fatima NEW DELHI: I don’t know much about other places, but here I am talking particularly about Delhi, as I am here since my childhood. Delhi is a very beautiful and fascinating city, no doubt. It has the best tourist places and best food. But, instead of all these, it has dark truths buried inside its beauty. We generally get to see the chimeras and the blooming streets, and shops. But very less people get acquainted with the gloom and horror hidden there. In schools, shopping places, coaching centers…

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Money Series: Part 28

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By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group The Financial Map of your life describes the ‘must to come’ future destinations and its problems in the best way and you can prepare yourself to face them. Let us assume once again that the age of Saksham is about 35 years and he has got married, and he has a three-year-old daughter and earns thirty thousand rupees per month while doing the job. The initial Financial Map of his life will probably be of this type: Financial Map of Saksham’s Life Liabilities…

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Film Review-1: Award Winning Films At Film Festival Of Shimla -“A Feast for the eye”

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: The 4th International Film Festival of Shimla provided a unique opportunity for the city dwellers to watch a number of award winning from India and abroad.  As many as 80 films from 23 countries were showcased during the three day film festival from October 12 to 14, 2018. An award winning film “Sinjar” produced by Pampally from Kochi,  Kerala beautifully brings out the pains of two Muslim women who had been abused by the ISIS terrorists in captivity in Iraq was a star…

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#MeToo Campaign: Union Minister MJ Akbar Files Defamation Case Against Journalist

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NEW DELHI: Union minister M J Akbar Monday filed a private criminal defamation complaint against journalist Priya Ramani who recently levelled charges of sexual misconduct against him as the #MeToo campaign. MJ Akbar’s court affidavit lists an army of 97 lawyers.The law firm insists that this is procedural and that only 6 lawyers would actually appear in court. MJ Akbar, India’s minister of state (MoS) for external affairs and a former newspaper editor who has been accused by multiple women of harassment, sexual assault and molestation. MJ Akbar was in Nigeria on an…

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