Year: 2018

Facebook’s Fight Against Fake News

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The social network was rocked by a scandal last month involving Cambridge Analytica, a digital consultancy that inappropriately accessed data on as many as 87 million Facebook users. On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, the 33-year-old CEO of Facebook who’s made billions from his social network, doubled down on that promise. He did so onstage before 5,000 software developers, assembled media and a host of cameras broadcasting his words worldwide. The F8 keynote is Zuckerberg’s biggest speech of the year — an address where he often gets personal and talks directly to Facebook’s 2.2…

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Thousands Join May Day 2018 Marches Around The World

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May Day originated in the United States in 1886 when more than 300,000 workers across the country walked out on their bosses on the first day of May. In India, May Day was first celebrated in Chennai on 1 May, 1923 following an initiative by the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan. Thousands of activists have marched in May Day rallies across the globe in a fight against anti-austerity and poor workers’ rights.A poster of revolutionary hero Che Guevara is seen during the annual May Day parade in Havana, Cuba. Huge crowds of…

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PICTURESQUE AND PEACEFUL MOUNTAINS INSPIRE LOVE FOR NATURE

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By: Garima Lohumi There is saying:”every mountain teaches you something”. Those born and brought up amongst the mountains would have learnt the most from the nature. The physical environment plays a vital role in shaping the distinct characteristics of the people and their culture. The varied topography and the rugged beauty of mountain terrains present a sharp contrast from the largely monotonous landscape of the plains. This is one of the main factors that make inhabitants of mountainous regions much different from those of plains. The mountain dwellers have some inherent…

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Tanda Medical College to be developed as a premier medical institution of North India

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Government has undertaken to develop Dr. Rajendra Prasad Medical College Tanda in Kangra as one of the most premier medical institutions of the Northern India so as to cater to specialized health service needs of patients of the region. This was stated by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur while presiding over the Annual Function of the Medical College at Tanda in Kangra district. The Chief Minister said that though the Tanda Medical College was already providing specialized health services to people of…

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Cape Town: An affair to remember…​

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Water front

By: Anoop Sood Indians are the new emerging class of “great international travelers”- large in numbers, e​asy spenders and moving around in hordes.​ Nations vie with each other to market themselves as preferred destinations for these “great Indian tourists” and tour operators are delighted to grab the business opportunity.​ Bollywood has served as an effective marketing tool. It was famous producer director Yash Chopra who first started shooting movies in Switzerland. Today movies are shot in every country, East Europe being the latest to join.  And the Indians are everywhere. Switzerland, France, Austria, England,…

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CSE Meet In Ranchi Tries To Get To The Core Of The Patthargadi Movement

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse (Deputy Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Arunachal Pradesh)  Are we assessing the movement correctly? – asks Sunita Narain RANCHI: “India has seen numerous movements and campaigns to assure people’s rights over their resources, and every such movement has had something to teach us. The Patthargadi movement might also be trying to tell us something – and we have gathered here to listen and understand,” said Sunita Narain, director general of Centre for Science and Environment, the New Delhi-based think tank, here today. Narain was talking at a…

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Role Of Supranationalism In Family Planning Programs And The Proliferation Of Contraception

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By: Rebecca Brindza ISRAEL: Policymakers in the present day have grown increasingly aware of the “multidimensional set of social processes that create, multiply, stretch, and intensify worldwide social interdependencies and exchanges while at the same time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections between the local and the distant.” 21stCentury: Grassroots and Global Awareness The onset of the new century perpetrated the aftereffects of the ICPD. Throughout the developing world, reproductive health services were being integrated into national health policies, and in 2001 the percentage of national governments providing support…

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Uttarakhand-Migration: Reasons And Soloutions

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By: Ritika Sanwal, Bureau-ALMORA  ALMORA: Nobody wants to leave their home specially when the weather here is this good and the air you breathe is pollution free but still Migration is a big problem faced by  people of Uttarakhand. This new state was formed with this objective of reducing migration by increasing educational level , job opportunities and overall development of the region. But even after 15+ years of its formulation we are suffering from same problem , people are still migrating to plains specially in search of better living.…

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Fish: To eat or not to eat

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN KOLKATA: When recently a popular Bengali actress of the Mumbai film Industry proudly declared that her favourite food is fish curry and rice, I smiled to myself. It brought to mind my experience in a state of west India years back on this particular issue. Acquiring  a decent house on rent, for a Bengali there, was as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack. Keeping Bengali tenants was a taboo(it perhaps  still is),the reason given being “You Bengalis eat fish.” The look of sheer…

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