Year: 2018

By: Dr. Kumar Raka, Bureau Chief-ICN Delhi ISRAEL: School Safety Programme is one of the most important components of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). In order to save children’s lives and protect damages in infrastructures and investments costs in the education sector, all the States should be committed and started implementing school safety programmes in line with the Guidelines of Govt. of India. Recently, the Supreme Court of India directed all state governments to ensure that the Centre’s guidelines on safety and security of children are implemented in “reality” in every school…

By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Once again the Supreme Court of India had to intervene in the mass destruction to ecology being caused by certain fraudulent builders in Kasauli who had made inroads not only in the fragile hills for their financial gains but also into the state’s soft peddling  authorities. Finally the Honourable Supreme Court in its judgement on Tuesday  has ordered demolition of unauthorised structures in 12 resorts at Kasauli within a period of 15 days. Upholding the orders of National Green Tribunal, the supreme court observed…

By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Chief News Editor, ICN Group NEW DELHI: What makes people fool these days easily? This is the question which came in my mind after going through all the recent developments within the country and outside. Of late, at Patna in Bihar, a huge rally was organized, cleverly titled, Deen Bachao-Desh Bachao (Save Islam and save the country) by Imarat-e-Sharia, Bihar. It is headquartered in Patna since a long time. Earlier, its use was mainly to run some madrasas, technical colleges and institutions, but later on, turned…

Surendra Nihal Singh was one of the more outstanding journalists of the country. NEW DELHI: Veteran journalist and former Chief Editor of The Statesman and The Indian Express, Surendra Nihal Singh passed away here at his residence on Monday evening. Nihal Singh breathed his last at the National Heart Institute. He was suffering from kidney-related ailments. He would have been 89 later this month. Noted journalist Nihal Singh’s demise sparked a lot of reactions on social media ranging from tributes to condolences, with some senior journalists calling it “the end of…

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN KOLKATA: “Laughter is the best medicine.” How very often we have quoted the saying and heard others do the same. There lived a persona in the silent film era, who added to this by saying, “A day without Laughter is a day wasted.” Today, April 16 we celebrate the 129th  birth anniversary of a great comic icon, none other than Charlie Chaplin,The Comedy king of Hollywood. Let us see how the stage  was set and the story of his journey to becoming the world renowned comedian…