Day: June 14, 2019

Child Abuse: A Scar Difficult To Heal

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group The internet often entraps innocent children in such pornographic virtual cycle. Parental supervision is therefore a must. KOLKATA: To quote the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri, “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence in times of moral crisis.” A subject that I was hesitant to write on was Child Abuse. I felt I would not be able to handle a delicate topic as this one. However in the recent times, I find such incidents occuring and recurring yet again. It’s…

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HYDROPOWER PLANTS AND ROAD PROJECTS A BIG DRAIN ON FORESTS

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By: Rakesh Lohumi ,Sr. Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Hydropower plants and road projects are taking a heavy toll of the ever depleting forest reserves in Himachal Pradesh which is having the lowest green cover among the Himalayan hill states. Being a renewable source of energy hydropower projects are largely considered to be environment friendly but they account for bulk of the forest land diverted for non-forestry use. In fact, hydropower plants and road projects have together gobbled up 80 percent of the 12005 hectare of forests diverted since the enforcement of Forest…

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Doctors Go On Nation-Wide Strike From Today

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NEW DELHI: The Indian Medical Association has declared “All India Protest Day” on Friday against the incident and expressed solidarity with the striking doctors. Resident Doctors’ Association of Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi held a protest over violence against doctors in Bengal.Protests were also held in Nagpur, Raipur and Hyderabad. The organizations has started protesting against the attack on Kolkata-based residents and two intern doctors on 11th of this month.Thousands of patients in the national capital were hit hard after the doctors at AIIMS Delhi halted health services in support of Kolkata counterparts today. Union Heath…

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SCO Summit : PM Modi Meets Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Ashraf Ghani

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NEW DELHI: PM Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin held delegation level talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. This is the first meeting between the two leaders after Modi’s re-election following the stunning victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the general elections last month. The first of the meetings was with Chinese President Xi Jinping, where both sides focused on how to take the ties forward.During the meeting, Xi Jinping congratulated PM Modi in person on his re-election as India’s…

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SHUJAAT BUKHARI–KASHMIR’S EMISSORY OF PEACE

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By: Javaid Beigh SRINAGAR: It has been exactly one year since Shujaat Bukhari, the most prominent face of media from Kashmir valley was brutally murdered along with his bodyguards in Srinagar’s fortified press colony on the eve of Eid. Shujaat Sahab’s murder was Kashmir valley’s most sensational and daring assassination since Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq and Abdul Ghani Lone were killed in 1990 and 2002 respectively. Such was the charisma, influence and profile of Shujaat Sahab, that his assassination not only shook the media fraternity, but his murder also created tremors in…

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