By: Kauser Khan, Associate Editor-ICN Group The main attraction of the ten-day Mysore Dasara festival is the Mysore Palace which is illuminated daily with nearly 100,000 light bulbs from 7 pm to 10 pm on all days of the festival. Karnataka’s famous Mysore Dasara celebrations are in full swing. It is also called Jamboo Savari for its grand elephant procession taking place. Dasara festivities, which began with the Vijayanagar kings as early as the 15th century in Mysore City is all ready for the final day and this year it marks 408th edition.…
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Geeta Kapur Takes Over As The First Woman Director On The Board Of SJVN
By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Geeta Kapur, General Manager ( HR ) and Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at the public sector SJVN Limited has been appointed as Director ( Personnel ) of the company by the Government of India. Geeta Kapur has since taken over the charge of the new position from Nand Lal Sharma, Chairman & Managing Director of the Company who had been holding the dual charge since his appointment as CMD in December 2017. It is significant that Geeta Kapur has become the first woman…
Read MoreGovernment Should Bring Law To Build Ram Mandir: Mohan Bhagwat
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”…
Read MoreRussian Official: At Least 17 Dead In Crimea College Attack
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…
Read MoreIs Social Media Really Social ?
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…
Read MoreUnion Minister MJ Akbar Resigns Over #MeToo Allegations
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…
Read MoreWomen Centric Films Ruled The 4th International Film Festival Of Shimla
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…
Read MoreSJVN Pays Final Dividend To Government Of India-Rs. 864.56 Crores Total Payout For FY 2017-18
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,…
Read MoreFight Against Dirty And Lecherous Beasts
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…
Read MoreMoney Series: Part 28
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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