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Charlie Chaplin: The actor with the perfect comic timing

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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…

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Dadasaheb Phalke film foundation awards 2018 will be held on 29th April

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Mumbai : “The DadaSaheb Phalke Film Foundation Awards 2018” is scheduled to be held on 29th-April-2018 at Chitrakoot ground,  Andheri-west, Mumbai. Dadasaheb Phalke film foundation award  is one of the most prestigious awards in Indian cinema and is the highest official recognition for film personalities in the country. In previous year, Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Ashwarya Rai Bachchan, Tiger Shroff, Rajkumar Rao, Sherman Joshi, Prem Chopda, Shreyash Talpade, comedian Bharati Singh ,Krishna and Sudhesh, Television artist Karanveer Bohra, Ravi Dubey etc had bagged the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke film foundations awards…

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Is India Really A Radical Society?

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By: Prof. Satyendra Kumar Singh, Editor-ICN In Mahabharata times, the amount of fine varied according to the caste in which one belonged. A Shudra would pay eight times the amount of the damage, a Vaishya would pay sixteen times the amount, and a Kshatriya would pay thirty-two times the amount. A Brahmin would generally pay sixty-four times the amount; however, a Brahmin could be made to pay up to a hundred times the amount of damage. The multiplier was different for each caste, because the mental capacity of the offender and…

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BYE PASSING THE BYEPASSES

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Well before any national highway is designed and planned, the value of land along the demarcated road increases many folds. Builders and business opportunists flock such potential places with bags full of money to transact private land  which could later be developed for commercial purposes or for building residential apartments. This is what is being proved along the upcoming four lane highway close to the existing Shimla – Dhalli byepass. This part of the four lane has been designed to connect Shoghi and…

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Enflaming The Real Reason Of Rape Or Is It A Mental Bug

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By: Dr. Sanchita Ghatak ( Associate Editor-ICN Group ) She was walking past with her sexy siren gait, her redolent attire made every man drop their jaws and drool. She was the cynosures of all masculine eyes. This is the image the society shows for a female who has undergone rape. They try their efforts best to prove the victim guilty by portraying this image that it was she herself who invited this uneventful incident. The recent Kathua case sent a chill to our bones. Her old torn cloths, her unkempt…

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Death For A Better Life

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By: Poornima Dubey, Sub Editor-ICN  Today as we all know very well that it is the day of a great personality a personality with all the best features either it’s an economist , politician or a social reformer means our great Dr. BR Ambedkar Jayanti means the birth date of that person who inspired the Dalit Buddhist Movement and campaigned against social discrimination against untouchables while also supporting the rights of women and labor. If we go along his life journey we get a major role of him in our law…

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Ambedkar Jayanti 2018: Remembering The Father Of Indian Constitution On 127th Birth Anniversary

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NEW DELHI: The father of Indian constitution and independent India’s first minister of Law and Justice was also an extraordinary scholar and thinker on issues of social and economic importance.  He fought all his life against discrimination, degradation, and deprivation in the Indian society. The President in his tweet said an icon of our nation, Dr. Ambedkar was a multifaceted personality who waged a life-long struggle for a modern India free of caste and other prejudices. Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted citizens on the occasion of Baba Saheb’s birth anniversary. He…

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The Female Burden of Shame

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By: Klinsa Kurien, Bureau Chief-ICN Kerala Women in India are now a threatened lot. No security is being provided to her. Anytime, anything can happen to her. Last night, my mother had a horrendous vision. Her sleep was a very disturbed one. This very vision was regarding the most disturbing of incidents recently in India. The four lettered word which all women dread was the focal point. Alas, ‘rape’ is now a stunning reality everywhere. My God, and what’s terrible is the fact that it is perpetrated on very tender and…

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Shimla is Not the Simla I Remember, Still Love It

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By: Anoop Sood SHIMLA: Yearning for a sojourn in hills hits you once you sense that the liberation from boot camp- the corporate job- is just round the corner. Four decades in a corporate job is a long period, almost a lifetime. It is about to end and with it a part of life will get over.  You have two options- take up another assignment to put your experience to good use and prepare to die with your boots on or find a sojourn in the place you always wanted…

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