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Dev-D to Manmarziyaan!

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Abhishek Bachchan

MUMBAI : After their first successful collaboration, Mukkabaaz with Eros International, the creative forces of producer Aanand L Rai and director Anurag Kashyap have come together again to take their association to the next level with Manmarziyaan, scheduled to release on 7th September 2018.  Set in Amritsar, Manmarziyaan is an intense love story coming from the maverick filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who revolutionized the romantic genre with Dev D (2009). In true Kashyap style, Manmarziyaan promises to blur the quintessential love genre showcasing a love story with complex emotions. Featuring an interesting…

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Globetrotting for a cause!

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Priyanka Chopra

MUMBAI : While the country celebrates international icon, Priyanka Chopra’s homecoming, the superstar was in Dubai recently with Hollywood actors Sarah Lafferty and Gina Torres, as well as Brit Formula 1 racer, Lewis Hamilton for a global education and skills gala. Priyanka Chopra also caught up with former Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, whom she had first met at the 50th anniversary celebrations of an education gala in Boston three years ago. Also present at this gathering were three teen survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland,…

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39 Indians Killed By ISIS In Iraq’s Mosul

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NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has confirmed that the 39 Indians who went missing in Mosul in Iraq in 2014 were killed by the ISIS.The minister said this in her statement in the Rajya Sabha. As many as 40 Indians were abducted by terrorist organisation ISIS in June 2014 from Mosul in Iraq but one of them escaped by posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh, Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha. Swaraj also said that the stranded Indians were kidnapped and most of them were from Punjab. The Union…

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World Water Day: Is Bengaluru headed the Cape Town way?

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By: Dakter Esse (Deputy Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Arunachal Pradesh) NEW DELHI: Warning bells have been sounded by Down To Earth, the magazine that Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) helps publish, on this year’s World Water Day (today) – many of the world’s leading cities will see Cape Town-like water crisis in the not too distant future. The magazine is carrying an exclusive assessment in its latest issue. In 2015, Cape Town, one of Africa’s richest cities, had bagged the C40 Cities Awards for its Water Conservation and Water Demand…

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Sonali Bendre Behl’s book club completes a year!

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Sonali Bendre Behl’s book club

MUMBAI : Being an actress, a voracious reader and a best-selling author, Sonali Bendre Behl dons many hats as she completes one year of successfully running her digital book club. A year ago, the gorgeous actress decided to give social media a chance for the love of reading and created ‘Sonali’s Book Club’ as an effort to resuscitate her reading habit. Not surprisingly, the idea worked! The book club that shares its anniversary with World Storytelling Day, turned reading into an in-thing as it steadily amassed followers. The online community…

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Awake, Arise, Achieve; the time for action is now

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Earth Hour

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Earth Hour, March 24,2018 : The countdown gains momentum The birth of the concept of  Earth Hour: KOLKATA : Earth Hour, a symbolic grassroots movement was first initiated in Australia by the World Wildlife Fund For Nature (WWF) to protest human activity driven carbon dioxide emissions, resulting in global warming. ‘Earth Hour’ was famously started as a “lights out “event in Sydney, Australia on March 31, 2007 by switching off non-essential lights from 7.30pm for an hour. How a local action spread worldwide : Earth Hour 2008 was…

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Role Of Agriculture In National Economy

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By: Prof. R K Yadav (Deptt of Genetics and Plant Breeding C.S. Azad Univ. of Agril. & Tech. Kanpur & Sr. Associate Editor-ICN Group) KANPUR: Agriculture is most important sector of national economic system and considered the backbone of the Indian economy. Despite the fact that in last six decades of planned development era since India became a republic, a tremendous success India has achieved in the field of industries, agriculture and allied activities of agriculture still continues to provide employment to around 60 per cent the total workforce. India is the world’s…

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Creativity Hacks

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By: Prof. Satyendra Kumar Singh, Editor-ICN The creativity has no bounds and should remain so. Let you unveil all your potentials and mark the show. But it is not that easy so as at times you find the whole stream of ideas pumping in while at times you sit with a fishing rod and no fishy idea catches up. And I know, you can’t sit the hippo way. So here follows the hacks for you: 1. Be with the nature even if you find that it is your workplace or…

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Appointed To Second 5-Year Term

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The approval of Li’s appointment comes a day after Xi was reappointed as China’s president BEIJING: China’s ceremonial legislature appointed Premier Li Keqiang, the No. 2 leader of the ruling Communist Party, to a second five-year term Sunday and approved the appointment of a director for a new anti-corruption agency with sweeping powers. China’s Premier traditionally serves as the country’s top economic official, but president Xi Jinping has stripped the post of its most prominent duties by appointing himself to lead party bodies that oversee economic reform and state industry. jNational…

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