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Nidahas Trophy Final: India Beat Bangladesh By 4 Wickets

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India beat Bangladesh by four wickets to win Nidahas T20 Tri-Series. What an innings from Dinesh Karthik. Hits SIX off the last ball to win it for India. COLOMBO: India needed 34 runs off two overs after Mustafizur Rahman just gave away just 1 run and got the all important wicket of Manish Pandey to turn the tide in Bangladesh’s favour. India win toss opt to bowl first, Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first. Unadkat, who came in to replace Siraj, began the proceeding but it was Washington Sundar…

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Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Resigns Over Credit Card Scandal

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Gurib-Fakim, Africa’s only female head of state, submitted her resignation in the “national interest,” her lawyer Yousouf Mohamed said. Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced earlier this month that Gurib-Fakim had agreed to resign, with a date set for her departure after last Monday’s ceremony celebrating the Indian Ocean archipelago nation’s 50 years of independence. Gurib-Fakim is an internationally renowned scientist and biologist. She was appointed president in 2015 and was previously a chemistry professor and science faculty dean at the University of Mauritius. Gurib-Fakim had vowed to fight the accusations that…

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Presidential Election In Russia, Vladimir Putin Set To Win Again

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The presidential election is being held across the Russian Federation on Sunday, March 18. A Russian cosmonaut at the International Space Station also participated in the polls.  MOSCOW: Casting his ballot in Moscow, Putin seemed confident of victory, saying he would consider any percentage of votes a success. “The program that I propose for the country is the right one,” he said. Voters were casting ballots across the world’s largest country, from the Pacific coast to Siberia and Moscow. Voting will conclude at 8 p.m. (1800 GMT; 2 p.m. EDT)…

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In Solitude

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN KOLKATA: Somebody  has said, “ I never found a companion as companionable as Solitude. I need to be face to face with myself with only the music of my heart for company.” Truly, sometimes in order to understand the world,we need to be away from it. A man who loves freedom, loves solitude for it is only when he is alone that he is truly free, free to think for himself, free from having to wear a mask and free to live as he wishes to.…

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NTPC’s 800 MW Koldam Hydro Power Station Employs Advance Technology For Optimum Generation

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Situated on river Sutlej  in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh the 800 MW Koldam Hydro Power Station (4x200mw) of NTPC Limited, has implemented  Advance technology  for monitoring, upkeep and safety of the Dam. Latest Instruments for seismic measurement, weather and flood forecasting, downstream river water flow measurement have been installed. It has thus become one of the state of  art hydro power station of the country. In order to ensure sufficient downstream water during lean season, NTPC Koldam has installed a Real Time Online Continuous flow measurement and data…

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The Complexities Of Higher Education In India

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By: Klinsa Kurien, Bureau Chief-ICN Kerala According to Peter Drucker a philosopher, “knowledge has to be improved, challenged and increased constantly, or it vanishes”.    In a developing country like India, the thrust on higher education has an encouraging drive. The emphasis on Research and other research- based degrees are manifold. Students with a genuine taste for research, observational analysis and an eye for detail choose this sphere of education. Despite possessing a good profile, acquiring a PhD is getting problematic these days what with no encouragement and guidance from supervisors. The…

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Combining cinema and patriotism through a short film festival, Atharva foundation’s rigorous effort : Niharica Raizada

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Combining cinema and patriotism through a short film festival, Atharva foundation's rigorous effort : Niharica Raizada

Mumbai : Atharva Foundation had organized a Patriotic Short Film festival in association with Atharva Institutes of Film and Television and Pocket Films. The film festival was accompanied by the grand finale and award ceremony of  the Short Film at Atharva educational complex, Malad. The actress Niharica Raizada of the upcoming movie Total Dhamal was also present at the event to encourage the participants and gave awards to the winner. The film festival received 150 entries from all over the country with patriotic plot. The duration of the films were 3 to…

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Girnar Tea joins hands with Ajay Devgn starrer ‘Raid’

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Raid with Girnar Tea

Mumbai : India’s leading FMCG brand Girnar Tea has teamed up with Ajay Devgn starrer upcoming Bollywood big- budget film RAID for effective marketing. As a part of the tie-up, Girnar Tea has created a co-branded television commercial with the film, featuring Ajay Devgn, in an attempt to capitalise on the partnership. To leverage the integration amongst maximum audience, the brand is promoting the movie through the co-branded TVC in addition to a print and outdoor campaign.  The prominent features of the brand intrinsically align itself to the central character of…

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“Remember to look at the stars”,said Stephen Hawking,the star physicist who is no more.

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Stephen Hawking

By: Barnali Bose ( Editor,ICN-Group ) KOLKATA : A strange coincidence marks March 14. In the early hours on Wednesday, March 14,2018, Stephen Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicist,cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the centre of Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, passed away at the age of 76. On the same date, in the year 1879, Albert Einstein,the great physicist scientist was born in Ulm,Germany. Stephen Hawking was  born in Oxford,England on January 8,1942. He has been well known as the  physicist whose theory of the Black…

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