Category: ASIA

By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: NINE Every one of us must be confirmed that nature is sovereign and most competent power surrounding us . None of us has any option but to deal it with . Nature is ever busy for ourselves only . It has got nothing which is not for us . It performs and produces everything selflessly for this world only . It keeps nothing reserved for it’s own use . The Sun is continuously burning itself for the benefit of this world . The Earth is…

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: EIGHT Can  anyone imagine  that any major calamity invades the entire humanity on the Earth , claims lacs of human life around the globe and have no or less effect on major parameters of individual countries or world as a whole . The expenditure for the same has been enormous for every country individually. Almost every country is under economic misbalance due to this unprecedented expenditure . yes , each and every economy in the world has suffered a lot .   None  of the Economies…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Group Editor-ICN WORLD SHIMLA: Barely a few hours after commencement of trial runs, penstock of the 100 MW Uhl -3Hydro Power Project, executed by Beas Valley Corporation, a subsidiary of Himachal Pradesh state Electricity Board, burst open badly damaging power house of the project early in the morning today. The Uhl stage -3 Hydro power project had been completed 17 years after commencement of construction in 2003 at a cost of Rs 1641 crores against the estimated cost of Rs 431 crore and a completion schedule…

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN World KOLKATA: A rich  amalgamation of poetic excellence, musical grandeur, empathetic humanism heightened by  nationalistic fervour- such are the qualities that define Rabindranath Thakur, anglicised Tagore and  reverently addressed as Bishsho Kobi or Gurudev. Tagore was born on 25th Boishak,1861 in the Jorasanko mansion that prided in being home to one of the most affluent and intellectually enriched  families of the time in Calcutta. To quote him,“I was brought up in an atmosphere of aspiration, aspiration for expansion of the human spirit. We, in our home, sought freedom…

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By: Prof Santosh Kumar, NIDM Views in the article are personal of the author. It doesn’t reflect the views of the Institute. NEW DELHI: I was just thinking while trying to figure out  the impact of COVID-19 across the globe and assessing  the devastation it has created all over the world that is beyond imagination. I wrote two articles on COVID-19, one in the month of February and another one was in the first week of March 2020. I did not expect the economic loss would be so huge to absorb.…

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By: Rajiv Saxena, Editor-ICN International UDONTHANI,THAILAND: “Covid 19 a dreaded word now nobody anywhere expected it reach these proportions and now threatening the very existence of humans on the planet if not handled and tackled seriously and scientifically.In Thailand where I landed in January it had just started and it was not that severe at that time though it had originated and there are a lot of Chinese living doing business and travelling in southeast Asia as a whole.I noticed separate queues were lined up for chinese arrivals and they…

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Photo Credit: Unsplash/Macau Photo Agency By: Sanjay Srivastava, Chief-Disaster Risk Reduction Section ICT & Disaster Risk Reduction Division (United Nations ESCAP) BANGKOK: “Act decisively and early to prevent the further spread or quickly suppress the transmission of COVID-19 and save lives” is the first strategic objective of the UN framework on responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19. It calls for a decisive, innovative and coordinated response to suppress the spread of the virus and address the socio-economic devastation that COVID-19 is causing in all regions. New innovations are accelerating national capacities…

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