WORLD HEART DAY 2018: “With A Healthy Heart The Beat Goes On”

By: Dr. Shazia Israr, Associate Editor-ICN The 2018 theme ‘My Heart, Your Heart’ is set at asking people all over the globe to make a promise – ‘a promise as an individual to make healthier choices and lifestyle decisions, a promise to cook and eat more healthy, a promise to do more exercises and encourage your children to be more active, a promise to say no to smoking and help your loved ones quit, a promise as an healthcare professional to save more lives, and most of all, a simple…

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Money Series: Part 24

By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group “When a chicken egg breaks out from the outside, there is a killing, but when it breaks from the inside, a life comes out from it.” Financial Graph of Life I have seen you coming from the distance to this halt. I am witnessing that a new enlightenment and faith has been born in your body language. Such belief is possible in positive attitude only. Believe it – positive life vision is the biggest power and energy of the world. I have…

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Health Insurance Fraud And Related Parties

By: Dr Vivek Chauhan, (Zonal Medical Head,Star Health & Allied Insurance Company Ltd) LUCKNOW: It is a matter of concern that ‘insurance fraud’ is not defined under the insurance Act. IRDA recently quoted the definition provided by the international Association of insurance supervisors (IAIS) which defines fraud as “an act or omission intended to gain dishonest or unlawful advantage for a party committing the fraud or for other related parties.” Other instruments within the Indian legal system, such as the Indian Penal Code (IPC) or Indian Contract Act, also do not…

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Money Series: Part 23

By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group Today, in life, uncertainty is seen everywhere in the market as well as in the world, and there is a risk of loss up to 100 percent. Investments in Insurance Plans We have got brief information about the idea and procedure of insurance above and understood that the investment made in insurance plans could not only benefit us at the stipulated time but from the date of the purchase of insurance policy, it provides guarantee to ensure our lives and provide the…

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Pollution Affecting Fertility

By: Dr. Warija Seth, M.D. (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)/ Sr. Associate Editor-ICN LUCKNOW: Human evolution is the result of valuable qualities like empathy, sympathy, compassion and wit. Man changed his nature from nomad to stationary living. During the course of evolution man developed interdependent communities. They indulged in trade, excessive accumulation of wealth. Indulgence in pleasure and selfish behaviour has risen the rivalry among themselves. If we examine the swarmed and cramped cities of today, the nimble human is lost somewhere and a scowl, shrugged man looking for sudden thrust to raise oneself…

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Money Series: Part 22

By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group In Mutual Funds, the possibility of safe gains is always higher. Such financial institutions periodically bring their mutual funds into the market, and you can invest in that fund for a safer profit. Mutual Funds This option is also linked to the stock market but it is more secure, but this security restricts both your profitability and the probability of loss. I see it as a ‘BASKET CHAT.’ Right now, we have received some information above about the stock market, and we…

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Money Series: Part 21

By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group  Keep in mind – The rule of ‘Accurate Entry and Accurate Exit’ in this type of investments is the key points, and you earn such skill only after a long experience. Association with successful persons If there is a coordination of a successful person available to you, please do not let this occasion go to waste. Remember – success and failure are dependent on your point of view. A successful person’s attitude and special reaction in special circumstances is a unique experiment…

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Words Have Wheels To Roll And Wings To Fly: Part 3

By: Barnali Bose, Editor- ICN Group Just as the British left us a rich  legacy of their language,so also they adopted a number of Indian words in their vocabulary. Indian Vocabulary that has been incorporated into the English language: Many Sanskrit, Hindi and Urdu words are now part of the English vocabulary. Most of these words came to be part of the English vocabulary during the British rule in India. I would hereby like to enlist a few English words that are Indian in origin.‘Avatar’ which is also the title…

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Money Series: Part 20

By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group Our life passes through a narrow street of failure, but we cannot see the nearing ‘widest National High way’ to move for our success. Debt emancipation: Do you know that you earn money with only your two hands, but your bank is earning money with thousands of hands? Why does this happen – have you ever thought? By paying the loans to thousands of millions of people of the society from its capital, a bank earns a large amount of interest every…

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Words Have Wheels To Roll And Wings To Fly: Part 2

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group A delve into how European Traders communicated with Indians:   The  Portuguese traders arrived in India in 1498. By the 1600s Portuguese was a Lingua Franca in coastal cities across south East Asia A question invariably crops up  as to how the Portuguese communicated with Indian rulers and traders.Well, this is how the story goes.Vasco Da Gama, popularly known for his discovery of sea route to India, brought some Islamic traders to act as interpreters. The British first visited India in 1601, while travelling to…

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