Category: CITIES

By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group First payment to self Hello friend! Well, we have met on this route. I’m happy to meet you. The journey is long, but I think that when two people go on a trip like friends, no travel is long. Every journey of life teaches us what life is in the real sense. If you permit me, we will walk a little far together on the long journey of life and I promise you that during this association, I will try to explain…

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By: Dr. Samayug Bhowmik, Bureau Chief, ICN-West Bengal KOLKATA: The monsoon season gives us  relief from the scorching heat of summer.However, it also brings with  it a bunch of dreadful diseases riding on a vehicle named water carried by the vector, the  mosquito. People  fall ill as our surroundings are  filled with stagnant water. Potable drinking water supply and sewage drainage system get jeopardized  due to floods. Waterlogged areas become the breeding grounds for mosquitoes and different bacterias and viruses thrive. I would like to discuss about a few common…

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Mohammad Kaif Mulla scored 99.84% marks in his SSLC exam and stood first in the district and second in the state. BENGALURU: A boy from Bengaluru who was not satisfied with an incredible score of 624/625 sent his papers for reevaluation only for them to return with full marks, making him the topper in the Karnataka state board Class X exams. The student of St Xavier’s High School in Karnataka’s Belgaum, Kaif earned the top spot among 13 lakh students. Mohammad Kaif Mulla had scored 100% marks in all his…

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse (Deputy Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Arunachal Pradesh)  NEW DELHI: Unable to improve its air quality, protect its biodiversity, and cut its greenhouse gas emissions, India – say all available data — stands today at the bottom of the Global Environment Performance Index (EPI) rankings. In 2016, the country had ranked 141 out of 180 countries. In 2018, according to the just released State of India’s Environment (SoE) 2018 in Figures, it has slipped to the 177th position. The SoE in Figures is an annual compendium of environmental statistics…

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By: Dr. Pankaj Kumar Yadav, Special Correspondent-ICN The reason for this unemployment clearly follows a mismatch between supply and demand in health sector. According to World Health Organization (WHO), the ideal dentist-population ratio is 1:7500. The dental profession is a noble profession. It takes years of devotion towards the subject of dentistry to get the graduate degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery. However, even after such painstaking efforts the current situation of dental graduates in India is grave. There are a lot of issues that are the main cause for…

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse (Deputy Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Arunachal Pradesh)  ITANAGAR: Condemning the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, the All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) under the aegis of North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) staged a sit-in protest at Tennis Court here on Monday. AAPSU General Secretary Tobom Dai said the union had through the office of NESO submitted memorandum to a Central government team on the strong rejection of the Bill. “The Citizenship Act of 1955 was based on secularism and domicile by birth but the 2016 bill is totally based on…

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By: Dr. M. Aleem Siddiqui, Joint Secretary IMA Lucknow LUCKNOW: Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Approximately 1% of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime. Schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men, usually in the late teens or early twenties, than in women, who are generally affected in the twenties to early thirties. It can affect anyone. Its caused by a mixture of Genetic variations, perhaps slight brain damage at birth/pregnancy. Drugs may trigger it. Stress makes it worse.…

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By: Shruti Sethi Basu MUMBAI: Can’t imagine letting go but can’t hold on any more.. what happens when it’s not a thing, a place or person that is the subject of the decision…. but LIFE itself!! Yes Euthanasia!! Derived from Greek it means “good death”. It is the practice of “intentionally ending” a life to relieve pain and suffering. Interestingly there are as many varied views about this as maybe the number of living themselves and no wonder it is one of the most active areas of research. This has…

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By: Ritika Sanwal, Bureau-ALMORA  ALMORA: Nobody wants to leave their home specially when the weather here is this good and the air you breathe is pollution free but still Migration is a big problem faced by  people of Uttarakhand. This new state was formed with this objective of reducing migration by increasing educational level , job opportunities and overall development of the region. But even after 15+ years of its formulation we are suffering from same problem , people are still migrating to plains specially in search of better living.…

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