Category: INDIA

Petrol Costs Rs 84/Litre In Delhi, Rs 91.34/Litre In Mumbai

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India is the third largest importer of crude oil and rising international oil prices are inflating domestic transport fuel costs in a strong demand environment.  NEW DELHI: Fuel prices continued to rise across India on Thursday as the petrol price was hiked by 14 paise and diesel by 21 paise per litre in Mumbai. Petrol and diesel prices surged up to Rs 0.23 per litre on Thursday, showing no signs of respite to the common people. While petrol has touched Rs 84 per litre in Delhi, diesel prices were pushed…

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Money Series: Part 25

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By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group The Financial Map of life is currently making a map for our future from our current sources and establishing the mark of its destination now. What is the Financial Map of life? This is a basic question. We often live in our city more conveniently than any other city. This is because we are familiar with all the areas and routes of our city. We know that if we have to go to a particular place, which route will be suitable, we…

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Food Security: Irradiation Technology Essential To Minimise Post Harvest Losses

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By: Rakesh Lohumi, Sr. Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Extensive use of irradiation technology to minimise post-harvest crop losses is imperative to ensure food security in a developing country like India with meagre land resources and a burgeoning population.Increasing production alone will not help given the unacceptably high levels of post-harvest losses which wipe out more than one-third of the total food and foodgrain production. While exact data for post-harvest crop losses is not available various independent studies and government reports estimate the losses from 35 to 55 percent. Globally the magnitude of loss…

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Suffering: A ‘Paradox’ in Modern Sciences

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By: Dr. Kumar Raka, Editor-ICN  Tel Aviv: Suffering has been defined in different contexts in different social and also the medical sciences. Suffering can be mental, physical, social, economic and heavily influenced by the cultural, religious and spiritual orientations. Moreover, it is an objective as well as subjective phenomenon and closely related with the well-beingness and happiness of individual, groups, community or the nations when we talk about measurement of suffering. Finally, the threshold of suffering is inherent in its psychological definition which emphasizes pain, distress, sorrow, and grief an individual feels…

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Bihar’s first solid waste processing site to convert organic waste into compost fertiliser inaugurated in Muzaffarpur –under programme jointly managed by CSE

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse, Editor-ICN Muzaffarpur is the first city in Bihar to set up a fully functional waste processing site and the only city in the whole of north India to have above 70 per cent waste segregation at source. MUZAFFARPUR: Muzaffarpur is emerging as a shining example of a clean city for other urban centres in Bihar – and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is playing a role in making this happen. The Swachhata Swasthya Samridhi programme, launched in the city in December 2016 by the Muzaffarpur Municipal Corporation (MMC)…

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Mega Farmers’ Rally: Farmers Reject Government’s Proposal, Will Continue Protest

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NEW DELHI: On the International Day of Non-Violence, Gandhi’s birth anniversary, India’s farmers were stopped at Delhi’s border with a lathi charge, water cannons and tear gas shells by the capital’s police. Around 50,000 farmers under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) have started marching towards the national capital as a part of protest to demand loan waiver and reduction in electricity on October 2. The police action led to several injuries while one of the protestors lost consciousness, said an agitating farmer. They also claimed that the policemen…

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Happy Gandhi Jayanti 2018: India Celebrates Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th Birth Anniversary

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Gandhi Jayanti, a birthday anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi is also celebrated as the International Peace Day all across the world. NEW DELHI: India and the world is celebrating 150th birth anniversary of ‘Father of the Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi.The government has announced a two-year celebration to mark the 150th anniversary of Gandhi. The birthday of the Mahatma Gandhi is celebrated in India every year by the name Gandhi Jayanti or Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti.It falls yearly on 2nd of October when there is a gazetted holiday all over the India. In China,…

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Pahalgam: The Enchanting Town Of Kashmir Valley

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group CHANDIGARH: Just, who, in India may not have heard of  Pahalgam, which beside being a popular tourist destination, is also related to one of the most popular base camps for pilgrims bound for the holy shrine of Amarnath?  Every year thousands of visitors from all over the country throng this place during yatra days. Amarnath Yatra is considered one among the four major pilgrimages of India, and devotees trek through the arduous route taking off from south Kashmir Himalayas to the Holy Cave Shrine…

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India Will Get ODF Status By February 2019, But Will It Be A ‘Cleaner Country’? New CSE Assessment Says ‘No’

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse, Editor-ICN  Under Swachh Bharat Mission, millions of toilets built to make villages open defecation free (ODF). Assessment finds major gaps in entire process New toilets will produce one lakh tonne of excreta every day. Big question: where will this waste go? If not managed properly, it can contaminate the land and water and become a gigantic public health problem NEW DELHI: As India gets ready to mark the Mahatma’s 150th birth anniversary this year with celebrations about the nation’s impending ODF status, a new analysis by Centre…

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Words Have Wheels To Roll And Wings To Fly: The Summing Up

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group Educational research has inferred that the more extensive one’s vocabulary, the better is supposedly, one’s chances of success. This is because,success to a great extent depends on the ability to communicate one’s ideas with clarity. A person can communicate well, only if he fulfills  two conditions. First of all, knowledge of the subject matter and secondly,but more  importantly, his grasp over the language. Thus, vocabulary development not only entails learning new words but developing mastery over their use  in the right context. To become adept…

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