Category: INDIA

Chhattisgarh Assembly Polls: BSP Chief Mayawati Ties Up With Ajit Jogi’s Janta Party

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Chhattisgarh is scheduled to go to polls later this year along with Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Telangana. NEW DELHI: BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday announced that her party will contest the upcoming state elections in alliance with Ajit Jogi’s Janta Congress. According to the seat-sharing agreement, Mayawati said, BSP will contest 35 seats and Janata Congress 55 seats.The BSP also said that if their alliance comes to power, Ajit Jogi will be the CM. Ajit Jogi, the first chief minister of Chhattisgarh, had formed his party after being expelled from the Congress…

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The Almond Tree

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Tracing the day-to-day struggle and triumph of a Palestinian boy, Ichmad Hamid, who, later on, turns to be a Nobel Prize winner in Physics. By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Editor-ICN Group It has always been a great pleasure for me to read a good book, but so rarely it comes in hand. I have just finished reading this book, The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti, which was published by Garnet, UK, in 2012, and now a bestseller worldwide. I am pretty glad about it that I could get this book…

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

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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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PM Modi, Hasina Jointly Inaugurate Indo-Bangla Pipeline Project On Video Conference

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The 130-kilometre India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline Projec will connect Siliguri in West Bengal in India and Parbatipur in Dinajpur district of Bangladesh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday described the cooperation between India and Bangladesh as an example for the world as he and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurated the construction of a friendship pipeline project through video conferencing. PM Modi and Hasina inaugurated the work of the pipeline from their respective capitals, New Delhi and Dhaka, this afternoon. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, and Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan,…

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Supreme Court Issues Contempt Notice To Delhi BJP Chief Manoj Tiwari For Breaking Seal

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued contempt notice to Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari for allegedly breaking the seal on a building in east Delhi. A bench comprising justices Madan B Lokur, S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta directed the BJP MP to appear before it on September 25 and observed that it was “unfortunate” that an elected representative had tried to defy the orders of the apex court. On Tuesday, the police had registered an FIR against Manoj Tiwari for illegally breaking the lock of a sealed…

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Why Should We Not Justify Tripple Talaq ?

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By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Editor-ICN Group Millions of cases are pending in the civil courts just to seek divorce or alimony from the respective husbands and wives. NEW DELHI: I remember the days of 1994 when I had written a stage play named, Rabia. It was based on the theme of the freedom of choice in marriage to the Muslim girls in Islam and the society at large. When I dived deep into the religious texts while researching on the subject, I came across a very famous saying of Prophet Muhammad…

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Triple Talaq An Offence, Union Cabinet Approves Triple Talaq Ordinance

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The Union Cabinet approved an ordinance making triple talaq a criminal offence on Wednesday. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad made the announcement the cabinet meeting.   NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on September 19, 2018 approved an ordinance making instant triple talaq a punishable offence. The clearance by the Union Cabinet takes the bill a step closer to becoming a law. The ordinance has similar provisions as mentioned in original the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2017, which was cleared by the Lok Sabha in December 2017. However, the…

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RSS Conclave: No Hindtuva Without Muslims, Says RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat

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NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said that not only does the RSS believe in “unity in diversity”, but that there can be no Hindutva without Muslims.Bhagwat said Hindutva means inclusivity and accepting Muslims is a part of it. Speaking on the second day of the three-day lecture series on ‘Bharat of future: An RSS perspective’ in New Delhi, Mohan Bhagwat said, “It is a myth that Nagpur runs the government. We do not have any impact on government policies. The comments assume significance as it is believed…

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Money Series: Part 20

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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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Arunachal Governor BD Mishra For Conducive Academic Atmosphere At NIT, Arunachal Pradesh

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse, Editor-ICN  ITANAGAR: The Director, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Arunachal Pradesh, Prof P. Mohanta, called on the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh Brig. (Dr.) B.D. Mishra (Retd.) at Raj Bhavan, Itanagar on 18th September 2018. The Director, NIT, who has recently taken over the charge of the Institute briefed the Governor about the institution. The Governor advised the new Director to put in concerted effort in creating conducive academic ambience in the campus. He said that NIT, Arunachal Pradesh must shine in all respect of academic excellence. There must…

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