Category: INDIA

Ko Swe Win, Editor-in-Chief Of ‘Myanmar Now’ Wins Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019

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MANILA: Two journalists are also this year’s awardees of Ramon Magsaysay;Ko Swe Win, editor-in-chief of Myanmar Now, and Ravish Kumar,  Sr. executive editor of the NDTV. Ko Swe Win is the editor-in-chief of Myanmar Now, an independent online news site focused on long-form investigative pieces in both Burmese and English. Myanmar Now is an independent online news site focused on long-form investigative pieces in both Burmese and English.The 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Awards will be held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines on September 9. Swe Win has criticized powerful, ultranationalist Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, who has…

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Indian Journalist Ravish Kumar Wins ‘Asia’s Nobel’ Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019

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Indian journalist Ravish Kumar has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019 “for harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless”. NEW DELHI: NDTV  journalist Ravish Kumar has won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019. Popularly known as ‘Asia’s Nobel Prize’, it is among the highest honours in the region.He is among five individuals who were declared winners of the award. Kumar interacts easily with the poor, travels extensively, and uses social media to stay in touch with the audience, generating from them the stories for the programme. NDTV anchor Ravish…

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Where Is The News On TV News Channels?

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group “Saas bahu aur sazish” “Saas bahu aur Betiyan”  “Saas bahu aur Suspense”. “Saas bahu aur family Guru” SHIMLA: These are some of the mid day servings on some famous National  news channels. News of the women specific soap opera. Mid day is considered as siesta time for housewives. With spicy taste on who stole whoes beau or who played pranks etc. Menfolk are not supposed to be at home to watch and criticize the offerings. Truly so, it is not there time to be at…

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Sports Conditioning Esssential For Training Activities: Part 2

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By: Dr. Mohammad Salman Murtuza, Asstt. Editor-ICN Sports Warming-up is a short term activity but conditioning involves a long term and regular process.Regular practice is the focal point of conditioning and practice makes man perfect.  There are several scientific exercise principles that must be followed in order to get the most out of your training. Each individual has different needs to reach their goal or sport and personal strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, no one exercise programme will suit all. A well designed programme should look at the individual needs and address…

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Remembering The Emperor Of Novels Munshi Premchand On His 139th Birth Anniversary

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India is today celebrating the 139th birth anniversary of the famous Hindi writer Munshi Premchand. He began writing under the pen name “Nawab Rai” but switched to Premchand.  Premchand’s stories imparted wisdom.They made the readers ponder over the moralities, truth and realities of the world we live in.His works include more than a dozen novels, around 250 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary works into Hindi. Initially known as Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, Premchand was born on 31 July 1880 in Lamhi, a village located near Varanasi, UP.He…

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Sports Conditioning Esssential For Training Activities: Part 1

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By: Dr. Mohammad Salman Murtuza, Asstt. Editor-ICN Sports Conditioning is a form of training that enhances stamina and endurance, which are crucial for maintaining strong athletics performance throughout a practice, games and sports or training schedule. There is no specific difference between conditioning and warming-up for novice person, whereas, there is a clearly difference. Warming-up is a short term activity but conditioning involves a long term and regular process. For e.g. when we perform any activity, we feel fatigue in the beginning but, if we can continue that activity regularly processing,…

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Curtains Down For Ongoing 4 Weeks’ Girl Empowerment Program At NTPC Koldam

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Four weeks long Girl Empowerment Mission (GEM) program at NTPC Koldam Hydro Power Station , which was started on 03rd July 2019 has concluded on 30th July 2019. Total 45 girl students from neighboring 08 Government Schools had participated in this program. Since it was a residential program, NTPC Koldam had taken care of the day to day requirements of the participants like boarding, lodging, clothing, stationery etc. On the day of departure there was a mixed feeling of emotions of parents and children…

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Excellence with G.O.P.T.A.© Series: Part 88 (Plan your day)

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By: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Sr. Associate Editor, ICN Group (In the past article, we knew about how to save ourselves from petty distractions. Today, I will share my real life example as to how I planned my days at office.)   How I planned my days at office by developing idea of time periods during the day NOIDA: While working for the Government of India, my office hours were from 0930 am to 0600 pm, having lunch break from 1.30 pm to 2 pm. That means that in the forenoon, I…

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A Unique Platform For The Young Filmmakers To Showcase Their Talent

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By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Editor-ICN Group NEW DELHI: Bhartiya Chitra Sadhna has emerged as one of the best platforms for the young, aspiring and budding filmmakers to showcase their talent in India in a short span of time. It is a film festival which was started four years back with an ambition to inspire the young talents to take up those issues which are deeply Indian and has the possibility to explore and depict unique Indian culture to the world through short documentaries and short films. The first chapter of…

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Artificial Lighting : Beauty Or Beast

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By: Poornima Dubey, Sub Editor-ICN Light pollution affects every citizen. It is a serious environmental concern that wastes money, resources and cause different types of pollution also such as air pollution while jeopardizing wildlife, our environment, health and human heritage. As many responsible citizens of this world , you are also  taking several steps to reduce carbon footprint at home, dutifully recycle your wastes each week, replace all the incandescent light bulbs in your home by LEDs or CFLs  but even then also you are burdening our universe with great effect…

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