Excellence with G.O.P.T.A.© Series: Part 67 (Avoid distractions for better focus)

By: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Sr. Associate Editor, ICN Group (In the past article, we knew about the power of focus. Today, we will know how to avoid distractions for better focus.)   Avoid distractions for better focus Maintaining laser-sharp focus is another name of avoiding distractions. These days we are flooded with distractions while at work. Sometimes a visitor arrives; sometimes mobile starts ringing; sometimes email and social media notifications distract us. You have to take some conscious steps to overcome these small distractions, which are bound to come…

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Enhance your Lifestyle with NLP+ © Series: Part 34

By: Shantanu Das Sharma, Sr. Associate Editor, ICN Group Quick recap of what we have covered in Part 33 Values Are Your Core Driving Force How We Behave Like Amoebas! Prioritizing Our ‘Towards Values’ and Our ‘Away-From Values’ Understand How These Values Drive You Why Our Life is like a Space Shuttle 3 Top Trainers – Each Driven by a Different Value Discovering Your ‘Towards Values’ So let’s find out what are your towards values. What are the positive emotional states that guide your every decision and action? You do…

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215 Dead As Blasts Hit Sri Lanka Churches, Hotels

COLOMBO: A string of blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 215 people, including 35 foreigners. Images circulating on social media and local news stations showed extensive damage at one of three churches targeted in the near simultaneous blasts on Sunday morning. The injured flooded into local hospitals, where officials reported hundreds of wounded were being admitted.The nature of the blasts was not immediately clear and there were no immediate claims of responsibility. The first blast was reported at…

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“Chase-No mercy to crime is a modern age musical drama film shot in beautiful and alluring location ” – Meena Sethi Mondal

MUMBAI: Under the banner of  M S films and production’s First Look , trailers and music launch of suspense, action and modern age drama movie Chase-no Mercy to crime were performed at a grand party organised  in Mumbai. On this occasion, The leads of the movie Amyth Sethi and Dipanjjon Basak, along with actress Garima Agarwal, Ramesh Goyal, Gulshan Pandey, Mushtaq Khan, producer Meena Sethi Mondal, editor Raj Singh Sidhu, composer Bob SN, Rohan D Pathak and  special guest actress Zarina Wahab  and  actor Rajesh Sharma were present at the…

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THE BATTLE FOR NORTH KASHMIR

SRINAGAR: Even as polling date for Baramulla (North Kashmir) Lok Sabha parliamentary seat draws close, focus has once again shifted to North Kashmir, which is right now politically, the most active sub-region of Kashmir valley, where candidates from not only the National Conference (NC) and PDP, two major political parties of Kashmir valley, but other smaller political parties like Sajad Lone’s People’s Conference (PC) and Engineer Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party are also in the fray. Unlike Srinagar (Central Kashmir) and Anantnag (South Kashmir) Lok Sabha seats, where polling is expected…

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Excellence with G.O.P.T.A.© Series: Part 66 (Be specific for better focus)

By: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Sr. Associate Editor, ICN Group (In the past article, we knew about the power of focus. Today, we will know more about power of laser sharp focus, specially being specific for better focus.)   Be specific for better focus These days temptation to offer a wide range of products is too big but the successful people know the power of specialisation in one field before thinking diversification into other. Successful people and organisations know the power of focus in a particular field. I would say that…

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Enhance your Lifestyle with NLP+ © Series: Part 33

By: Shantanu Das Sharma, Senior Associate Editor, ICN Group Quick recap of what we have covered in Part 32 Reframing: To Motivate Employees Why Being Rejected Motivates His Team Even More! Advertising: Reframing the Minds of Millions How to Overcome Resistance and Counter Objections Two examples of Reframing when encountering objections Values Are Your Core Driving Force Have you ever wondered what really drives you in your life? Why do you do what you do? What drives your decisions and the choices you make constantly? We said in earlier article…

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Rohingya Catastrophe: The Peril to Indian Security

By: Akhilesh Dhar Sometime you need confrontation in order to come up with a solution, “Donald Trump once quipped”. Similarly, India should come up with abiding formula to end the harsh illegal meretricious settlement of Rohingya community. Basically Rohingya’s are the ancestral group of Bengali origin and enunciate a Chittagong dialect. Most of them were vigorously settled in Burma by British management in an attempt to grapple the hegemony of ‘Arakan’ today known as the ‘Rakhine’ state in Myanmar. Myanmar has a long history of communal mistrust between the Buddhist…

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18 Year Pulwama Boy Released His Maiden Book

By: Mudasir Maqbool, Chief Reporter, ICN-J&K PULWAMA: Asrar-ul-Haq, the 18 years old Tral boy authored his maiden book “BREEZE”. The book was released at Tral township of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district released his at Future Vision Model School during the launch ceremony. Asrar, authored his book titled BREEZE with a theme centered around nature. The book will attract readers towards the essence of nature. The book is published by Notion Press in Chennai and is available on e-commerce websites like Amazon, Flipkart & online sites. On the launch ceremony Asrar…

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Lok Sabha Election 2019: 97 Seats Across 13 States & UT Set To Vote On April 18

NEW DELHI: The election which is scheduled on April 18, as many as 97 constituencies will go for polling in the second phase of Lok Sabha election 2019. After the polling across all the 7 phases ending on May 19, 2019, the votes will be counted on May 23. The first of the seven-phase polls were held on April 11. The process of nomination had begun with the issuance of notification by Election Commission on March 19 and continued till March 26.In the second phase, all parliamentary constituencies in Tamil…

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