Category: NATIONAL

What Ails Media In India

ICN WORLD

By: Prof. Pradeep Mathur NEW DELHI: A few years ago a public school in South Delhi invited me to address its students on media. It was part of an exercise to acquaint students to choose their career option after they completed their schooling. There were also speakers from other disciplines like management, medicine, IT and engineering. Along with the students in the audience were their parents who were keen to know about career prospects in various areas and help their children in selecting the career line most suited to them. When…

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Inflow In Himalayan Rivers Impacts Low Hydro Power Generation

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Group Editor-ICN World SHIMLA: Low inflow in Himalayan rivers during the current financial year has adversely impacted hydro power generation in the Himachal Pradesh based hydel projects. Generation data from various power projects reveals that the downside is as high as 25 percent in some of the projects. Electricity generation at India’s largest 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri hydro power station located on Satluj river recorded a down slide of 25 percent during the months of April and May 2020 as per information gathered by ICN.  Against…

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Corona: Who Is The Real Crook

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By: Prof. Pradeep Mathur NEW DELHI: As the fight against Corona intensifies so is the debate on the nature of the virus and those responsible for exposing the world to it. The highlight of this debate is that those who know very little about the complexities of the issue are most vocal in expressing their views on it. Naturally the whole debate is an exercise in ignorance and confused thinking. Right or wrong a consensus is emerging that Corona is a man-made virus. Five theories going around about who has made…

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: 17 Counted persons only  Days are gone when it was big big crowd on such occasions indicating celebrations.Now only limited number of people are allowed in any such function.Even video calling amongst relatives is also in the offing for wishing in the functions.People will be less , expenses will go down and it may also take less time . Once it takes it’s shape in the society , it will be a practice of the era itself.May prove to be good for everyone. Some calamities…

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Increasing Human Activity Causing Degradation in Himalayan Region Expanding Green Cover Key to Water Crisis

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By: Rakesh Lohumi, Sr. Editor-ICN Group After the famous South African city of Cape Town the worst-ever water crisis in India’s premiere hill station of Shimla this summer has raised serious concerns over the growing threat to water security. The unprecedented shortage of water in the erstwhile British summer capital is a pointer to the problems being faced by mountain dwellers due to severe degradation of the ecologically fragile Himalayan region. Increasing human activity in the world’s tallest mountain ranges has started taking its toll in states and state like…

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: 16 Any topic newly added on the Industrial aspects , any ruling included in the Industrial ethics cerate uneasiness in the existing set up . So many clauses have been imposed on the entrepreneurs who are willing to re open after Lock Down . Every one knows that the relaxations in the closure aspects are being allowed by the administration and not by the virus in question ? Once it is said the we are in the phase called “ Unlock – 1 “ it…

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Black Lives Matter : A Cry Against Oppression Since Time Immemorial

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN World KOLKATA: Last year, in Boston, as I was walking past a very old church, I retraced my steps. A writing in its front yard caught my attention. It read,”We believe that all lives matter, that  every person is valuable and every individual deserves to be treated with justice and love. We live in a society that suggests otherwise. Because of the continuing injustice and violence disproportionately endured by people of colour l,we affirm that black lives matter.”  As I had stood there quietly, absorbing the …

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: 15 We are having less equipments and less facilities and also more population . This situation makes us more susceptible and excessively exposed to the tendency to get infected . Such realities are against , still we have lost less , that is a big achievement . Every loss of life is precious but we are lucky in terms of Global Ratios of casualties. It was very troublesome to remain sincere during Lock Down . This has fetched us good results. We must keep our…

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Pandemic And Moral Crisis Of Capitalism

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By: Alok Jagdhari & Mohan Rangarajan Kumarmangalam STAMFORD,USA: The global pandemic crisis gripping the world has currently claimed over a quarter of a million lives. It has decimated livelihoods and incomes across the world. While the global response has been an order of magnitude superior to the response to either the Spanish Flu 102 years ago or the 1929 Depression, it has also resulted in a text book “Disaster Capitalism” kind of response from a string of governments across the world, most notably the Trump Administration and the Government of Prime Minister…

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Think, Eat And Save The Environment

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By: Prof. Jaswant Singh, Member-Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica & Arctic, Director-Institute of Earth Sciences & Editor-ICN Group ( Sci & Tech) Every year, June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day with a new theme.The theme for World Environment Day 2020 is biodiversity.The day will be hosted in Colombia in partnership with Germany. World Environment Day was established in 1972 by the United Nations on the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, resulting from discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment. World Environment Day is…

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