By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN World An Alpine Legendary Bad Santa that horrifies children and amuses grown-ups KOLKATA : Worldwide, every year in December, children excitedly track the countdown to the visit of the traditional wish granter, Santa Claus,as he is popularly known. Our good old white- bearded St. Nicholas,the hero of children who traverses the four corners of the globe in a jiffy, riding his majestic reindeer-drawn sleigh is a delight for the young and old. But,in Austria, on Christmas, beware lest you meet Krampus, ‘the Christmas Devil’ who is an Anti-hero…
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Media in India : How to Face the Challenge of Credibility Crisis
By: Prof Pradeep Mathur NEW DELHI: India is a vast country which is home to different castes, creeds, and communities with their different traditions and ways of life. This diversity defines India’s socio-cultural structure and political super-structure which is the subject matter of media content writing. The media content concerning issues of governance and development is now a matter of intense debate as concerns are being expressed by all stakeholders about declining standards and professional ethics of journalism in our country. To address the issue let us have a look…
Read MoreEVEN MSP ON FOODGRAINS IS NO GUARANTEE OF FARMERS GETTING THE PRICE
By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Group Editor-ICN World SHIMLA: The Kisan Dharna continues with farmers having refused all the amendments proposed by them and accepted by the union government. They are apprehensive of not getting MSP on their produce after enactment of the three Agriculture Bills. The opposition parties mainly the congress has been fuelling the agitation on various aspects of APMC and MSP. Not long ago, in September 2020, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by the Prime Minister had approved the increase in the Minimum Support Prices (MSPs)…
Read MoreBLACKENING OF AGRICULTURAL BILLS
By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Group Editor-ICN World SHIMLA: Thousands of farmers from various north Indian states are out to seize the national capital Delhi in order to pressurize the central government withdraw the three agricultural bills enacted earlier this year. Behind the government’s intentions to help the farmers come out of the shackles of commission agents turned money lenders by giving them freedom to sell their produce at better rates anywhere in the country, the misguided lot sees hidden agenda of the government to benefit large business houses take control over…
Read MoreFarmers’ Agitation : BJP Govt. in Catch 22 Situation
By: Prof. Pradeep Mathur NEW DELHI: The on-going kisan agitation is arguably the toughest test the Modi government is facing in its over six and a half years in office so far. Like all governments in the past it has faced opposition to several of its policy decisions and has seen protests and agitations against such decisions. Some of its decisions like demonetisation, GST and labour reforms have been pretty controversial and were hotly contested by its opponents. But the government not only successfully defended such decisions but was also able…
Read MoreICN World : Seeds Of Green Revolution In Bundelkhand Soil
BANDA, 29.11.2020.History of the land of Bundelkhand, which has grown the martyr’s crop in the shape of Alha Udal and Rani Laxmi Bai and many more from time to time, had never experienced the reproductive pleasure of greenery like that of its neighboring provinces. India enjoyed only infinite grace on its face to suppress the enemy and the fierce and power in its huge arms that terrorize the enemy but it never looked at its weakened stomach out of continuous hunger and starvation. Neither the central Government ever placed it…
Read MoreA Webshop/Webinar On International Rural Entrepreneurship In Rampur, Jaspura Block Banda (Bundelkhand Region) India India
ICN World Organized A Webshop/Webinar On International Rural Entrepreneurship In Wiesbaden, Germany
ICN successfully launched this campaign from the Indian soil, firstly and thereafter, through its global experts and partners in Thailand and later Vietnam through Webinars and Webshops and continuing with the same series, on September 18, 2020, it organized its third International program in Wiesbaden, Germany also. WIESBADEN, GERMANY: The Earth is ‘green’ that’s why there is life on it. That is why you and we are here. That is why there are dreams, possibilities, and hunger on the earth. Probably the equation of ‘Life’, ‘livelihood’ and ‘possibility’, is the most…
Read MoreTeacher’s Day 2020: Tributes To India’s Greatest Teacher, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The universally accepted World Teacher’s Day is 5th October. In India, the Teacher’s Day is celebrated on 5th September and this tradition started in 1962. Teachers play a vital role not only in the development of an individual but also of the society as a whole.Teachers shape the mind of children which in turn helps them become responsible citizens. “ A good teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the way for other.” On this special day, students celebrate the contribution of teachers in their lives and shaping…
Read MoreTeacher’s Day 2020: The Mission Of Global Renaissance Of Education Through ICN Platform
Education is the name of ideal coordination between our scientific and technological achievements and nature. We are the gift of nature, so living with nature should be the sole objective of our education. Sometimes our externalities and insights fall prey to asymmetrical cataracts and in such a situation, to clear the fog between ’cause and consequence’, someone having vision and clarity becomes necessary to solve those entangled situations and make a clear route chart between our ‘intentions’ and ‘destination’.The shortest but most clear and effective definition of education can be…
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