Category: NATIONAL

DEHRADUN: PM Modi inaugurated the Uttarakhand Investors Summit 2018 on Sunday morning- an event from which the state eyes an investment of around Rs 20,000 crore in sectors including food processing, horticulture and floriculture, tourism and hospitality among others. All the leading business firms and industrial houses participated in the two-day event to explore investment opportunities in the hill state in 12 major sectors, including tourism and hospitality. The prime minister arrived at the Jolly Grant Airport and immediately left for the ‘Destination Uttarakhand: Investors Summit 2018’ venue at the International…

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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission Saturday announced dates for the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Mizoram and Telangana. The Election Commission today announced a single phase election in Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram, and a two-phase election in Chhattisgarh all of which will be held in November. Rajasthan and Telangana will also have a single phase election on December 7. ECI chairman clarifies that certain compulsion forced the commission to change the timing of the press conference to announce the election dates earlier in the day. The chairman declines…

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The S-400 is one of the world’s most advanced long-range air defence systems. It can engage up to 36 targets at a time and simultaneously launch 72 missiles.  NEW DELHI: India signed a $5.43 billion deal to purchase five advanced S-400 surface-to-air missile systems from Russia, overriding a threat of sanctions from the US. The deal was finalized after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi. India now risks being sanctioned under Washington’s Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which…

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By: Rakesh Lohumi, Sr. Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Extensive use of irradiation technology to minimise post-harvest crop losses is imperative to ensure food security in a developing country like India with meagre land resources and a burgeoning population.Increasing production alone will not help given the unacceptably high levels of post-harvest losses which wipe out more than one-third of the total food and foodgrain production. While exact data for post-harvest crop losses is not available various independent studies and government reports estimate the losses from 35 to 55 percent. Globally the magnitude of loss…

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By: Dr. Kumar Raka, Editor-ICN  Tel Aviv: Suffering has been defined in different contexts in different social and also the medical sciences. Suffering can be mental, physical, social, economic and heavily influenced by the cultural, religious and spiritual orientations. Moreover, it is an objective as well as subjective phenomenon and closely related with the well-beingness and happiness of individual, groups, community or the nations when we talk about measurement of suffering. Finally, the threshold of suffering is inherent in its psychological definition which emphasizes pain, distress, sorrow, and grief an individual feels…

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Gandhi Jayanti, a birthday anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi is also celebrated as the International Peace Day all across the world. NEW DELHI: India and the world is celebrating 150th birth anniversary of ‘Father of the Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi.The government has announced a two-year celebration to mark the 150th anniversary of Gandhi. The birthday of the Mahatma Gandhi is celebrated in India every year by the name Gandhi Jayanti or Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti.It falls yearly on 2nd of October when there is a gazetted holiday all over the India. In China,…

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NEW DELHI: PM Modi and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held comprehensive talks Monday to broaden the scope of bilateral partnership and step up cooperation in key areas such as defence and counter-terrorism. Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev commenced on the official visit to India on Sept. 30, 2018. President Mirziyoyev and his wife, Ziroatkhon Hoshimova were earlier received at the Rashtrapati Bhavan with an official welcome. PM Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind had received him. This is Mirziyoyev’s first visit to India since assuming office in 2016. India-Uzbekistan bilateral trade stands…

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By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Editor-ICN Group NEW DELHI: Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated on October 2 every year marking the birthday of Gandhiji. Fondly known as Bapu, he led the freedom struggle against British inspiring millions to take up the movement. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat. Various events and functions remembering works of Gandhi are held at many places in the country. India’s secularism is ascribed in part to Gandhi, and it is certainly true that Gandhi wanted the Indian state to be the…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma ,Editor-ICN Group Mahatma Ghandhi, Netaji Subhash Chander Bose, Dr Homi Jahangir Bhabha, Swami Vivekanand, Bhagat Singh and many of those who laid their lives for the nation are examples of living in the memory of everyone. Since times immemorial we humans have been nursing a desire to become immortal.  History is replete with stories of kings and rishis indulging in endless tapasya and  worshipping Gods to  seek blessings for being Immortal. Not being afraid of death was considered to be a position superior to the mortals. Demon…

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