Category: NATIONAL

By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Famous tourist town of Himachal Pradesh and earstwhile Queen of Hills, Shimla is these days reeling under acute water crisis not only affecting the residents but also adversely affecting the tourism business. As hotels are not able to provide water the tourists are returnig home. Normally getting hotel bookings during the season in Shimla remains a big problem,  many a bookings have been cancelled by the tourists, inform some hotelliers.Taking stock of the situation,  the state government has ordered early closure of schools…

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NEW DELHI: Counting of votes for the by-elections to 4 parliamentary seats and 10 assembly seats is taking place today.The by-election result for Jokihat assembly seat will put to test the BJP-NDA government today. The assembly seats where the by-elections were held on Monday are Noorpur (Uttar Pradesh), Jokihat (Bihar), Tharali (Uttarakhand), Gomia and Silli (Jharkhand), Maheshtala (West Bengal), Ampati (Meghalaya), Palus Kadegaon (Maharashtra), Shahkot (Punjab) and Chengannur (Kerala). The Jokihat assembly seat is a face-off between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejaswi Pratap Yadav. Bypoll is taking…

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LUCKNOW, 27 May 2018: The much awaited ICN Film and Book Fest 2018 was organised successfully at Lucknow. The event started with Lightening the Lamp by the eminent personalities present on the occasion namely I.H.Siddiqui (Chairman ICN), Prof. Awadh Ram (Ex-Vice Chancellor-Kashi Vidyapeeth),Dr. Jagdish Gandhi (Founder Manager CMS Group), Sister Blessy (Administrator Fatima Hospital) and Tarun Prakash Srivastava (Sr. Executive Editor-ICN). The gathering gave the standing ovation and clapping to Prof. K.V. Nagaraj, Chief Advisor-ICN Group and Rakesh Lohumi, Sr. Editor-ICN Group. This was followed by awards giving ceremony. Dr A.M…

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CUTTACK: The Modi government completes 4 years in power on Saturday and the Bharatiya Janata Party has planned a fortnight-long programme to mark the occasion. PM Modi will be addressing a public rally in Cuttack in Odisha to mark the fourth year of his government. Modi took over as prime minister on May 26, 2014 after the BJP won an overwhelming majority winning 282 seats alone. Patnaik, despite the “Modi-wave” came to power with the strongest ever mandate 2014. In the simultaneous state and general polls, BJP won 10 of the 147 assembly…

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India has also stepped up defence cooperation with other ASEAN countries like Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore and Malaysia. NEW DELHI: India and Vietnam will hold their first bilateral naval drill next week while Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharam is scheduled to visit Hanoi next month. As part of existing operational deployment of the Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet ships to South East Asia and North West Pacific region, three warships stealth firage, missile corvette and fleet tanker of the Indian Navy will be visiting Tien Sa Port, Danang, Vietnam, from May 21-25.…

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Bharatiya Janata Party leader BS Yeddyurappa resigned from his post ahead of the floor test. BENGALURU: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered a setback after the chief minister of Karnataka resigned minutes before a vote of confidence in the assembly. The Supreme Court ordered the vote when the opposition Congress complained the BJP lacked the necessary support. The BJP won 104 of the 222 seats in recently concluded state polls, but fell short of a majority by 8 seats. The Congress with 78 MLAs, the JDS with 36 and three…

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse (Deputy Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Arunachal Pradesh)  NEW DELHI: “Swachh Survekshan 2018 is an improvement on surveys done earlier because it has encouraged innovation and sustainability,” said Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) here today, welcoming the latest cleanliness survey results released by the government. Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general, CSE, said: “There is a clear improvement in the methodology adopted by the survey – we see more focus on innovation, and on adoption of sustainable waste management practices. However, some of the cities that have been selected…

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By 2028, the Indian capital, New Delhi, is projected to become the most populous city on the planet. NEW DELHI: India, China and Nigeria will account for 35 per cent of the world’s urban population by 2050, according to the Population Division of UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Currently, Tokyo is the world’s largest, with an agglomeration of 37 million inhabitants, followed by New Delhi (29 million), and Shanghai (26 million). Mexico City and São Paulo, come next; each with around 22 million inhabitants. “By 2020, Tokyo’s population…

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By : Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN KOLKOTA: “All mobiles and other electronic devices are to be switched off or kept on flight mode,” blared the announcement loud and clear. As I looked out of the oval window,I saw the transit bus and the airport building in reversible mode. Having tightened my seat belt, I was in a prayerful mood for a safe flight. A blaring Hindi movie number distracted my attention. On trail of the source of the sound, I tracked it to be  emanating from the passenger ‘s pocket on…

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