Category: NATIONAL

By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Chief News Editor, ICN Group NEW DELHI: What makes people fool these days easily? This is the question which came in my mind after going through all the recent developments within the country and outside. Of late, at Patna in Bihar, a huge rally was organized, cleverly titled, Deen Bachao-Desh Bachao (Save Islam and save the country) by Imarat-e-Sharia, Bihar. It is headquartered in Patna since a long time. Earlier, its use was mainly to run some madrasas, technical colleges and institutions, but later on, turned…

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Surendra Nihal Singh was one of the more outstanding journalists of the country. NEW DELHI: Veteran journalist and former Chief Editor of The Statesman and The Indian Express, Surendra Nihal Singh passed away here at his residence on Monday evening. Nihal Singh breathed his last at the National Heart Institute. He was suffering from kidney-related ailments. He would have been 89 later this month. Noted journalist Nihal Singh’s demise sparked a lot of reactions on social media ranging from tributes to condolences, with some senior journalists calling it “the end of…

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN KOLKATA: “Laughter is the best medicine.” How very often we have quoted the saying and heard others do the same. There lived a persona in the silent film era, who added to this by saying, “A day without Laughter is a day wasted.” Today, April 16 we celebrate the 129th  birth anniversary of a great comic icon, none other than Charlie Chaplin,The Comedy king of Hollywood. Let us see how the stage  was set and the story of his journey to becoming the world renowned comedian…

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By: Prof. Satyendra Kumar Singh, Editor-ICN In Mahabharata times, the amount of fine varied according to the caste in which one belonged. A Shudra would pay eight times the amount of the damage, a Vaishya would pay sixteen times the amount, and a Kshatriya would pay thirty-two times the amount. A Brahmin would generally pay sixty-four times the amount; however, a Brahmin could be made to pay up to a hundred times the amount of damage. The multiplier was different for each caste, because the mental capacity of the offender and…

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NEW DELHI: The father of Indian constitution and independent India’s first minister of Law and Justice was also an extraordinary scholar and thinker on issues of social and economic importance.  He fought all his life against discrimination, degradation, and deprivation in the Indian society. The President in his tweet said an icon of our nation, Dr. Ambedkar was a multifaceted personality who waged a life-long struggle for a modern India free of caste and other prejudices. Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted citizens on the occasion of Baba Saheb’s birth anniversary. He…

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By: Klinsa Kurien, Bureau Chief-ICN Kerala Women in India are now a threatened lot. No security is being provided to her. Anytime, anything can happen to her. Last night, my mother had a horrendous vision. Her sleep was a very disturbed one. This very vision was regarding the most disturbing of incidents recently in India. The four lettered word which all women dread was the focal point. Alas, ‘rape’ is now a stunning reality everywhere. My God, and what’s terrible is the fact that it is perpetrated on very tender and…

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By: Anoop Sood SHIMLA: Yearning for a sojourn in hills hits you once you sense that the liberation from boot camp- the corporate job- is just round the corner. Four decades in a corporate job is a long period, almost a lifetime. It is about to end and with it a part of life will get over.  You have two options- take up another assignment to put your experience to good use and prepare to die with your boots on or find a sojourn in the place you always wanted…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Every time a school bus accident happens anywhere in the country, the government machineries get together to brain storm on safety measures that should be ensured to avoid recurrence of such accidents. The measures suggested and the reports prepared simply meet their quiet burial over a period of time. Umpteen times strict instructions are issued to the school authorities as well as the bus operators but most post-accident findings reveal that either the bus driver had been hired without verifying the credentials or…

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The April 2 Bharat Bandh was called to protest against the Supreme Court’s ruling on the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry in view of the Bharat bandh had issued an advisory that some groups would be protesting against caste-based reservations in jobs and education. A week after Dalit groups across the country held a nationwide protest against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act by the Supreme Court, which witnessed massive violence in different parts of the countryleading to the death of…

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By: Dr. Anurudh Verma & Dr. M K Sahani Let us come forward to resolve to celebrate Dr. Hahnemann’s birth Anniversary as World Homoeopathy Day and spread the natural principle of Homoeopathy to make the dream realized for disease free universe. LUCKNOW/PATNA: A wonderful “World Homeopathy Day” on 10th April 2018 on account of the founder and father of Homeopathy Dr. Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann’s 263rd birthday (born 1755, Germany). Every year 10th April is celebrated all over the world as ‘World Homeopathy Day as a tribute to Hahnemann. Medical doctors and patients of all over world…

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