Category: NATIONAL

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has confirmed that the 39 Indians who went missing in Mosul in Iraq in 2014 were killed by the ISIS.The minister said this in her statement in the Rajya Sabha. As many as 40 Indians were abducted by terrorist organisation ISIS in June 2014 from Mosul in Iraq but one of them escaped by posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh, Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha. Swaraj also said that the stranded Indians were kidnapped and most of them were from Punjab. The Union…

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By: Dakter Esse (Deputy Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Arunachal Pradesh) NEW DELHI: Warning bells have been sounded by Down To Earth, the magazine that Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) helps publish, on this year’s World Water Day (today) – many of the world’s leading cities will see Cape Town-like water crisis in the not too distant future. The magazine is carrying an exclusive assessment in its latest issue. In 2015, Cape Town, one of Africa’s richest cities, had bagged the C40 Cities Awards for its Water Conservation and Water Demand…

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Earth Hour, March 24,2018 : The countdown gains momentum The birth of the concept of  Earth Hour: KOLKATA : Earth Hour, a symbolic grassroots movement was first initiated in Australia by the World Wildlife Fund For Nature (WWF) to protest human activity driven carbon dioxide emissions, resulting in global warming. ‘Earth Hour’ was famously started as a “lights out “event in Sydney, Australia on March 31, 2007 by switching off non-essential lights from 7.30pm for an hour. How a local action spread worldwide : Earth Hour 2008 was…

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By: Prof. R K Yadav (Deptt of Genetics and Plant Breeding C.S. Azad Univ. of Agril. & Tech. Kanpur & Sr. Associate Editor-ICN Group) KANPUR: Agriculture is most important sector of national economic system and considered the backbone of the Indian economy. Despite the fact that in last six decades of planned development era since India became a republic, a tremendous success India has achieved in the field of industries, agriculture and allied activities of agriculture still continues to provide employment to around 60 per cent the total workforce. India is the world’s…

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India beat Bangladesh by four wickets to win Nidahas T20 Tri-Series. What an innings from Dinesh Karthik. Hits SIX off the last ball to win it for India. COLOMBO: India needed 34 runs off two overs after Mustafizur Rahman just gave away just 1 run and got the all important wicket of Manish Pandey to turn the tide in Bangladesh’s favour. India win toss opt to bowl first, Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first. Unadkat, who came in to replace Siraj, began the proceeding but it was Washington Sundar…

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By: Barnali Bose ( Editor,ICN-Group ) KOLKATA : A strange coincidence marks March 14. In the early hours on Wednesday, March 14,2018, Stephen Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicist,cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the centre of Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, passed away at the age of 76. On the same date, in the year 1879, Albert Einstein,the great physicist scientist was born in Ulm,Germany. Stephen Hawking was  born in Oxford,England on January 8,1942. He has been well known as the  physicist whose theory of the Black…

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Debraj Deb ( Asstt. Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Tripura ) AGARTALA: CPIM politburo secretary Sitaram Yechury today visited College Square in Belonia sub-division of South Tripura district, 90 Km from here, where a group of youths pulled down a statue of communist revolutionary icon V.I. Lenin six days back with a bulldozer. Speaking to reporters after visiting several locations in Udaipur and Belonia sub-division in Gomati and South Tripura, Yechury said he would raise the issue of alleged post-election violence by BJP in the Parliament. He would speak with all…

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MUMBAI: Over 35,000 farmers are marching demanding implementations of Forest Right Act 2008, Dr Swaminathan commission report for fair prices and complete loan waiver among others. Over 35,000 group of farmers from the All India Kisan Sabha are demanding proper implementation of the Maharashtra government’s loan waiver scheme, among a list of other demands that they claim are long-overdue. The march led by All India Kisan Sabha (farmer wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist)) has received support from Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena as well.…

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The alliance set a target of producing one trillion watts of solar power by 2030.  NEW DELHI: President Emmanuel Macron stressed the need for “concrete action” on renewable energy projects at the first meeting of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in New Delhi, co-hosted by France and India. PM Modi, whose country pledged to fulfill at least 40 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2030, said the ISA nations will have to “increase solar in our energy mix.” Macron took a jibe at US President Donald Trump at the…

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