Category: NATIONAL

DUBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on the sidelines of the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Feb 11, 2018. PM Modi said that he was looking forward to the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to India next month,” External Affairs Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted. PM Modi also met business leaders from Gulf Cooperation Council countries and shared his vision of “new India” with them. Modi painted the vision of a new India and shared the ease of doing business in India…

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse (Deputy Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Arunachal Pradesh)  NEW DELHI: “This is a very important Budget because of three things: One, it recognizes the crippling agrarian crisis that grips India today. Two, it provides a very substantial security net for health, in the form of the health insurance scheme. And three, it gives poor tribals and forest dwellers a win-win option by supporting development of the bamboo sector,” said Sunita Narain, director general, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), commenting on the Union Budget of 2018, presented…

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JAIPUR/KOLKATA: Congress won the Lok Sabha seat in Alwar by over 1.96 lakh votes and the seat in Ajmer by over 84,000 votes. The party won the Mandalgarh assembly seat by nearly 13,000 votes. All three seats were previously held by the Bharatiya Janata Party. The elections were crucial for Vasundhara Raje government as it is facing a huge anti-incumbency factor, which could damage the party’s chances in upcoming Assembly elections due later this year. Congress president Rahul Gandhi hailed the party’s Rajasthan unit for its impressive show in the bypolls…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma ( Editor-ICN Group ) The debt ridden farmer tries to find a solace in death and thus also relieving his family of the debt burden.The paper promises the parties make can’t feed an empty stomach. SHIMLA: Farmers since times immemorial have not only been the source of crops to feed the subjects but also source of revenue to the rulers through taxes (lagaan). Neither were there any subsidies in the historical times nor any other benefits  to  help the farmers. From those days of lagaan to the present…

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse (Deputy Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Arunachal Pradesh)   The pesticides banned in Punjab have been categorized by WHO as “extremely hazardous” and “highly hazardous” and many of them are banned in several countries. NEW DELHI : On January 30, 2018, the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of the government of Punjab issued directions to discontinue the sale of 20 pesticides (insecticides) which are harmful to health of humans and environment with immediate effect. It also directed not to issue any fresh licenses for these pesticides. Centre for…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma ( Editor-ICN Group ) NEW DELHI : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today presented his government’s fifth and last full Budget in the Parliament with focus on rural sector. The Budget is all the more important in view of the upcoming elections in eight states this year and the General Elections due next year. The Finance Minister was supposed to balance populist demands of the industry, business community, economists as well as general masses, as well as the need to support economic growth and Prime Minister’s focus on…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma ( Editor-ICN Group ) SHIMLA: Farmers since times immemorial have not only been the source of crops to feed the subjects but also source of revenue to the rulers through taxes (lagaan). Neither were there any subsidies in the historical times nor any other benefits  to  help the farmers. From those days of lagaan to the present times of umpteen doles, the plight of farmers does not seem to have changed much going by the statistics of their endless suffering. It is a proven fact that enough is…

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By: Barnali Bose ( Sr. Associate Editor, ICN-Group) After tiding over the crosscurrents of controversies that had culminated into oppositions,verbal,physical and legal, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Hindi commercial film Padmavati,renamed Padmavat (to appease the sentiments of the so-called sentinels of Rajput quintessential honour and martyrdom )was finally able to see the light of day on the 25th of January. Bengal,being one of those progressive states where artistic freedom rules the roost  unlike some others ( the proof being the hurdle-free screening of the melodramatic distortion of Sarat chandra  Chatterjee’s  famous novel…

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse (Deputy Editor-North East cum Bureau Chief-ICN Arunachal Pradesh)  ITANAGAR: The Governor of Arunachal Pradesh Brig. (Dr.) B.D. Mishra (Retd.) accompanied by First Lady of the State Smt Neelam Misra attended the annual prize distribution ceremony of Ramakrishna Mission School, Narottam Nagar, Deomali at it school campus in Tirap district on 30thJanuary 2018. Speaking on the occasion, the Governor called upon the students to carry forward the composite, discipline and cultured education that they have imbibed in the institute to different parts of the State and the nation.…

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By: Dr. Sanchita Ghatak ( Associate Editor-ICN Group ) LUCKNOW: From a lot of hue and cry, agitation, terrorizing , threatening the actors  to chop off the head and nose to deleting 70 shots, brilliantly covering the waist line of the ghoomar dancer and even removing the I factor from the name finally Sanjay Leela Bhansali magnum opus in released. The audiences are awestruck with the galore of glamour, which is a usually very common in Bollywood movies like this with a historical touch. Further 3D screening gave it a more…

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