Category: STATES

By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Group Editor-ICN MUMBAI- 14th November 2019, EPIC – India’s Storytellers and a showcase for the best India-centric content, announced a content partnership with Amar Chitra Katha – the custodians of India’s greatest stories. As part of the collaboration between two of India’s most popular storytellers, the tales from ACK Media and Tinkle on history, folklore, science, heritage, and culture will be made available on EPIC channel and on the channel’s premium video-on-demand platform EPIC On. ACK Media is the creator of several evergreen characters, and series and includes classics like ‘Suppandi…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Group Editor-ICN  More than 7 lac students from about 16,000 schools participate SHIMLA: Suresh Bhardwaj, Minister of Education, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Himachal Pradesh presided over the State Level Painting Competition held under National Awareness Campaign on Energy Conservation organized by SJVN at its corporate centre Shakti Sadan, in Shimla, on November 13, 2019. Officials from Government of Himachal Pradesh, K.K Pant, Principal Secretary (Education) and Dr Amarjit Kumar Sharma, Director Higher Education also graced the occasion. In her welcome address, Director (Personnel), SJVN, Smt. Geeta Kapur…

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By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Editor-ICN Group NEW DELHI: Finally, the Ayodhya verdict has come after a lot of suspense and anticipation. It came as it was expected, though the opposite groups had their own expectations. But as a lay person like me who is almost illiterate in the judicial matters, can’t opine as an expert on this issue. But what I could gather from the Supreme Court’s judgement that this decision not only ended this long dispute between the two great religious communities of India, Hindus and Muslims, forever but…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Group Editor-ICN SHIMLA: Chairman & Managing Director, SJVN, Nand Lal Sharma today signed MoU for 430 MW Reoli Dugli Hydro Electric Project on Chenab basin with the Government of Himachal Pradesh.  The MoU was signed in the presence of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur during Rising Himachal Global Investors Meet at Dharamshala. Nand Lal Sharma, said that the projects will act as a multiplier for employment generation and overall growth of the entire state. The projects based on Satluj, Beas and Chenab basin in Himachal Pradesh will…

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By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Editor-ICN Group NEW DELHI: Yesterday, I watched by chance a documentary film on Aljazeera. It was on the human trafficking, especially on the slave brides. The story was of Haryana’s Mewat region, a predominantly Muslim area where the literacy rate is very low according to the general standard.  What pained me the most was the young innocent Muslim girls and women from the rural and backward areas of Assam being brought here by traffickers openly without any fear of the law of the land in the…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Group Editor-ICN SHIMLA: In the battlefield of Mahabharat when  Arjun is baffled about the very existence of Lord Krishna and HIS role in this world, he gets keen to see the Virat roop of Krishna. Then Krishna is said to have given him the power of Divine eyes so that he could see through HIS Vishwaroop. In Shreemad Bhagwad Geeta, the conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjun  beautifully describe the facts of life and the very purpose we are born. In fact the entire Geeta is…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: On account of its financial performance for the year  2018-19, SJVN today handed over a cheque of Rs. 68.58 crores, as final dividend to the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Jai Ram Thakur. The cheque was handed over by Nand Lal Sharma, Chairman & Managing Director. SJVN had already paid an interim dividend of Rs­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ 158.25 Crores  to the state holding 26.85% equity in the Company, in March 2019. The cheque was presented in the presence of Shrikant Baldi, Chief Secretary and Prabodh Saxena, Principal Secretary (MPP &…

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