Category: STATES

AYODHYA: Yogi Adityanath has reached Ayodhya alongwith South Korean First Lady Kim Jung-sook who is the chief guest on the occasion. The announcement comes days after the UP government officially renamed Allahabad as Prayagraj.The city Ayodhya is located in UP’s Faizabad district and is at the centre of the Ram mandir dispute. The Faizabad district comprises the twin towns of Faizabad and Ayodhya on the banks the Saryu.Previously,the Yogi Adityanath government renamed Mughal Sarai railway junction to Deen Dayal Upadhyay junction. Yogi also announced that a new airport, named after Ram, and a new medical…

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse, Editor-ICN ITANAGAR: Don Bosco College, Jullang emerged winner of the zonal level debate competition (western) for the Chief Minister’s Running Trophy, held at the Tadar Taniang hall in the Don Bosco Youth Centre here on Monday. The competition is organized annually by the Arunachal Press Club, the Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists, and the Arunachal Electronic Media Association, in collaboration with the department of information & public relations. Debating on the topic, ‘Trial by media is fair in democracy’, Don Bosco’s Mito Bage spoke for…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Your mail box getting flooded with unsolicited emails is a common problem all of us encounter everyday. Our spam folder tends to get still more unsolicited emails. Unsubscribing such mails too is a cumbersome problem. So you end up just deleting them. But beware if you open some mails you may be in for hacking of your phone which unfortunately these days contain very very secret and sensitive information that can breach your bank accounts to using your email ids for wrongful deeds.…

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse, Editor-ICN  SHILLONG: The 3rd North East Health Care Leadership Summit 2018 is organized by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in partnership with the Government of Meghalaya with the support from the Ministry of Development of the North East Region (DoNER). The summit was held on 29th October 2018 at Yojana Bhawan, Shillong, Meghalaya. The objective of the summit is to strengthen the focus on key health issues in the north-east region, explore emergent avenues for collaboration and provide a platform for interaction between various…

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By: Dr. Abhishek Kr. Pandey, Medical Correspondent-ICN LUCKNOW: India is the largest country in the South Asia region and is the seventh largest country in the world by area with over a billion people, and is second only to China in population. Once Martin Luther King said – “To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.” Yes, India is an extremely diverse country with vast differences in geography, climate, culture, language and ethnicity across its expanse and pride itself on being…

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By: Vatsala Bhusry, Bureau Chief-ICN Delhi   NEW DELHI: The recent blog post of Bill gates praising PM Modi on Swach Bharat Mission inspired me the to write this article. Many of us are aware about this drive and some of us from our society are taking a step forward by acting as a driving force for imparting knowledge and spreading the mission to achieve universal sanitation and equitable access to safe drinking water for all. The Swachh Bharat mission was initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a view to…

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse, Editor-ICN ITANAGAR: The Governor of Arunachal Pradesh Brig. (Dr.) B.D. Mishra (Retd.) inaugurated the 3-day 40th Geography Congress of India, on the them ‘On Climate Variability, Vulnerability and Resource management – Strategies for sustainable Development and Geospatial Technologies’ at Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Doimukh on 29th October 2018. In his inaugural address, the Governor expressed his concerns about climate variability, vulnerability of living being from natural calamities and indiscreet exploitation of natural resources. He called upon the geographers to develop strategies for conservation of the flora, fauna…

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse, Editor-ICN NEW DELHI: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has launched two unique web-based tools and platforms to help cities and individuals plan their sanitation interventions and manage wastewater. The first of these — SANi-KiT— is a web-based portal which offers a comprehensive collection of essential tools to enhance the capability of urban local bodies in India to prepare high quality, city-owned City Sanitation Plans (CSP). Says Suresh Rohilla, programme director, water and wastewater management, CSE: “SANi-KiT enables users to not only prepare but implement the City…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Secretary (Power), Govt of India  Ajay Kumar Bhalla in the presence of Chairman & Managing Director  Nand Lal Sharma formally inaugurated  ‘Shakti Sadan’, the Corporate Office complex of SJVN at Shanan, Shimla. On this occasion, Director (Finance) A.S. Bindra, Director (Electrical),  R.K. Bansal, Director (Civil),  Kanwar Singh and Director(Personnel),  Geeta Kapur were also present. Nand Lal Sharma, apprised the Secretary (Power), that the Office Building had been designed with Green Building Concept. With built up area of 15200 square meters to accommodate more…

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By: Dr. Sanchita Ghatak, Associate Editor-ICN  Lucknow the “City of Nawabs”(City of Noble men) is known for its Tehzeeb(etiquettes and mannerism)  and “Pehley Aap”(first you) Culture. But sadly the new trends in fashion and metro culture is gradually waning this out. This is consecutively bringing in a rather roughness amongst the youngster, which was considered to be not so classy attitude a few decades back. The haughtiness of the people I see these days while travelling up and down every day to my workplace always forces me to pause a…

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