Category: STATES

SHIMLA-OCTOBER 11, 2018 : President of India, Ram Nath Kovind is scheduled to visit Himachal Pradesh on October, 29-30,  2018. During the two day visit the President,  Ram Nath Kovind would confer degrees to the students of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College (RPGMC) Tanda at Kangra at the 1st convocation function on October 29,  and to the Ph D students of Himachal Pradesh University at Shimla on October, 30, 2018 at the 24th  convocation function. The state government authorities, state Police,  Municipal Corporation and other concerned  departments were today directed…

By: Dr. Dakter Esse, Editor-ICN NEW DELHI: “Even at a little over 1.0°C warming, India is being battered by the worst climate extremes – it is clear that the situation at 1.5°C is going to worsen. The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has served us a final warning that we must get our act together — now and quickly,” says Sunita Narain, director general, CSE, in response to the release of the Panel’s latest study. The IPCC, the biggest scientific body feeding climate science to policy-makers, released today…

By: Rakesh Lohumi, Sr. Editor-ICN Group  SHIMLA: The breathtaking sights and the thunder of the fast flowing Sutlej will be lost to the posterity if all the hydroelectric projects are commissioned over the next decade as planned. The river with the highest power potential in the state will virtually vanish like the mythological Saraswati. A dry river bed dotted with manmade reservoirs built to divert water for power generation will be left as the meandering river will flow only through long tunnels bored underneath the towering mountains as and when…

AJMER: PM Modi is addressing a public rally in Ajmer on Saturday to mark the completion of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s state-wide ‘Gaurav Yatra’ that began in August ahead of the Assembly elections. This is the first political rally of the Prime Minister in Rajasthan, where Assembly polls will be held later this year. State BJP President Madan Lal Saini said that the PM will also visit the Brahma temple in Pushkar. On the other hand, Congress president Rahul Gandhi is addressing a rally in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh.Ahead of elections in…

By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group Under the Indian Motor Vehicles Act there are laws to check speeding beyond the prescribed limits, but alas none for SLOW DRIVING. Holding the others to ransom. SHIMLA: Driving on the narrow hill roads in Himachal Pradesh many of us may have come across lazy drivers driving ahead at abysmally low speeds. This forms a trail of vehicles honking at each other with a view to overtake even at risky corners jeopardising their very lives which many a times do end with a collusion,…

By: Dr. Kumar Raka, Editor-ICN  Suffering has been defined in different contexts in different social and also the medical sciences. Suffering can be mental, physical, social, economic and heavily influenced by the cultural, religious and spiritual orientations. Measuring and Indexing Surprisingly, “Suffering” is one such phenomenon in modern sciences which has taken an unpredictable turn-over in terms of measuring and indexing, losing all its inherent meaning, objective, absolute and individualistic approach. This is one of very few such phenomenon which the Western world has accepted in terms of subjectivity, relativity and…

India is the third largest importer of crude oil and rising international oil prices are inflating domestic transport fuel costs in a strong demand environment.  NEW DELHI: Fuel prices continued to rise across India on Thursday as the petrol price was hiked by 14 paise and diesel by 21 paise per litre in Mumbai. Petrol and diesel prices surged up to Rs 0.23 per litre on Thursday, showing no signs of respite to the common people. While petrol has touched Rs 84 per litre in Delhi, diesel prices were pushed…

By: Dr. Dakter Esse, Editor-ICN Muzaffarpur is the first city in Bihar to set up a fully functional waste processing site and the only city in the whole of north India to have above 70 per cent waste segregation at source. MUZAFFARPUR: Muzaffarpur is emerging as a shining example of a clean city for other urban centres in Bihar – and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is playing a role in making this happen. The Swachhata Swasthya Samridhi programme, launched in the city in December 2016 by the Muzaffarpur Municipal Corporation (MMC)…