Category: WORLD

Think, Eat And Save The Environment

ICN WORLD

By: Prof. Jaswant Singh, Member-Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica & Arctic, Director-Institute of Earth Sciences & Editor-ICN Group ( Sci & Tech) Every year, June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day with a new theme.The theme for World Environment Day 2020 is biodiversity.The day will be hosted in Colombia in partnership with Germany. World Environment Day was established in 1972 by the United Nations on the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, resulting from discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment. World Environment Day is…

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Social Distancing Norms For Public Transport And Feeder Modes

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By: Dr. Akhtar Nasim, Sr. Principal Scientist CSIR-CRRI & Prof. ACSIR (University) & Consulting Editor ICN Science & Tech NEW DELHI: Public transport which includes buses and metro plays a major role in people’s mobility in urban and rural areas of India. Presently, around 10 cities are having operational metro network with a total network of more than 700 kilometers and about 525 metro stations. Similarly, more than 1.6 million buses are registered in India, and the public bus sector operates 170,000 buses carrying roughly 70 million people per day. …

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: 15 Our Country is a conglomeration of so many tradition believing people. So many languages. So many ways of life being opted by the civilians here. Every three hundred kilometers change the language , change the social norms , celebrations and even the festivals.Whatever be the diversities they all are having one thing in common that is they all are Indians . They use different foods , daily dresses and likes and dislikes .Agriculture is also different in various regions and they grow different crops…

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: 14 Once a calamity came down so heavily on us that everything was forced to be closed . The owners could not get anything from their entrepreneurs hence they said or hinted their loyal work force to go away from their places of work till the system reopens fully . Workers seldom have their residential arrangements at their places of work . They live there temporarily , any how , and feed their dependents out of their earnings so fetched . Whatever the situation  dictates…

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: 13 Every time gets it’s mention in history , be it in any way or of any type and taste . Present days will also be taken on some pages when some one intends to write . They will say something about the varieties of days which travelled through this period and made the persons living on this Earth realize the real potency of time. So many persons have written too much in the praise of this factor of life called “ Time”. Literature pertaining…

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World No Tobacco Day: Smoking And Its Hazardous Effects

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By: Dr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Asstt. Editor-ICN Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use Smoking is an extremely addictive habit that usually forms in the early teen years. People start smoking for a variety of different reasons. Some think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. So, more or less , smoking becomes a fashion now a days. “Smoking doesn’t make you cool, sorry…..” Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco smoke that causes smokers to continue to smoke. Addicted smokers need…

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IMMUNITY AND COVID-19

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By: Dr. Samayug Bhowmik, Bureau Chief, ICN West Bengal KOLKATA: Today in this turbulent pandemic caused by Novel Corona Virus or Sars-Covid2, our very existence is at stake. When novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) started to spread worldwide from Wuhan of China, since then , we have been terrified as till date, there is neither defence nor cure. We are trying to find the way to escape or fight with the virus out rightly. What are the ways by which we can do the same? The list is as follows. 1. By…

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: 12 It is obvious that every activity will remain closed during the entire period of “ Lock – Down “ . It is easy to say and listen but really very much perturbing to deal , feel and zeal in it . Once everything is closed , where and what a worker will do ? Every such work oriented person is being persuaded or hinted at the main gate of the factory . Though they can not understand such unprecedented reality , they are forced…

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: ELEVEN A Global Calamity attacks our planet as well our entire human race . Suddenly everything was announced closed . This closure affected everything on the Earth , yes , everything .Whatever we can see , whatever we can perceive , whatever we can think about and all aspects on the Earth were affected by it . Everyone knows that this pandemic has to affect human beings only , even then every animal , every plant , even rivers are not spared .  We see…

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: TEN “ Lock – Down “ is a difficult big experience for any person . As this situation has arisen for the first time in front of people living presently . Calamities do come up but every such situation remains different from any other. The present calamity of Corona Virus is unique one , during which a complete “ Lock – Down “ is being observed through out the world . Every activity is seized while people are confined to their respective places of residence…

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