Category: WORLD

By: Tejeshwar Singh Rana, 2nd Officer, Shell shipping-London, UK & Associate Editor-ICN Merchant Navy plays a very important role to keep a country and the world running by transporting men and material. I being a seafarer will share my own experience when the ship I sailed on met with a piracy attack is West Africa near Nigeria. The ship was trading in Nigeria region trading for oil products. Nowadays Asia, Mid-East, East Africa and West African region are most affected by piracy attacks. Once during sailing my ship was attacked by…

NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi will become the first non-Congress Prime Minister to return to power after a full five-year term.The BJP leading on 335 seats, while the UPA is way behind on 99 Lok Sabha seats. Other regional parties have been limited to 108 seats. Among the BJP’s star leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading by over 92,000 votes in Varanasi, while BJP President Amit Shah is leading by over 3.50 lakh votes from Gujarat’s Gandhinagar. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is leading by more than 50,000 votes in…

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group KOLKATA: A great Indian who believed that true education is the result of man’s tryst with his environment was none other than Rabindranath Thakur( anglicised Tagore) also endearingly called Robi thakur or Gurudev. Tagore was born on May 7( 25th Baishakh ),1861, in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta (now Kolkata) that housed an affluent family profoundly involved in the socio-religious and cultural innovations of the !9th century Renaissance. To quote him,“I was brought up in an atmosphere of aspiration, aspiration for expansion of the human spirit. We…

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group Once every five years I feel happy, politically  happy to be the citizen of a Democracy. I feel I am important for my country. Is there anyone who doesn’t  like to feel that she matters, that her opinion matters to her country? Well, I am no exception. Nevertheless, this assurance of self- importance comes with a price. Election is the time when political parties,  besides stepping beyond the parameters of decency in their smear campaigns are also ever ready to walk that extra mile to…

Cyclone Fani is the strongest cyclonic storm since the Super Cyclone of 1999, which claimed close to 10,000 lives and battered the Odisha coast for 30 hours.  NEW DELHI: Cyclone Fani hit West Bengal early today morning and is likely to continue in the North-east direction with a wind speed of 90km/hr. 12 people have died in Odisha so far and several areas in Puri were submerged as heavy rain battered the coast, officials said.Pradeep Kumar Rana, DIG Operations,NDRF says that cyclone Fani has weakened & is covering areas of West Bengal…

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group On  April 15, 2019, Paris woke up to the horrifying sight of the fire that seemed to engulf  Notre Dame, in leaps and bounds. The cathedral is consecrated to the Virgin Mary and considered to be one of the finest examples of French-Gothic architecture. The majestic cathedral was  built between the 12th and 14th centuries. It is revered by the  French – Catholics, Muslims and Jews as part of France’s cultural and historical legacy. The news of the devastating fire send waves  of shock and…

By: Tejeshwar Singh Rana, 2nd Officer, Shell shipping-London, UK & Associate Editor-ICN  As vast as the oceans are and as huge as ships sailing on them, the probability of accidents occurring on those ships is also massive. However, what’s amazing though is the size of errors that lead to those accidents in most cases. Maritime accidents that occur due to natural factors such as a ships being caught in an unexpected storm, unfavorable tides, strong winds etc. are totally beyond human control and also make up rather small part of the…

COLOMBO: A string of blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 215 people, including 35 foreigners. Images circulating on social media and local news stations showed extensive damage at one of three churches targeted in the near simultaneous blasts on Sunday morning. The injured flooded into local hospitals, where officials reported hundreds of wounded were being admitted.The nature of the blasts was not immediately clear and there were no immediate claims of responsibility. The first blast was reported at…

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre is one of the darkest chapters of India’s freedom struggle against the British occupation. On 100 years of Jallianwala Bagh massacre, tributes and political reactions have been pouring in from around the world.President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday paid tributes to the martyrs. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi also arrived at the memorial in the national capital and paid floral tributes to the martyrs along with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh demanded “an…