Year: 2017

A MIDNIGHT STROLL ON SHIMLA MALL ROAD

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma ( Editor-ICN Group ) SHIMLA : Midnight strolling on the historical Mall of Shimla when the temperature had dipped to 3 degrees and even the dogs had taken shelter in creeks or cozy hideouts,  I was the lone soul heaving deep breaths having walked up the Command steep from Shimla bus stand on way to my home in Lakkar Bazar. The mist and fog had engulfed the pole lights and mercury bulbs could barely pierce the mist and appeared like tiny bulbs. The vast expanse of Mall road at…

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HYDROPOWER PLANTS AND ROAD PROJECTS A BIG DRAIN ON FORESTS

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By: Rakesh Lohumi ( Sr. Editor-ICN GROUP ) SHIMLA: Hydropower plants and road projects are taking a heavy toll of the ever depleting forest reserves in Himachal Pradesh which is having the lowest green cover among the Himalayan hill states. Being a renewable source of energy hydropower projects are largely considered to be environment friendly but they account for bulk of the forest land diverted for non-forestry use. In fact, hydropower plants and road projects have together gobbled up 80 percent of the 12005 hectare of forests diverted since the…

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ONE OF THE BEST AQUARIUMS IN THE UNITED STATES: NATIONAL AQUARIUM BALTIMORE

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By: M S Mazumdar ( Editor-ICN North East ) The aquarium’s stated vision is to confront pressing issues facing global aquatic habitats through pioneering science, conservation, and educational programming. BALTIMORE,USA: The National Aquarium  is a non-profit public aquarium located at Pratt Street in the Inner Harbor area of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. Constructed during a period of urban renewal in Baltimore, the aquarium opened on August 8, 1981. The Aquarium holds more than 8,300,000 liter of water, and has more than 17,000 specimens representing over 750 species.The aquarium building and the…

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THE ALMOND TREE

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By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem ( Chief News Editor-ICN GROUP ) Tracing the day-to-day struggle and triumph of a Palestinian boy, Ichmad Hamid, who, later on, turns to be a Nobel Prize winner in Physics. It has always been a great pleasure for me to read a good book, but so rarely it comes in hand. I have just finished reading this book, The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti, which was published by Garnet, UK, in 2012, and now a bestseller worldwide. I am pretty glad about it that I…

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Kartik Puja : Customs And Beliefs

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By: Barnali Bose ( Associate Editor-ICN Group ) Kartik puja is celebrated with great exuberance and gaiety  in Chinsurah and Bansberia in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. Last friday,the 17 th of November, early morning,I was awakened by the sound of excited voices. Peals of laughter intercepted by the blowing of conch shells,made me quickly glance out of the window. The scene that met my eyes left me smiling, as the significance of the day dawned upon me. I saw the bashful, newly married lady next door, clutching an idol…

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‘Iron Lady’ Indira Gandhi’s 100th Birth Anniversary

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind paid tributes to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary. Indira Gandhi, the first woman Prime Minister of India, was born on November 19 in 1917 in Allahabad. She was the second longest-serving Prime Minister after her father Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. She held the Prime Ministers office from January 1966 to March 1977 and from January 14,1980 till her…

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Location-Hiding Technology Via Overlay Networks

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By: Er. Harendra Kumar (Special Correspondent ICN Group) & Dr. Ved Prakash Chahal (Asstt. General Director Agri. Extn.) ,ICAR, New Delhi NEW DELHI: Location-Hiding Technique is an important component of a complete solution to DoS attacks. It gives Application sites the capability to hide their locations and thereby preventing DoS attacks, which depends on the knowledge of their victim’s IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. Overlay networks have been proposed as a means for location-hiding [5,9,14]. We assume that an application is reachable only via the overlay network. As you can see an…

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National BDS Students Convention 2017 In SPPGIDMS, Lucknow

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LUCKNOW: Sardar Patel PG Instt. of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow organised a one day conference under the aegis of Indian academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology for BDS students. The organising chairman Dr. Abhishek Sinha, Prof. & Head, department of Oral Medicine and Radiology said that more than 400 student participated in the event. The BDS students shared their knowledge about the various dental problems that the society is suffering from and how it could be prevented and treated. The guest lecture specially designed for the dental students was delivered…

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Smog Spells Doom For Industrial Units And Power Plants Too

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma ( Editor-ICN Group ) Every year the NGT suddenly wakes up to reprimand various concerned  governments to take steps to control or atleast contain the causes of pollution.  The onset of winters in Delhi NCR every year leads to higher levels of pollution leading to umpteen smog related problems like poor visibility,  increase in bronchitis diseases, highway accidents, delayed trains, flights, forced school holidays and what not. Every year the National Green Tribunal suddenly wakes up to reprimand various concerned  governments to take steps to control or…

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Gujarat Elections 2017: BJP Releases First List Of 70 Candidates

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NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released its first list of 70 candidates for the upcoming elections to the 182-member Gujarat Legislative Assembly. The polls are to be held in two phases on December 9 and 14.The meeting, chaired by BJP president Amit Shah, was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj among others, party leaders said. CM Vijay Rupani will again contest from Rajkot West in Saurashtra and Deputy CM Patel has been fielded from the Mehsana…

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