Year: 2017

ASEAN Summit: PM Narendra Modi Meets Donald Trump

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This is the first Prime Ministerial visit to the Philippines from India in 36 years since the visit by Indira Gandhi in 1981. MANILA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met US President Donald Trump and a host of leaders soon after arriving in Philippines’s capital, Manila for the India-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit. PM Modi will also hold bilateral meetings with Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte, Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull among others. The leaders were uniformly dressed in Barong Tagalong, an embroidered shirt that…

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Congress Wins Chitrakoot Assembly Bypoll

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Congress candidate Neelandhu Chaturvedi beats BJP’s Shankarlal Tripathi by more than 14,000 votes BHOPAL: The Congress on Sunday retained the Chitrakoot Assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh, with its candidate Nilanshu Chaturvedi winning the bypoll with an improved margin of 14,133 votes. Around 65% voting was recorded in the bypoll election which was conducted on November 9.The win is a major morale booster for the Congress ahead of the assembly polls next in the state next year, while it has set the alarm bells ringing for the BJP, especially Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.…

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DEATH, NOT THE ONLY LEVELLER

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By: Barnali Bose ( Associate Editor-ICN Group )  Suburban trains :  Great leveller of sorts CHANDANNAGAR: Mother Nature has strange ways of levelling out imbalances in life.Sometimes the remnants of palatial homes and shanties floating side by side in floods while at times,both  reduced to mere rubbles in quakes are silent testimonies to this indisputable fact. The greatest leveller,of course is death. Prince or Pauper meet the same fate at his death. “Earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return” is the ultimate truth. In our daily lives ,we…

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Stevenson-Johnson Syndrome: Sometimes A Blister On Lip Is Much More Than It Appears

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By: Dr. Ameya Tripathi ( Special Correspondent-ICN Group ) LUCKNOW: These days we frequently hear about things like drug-resistant and genetically adapted forms of various disease causing microbes and bugs. Time and again we are alarmed by the extent to which people have developed the habit of pill-popping or self-prescription for all kinds of illnesses. In India, especially, this is prevalent due to several factors like availability of medicines without prescription, immoral practice of quackery, lack of public awareness and so on. All this is just one facet of the overall…

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Biodegradable Plastics: Finding The Market

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By: Prof. Jaswant Singh( Member-Indian Scientific Expedition To Antarctica & Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group)  Biodegradable plastics also have versatile applications such as plastic grocery bags, disposable containers, personal care products, agricultural plastics, medical devices etc. Plastics have become a very important and essential commodity in the life of modern man because of its durability, strength, flexibility, light weight and low cost of production. Plastic in the environment has been regarded as more of an aesthetic nuisance since the material is biologically inert and nonbiodegradable. More than 90% of the plastic…

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Congress Is Anti-People, People Of Gujarat With BJP: Prakash Javadekar

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RAJKOT: The GST Council’s decision to cut tax rates on 178 items of daily use, Javadekar said, “People have welcomed the changes in GST.” The minister claimed that Gujarat has always stood first in all the annual government surveys. It is number one in industrial outputs. It provides electricity 24 hours and its agricultural output, including that of fruits, vegetables, cotton and groundnuts, has increased under the BJP government. Javadekar said the important work done by BJP government in Gujarat was to bring the Narmada water to the parched regions of Saurashtra and Kutch.…

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Goa Plans To Encourage Use Of GPS-Equipped Bicycles To Protect Environment

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PANAJI: As a part of efforts to reduce pollution, the state government, under the Smart City Mission, is planning to encourage people to use bicycles to move around in the city. “You can use a bicycle to go to the market. What we have done is we are tying-up with a firm for operating bicycles. We will only give them places where the bicycles can be parked,” the chief minister said. The government is planning to tie-up with a private company for operating bicycles fitted with the Global Positioning System…

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Assam Includes GST In Class XII Economics Curriculum

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Assam became the first state in the country last year to ratify the Constitution Amendment Bill on GST after the Lok Sabha passed the Bill in December last year. GUWAHATI: The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC), the regional board for holding Class XII examinations in the state, has decided to introduce the GST in its curriculum from the current academic year. “The introduction of the chapter on GST is not only to encourage the students to get a thorough idea and knowledge on GST but also to clear the…

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SMALL TOWN GIRL WITH BIG DREAMS IN BOLLYWOOD

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Mumbai : Nowadays new talents are arising from small towns in bollywood and a new name is added in this series is Anamika Shukla. Born and brought up in Kanpur and while schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya No.1 Chakeri , she had won many acting and dancing competitions and also perfomed for DD Bharti in school days only. She completed her graduation from D.A.V.College Kanpur and moved to Amity University Lucknow for her post-graduation where she followed her passion and won many skit competitions. Soon Anamika is doing her debut on…

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