Day: June 5, 2020

Unlocking Sports In Covid-19 Lockdown

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By: Dr. Meenakshi Tripathi,  Sr. Associate Editor-ICN Sports Covid 19 pandemic has caused the hardest impact on sports ever witnessed in centuries. Never in the past the several mega sport events in the world were either postponed or cancelled. Globally 2020 will be remembered as a dark year in the history of sports. Even during World War II some events were suspended but few events like the U.S Open and cricket in India continued without disruption. Amid numerous catastrophes, the sports industry was always scaling upwards making new records. In 2018…

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Pandemic And Moral Crisis Of Capitalism

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By: Alok Jagdhari & Mohan Rangarajan Kumarmangalam STAMFORD,USA: The global pandemic crisis gripping the world has currently claimed over a quarter of a million lives. It has decimated livelihoods and incomes across the world. While the global response has been an order of magnitude superior to the response to either the Spanish Flu 102 years ago or the 1929 Depression, it has also resulted in a text book “Disaster Capitalism” kind of response from a string of governments across the world, most notably the Trump Administration and the Government of Prime Minister…

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Think, Eat And Save The Environment

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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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First Virtual Fair On Indian Fashion Jewellery & Accessories Fair, 1200 Buyers From 81 Countries Visited The Show

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Group Editor-ICN World 1200 Buyers From 81 Countries, Buying Agents, Wholesalers And Retailers Visited The Show NEW DELHI – 4th June, 2020 : The first virtual fair on Indian Fashion Jewellery & Accessories show organised by Export Promotion Council of Handicrafts, concluded today with over 1200 overseas  importers from 81 countries participating online besides 500 buying agents and wholesalers and retailers said Ravi K. Passi, Chairman – EPCH. The serious enquiries worth Rs. 150 crores were generated, he told. Rakesh Kumar, Director General – EPCH said…

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