Month: June 2020

The Blatant Caging Of Animals In Zoos

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By: Dr. Akhtar Nasim, Sr. Principal Scientist CSIR-CRRI & Prof. ACSIR (University) & Consulting Editor ICN Science & Tech  NEW DELHI: Humans have been blatantly capturing and displaying animals since 3500 BCE in Egypt. Where the kings kept hippos, elephants, baboons, and different species of large cats in the zoos for their entertainment. The longest continuously operating zoo in the world is the Vienna Zoo, for more than 260 years. Zoo authorities work hard to save species that are threatened in the wild, they take animals that are on the verge of…

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: 16 Any topic newly added on the Industrial aspects , any ruling included in the Industrial ethics cerate uneasiness in the existing set up . So many clauses have been imposed on the entrepreneurs who are willing to re open after Lock Down . Every one knows that the relaxations in the closure aspects are being allowed by the administration and not by the virus in question ? Once it is said the we are in the phase called “ Unlock – 1 “ it…

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Black Lives Matter : A Cry Against Oppression Since Time Immemorial

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN World KOLKATA: Last year, in Boston, as I was walking past a very old church, I retraced my steps. A writing in its front yard caught my attention. It read,”We believe that all lives matter, that  every person is valuable and every individual deserves to be treated with justice and love. We live in a society that suggests otherwise. Because of the continuing injustice and violence disproportionately endured by people of colour l,we affirm that black lives matter.”  As I had stood there quietly, absorbing the …

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‘’MY-MOTHERLAND“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group My dear , my – respected , my own Indian – Nationals, We all are Loved – Dear – Children of our pious – Motherland. We are reaping every – good  from It’s all parameters and channels , We have to prove our true – patriotism by our deeds and every pious – stand. This – clay, this – sand, these – dust – grains, each and every particle of land, Is pious as my own – mother, I grew and live – in this ever.…

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“Lock-Down-And-After?“

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By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group  PART: 15 We are having less equipments and less facilities and also more population . This situation makes us more susceptible and excessively exposed to the tendency to get infected . Such realities are against , still we have lost less , that is a big achievement . Every loss of life is precious but we are lucky in terms of Global Ratios of casualties. It was very troublesome to remain sincere during Lock Down . This has fetched us good results. We must keep our…

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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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