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What is Marine Electricity And How It is Generated?

March 24, 2021 ICN WORLD

By: Tejeshwar Singh Rana, Chief Officer-Merchant Navy & Associate Editor-ICN Marine Electricity or Marine electrical power is a vital part of a ship’s operation. Without marine electricity, ships would not be able to run any of the machinery and cannot perform their core purpose of sailing from one place to another. We cannot define the term “Marine Electricity” as a whole. To understand its meaning, first, we need to understand them separately. Marine – Here, the term “marine” refers to ships, ports, drydocks, and other structures which cater to the shipping…

Knock, Knock: Beware! ‘The Bad Santa’- Krampus might be at your doorstep this Christmas Eve

December 20, 2020December 20, 2020 ICN WORLD

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN World An Alpine Legendary Bad Santa that horrifies children and amuses grown-ups KOLKATA : Worldwide, every year in December, children excitedly track the countdown to the visit of the traditional wish granter, Santa Claus,as he is popularly known. Our good old white- bearded St. Nicholas,the hero of children who traverses the four corners of the globe in a jiffy, riding his majestic reindeer-drawn sleigh is a delight for the young and old. But,in Austria, on Christmas, beware lest you meet Krampus, ‘the Christmas Devil’ who is an Anti-hero…

Lock-Down And After

July 31, 2020 ICN WORLD

By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group PART-26 “ To the entire mankind on the Earth” “ A Humble Submission” Suddenly an unknown virus attacks almost entire mankind on the Earth and people remained astonished as no enemy was visible or readable but people were infected , troubled and even sustaining maximum loss also. Being first of it’s kind , it troubled everyone on all possible parameters like loss of time, loss of work, loss in productions, loss of health and even life. Money and finances did suffer a lot . The entire…

Role Of Supranationalism In Family Planning Programs And The Proliferation Of Contraception

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020 ICN WORLD

By: Rebecca Brindza, Editor-ICN International PART-3 USA/ISRAEL: Policymakers in the present day have grown increasingly aware of the “multidimensional set of social processes that create, multiply, stretch, and intensify worldwide social interdependencies and exchanges while at the same time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections between the local and the distant.” 21stCentury: Grassroots and Global Awareness The onset of the new century perpetrated the aftereffects of the ICPD. Throughout the developing world, reproductive health services were being integrated into national health policies, and in 2001 the percentage of…

Role Of Supranationalism In Family Planning Programs And The Proliferation Of Contraception

June 13, 2020 ICN WORLD

By: Rebecca Brindza, Editor-ICN International PART-2 USA/ISRAEL: Policymakers in the present day have grown increasingly aware of the “multidimensional set of social processes that create, multiply, stretch, and intensify worldwide social interdependencies and exchanges while at the same time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections between the local and the distant.” (Steger, 2005). Therefore, it is no surprise that within the globalized era, national policies have become deeply intertwined with global issues. This is echoed by the fact that developing states are increasingly susceptible to happenings in the…

Role Of Supranationalism In Family Planning Programs And The Proliferation Of Contraception

June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 ICN WORLD

By: Rebecca Brindza, Editor-ICN International PART-1 USA/ISRAEL: Policymakers in the present day have grown increasingly aware of the “multidimensional set of social processes that create, multiply, stretch, and intensify worldwide social interdependencies and exchanges while at the same time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections between the local and the distant.” (Steger, 2005). Therefore, it is no surprise that within the globalized era, national policies have become deeply intertwined with global issues. This is echoed by the fact that developing states are increasingly susceptible to happenings in the global…

Black Lives Matter : A Cry Against Oppression Since Time Immemorial

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 ICN WORLD

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 …

Pandemic And Moral Crisis Of Capitalism

June 5, 2020 ICN WORLD

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…

“Lock-Down-And-After?“

June 3, 2020 ICN WORLD

By: C.P. Singh, Editor-ICN Group PART: 14 Once a calamity came down so heavily on us that everything was forced to be closed . The owners could not get anything from their entrepreneurs hence they said or hinted their loyal work force to go away from their places of work till the system reopens fully . Workers seldom have their residential arrangements at their places of work . They live there temporarily , any how , and feed their dependents out of their earnings so fetched . Whatever the situation dictates…

“Lock-Down-And-After?“

May 12, 2020 ICN WORLD

By: C.P. Singh, Literary Editor-ICN Group PART: FIVE When thinking whispers with the brain regarding the possibilities of changes during and after the Lockdown. It becomes very perturbing for both of them. Whatever we are seeing , perceiving, feeling or coming ACROSS, is all under a serious threat of getting changed. Yes the degree of variance may differ from one parameter to other. But everything seems ready to adapt according to situation. My Almighty God grand everything Superb to our Planet, “The Earth” Inter – Country – Relations – …