LUCKNOW,15 October: The ICN Digital Media Group launched its English and Hindi online news portals at a glittering function held here last evening.
While the English news portal www.icnnational.com is an updated user-friendly version of its earlier website, www.icnnational.in, the Hindi portal www.icnhindi.com is a new website started specially for the northern states keeping in view the growing popularity of English portal. The readers can easily switch from English to Hindi and vice versa with a click of the mouse.
The first portal was launched two years back at Wardha, Maharashtra with a different name. But now, it has been reshaped quite creatively with some of the best creative minds behind it.
It was also celebrated as an occasion to pay tributes to five great legends of the country like Rabindernath Tagore, Prof. Yashpal, Dr. B C Roy, Prof. M S Swaminathan, Sayed Zahoor Qasim and Tom Alter.
The speakers were Prof Avadh Ram, Renowned Academician & Ex VC MGKV Varanasi, Prof Jaswant Singh, Member Antarctica Expedition and Sr. Executive Editor, Dr. Rukhsana Khan, Vice President IMA UP, Dr. Upsham Goel, MD TC Eye Centre & Chief Consulting Editor ICN Group, Dr Shah Ayaz Siddiqui, Editor-in-Chief, ICN Group, Prof R.C.Tripathi, Consulting Editor ICN UP, Dr. P. K. Gupta, President, IMA Lucknow and Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Chief News Editor, ICN Group.
The chairman of the group, I H Siddiqui and Vice President, Dr. Mrs. Rahman also graced the occasion. Other important persons were Prof M. N. Khan Advisor-ICN Group, Ashok Kumar Shukla Editorial Group Advisor-Legal, Dr. P. C. Chowdhary, Dr. D. P. Singh, Dr. Pankaj Srivastava Associate Editor, Kauser Khan Associate Editor, Dr. Shah Nawaz Siddiqui Exe. Editor, Sushant Kumar Singh Deputy Editor, Dr. Saumya Bhatia Asstt. Editor, Dr. Vasu Singh Bureau Chief ICN UP, Vivek Kumar Singh, Dr. Abhigyan Prakash,Dr. Ameya Tripathi, Dr. Pankaj Kr. Yadav, Dr.Arpit Srivastava Asstt. Editor, Dr. Sankalp Chawla, Dr. Durgesh Kr. Chaturvedi, Dr.Nancy Singh ,Dr. Vijay Krishnan, Dr. Renu Pal, Dr. Devraj Singh, Fazal Nabi Khan, Dr. Abhishek Kr. Pandey, Dr. Mohd Dawood and many others. Dr. Shazia Israr, Associate Editor compered the whole programme successfully.
Distinguished speakers expressed their views in quite intellectually stimulating way and by remembering and paying the tribute to great legends, they posed their faith in values of these great men of our country who devoted their lives in their own chosen fields like Literature, Science, Health, Environment, Agriculture, Sports and Entertainment.
ICN has solemnly pledged to follow their enlightened paths.
