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Airports resume work Following the adoption of a uniform pay scale policy, all the 120 airports of the AAI have resumed functioning. This mo...

Airports resume work

Following the adoption of a uniform pay scale policy, all the 120 airports of the AAI have resumed functioning. This move has settled the recent agitations in the different sections of the authority, which had disrupted normal air traffic recently.

Mass marriages on February 20

The Akhil Bharatvarshya Digamber Jain Parishad will be organising a group marriage ceremony on February 28 at the Red Fort grounds. It’s being organised to curtail unnecessary expenditure and dowry demands.

Industrial affairs award to Indian professor

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Dr. R.K. SHARMA of the Department of Chemistry, Delhi University, has been awarded the International and Industrial Affairs award by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London. The recognition is for his pioneering work in designing anti-AIDS chelators.

Seminar on education

Over 300 delegates from schools across the country will be attending a seminar on partnership in education. The meet is being organised tocelebrate the silver jubilee of the National Progressive Schools Conference. Between February 18 and 20, leading educationalists will address the conference.

SRCC alumni association

Girish Ahuja has been elected the president of the Alumni Association of Shri Ram College of Commerce. The other members elected at the Annual General Body Meeting include J.R. Monga (vice-president), C.M. Jain (vice-president), M.P. Gupta (secretary), O.P. Saluja (joint secretary) and Ravi Gupta (treasurer).

Fine arts award

Kun Priya Parvathy was awarded the Gayatri Fine Art’s Thanpura Award in a vocal music competition on Sunday. Over 40 people took part in the music concert organised to pay homage to Saint Tyagaraja.

Magic show

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Magician Prof. B. Kamesh presented a `Magic Show on Books’ at a special function for international publishers participating in the 13th World Book Fair on Sunday.

In Odisha, Modi mounts ‘loot tantra-vs-bachat utsav’ attack on Congress over GST

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday hailed the revised Goods and Services Tax (GST) structures, saying the era of “double bachat (saving) and double kamai (income)” has arrived under the Bharatiya Janata Party rule. Addressing the ' Namo Yuva Samabesh' in Jharsuguda, Modi accused the Congress of indulging in “loot tantra (tactics)” while in power.

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