Delhi to have nine cultural centres
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit inaugurated a district cultural centre in west Delhi Saturday and announced similar centres would be opened in the other eight districts of the city.
This centre at Janakpuri would help propagate unity in diversity and provide an opportunity to different organisations to stage shows, she said.
Constructed at a cost of Rs.20 million, the new centre is a joint initiative of Sahitya Kala Parishad and Delhi Public Library.
The centre will train and provide a platform to upcoming artistes and help decentralise cultural activities in Delhi.
Education Minister A.S. Lovely said the capital is set to become a cultural hub before the 2010 Commonwealth Games commence.
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Till yesterday, we had sold 125,000 forms and today we must have sold 10,000 forms in 16 information centres across the city, said S.K. Vij, dean of students welfare.
This is a 30 percent increase in the number of forms being sold in comparison to last year. We are quite satisfied with the completion of the first phase of the admission process, Vij told IANS.
Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London will be opening two Mayoral offices in India – in Mumbai and Delhi — to help extend Londons business and cultural links with India.
Hosting the annual Indian Business Reception with Think London, the foreign direct investment agency for the capital on Tuesday, the Mayor said that the business theme for the 2007 programme will be India, London – partners in globalisation.
India is not only one of the worlds most important and rapidly growing economies — it is a rising superpower. It also has one of the worlds most important cultures, said
New Delhi : A day before the start of the Delhi University (DU) admission season, student organisations affiliated to different national political parties are busy making strategies to woo students joining undergraduate classes.
We would be setting up around 30 help centres for students coming to north and south campuses to fill up admission forms in colleges, said Ragini Nayak, president of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) and a member of the National Students Union of India (NSUI).
She added that 16 of these centres would be set up by DUSU while the remaining would be readied by NSUI.
Chief Minister D D Lapang says that he will link this facility with other district hospitals in the state too
The Meghalaya government will take the initiative for a tie-up with Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi for tele-medicines, Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang said on Tuesday.
A small tele-medicine facility was set up at Shillong Civil Hospital and the tie- up with the Delhi hospital would immensely benefit the patients from different parts of Meghalaya, the chief minister said.
Lapang said, "The facility of tele-medicines should also be linked with other district hospitals in the state for the benefit
