The Hindu : Briefly

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Friday, Jan 23, 2004

New Delhi

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More Gyan Vani channels

NEW DELHI JAN.22. To widen the reach of higher education through multimedia, Indira Gandhi National Open University in collaboration with the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting would embark on a major initiative on January 26 in the Capital by way of inauguration of four Gyan Vani F.M. radio channels in the metros and a higher education channel under the Gyan Darshan Education TV initiative of MHRD.

The Union Human Resources Development Minister, Murli Manohar Joshi, will inaugurate and dedicate the channels to the nation for enhancing access to and quality of higher education. The Gyan Vani Channels will be operational in all four metros.

Russian folk dance, music programme

The famous troupe from Russia, "Samarskie Uzori", presented a colourful programme of Russian folk dance and music at a function jointly organised by the Indian Association of Friendship with Foreign countries and the Russian Centre of Science and Culture on January 19 here.

The 13-member troupe, led by vocal singer Olga Savelieva arrived in India on January 5 on a 20-day performance tour of the country. The troupe includes leading musician, guitar player and vocal singer, Sergey Bortsaykin, eminent singers, Nina Chernoletskaya and Evgeny Sedov and others.

The troupe had won the top award at "Voice of Russia" competition.

Cricket for a cause

JAN. 22 .Several corporate houses, journalists and eminent citizens joined hands this Sunday to play a special match as part of the `Cricket for a cause' series. For four years, CRY and Cadence Design Systems has been organising CRY Cadence Corporate Challenge. This year 28 teams from Cadence, Wipro HP, Birlasoft, SAR Group, GE Capital, Max Healthcare, The Oberoi, Hutch, KPMG, Ranbaxy, The Hindustan Times, Aajtak and Business India among others participated in the annual event. The amount raised through the event would benefit 1225 children.

Annual Day celebrated

The Annual day at Guru Harkrishan Public School, Vasant Vihar, was celebrated in the form of a cultural extravaganza with a variety of cultural programmes over the week-end attended by many eminent guests, including the Delhi Education Minister, Arvinder Singh Lovely. A host of 120 children from primary segment sang welcome songs in English, Arabic, Punjabi and Hindi.

Kendriya Bhandar store opened

JAN. 22 . Kendriya Bhandar opened its 74th self-service store at Bhavishya Nidhi Enclave in Malviya Nagar here today.

Located near the main Malviya Nagar traffic signal, the store besides catering to residents of the Colony will also serve those living in Sarvapriya Vihar, Panchsheel Enclave and Panchsheel.

Making the inauguration special was an attractive consumer scheme offered by the store which includes free gifts on purchase of items worth different values.

In order to augment its offerings, the outlet will also sell various diary products.

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