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Sunday, May 02, 2004

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Briefly

May Day celebrations under way at Indian Overseas Bank, Ramakrishnapuram, in New Delhi on Saturday, presided over by the President of the National Confederation of Bank Employees, L. Balasubramaniam.

Memorandum to Maken

NEW DELHI MAY 1. The Congress candidate from the South Delhi parliamentary constituency, R.K.Anand, and Congress nominee from the New Delhi constituency, Ajay Maken, have received a memorandum from a delegation of the All India Insurance Employees' Association (AIIEA).

The AIIEA, representing insurance employees of LIC and public sector general insurance companies, expressed apprehension that the Government was contemplating taking steps to weaken the public sector general insurance companies. The delegation alleged that private insurance companies were siphoning off the resources through reinsurance premiums and investments.

Both Mr. Anand and Mr. Maken assured the delegation that they would raise its grievances at appropriate forums.

Spiritual festival inaugurated

NEW DELHI MAY 1. A two-day World Festival of Spiritual Unity (WESAK) 2004 on "Practical Spirituality And Ascension" began here today.

Organised by the Maitreya Preksha Seva Mission (MPSM), the spiritual festival was inaugurated by the well-known biographer of Mother Teresa, Navin Chawla. Mr. Chawla commended the yeoman service rendered by the MPSM in the field of spiritual ascension, meditation, healing by alternate systems, social service and charity for lepers.

Phones transferred

NEW DELHI MAY 1. All the MTNL telephones working from Karkardooma RSU on level-2214/ 2215/ 2216 of Shahadra D2 OCB Exchange would be transferred to Karkardooma D2 OCB exchange due to technical reasons from May 3 at 10 p.m.

All the affected subscribers availing STD/ ISD and phone plus facilities would have to re-register their secret code by dialling 123 ABCDABCD.

In case of any difficulty, subscribers can complain on telephone numbers 22372511 and 22373511 to divisional engineer and sub-divisional engineer respectively.

Tata team reaches semis

NEW DELHI MAY 1 . An Indian four-member Tata Motors team for the first time reached the semi-finals of the recently concluded Global Management Games in Portugal's Island of Madeira, according to a press release issued here today.

The team that had earlier emerged as the runners up at the Asian Regional Management Games in China competed spiritedly against 60 professional managers from 15 countries. The All India Management Association informed that the Indian team was warmly felicitated by leading functionaries of the Government of Madeira.

School annual day

NEW DELHI MAY 1 . The annual day celebration and prize distribution ceremony of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Masjid Moth, was held here recently. On the occasion, the guest of honour was former IAS officer, K.Saigal. The Kendriya Vidyalaya's principal, Nomita Wilson, reiterated the school's commitment to the pursuit of excellence and presented the annual report.

Helpline for parents

NEW DELHI MAY 1. In view of the recent Supreme Court directive regarding the admission of poor students in public schools, the voluntary organisation Lok Swaabhiman, today announced a helpline where parents can lodge a complaint if faced with the problem of any public school rejecting their child's admission.

An effort towards ensuring proper implementation of the Supreme Court order, parents can call at the helpline number 25877504.

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