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Monday, Nov 01, 2004

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UGC support to colleges

NEW DELHI OCT. 31. As part of the University Grants Commission's efforts to strengthen, revitalise and revamp Gandhian studies in universities and colleges, it has decided to support 20 more universities and 150 colleges across the country, a UGC release said. The revised guidelines are available on the Commission's website. Universities and colleges can send their proposals by November 25. UGC proposes to launch activities in the centres by January 30, 2005.

DU faculty convention

NEW DELHI OCT. 31. The Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) of Delhi University organised a convention on the theme "Winds of Growth: Expanding Beyond the Urban" at Vigyan Bhavan here on Saturday to mark its golden jubilee. The convention was inaugurated by the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit. Prominent figures from the corporate world, apex industrial bodies like CII and FICCI, FMS alumni and students from B-schools across India participated in the event.

Speaking on the occasion, the Head and Dean of FMS, V.K.Bhalla, said transforming rural India was a challenge that should ignite the best of the country's minds and was perhaps the biggest barrier in making India a developed country. The Chairman and Managing Director of NHPC, Yogendra Prasad, and the head of ITC International Business Division, S.Sivakumar, also attended the convention.

Yoga camp inaugurated

NEW DELHI OCT. 31. A free eight-day yoga and meditation camp has been organised by the Bapu Nature Cure Hospital and Yogashram at Sanjay Lake Park in East Delhi. The camp which opened today will conclude on November 7.

The camp, which was inaugurated by the director of the institution, R.M.Nair, proposes to provide holistic and rejuvenating therapies for chronic diseases.

Treatments will be given at the Bapu Nature Care Hospital at Gandhi Nidhi in Mayur Vihar Phase-I.

Medical meet organised

NEW DELHI OCT. 31. The Delhi Heart and Lung Institute organised a round table conference on pacing therapy with Angelo Auricchio, heart specialist from the University of Magdeburg in Germany over the week-end. Dr. Auricchio said patients having the risk of heart failure have one reason to smile.

Their dependency on intake of medicines can be replaced by an ultramodern bi-ventricular pace maker which improves the pumping activity of the heart resulting is less chances of heart failure.

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