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Tour operators' gesture

NEW DELHI FEB. 12. The Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) has contributed Rs. 21 lakhs to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund for the tsunami victims. A cheque for the same amount was presented to the Minister of State for Tourism, Renuka Chowdhury, by the IATO president, Subhash Goyal, in New Delhi earlier this week. IATO is also planning to donate fishing boats through non-government organisations working in the Nagapattinam area. IATO had also come to the aid of the victims of the Gujarat earthquake, Orissa cyclone and Kargil war by donating both money and material.

`Homoeopathy has great potential'

New Delhi Feb. 12. Homoeopathy has potential to cure all kinds of ailments but wrong applications by practitioners have limited its use, an expert said today. "The two-century old system of medication can give successful results in treating all kinds of diseases such as diabetes, psoriasis, arthritis, thyroid problems, asthma and epilepsy. But wrong applications of the system has limited its capacity to revert a range of disorders," a Mumbai-based independent Homoeopathic practitioner Dr. Prafull Vijayakar said while inaugurating a two-day national seminar on `Hope for Hopeless' here. Limitations that exist in the science, where practitioners are not able to achieve desired results in treating various diseases, are largely due to the wrong application of its principles and are not in tune with the latest in the allied medical sciences, he said.

New-look `Week' launched

NEW DELHI FEB. 12. The new-look `The Week' magazine designed by Mario Garcia was launched at a glittering function here over the week-end. The Managing Editor of the magazine, Philip Mathew, presented the first copy of the magazine to the President of McCann Erikson India, Santosh Desai. Mr. Mathew said the aim of the new design was to organise the contents in a better way and have a youngish masthead and cover design with a reader-friendly layout. "Over the past few months we have been feeling that form is as important as the content. The Week should also look better to meet the standards and tastes of the 21st Century magazine reader," he added.

`Aura-2005' organised

NEW DELHI FEB. 12. The annual two-day management festival "Aura-2005" of the BBA students of Amity Business School (ABS) on the theme "Convergence of Ideas" organised at the School premises in Noida near here ended today.

The festival was inaugurated by Ashok K. Chauhan, Founder President-Ritnand Balved Education Foundation (RBEF). Teams from 50 leading management colleges like the Birla Institute of Technology; College of Business Studies; St. Xavier's, Mumbai; IMS, Noida; Allianz, Bangalore, ABS, Lucknow; and Amity Institute of Telecom Technology and Management participated in the various management and finance games.

Dr. Chauhan thanked the teams for coming from across the country to the festival and received a loud applause from the enthusiastic students when he said: "A failure may be forgiven but aiming low is a crime."

Aura 2005 has a wide array of events such as management games, debate, quiz and cultural programmes challenging and testing the acumen of the participants not only on academic excellence but their creativity as well.

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