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Bappi Lahiri felicitated as goodwill ambassador for 'Education For All' campaign

Mumbai, Feb 18 (ANI): Veteran Bollywood composer, Bappi Lahiri, who popularized the use of synthesized disco music in Indian cinema, was felicitated as goodwill ambassador for 'Education For All' campaign in Mumbai. The felicitation ceremony was organized by National Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Association of Nepal (NAFUCON). The award was also to honour his outstanding contribution to the music industry. Meanwhile, speaking on the importance of the campaign, he said that literacy is the foundation of development. Feb 18, 2014
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Adventurists camp in Mao infested Purulia

Purulia, Feb 15 (ANI): Enthusiastic adventurists participated in the first Orienteering camp held in the Mao infested Ayodhya hill area of Matha Forest Range in Purulia of West Bengal. The camp has been organized by West Bengal Mountaineering & Adventure Sports Foundation, under the Youth Services Department of West Bengal government and the participants use their navigation skills with the help of a map and a compass to race on foot. Former Joint Director of National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO) and Coordinator of the orienteering camp, Tridib Basu, shared the experience of organizing the camp. Basu also said that since this camp was the first of its kind, the instructors and participants were trained well in advance. Feb 15, 2014
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Badalta Manzar (Feb 13, 2014): An independent news report on Jammu and Kashmir

Numbers of remote and far flung villages in kathua district have no resources of safe water supplied by Government Public Health department and are fully dependent on natural resources like borewell, springs, well, along with nullah and rivers which are not safe for consumption and are not good for health. To sort out the grievances of rural areas, the National Development Foundation, Jammu with support from Communication and Capacity Development Unit, Water and Sanitation Support organization, Deptt. of PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control organized “ Advocacy Workshop for Media and allied Departments” to create mass awareness among people to get them checked up with testing lab. The government school in Rajouri district lacks basic facilities that are needed to create a suitable atmosphere for education. In the modern times, when electricity has become a necessity in every home to commence the day to day chores, people here are still reeling under darkness. The residents of aalosa village in Bandipora district are facing major power shortage with electricity playing hide and seek every day. Feb 13, 2014
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Youth slaps Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Panipat, Feb 02 (ANI): A youth slapped Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was riding an open jeep during a Congress road show, in full public view in Panipat on Sunday evening and was taken into custody immediately. The chief minister had gone to Panipat, to inaugurate and lay foundation stone of various projects. As Hooda's Maruti Gypsy was making its way through the crowded places, a youth identified as Kamal Mukhija broke the security ring and slapped the chief minister. Feb 2, 2014
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2014 polls is a battle of ideologies: Sonia Gandhi

Kishanganj, Jan 30 (ANI): Congress President Sonia Gandhi, at the foundation laying ceremony of a branch of the Aligarh Muslim University in Kishanganj, Bihar, said that the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 would be a battle of ideologies. Attacking the BJP she added that the party wants to divide the country on the basis of religion. Jan 30, 2014
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Badalta Manzar (June 27, 2013): An independent news report on Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu Kashmir Corporate Premier League (JKCPL) held bidding of around 216 shortlisted cricket players in Srinagar. Union Minister of Human Resources Development, Dr M M Pallam Raju laid down the foundation stone of the Central University of Kashmir (CUK) in Ganderbal district. The govt. secondary school Audoora in Baramulla district, lacks all basic facilities and students here face multiple problems. Jan 30, 2014
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Badalta Manzar (June 20, 2013): An independent news report on Jammu and Kashmir

The state government and a private trust ‘Pritam spiritual foundation’ have been working with people in border areas who are victims of cross firing and mine blasts. The degree college in Kangan was established in March 2011 to boost higher education in Ganderbal district, some 67 kms from Srinagar. Although the state govt. is doing its best to upgrade the health infrastructure in rural areas of Kashmir, but a lot more still needs to be done. Jan 30, 2014
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