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Australian PM Tony Abbott arrives at Presidents House, meets PM Modi

New Delhi, Sep 05 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is on a two-day visit in India received a ceremonial reception at the President’s House in Delhi on Friday. Present at the event to receive Abbott were Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung. The Australian PM also received the guard of honour at his arrival. Later, Abbott also visited the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate to pay his respect to the martyrs. Abbott who arrived Thursday evening in national capital Delhi was in Mumbai on his first day of visit and had attended various functions and had launched a scholarship programme for students named New Colombo Plan. Sep 5, 2014
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Australian PM arrives in Mumbai, launches scholarship programme for students

Mumbai, Sep 04, (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrived in Mumbai on Thursday and launched scholarship programme for students named New Colombo Plan in the city's university. Under the scheme, thousands of young Australians could live, study and work in Southeast Asian region and build people to people contacts. Abbott regretted that there were only few Australian students studying in India. The Australian prime minister added in coming years, the number of Australian students will increase manifold and experience richness of culture. Sep 4, 2014
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PM Narendra Modi plays Taiko drums at TCS event in Tokyo

Tokyo, Sep 02 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday wowed a set of suited businessmen by playing traditional Taiko drums with great verve on his fourth day of Japan visit. Modi's performance came a day after signing a clutch of deals with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, at the launch of Tata Consultancy Services's Technology and Cultural Academy, a programme to send young Japanese employees to India for training in technical and cultural skills. After TCS CEO N Chandrasekaran finished his opening remarks, Modi played the drums after the professional drummers had finished. The audience burst into applause when he had finished. Modi then flagged off the TCS Japanese Associates. Sep 2, 2014
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Haj Committee in Rajasthan organises orientation camp for Muslim pilgrims

Ajmer, Sep 02 (ANI): A Haj Committee in Rajasthan organized a vaccination camp and an orientation programme for Muslim pilgrims to guide them on issues concerning the holy rituals at Mecca and Madina. The committee in Ajmer directed the pilgrims to fill up the Haj forms, advised them to keep photocopies of passports and also told them about the significance of the pilgrimage. Blood samples of pilgrims were collected and every kind of medical aid was taken into consideration. The pilgrims were satisfied with the initiative of the Haj Committee. Sep 2, 2014
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MEA briefing on Modi's second day of Japan visit

Kyoto, Aug 31 (ANI): The Spokesperson of MEA Syed Akbaruddin on Sunday briefed about the programme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second day of Japan visit. Akbaruddin said that Modi visited the temple, research lab institute and met the mayor of Kyoto on the second day of his visit. He added that the first step towards the development of Varanasi has been taken by signing a MoU and that Modi has given the map of historic Benaras to mayor of Kyoto for its development keeping the culture and historicity intact. Aug 31, 2014
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