Smriti Irani awards BEOs, DEOs
New Delhi: HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Thursday conferred National Award for Innovations in Educational Administration-2015. The award aims to recognise and encourage District and Block Education officers (DEOs and BEOs) for their contributions in enhancing the credibility of the public educational system in educational delivery and ensuring efficient functioning of the system of educational administration by adopting innovative practices at field level educational administration.
Tourism Min launches Cleanliness drive
New Delhi: The Tourism Ministry has launched a cleanliness drive at ‘Religious Places, Tourism and Heritage Sites’ from 1st December to 15th December this year. It has asked all the State Governments and UT Administrations to install flex board messages in religious places and heritage sites on importance of cleanliness, to print new entry tickets to national heritage sites, with cleanliness message on the back side and schools for undertaking cleanliness drives with students from schools and universities - within the religious places and heritage sites.
‘Affordability of health insurance need of hour’
New Delhi: Addressing the FICCI Health Insurance Conference here, the IRDAI Chairman TS Vijayan on Thursday said that apart from product innovation, affordability of health insurance is the need of the hour. He suggested that the insurers should work towards increasing the voluntary customer base, from the current 8 per cent to at least 20-25 per cent of India’s population in order to increase affordability, said a statement here.
Northcap varsity holds session on meditation
New Delhi: Gurgaon-based Northcap University held a talk on topic ‘You are not your brain’ which was delivered by Neville Hodgkinson, former medical and science correspondent of several national newspapers in the United Kingdom, including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, and Daily Mail. The session was attended by more than 200 students and faculty members at the University campus. “You are what you think! Whatever you are changes your brain and it keeps changing all the time, with every thought. So in effect, you are the master of your brain and you must nourish your brain with positive thoughts,” said Neville Hodgkinson. In the early 1980s, Hodgkinson took up the practice of meditation and spiritual study due to his interest in mind-body medicine.