lohani appointed as WTTCII Chairman
New Delhi: Air India CMD Ashwani lohani was on Monday appointed as the Chairman of World Travel & Tourism Council, India Initiative (WTTCII) for 2017. lohani, who served as the Vice-Chairman of WTTCII in 2016, takes over from Kapil Chopra, president, The Oberoi Group, who completed his term at the recently held AGM in Delhi. “Over the years, WTTCII has been championing convergence between Government of India and States to facilitate tourism in India and we will continue to do so. With the GST in place by next year, the States will have the major onus of implementing smart policies for facilitating tourism on the ground. We will continue to improve access, address infrastructural gaps and policy bottlenecks for tourism to flourish,” lohani said.
Human Rights activists honoured
New Delhi: World Human Rights Protection Association (WHRPA) celebrated the 68th World Human Rights and Bharat Gaurav Samman 2016 wherein distinguished personalities who are becoming instrumental in protecting human rights were honoured. Union Minister Ramdas Athawale, Rajya Sabha members KTS Tulsi, Amar Singh, National Secretary of CPI Atul Anjan and Physician of President of India Dr M Wali were amongst the eminent personalities present on the occasion. Those honoured included Mazin Al Masoudi, incharge of league Arab State Mission, Maryam Siddiqui, Bhagwad Gita Winner, Alveena Qureshi, Mini lata Mangeshwar and Malkit Singh, Punjabi singer. President of WHRPA Shamim A Khan was praised for his "commendable work'.
Koshy receives Int’l Golden Medal Award
New Delhi: Apparel Training & Design and Centre (ATDC) Director General Dr Darlie Koshy has been conferred with the prestigious International Golden Medal Award of TI, United Kingdom. The award is given bi-annually by Manchester-based Textile Institute. Koshy is the second Indian to win this prestigious International Award. He was Founding Head of Fashion Management at NIFT and was at the helm of NID, Ahmedabad as the Director (and Governing Council Member) for almost a decade (2000-2009).
‘need to Scale up
health projects’
New Delhi: Scaling up pilot projects in the area of technology-enabled health care delivery requires a concerted effort that involves going beyond the quick-fixes and working towards a sustainable health solution to help tackle the rising burden of communicable and NCDs in the country, said a report
anaemia a global
health concern
New Delhi: Expressing concern that anaemia is becoming a burgeoning health concern not just in India but across the world, Dr Ajay Khera, Deputy Commissioner, Health Ministry has emphasised on the need of technological interventions to support and strengthen Government efforts to eradicate the disease related to blood shortage.
Dr Khera was speaking recently at the launch of HemoCue HealthTrender Anemia by HemoCue, a global leader in pointIJ ofIJ care (near the patient) testing, meant to address problems of delayed and incorrect diagnosis.
unique method by MCF for treating waste
New Delhi: Undeterred by the lack of adequate technology at its disposal, Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) has adopted a unique conventional method for treating its waste by stacking up the huge mountains of garbage at its Bandhwari landfill site in small segments of 3-4 meter heights. To treat leachate, the leachate ponds have been formed to aerate using pumps, which has reduced foul smell that persisted in the vicinity of the Bandhwari, at the direction of Commissioner MCF, Sonal Goel.