Assam Rifles stands first in karate
The Assam Rifles karate team secured the first position at the 5th All India Open Invitational Karate Championship held at Talkatora Indoor Stadium, New Delhi between July 14 and 15. The team, comprising a coach, eight female and eight male players, won 12 Gold, 1 Silver and three Bronze medals after competing with 26 teams.
CMD, NHPC conferred IPSE trophy
Balraj Joshi, chairman & managing director, NHPC limited, India’s premier hydropower company and a ‘Mini Ratna’ Category-I Enterprise of the Government of India has been awarded as ‘Winner’ of IPSE Trophy for ‘leadership in PSE’ at the 4th IPSE Awards 2018- India Public Sector Enterprises Awards for Excellence held at New Delhi on July 18.
Oman offers short-stay visa
To bring momentum to the tourism sector and encourage more travellers to visit the country, the Royal Oman Police has announced a new short-term tourist visa at five Omani Riyal (OMR) to visit the Sultanate for a period of 10 days. This means that Indians who hold a valid visa to any one of these countries — United States of America, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Japan and Schengen States — can avail the Oman visa through an e-visa process by simply logging on to https://evisa.rop.gov.om/ and make the 5 OMR payment on checkout, whereas other Indian travellers can get a sponsored visa by paying five OMR plus processing fee through their tour operators. This is in addition to the existing e-visa for Oman which is available at 20 OMR with a validity of one month. The amendments include dividing tourist visas into three sections: 10 days, one month and one year.
lubaina Sheerazi, India Representative, Ministry of Tourism, Oman, said “Along with FIT, we have seen an increase in MICE tourism with the recent launch of the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre in Muscat that supports international and local organisations in hosting large events. Being a short-haul destination from India, with excellent air connectivity from major Indian cities, world class hotels and easy availability of Indian food, Oman is also becoming a preferred wedding destination. The reduced visa fees, new e-visa system, along with the newly opened Muscat International Airport will definitely be a boon for Oman's tourism.”
CRPF Summer Camp
The closing ceremony of a 45-day summer camp for vocational training programme was organised at GC, CRPF, Camp, Greater Noida under the supervision of president, Family Welfare Centre. The camp was inaugurated on June 1 at CRPF campus by Asha Rajora, regional president, CRPF and Family Welfare Association amidst a large gathering of CRPF officers and their families including children. During this camp, varieties of activities related to sports and games, training for children and youth, besides computer handling, fine arts, yoga and martial art were presented by the expert coaches. On this occasion DIGP, GC,CRPF, P.S.Rajora, Bhatia, Second-In-Command of 221 BN, Dy. Comdt. Naveen Kumar Phoolpati, N K Bisht, Rajkumar, Asst. Comdt Vimal Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Mohan Kumar, Babu Rao and P R O S Ganesh and other officers with jawans besides their family members were also present.
Improved BSNl Connectivity in Northeast
Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited (BSNl) has completed Ashta Mangal Project Phase-I for improving the connectivity in the Northeast region. Under this project, BSNl has provided reliable connectivity to state capitals of seven sisters states using optical fibre power ground wire (OPGW). The connectivity has been provided from Kolkata to Guwahati (Assam) and to other Seven State Headquarters of the region (NE). The cost of this project was around Rs 100 crore. After completion of this project, Guwahati has been connected to Shillong, Aizwal, Agartala, Itanagar, Dimapur, Kohima, Imphal, Tezpur and Nagaon. Gangtok has been connected to Siliguri and Kolkata.The connectivity of all state headquarters has improved and the people of NE Region have been benefited by getting reliable telecom services in the region. Bandwidth of this region is upgraded by additional 810 Gbps. N K.Mehta, Director (Enterprise) BSNl, said, “The Phase-II of Ashta Mangal Project costs over Rs 430 crore.”