The Indian Council for the Cultural Relations (ICCR) is the Secretariat for the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding since this award was instituted in the year 1965. The Award shall be given for outstanding contribution to the promotion of […]
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Leadership Training Programme for Lawyers – Call for Applications (Session 2011-13): India
Greetings from Lawyers for Change! Lawyers for Change academy, a collaborative project of ECONET, Pune and Centre for Social Justice, Ahmedabad is offering a leadership training programme exclusively for lawyers. The objective of the programme is to prepare and motivate […]
Continue reading »Orissa launches e-post-matric scholarship programme: India
Bhubaneswar: In its bid to encourage students of disadvantaged sections pursue higher education, Orissa government today launched ‘Prerana’, an e-post-matric scholarship programme. “Post-Matric scholarship has been a major scheme for facilitating the higher and technical education among the weaker sections […]
Continue reading »Khaled Hosseini’s “Kite Runner” Comes to Comics: Afghanistan
When his first novel “The Kite Runner” was published in 2003, Afghan-born Khaled Hosseini was a doctor living in California. The book about two boys growing up in Afghanistan in the 1970s quickly became an international bestseller. Since that time, […]
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