Friday, January 20, 2017

India considers enhanced connectivity to South East Asia

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India considers enhanced connectivity to South East Asia as critical to unlocking the economic energies and enterprise of North East states
Myanmar is the only ASEAN country that shares a land border with India and is a gateway for India to other Southeast Asian countries.
Because of its strategic location, Myanmar can play a vital role as an essential partner in India’s Act East Policy, especially from the perspective of connectivity between India and South East Asia.
In the wake of rapidly changing geopolitical realities, Act East P has imparted greater vigour to India’s ties with ASEAN.
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Amateur Dhruv Sheoran triumphs at PGTI Qualifying School 2017


 
Thirty-nine players earn full cards for 2017 season

Kensville Golf & Country Club, Ahmedabad, January 20, 2017: Pune-based amateur Dhruv Sheoran (73-72-69-69) won the PGTI’s Final Qualifying Stage for the 2017 season being held at Kensville Golf & Country Club near Ahmedabad. Sheoran’s final round of three-under-69 took his tournament total to five-under-283 which helped him secure an impressive four-stroke victory.

Mysuru’s Harish K (70-73-72-72) and Delhi’s Gulfam (75-68-72-72) finished tied second at one-under-287.

At the end of round four, the top 39 players earned their cards for the 2017 PGTI season. The top 39 included five amateurs.

Dhruv Sheoran, who started the final day with a one-shot lead, made two birdies on the front-nine to stay ahead. The 22-year-old seemed to be unfazed by the fact that there were some seasoned professionals chasing him as he added two more birdies against a lone bogey on the back-nine to post his second straight 69 and surprise one and all with his sensational victory.

The Pune-based golfer, a serving Army officer’s son who originally hails from Bhiwani, Haryana, is now all set to turn professional with the first PGTI event of the season in February.

Dhruv, who was ranked 23rd on the Indian amateur circuit in 2016, said, “It’s been an unbelievable fortnight for me. I’m delighted as it’s my first ever win since I began playing golf at the junior level.

“I wasn’t even supposed to be here. I was holidaying in Dehradun just 10 days before the start of the PGTI Qualifying School. I hadn’t fared well at the All India Championship recently so was not in the right frame of mind to play the Q School. But my friend Saurabh Bhaduri, a professional on the PGTI, pushed me to play the Q School.

“Once I returned to Pune and began practicing, I wrote on my washroom mirror – ‘I will win the Q School’. That helped me psychologically. I’ve struggled with the mental aspect of my game while playing on the amateur circuit. But over the last two weeks, I feel I was quite strong mentally. I held on to my overnight lead on the final day despite some established professionals being on my tail.

“A owe my success at the Q School to the constant support and encouragement that I received from my father Col. Satyavrat Sheoran, my mother Mrs. Deepa Sheoran, my sister Neha Sheoran and my girlfriend Kriti Dutta.

“I now have no expectations as I head into my first season as a professional. I’ll just look to carry forward my form from here and play my natural game,” added Dhruv.

Harish K and Gulfam held on to their overnight tied second place after both shot scores of 72 in the final round.

The two other amateurs who finished inside the top-5 were Arjun Prasad, who recently also earned his Asian Tour card, and Shubham Narain. The duo ended the week in tied fourth at five-over-293 along with Vijay Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Rawat.

India to sign MoU for MSME Cooperation With IORA Member Countries

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SCIENCESPO CELEBRATES ITS 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY IN INDIA
16 JAN 2017
The 10 year anniversary of Sciences Po was celebrated at the Embassy of France Delhi on 16th January, 2017. Sciences Po, Paris a leading university in social sciences is currently ranked number 4 in QS world rankings 2016 for politics and international relations.
On this occasion, Ms Laurence Souloumiac, Director of the Centre for Asia at Sciences Po had flown down to meet with the alumni of the university in India. Former Union Minister Dr. Ashwani Kumar also addressed the crowd. The alumni and the delegation of Sciences Po were welcomed by Ms Claire THUAUDET, Minister Counsellor at the Embassy who invited the alumni of Sciences Po to strengthen the relations between India and France and help the Embassy in sending 10,000 students to France by 2020.
Sciences Po has 13,000 students on campus and half of them are international. No other university on the European continent boasts of such a mix. India has played a key role in adding the international dimension to Sciences Po.
Over the last decade, the top Parisian university has developed a significant cooperation with India, having inked MoUs with thirteen top universities and colleges and opened two offices, in Delhi and Mumbai. Since 5 years, the number of Indian students at Sciences Po have multiplied by three, and the university is already counting on a dynamic community of over 150 Alumni in India.
Ms Souloumiac stressed on the contribution from India to reaffirm the image of Sciences Po as a world class university. “We are very proud of you, dear Alumni in India. You are working in a wide range of sectors accompanying India’s many transformations: social, economic and environmental and promoting its innovations in the world, the famous jugaad way of thinking and acting. You are our Ambassadors in India as well as Ambassadors of India at SciencesPo,” she added.
SciencesPo has also made a mark worldwide. Five French presidents including the current President Mr. François Hollande were among the many eminent SciencesPo alumni, added Dr. Bertrand de Hartingh, Institut français India Country Director, and also Counsellor for Cooperation and Cultural Action at the French Embassy in India.

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A French delegation led by Rear Admiral Didier Piaton, Joint Force Commander of the French Forces deployed in Indian Ocean Region paid a courtesy call on Additional Director General VSR Murthy PTM, TM during his visit to Indian Coast Guard Headquarters on 19 Jan 17.
Indian Coast Guard and the French Navy which also dons the role of the French Coast Guard are formidable forces providing SAR services, Pollution control services besides being law enforcement agencies in their respective area of responsibility and collaboration between the two agencies would bring in positive impact on addressing various maritime issues in Indian Ocean Region.  During discussions, both sides explored areas of co-operation on maritime issues, especially on marine pollution response.
During the meeting, cordial discussions were held on issues of mutual interest and for strengthening the ties with both the maritime organisations.

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Reflections on Europe and UK after Brexit

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CPR is pleased to invite you to a talk on
Reflections on Europe and UK after Brexit
Tuesday, 24 January 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Timothy Garton Ash
Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research
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Timothy Garton Ash is the Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College. He has written extensively about the recent history and politics of Europe. His books include The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1983); The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989); We the People: The Revolution of ’89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (1990); In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1993); The File: A Personal History (1997); History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s (1997), Free World: Why a crisis of the West reveals the opportunity of our time (2004) and, most recently, Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name (2009).
His current research interests include the future of free speech in a multicultural and interconnected world – on which he is writing a book – and the relationship between an enlarged European Union, the United States and China. 

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