At the award ceremony of running through November 15 at New York City, The International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show (IHMRS) announced winners of the 31st annual Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality Design, Honorees were selected by a panel of industry experts from a field of more than 150 projects representing 24 countries. The InterContinental Sanya Resort was awarded Best Bathroom, Best Spa, and Best Hotel Design- Resort. The Awards are sponsored by Interior Design and HOTELS magazines with the 96th annual IHMRS.

Jim Rogers, Chairman of Rogers Holdings and a famed investor, says he sees more trouble ahead for the world economy in the next few years, and is shorting shares in various markets.

Former NBA All-Star forward Jamal Mashburn will host the basketball tournament. Known in his NBA playing days as "Monster Mash", Mr. Mashburn will be active throughout the day participating in basketball clinics, mentoring the student/athletes throughout the event and games as well as greeting those in attendance. "I am impressed with the concept of the event, the student/athletes and overall project. This event shows just what can happen when young people from China and the United States work together, and shows the value of the work being done through the Booey Lehoo festival to support the 100,000 Strong Initiative," remarked Mashburn.

InterContinental Tangshan, the first international 5-star hotel in Tangshan, celebrated its Grand Opening on December 23, 2011. As the very first guest, Mr. Yoshinobu Nakamura, President & CEO of Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Itd., Tokyo, Japan was welcomed by the hotel General Manager and his hotel management team.

Recent arrivals at the Renaissance Resort Sanya are JLB, a live three piece band from Venezuela with a line-up that includes guitarist, Reym, electronic keyboard player, Luciano, and singer, Laura. Before they came to Sanya "The Oriental Hawaii," this band, that has great musical talent, worked for many years in international hotels in Venezuela and China. In addition to singing songs in English and Chinese, Laura also specializes in songs in Korean, Latin American and other languages. Reym and Luciano also versatile in that they can not only play bass and various percussion instruments, but also play in different style such as salsa, merengue, bachata and reggaeton.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 3rd Annual CityScapes online juried art competition for the month of June 2013.

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Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare attended the Session.

Mr. Chidamabaram appreciated CCI for bringing about a transformational change, and providing much-needed oversight of a liberal and open economy in a short span of 4 years. The FM was speaking in the capital on the occasion of the Annual Day lecture commemorating four years of enforcement of Competition Law by CCI.

2. Up to 5% of the notified amount of the sale of the stocks will be allotted to eligible individuals and Institutions as per the Scheme for Non-Competitive Bidding Facility in the Auction of Government Securities.

Dr. Joshi said that economies are developing and roads propel the engine of growth. In India, the road infrastructure transports over 85 per cent of passenger traffic and over 60 per cent of freight traffic, he added. The National Highways constitute only 2 per cent length of Indias road network, however they carry 40 per cent of the vehicular traffic. Informing that there are over 142 million registered vehicles on Indian roads,Dr. Joshi said that last decade observed a compound annual growth rate of 9.9 per cent.

Referring to the single window clearance system, to facilitate film shooting and making in India the Minister said that Ministries of Information and Broadcasting and Tourism, will work in tandem in simplifying the procedures and fast tracking multiple clearances that are required for shooting. He said Our endeavor is to offer the film makers best of the facilities. I take this opportunity to invite every director, every producer and every actor to India. I promise, you will find the location and facility what you are seeking in our beautiful country.

In exercise of the powers conferred by Clause (1) of Article 224 of the Constitution of India, the President has extended the appointment of Shri Sujoy Paul as Additional Judge of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh for a period of one year with effect from27th May 2013.

Modus operandi adopted was that despite having F.O.R. (free on receipt) MOU with M/s HZL in general, M/s BSL arranged their own transportation specifically for Khopoli supplies and entire quantity of zinc so purchased was transported through M/s Mewar Transport Company (Udaipur) and diverted to traders based in Delhi, Agra and Aligarh. After the goods were unloaded at Delhi/Agra/Aligarh godowns of the traders, only invoices and GRs were sent to M/s BSLs Sahibabad office and then to their Khopoli factory for availing irregular cenvat credit without receipt of goods. Payments were reportedly received in cash for zinc ingots sold to the traders. Entire operation was orchestrated by the Assistant Vice President (Finance) under direct supervision of Vice Chairman-Cum-Managing Director of M/s Bhushan Steels group.

Disciplinary proceedings were initiated against these officers with the approval of Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and a detailed enquiry was conducted by the DGCA in the matter. During the enquiry, it was established that the officers had not intimated or obtained permission from the Government regarding employment of their dependents in the civil aviation sector. Their said act was a violation of Conduct Rules and, accordingly, Minister for Civil Aviation took a decision to award minor penalty of censure for their non-compliance of Conduct Rules.

Electricity being a concurrent subject, responsibility for supply of electricity lies with the concerned State Government / Power Utilities in the State. Therefore, it is the responsibility of power deficit States to assess and plan for adequate availability of power including import of power and accordingly seek inter-regional/ inter-state transmission access from the CTU/RLDC under the provisions of Open Access laid down in the Electricity Act,2003 and relevant regulations notified by CERC. Government of India only supplements the efforts of the State Governments by establishing power plants and bulk power transmission system in Central Sector through Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs). Development of National Grid for optimum utilization of available power is a continuous process and Interregional transmission links and required generation capacity addition has been planned. The increased generation and the transmission capacity would help the deficit States in bridging the demand-supply gap.

Eligible project capacity: 5 MW for Solar PV and 5 MW to 100 MW for Solar thermal projects.

Describing the agreement as a historic event and a great milestone, Shri Azad noted with optimism that this agreement is going to usher in a new era of cooperation in the health sector between the two countries.

Following is the text of Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singhs statement to the media following delegation level talks with Chinese Premier H.E. Li Keqiang in New Delhi today:

The Day is observed to generate awareness in the country among all sections of people, about the danger of terrorism and violence and its effect on the people, society and the country as a whole. It was on this day in 1991 that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi fell to the designs of terrorists.