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Port Blair, Feb 8: Andaman Nicobar Chess Association (ANCA) in collaboration with Chinmaya Mission Port Blair will organize a Chess Tournament for Senior Citizens on February 25, 2024, at Chinmaya Mission Port Blair to encourage and stimulate the elderly people. The players who are above 60 years of age are eligible to participate in the tournament.
Read more: ANCA in Collaboration with Chinmaya Mission to Organise Chess Tourney for Sr. Citizens
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For the last few months I’ve been curious about the many inaugurations by the Prime Minister of the Vande Bharat trains, and decided yesterday I’d travel in one of them from Goa to Mumbai.
The train came in late from Mumbai, and so the cleaners made us wait on the platform. Two of them cleaned the dusty windows outside, but only the window glasses of the Executive Class. When I finally sat on my seat, I found that the food tray was permanently on my lap. I told the TC that I would be happy if it could go back to it’s place and he agreed and told me the maintenance people would fix it in a few minutes. Well, in the eight hours I sat in the train, the food tray seemed quite comfortable on my lap.
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One very common feature at the presentation of the budget is a photo of the finance minister giving final touches to the budget papers. This is something that takes place every year and for the last many years since independence.
“As soon as a new finance minister is sworn in he or she takes charge of the final touch kit,” said an official in the finance ministry as he sat down for a cup of tea, outside Parliament House.
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Renowned scientist Dr. Ajai Kumar Sonkar, awarded with Padmashree, told our correspondent in a conversation that recently, during the study of species diversity of organisms in the South Andaman sea, an investigation was conducted by him, collected samples from 3 feet below the sand of the bottom of the sea about 150 feet deep. Laboratory testing revealed the presence of hydrogen sulphide in the sample.
Hydrogen sulphide is a very poisonous gas for all living beings and plants including humans, but for some bacterias, Hydrogen Sulphide is a life-giving gas, and oxygen is a deadly gas for them.
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How often we are so impatient to see the results of some effort we are putting into some venture or other! We might have to study day and night and wonder whether it is worth it and whether we are wasting our time. “If only we could see our future!” we tell ourselves, “To see whether we are investing our efforts well!”
But that is not the way it is supposed to be. We invest our time, put in effort and the rewards come at their own time. Chinese proverbs are common and often have stories behind them. The proverb “pulling up a crop to help it grow” is about an impatient man in the Song Dynasty. He was eager to see his rice seedlings grow quickly. So he thought of a solution. He would pull up each plant a few inches. After a day of tedious work, the man surveyed his paddy field. He was happy that his crop seemed to have “grown” taller.