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New Delhi is all set to witness the Promo Match – “Tennis Masters” of Coca-Cola IPTL 2015 presented by Qatar Airways
Doubles excitement to hit as Martina Navratilova, Sania Mirza and Leander Paes along with Mahesh Bhupathi to play the exhibition match
Tuesday, 24th  November, 2015, New Delhi:  Delhi Lawn Tennis Association is all geared up to host the high elevated mixed doubles promo match in Delhi which is a part of the promo tour of Coca-Cola International Premiere Tennis League 2015 Season 2 at DLTA Complex on Friday, 27th of November 2015. Besides Delhi, these matches will also take place in Kolkata and Hyderabad on the 25th and 26th of November respectively.
During the Tennis Masters, Delhi’s tennis spectators will get a rare opportunity to watch Martina Navratilova one of the most successful tennis player of all time partnering with Leander Paes in a rare engagement with Coca-Cola IPTL founder and Indian tennis legend Mahesh Bhupathi who on the other hand will team up with his former mixed doubles partner and current doubles World no.1 Sania Mirza. The match has been designed to activate the lead up of Season 2 of Coca-Cola IPTL league matches. The Coca-Cola IPTL main league matches are scheduled for 10th to 12thDecember at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi.
While this event will mainly concentrate on attracting fans for some high quality tennis, Mahesh Bhupathi believes that this will augment the tennis fan following in India. “Season 1 of IPTL brought Indian tennis fans closer to tennis akin to Grand Slam action like never before. Yet, not everyone was able to experience that action up close and personal. The understanding and familiarity between the four of us has resulted in Grand Slam finals appearances and titles won. This will only contribute to the quality of competitive tennis being played on this tour.”
The President of All India Tennis Association, Mr. Anil Khanna said “This initiative will further popularise the game and it will be a great occasion for spectators in Delhi to see the legendary Martina Navratilova & World No.1 Sania Mirza along with the two great Men’s Doubles players. On this occasion AITA will be launching an All India Program of “Play & Stay” to involve one million children nationwide in the sport of Tennis”.
The Promo Tour will have Micromax Indian Aces highly successful tennis star Sania Mirza. “We are very excited and hoping to get an enthralling response from the audience to support our Micromax Indian Aces team. IPTL Season 2 will get to see a lot new features this time and spectators will witness more teams fighting at the league and the battle will grow all the more stronger for the trophy this time. We at Micromax Indian Aces team hope to retain the title.” said Mr. Gulshan Jhurani, co-owner Micromax Indian Aces.
Both doubles pairings have won two Mixed Grand Slams each with Leander-Martina winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon (both in 2003) while Sania-Mahesh have won the Australian Open (2009) and the French Open (2012).
About the Coca-Cola International Premier Tennis League:
The Coca-Cola International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) is a unique team-based tennis league founded by multiple grand-slam winners, India’s Mahesh Bhupathi. Played across 4 countries in Asia, the inaugural edition in 2014 featured 21 Grand Slam Champions and 14 current/former World Number Ones. Micromax Indian Aces won the 2014 title and prize money of USD 1 million.
The 2nd edition will run from 2nd to 20th December 2015 – Japan (2nd – 4th Dec), Philippines (6th – 8th Dec), India (10th – 12th Dec), Dubai (14th – 16th Dec) and Singapore (18th – 20th Dec).
The IPTL promises to ‘Break the Code’ of the game’s traditional etiquette in order to attract a new audience to the sport. Modelled after successful international sports franchise concepts and being recognized as tennis’ newest spectacle, the IPTL combines world-class sport and entertainment in a format that keeps both spectators and global TV viewers thoroughly engaged.

I am not Stereotype: Exploring Diversity
Celebrating UN International Day of Tolerance


On the occasion of International Day of Tolerance, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message said: “Tolerance is much more than passively accepting the “other”. It brings obligations to act, and must be taught, nurtured and defended.”

To walk and navigate this path of tolerance and acceptance is imperative for the volatile yet ever shrinking world today. A world where boundaries are constantly blurring as we get more interconnected — where one encounters both the positive and negative sides of humanity.

I am not Stereotype: Exploring Diversity has been organized to take on this challenge and promote the path of peace and tolerance.

This event is an outcome of 40 young graduate and undergraduate students from Kashmir, Manipur and Delhi who launched a journey. They entered into a conversation with themselves and with each other, through the medium of photography. Over a period of three months they churned, levelled with themselves, faced the other and finally entered a zone of love, compassion and critical thinking.

At a day-long celebration in SKICC (Sringar) and a two-day festival at the India international Center (New Delhi) a book capturing their experiences will be launched in the hope of continuing their dialogue on tolerance with a wider audience.

Celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, these events are organized by NGO Standing Together to Enable Peace Trust (New Delhi) in partnership with the United Nations Alliance for Civilizations, UN Information Centre for India & Bhutan along with the India International Centre, Anhad (Delhi),Qalamkaari Creative Calligraphy Trust, Kashmir Creative Education Foundation, SKICC, Degree College Pulwama, Dolphin International School, Pulwama and Saadi Kids World, Pulwama.

Wednesday, 25 November, 2015, Kashmir, SKICC, 10:30am – 3:00 pm I Am Not a Stereotype: A Journey Through Photography;  Inauguration by Masood Hussain (International Artist ), Panel Discussion: Kashmir’s Syncretic Past – A message for the future” speakers Sameer Yasir (Journalist), Shah Faesal (Director School Education, Kashmir), Shahzada Saleem (Poet & Social Worker), Waheed Ur Rehman Parra (Political Analyst to Hon. Chief Minister J&K); Poetry Reading by Shahzada Saleem (Poet & Social Worker);  Stand-Up Comedy by Rayees Mohiuddin; and Persian Music and Dance- Fakhroddin Ghaffari – Iran (Tombak, Daf) , Lise Moulet- France (Kathak & Persian Dancing), William Rees Hofmann – England (Rabab)

Saturday, 28 November, New Delhi, India International Centre, 2:00 pm -8:00pm: Interactive Exhibition I Am Not a Stereotype: A Journey Through Photography;  Workshop: Beyond Stereotype; Panel Discussion – Unboxing Dissent: Fostering Democracy Speakers- Guahar Raza (Scientist & Poet);  Dr. Mridula Mukherjee ( Historian); Shivam Vij (Journalist);  Kavita Krishnan (Activist); and Ajay Norhona (Cinematographer & Documentarist); and Qawwali Performance by Dhurv Sangari.

Sunday, 29 November, New Delhi, India International Centre, 2:00 pm -8:00pm:Interactive Exhibition I Am Not a Stereotype: A Journey Through Photography;  Workshop: Beyond Stereotype;  Meet the Artist: Qmar Dagar (Calligraphy); iStereotypnator Play by T for Theatre; Persian Music and Dance:  Fakhroddin Ghaffari (Iran), Lise Moulet- (France) William Rees Hofmann (England);  Message for Tolerance – Mrs. Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman, Director, UN Information Centre for India & Bhutan;  Isabelle Tibi – United Nations Alliance of Civilizations; Kh. Samuel Poumai – Standing Together Enable Peace Trust and Satakshi Gawade – Student Participant and Author;  World Music Performance by Mrigya.

All these events are open to all; entry is free.

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RAJIV CHANDRAN
National Information Officer
United Nations Information Centre
for India and Bhutan
55, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003

Nov
24
CPR is pleased to invite you to a CPR-CSH workshop on
Decentralized urban governance in Gujarat and West Bengal? Evidence from the field of the urban environment in small cities
Tuesday, 24 November 2015, 3:45 p.m.
René Véron, Natasha Cornea, and Anna Zimmer
Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research
This presentation draws upon findings from the research project ‘Small cities, urban environments and governance’ that examined environmental governance and politics in selected small and medium urban agglomerations (with 100,000-500,000 inhabitants) of Gujarat and West Bengal. Through the example of the governance of different elements of the urban environment, understood in a large sense, we attempt to explore the flows of information, ideas and resources that characterize urban governance in these two states with contrasting political trajectories in terms of neoliberal reform and decentralization policies.
Our analysis starts at the local level with a description of networks that poor and middle-class urban dwellers access in order to solve different environmental problems or improve the quality of their immediate urban environment and amenities (e.g., water supply, waste disposal, green spaces). While elected ward councilors appear to play an important role (besides political party workers and neighborhood clubs) in West Bengal, political society plays a much reduced role in the studied small cities of Gujarat where the administrative apparatus seems much more important in grievance redressal.
Furthermore, we examine the complex relationships between governance actors at the municipal level, including bureaucrats, elected officials and civil/political society that are often nested in governance practices at larger scales. Our analysis suggests that small municipalities in both Gujarat and West Bengal have relatively little autonomy in governing their environment. This is in part due to financial constraints, and in part due to national and state-level schemes that prescribe certain solutions. Disparities between municipalities are however very large as efficiency in tax collection varies enormously, leaving the cities in vastly different financial situations. In Gujarat, several initiatives are taken by the state level to further strengthen its control of the municipalities.
René Véron is Professor at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). His current research centers on questions around urban development, environment and governance. He is interested in developing alternative, post-structuralist and policy-relevant approaches within Urban Political Ecology.
Natasha Cornea is a PhD candidate with the Institute of Geography and Sustainability of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Her research interests center on the ways in which relationships of power manifest in and continually reshape cities as lived environments. Her PhD research explores practices of everyday environmental governance in small cities in West Bengal, India.
Anna Zimmer is a Postdoc Research Fellow at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and lives in New Delhi (India). Her PhD investigated the everyday governance of Delhi’s waste waterscapes. She currently works on the urban political ecology of India’s small cities, attempting to contribute to theory building from the ‘South’.
This is the seventieth in a series of Urban Workshops planned by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi and Centre for Policy Research (CPR). These workshops seek to provoke public discussion on issues relating to the development of the city and try to address all its facets including its administration, culture, economy, society and politics. For further information, please contact: Christine Ithurbide at christine@csh-delhi.com, Partha Mukhopadhyay at partha@cprindia.org or Marie-Hélène Zerah atmarie-helene.zerah@ird.fr 

 
Dear Media Partners,

We are pleased to invite you to the launch of the 6th edition of the UNESCO Science Report: Towards 2030, at 5.30 pm on 23rd November 2015, at the CSIR Science Centre, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi – 110003, being organized by UNESCO New Delhi Cluster Office in collaboration with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Indian National Science Academy (INSA).

What is the UNESCO Science Report?
The UNESCO Science Report series was launched in 1993 under the name of World Science Report on the occasion of World Science Day (10th November) for peace and development. Since 1993, five reports have been published. A 6th edition is currently in production. Each of the reports monitor the evolution of the support system for science, technology and innovation worldwide over time, through the eyes of an independent team of experts who are each writing about the country or region, where they hail from.
All the reports in the series can be consulted online and purchased in various languages.

What does the UNESCO Science Report 2015 contain?
The UNESCO Science Report 2015 will cover trends and developments in the support system for STI over the period 2010−2015. It is one of the benchmarks for the global monitoring of STI policies, systems and emerging trends. The report will innovate in 2015 to reflect four emerging trends:

·         The growing focus on innovation, including in poor countries

·         The growing emphasis on monitoring STI governance

·         The growing role of STI in sub-Saharan Africa

·         The growing need to monitor the extent to which STI are fostering sustainable development


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Launch Event Details
 
Time:  5.30pm – 7.00pm
Venue: CSIR Science Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi


For further information please contact:

Dr. Mitrasen Bhikajee
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