EDUCATION

Programme on export management at IMSAR
Jatinder Sharma

Rohtak, April 30
The Institute of Management Studies and Research (IMSAR) of Maharshi Dayanand University will launch a five-day ‘management development programme on export management and international business’ from tomorrow in collaboration with the Small Industries Services Institute. The main objective of the programme is to provide practical training to SSI managers and entrepreneurs in the field of export and international business.

The Director of the IMSAR, Dr S. K. Bedi, plans to set up a corporate training centre, which will develop problem-focused and industry-specific modules to be delivered in on-campus as will as off-campus programmes. The centre would deliver low-cost and cost-effective training programmes to the industry of the region from time to time, he told ‘NCR Tribune’.

The IMSAR, Dr Bedi said, was also in the process of obtaining accreditation from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) to become a pioneering institute in insurance training in the region. It already offers insurance management as a major specialisation to its MBA participants.

Dr Bedi claimed that over the last 25 years of its existence, the institute had excelled in the field of management sciences and had developed the country’s five-year programme of MBA in power management, which is now being run by the National Power Training Institute, Faridabad.

The IMSAR had also developed the MBA (finance) programme being run by the National Institute of Financial Management as an affiliated institute of the university. The programme is meant exclusively for the executives of the central and state governments in accounting and finance.

In order to produce specialised cadres of export managers for a large and growing number of export and trading houses, the IMSAR has developed a one-year Advanced Post-graduate Diploma in Export-Import Procedures and Documentation which would be launched from the coming academic session.

The institute, Dr Bedi said, would offer the latest UGC Model Curriculum in Management in its various MBA programmes with effect from the coming academic session. 

Students come out on streets against Gujarat riots
Tribune News Service

Students taking out a rally against the Gujarat carnage at the India Gate on Tuesday. —Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal

New Delhi, April 30
More than 500 school students of the Capital today came out on the streets in a rally under the aegis of the All India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) against the ongoing riots in Gujarat urging all persons concerned to create a violence-free society for children.

“The children were forced to come out on the streets against the ongoing communal violence and terrorism in the country due to the failure of the political leadership to curb it. We will have to take lessons from them,” president of the AIATF, Mr Maninderjeet Singh Bitta, said here while flagging off the rally. He said children were the hope of the society and they wanted a violence-free peaceful environment in the country. “The children are just trying to spread the message of peace and brotherhood through this rally,” Mr Bitta said. The children, mostly from Vanasthali Public School and Amity International School here, marched from India Gate to Rajghat carrying the Indian tricolour and singing “Vande Mataram”.

The students shouted slogans like ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ and ‘We want peace’, and carrying banners reading ‘Children for peace’, ‘United we stand, divided we fall’. 

COURTS

Six get life term for murder
Tribune News Service

Faridabad, April 30
A fast-track court here has sentenced six persons, including a couple, to life imprisonment for murdering a person in 1989.

Amar Singh, a resident of Kabulpur village in the district, was murdered on October 17, 1989 by the accused, as they had a dispute over the ownership of a piece of land.

The victim was attacked with sticks and axe and he succumbed to the injuries in a hospital. The accused — Ranjit Singh, his wife Dhanna, Gurdas, Karnail Singh, Rattan Singh and Kashmir Singh — have been sentenced after being convicted.

CULTURE

Talent and hard work showbiz success mantras: Raza Murad
Our Correspondent

Noida, April 30
The well-known character actor Raza Murad said that the three corner-3 stones of any professional work are the talent, hard work and the fate.

“It is only the fittest who can survive in the highly competitive film & television industries, but perseverance, of course, does pay rich dividends.”

Raza Murad said while addressing the students of the Asian Academy of Film & TV, Noida. He became nostalgic while recalling his association with late Raj Kapoor and the film director Hrishikesh Mukherji. He advised the directors and prospective actors to observe the life from close quarters so as to portray the characters rightly. It is only when the viewers can identify themselves with the actor on the screen that the performance becomes believable and good.

Earlier, welcoming the distinguished visitor, the director of the academy, Prof Sandeep Marwah, paid him glowing tributes that after graduating from the Film & TV Institute of India in 1971, Raza Murad had acted in more than 300 feature films, including ‘Namak Haraam’ and ‘Ram Teri Ganga Mailee’.

Raza Murad said that as a measure of abstinence he neither smokes nor chews paan. Raza Murad agreed to personally conduct a workshop on verbal communication in the near future for the students of the acting and presentation course of the academy.