Dr Reddy's Livelihood Advancement program in Vietnam
Hyderabad: Dr Reddy's Foundation, the social arm of the pharmaceutical major Dr Reddy's Laboratories, has started a Livelihood Advancement Business School (LABS) centre in Hanoi, Vietnam, in partnership with Plan International. This is the first LABS centre to be set up outside India. LABS aims to provide unemployed youth access to new economy jobs.
Through a press release Dr Reddy's Foundation has said that the Hanoi LABS centre now has 124 students undergoing training in the first batch. The training courses offered include IT Enabled Services, Hospitality (Hotel industry), Customer Relations and Sales.
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TRAI to release broadband norms
New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will present its guidelines for the broadband sector on Thursday.
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Steel production up 7.4 per cent
New Delhi: The total production of finished steel in the year 2003-04 has been provisionally estimated at 36.15 million tonnes as against 33.67 million tonnes during the previous financial year, which is an increase of 7.4 per cent. The total production of pig iron during the financial year has been estimated at 5.22 million tonnes as against 5.28 million tonnes during the year 2002-03.

Apparent consumption of finished steel during the year was 30.4 million tonnes, higher by 5.2 per cent over 28.89 million tonnes during 2002-03. Consumption of finished steel during the year improved by 1.2 per cent to 4.76 million tonnes from 4.64 million tonnes in the previous year.
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Eid Milad-un-Nabi holiday
New Delhi: As per list of Holidays intimated vide Department of Personnel & Training's Circular no. 12/5/2003-JCA dated 3rd July, 2003, the holiday on account of the birthday of Prophet Mohammad (Eid Meelad-un-Nabi) falls on Sunday, 2nd May, 2004. It has been brought to the notice of this Ministry that in Delhi, Prophet Mohammad's birthday (Eid Meelad-un-Nabi) will be observed on Monday, 3rd May, 2004. Accordingly, it has been decided to shift the holiday on account of the birthday of Prophet Mohammad to Monday, 3rd May, 2004 in place of 2nd May, 2004 as notified earlier, for all Central Government offices at Delhi/New Delhi.

For offices outside Delhi/New Delhi, the Central Government Employees Welfare Coordination Committee or the Head of Offices (where such committees are not functioning) may decide the date depending upon the decision of the concerned state governments.
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