New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday left on a five-day visit to Norway and Finland during which a number of agreements, including on education and trade, will be signed. The president will be in Oslo till October 14 and then proceed to Helsinki.
He is accompanied, though separately, by a large business delegation from the Confederation of Indian Industry and other organisations.
Besides the 45 businesspeople, a team of senior educationists, heads of central universities, vice chancellors, and chiefs of the Indian Institutes of Technology are also part of the delegation.
His visit to the two countries holds significance as both are members of the Arctic Council — an intergovernmental group of eight Arctic states, to which India gained observer status in 2013.
Mukherjee is the first Indian head of state to visit Norway.
Opt for Nota, AAP urges supporters
Chandigarh: Refuting rumours that it was supporting particular political parties or candidates, the AAP yesterday asked its supporters to opt for the Nota (none of the above) button on electronic voting machines for Wednesday’s assembly elections in Haryana.
“The AAP has made it clear that people should vote for any good candidate who works for the welfare of society. If there is no good candidate available, voters should opt for Nota. They should not vote for any tainted candidate,” the Aam Aadmi Party said in a statement.
The AAP, which is not contesting any of the 90 assembly seats, made it clear that it had not extended support to any political party or candidate.
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