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02 World<br />
Friday, <strong>August</strong> <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2018</strong> | www.goantimes.titosgoa.com | 12 Pages<br />
Raksha Bandhan <strong>2018</strong>: Narendra Modi, Ram Nath<br />
Kovind celebrate with children, greet nation on festival<br />
On the occasion of Raksha Bandhan on<br />
Saturday, children tied rakhi to Prime<br />
Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.<br />
Students from various schools took<br />
part in the festivities and tied rakhi<br />
on Modi's wrist. The prime minister<br />
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blessed the girls who tied him a rakhi<br />
and wished the nation on social media.<br />
Children also tied rakhi to President<br />
Ram Nath Kovind on Raksha Bandhan.<br />
Students from many schools also<br />
participated and celebrated Raksha<br />
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Bandhan with the president. He too<br />
greeted the nation on social media<br />
and hoped that the festival would<br />
strengthen the feeling of brotherhood<br />
in the country. He also wished for a<br />
society safe for women and girls.<br />
Kofi Annan<br />
remembered in Ghana<br />
ACCRA. — The national flags of Ghana<br />
are flying at half mast across the<br />
country and at the country’s missions<br />
around the globe.<br />
Kofi Annan, former United Nations<br />
(UN) Secretary-General, passed on at a<br />
hospital in Bern, Switzerland, after a<br />
short illness.<br />
“We knew that in <strong>August</strong> he tends to<br />
come to Ghana and stay in his house<br />
and family members will go and see<br />
him. So we were looking forward to<br />
seeing him in <strong>August</strong>. So to hear this<br />
news is really shattering,” Kojo Amoo<br />
Gottfried, Ghana’s former ambassador<br />
to China, told Xinhua on Saturday<br />
hours after the news broke.<br />
Commentators say not only do people in<br />
war-torn countries recognise the greatness<br />
of Annan, who took over from Boutros<br />
Boutros-Ghali in 1997 as the seventh UN<br />
secretary-general, but also the youth and<br />
women see a father figure in him.<br />
“To say he is a statesman is an<br />
understatement. He lived a fulfilled life<br />
always preaching peace and fairness in<br />
the world and he practiced it so much,”<br />
Ghana’s deputy information minister<br />
Nana Ama Dokuaa Asiamah-Adjei<br />
remarked in an interview with Xinhua.<br />
“His fight for the youth, his fight for<br />
women, we cannot forget,” she said, adding<br />
that her wish was for Annan to have stayed<br />
a little longer for Ghana and Africa to tap<br />
into his reservoir of experience.<br />
The expert credited the late secretarygeneral<br />
with the introduction of the<br />
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),<br />
now the Sustainable Development Goals<br />
(SDGs), as well as some of the finest<br />
works on HIV and AIDS, the green<br />
revolution and new thinking into ICT.<br />
First Country in the<br />
World to Give Free<br />
Sanitary Products to<br />
All Students<br />
Scotland is now set to become the first<br />
country in the world that provides free<br />
feminine hygiene products to all of<br />
their students.<br />
The $6.6 million (£5.2 million)<br />
initiative will benefit roughly 400,000<br />
students across all of the country’s<br />
schools, universities, and colleges.<br />
Recent surveys have shown that one in<br />
four responding pupils have had trouble<br />
accessing sanitary products, while one in<br />
five participants have experienced “period<br />
poverty” in the past. The new scheme<br />
will ensure that Scottish students will no<br />
longer have to forgo their hygienic needs<br />
based on their income or social situation.<br />
“In a country as rich as Scotland<br />
it’s unacceptable that anyone should<br />
struggle to buy basic sanitary products,”<br />
said communities secretary, Aileen<br />
Campbell, according to The Guardian.<br />
“I am proud that Scotland is taking<br />
this world-leading action to fight period<br />
poverty and I welcome the support of local<br />
authorities, colleges and universities in<br />
implementing this initiative.<br />
“Our £5.2m investment will mean these<br />
essential products will be available to<br />
those who need them in a sensitive and<br />
dignified way, which will make it easier<br />
for students to full focus on their studies.”<br />
AirAsia offers cheap<br />
international flight<br />
tickets from Rs 4,399.<br />
AirAsia is launching lucrative<br />
discounts for all its international flyers<br />
in its 'Thailand on Sale!' deal.<br />
The tickets under the offer start at<br />
an all-inclusive rate of Rs 4,399 and are<br />
only available for select routes.<br />
In order to avail the benefits of the<br />
scheme a customer has to book tickets in<br />
advance till September 2, <strong>2018</strong>. The offer<br />
is only available on connecting flights too.<br />
According to the official website of the<br />
airline, the offer is available for flights<br />
flying to Bangkok, Phuket, Krabi,<br />
Chiand Mai and many others.<br />
The cheapest ticket under the offer<br />
is of Rs 3,999 and is available for the<br />
Bhubaneswar to Kolkata route.<br />
Other cheap flying options are available<br />
for the routes Kochi to Kuala Lumpur (Rs.<br />
5,399), Kolkata to Kuala Lumpur (Rs. 6,999),<br />
Goa to Kuala Lumpur (Rs. 8,223), Jaipur to<br />
Kuala Lumpur (Rs. 4,890), Bhubaneswar to<br />
Krabi (Rs 6,610) and many more.<br />
The offer is only available for a<br />
limited travel period and ends on<br />
February 17, 2019.
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