Rashmi Singh, (Patron,DCA) gets Award
President Pratibha Patil confer the Stree Shakti Puraskar-Devo Ahilya
Bai Holkar Award on Rashmi Singh director Mission Convergence at a
function in New Delhi. Singh is heading Mission Convergence, a unique initiative of the Delhi
Government to reach the unreached by providing social justice to the
underprivileged in an integrated manner through convergence of all
existing social security and benefit schemes, said a press release.
Her name has been chosen by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and
Chief Secretary Shri Rakesh Mehta.
The 'Stree Shakti Puraskars' are given by the Government of India to
outstanding women for their exceptional work in fields related to
women's empowerment, it added.
Congrats!
GM Norm for Deep and Argyadeep
International Masters Deep Sengupta and Arghyadip Das collected Grandmaster norms from the Cannes Open chess tournament at Cannes on Sunday. Deep's third GM-norm came after he drew with Frenchman Christian Bauer in the ninth round and final round to tally seven points that made him part of the three-way tie for the title. Deep eventually finished third after the tie-break scores were taken. Tigran Gharamian (France) took the title and Vadim Malakhatko (Belgium) finished runner-up. Arghyadip finished in a remarkable fashion when he scored the much-needed victory over top seeded Kazakh Murtas Kazhgaleyev to reach six points, worth the eighth spot. V. Saravanan (5.5) drew the final round with USA's Vinay Bhat and Saptarshi Roy (5) lost to Samuel Shankland (USA), to finish 20th and 30th, respectively.
