Mangaluru: Valedictory Ceremony 2023 of Presidency School & PU College held
Mangaluru: The Valedictory Ceremony for the outgoing students of Presidency School and PU College Mangalore was organized on Saturday evening at its campus here in Kelarai, Neermarga in the city.
Amarnath SS Bhandari, SP, Excise Department was present as the Chief Guest of the event along with Suhael Ahmed, Vice Chairman - Presidency Group of Institutions.
The event began with the Valedictory march by the outgoing students, followed by a recitation of verses from the Holy Scriptures of the Quran, Bible, and Bhagavad Gita.
Speaking at the ceremony the Principal of the institution Shaila Saldanha spoke about the progress the institution has been able to make with the cooperation of the outgoing students. She also shed light on the challenges the college and students faced during the pandemic and how they together managed to sail through those challenges.
She also appreciated the outgoing batches and congratulated them on successfully navigating through their school and pre-university years. She also wished them luck in their endeavors in the future.
The institution also made a nostalgic presentation for the students, themed "memories" a collection of visuals and photographs of the outgoing batches and moments from their journey on the campus.
The International, National, and State level award winners and academic, sports, and cultural achievers of Presidency School & PU College Mangalore were also felicitated during the ceremony.
Akhilesh Kuckian, HOD Commerce Department, welcomed the guests, Preethi J Saldanha and Ms. Angaline Dsouza compered the event while Suraksha presented a vote of thanks.
Management Co-ordinator, Javed Lathif, Principal, Shaila Saldanha, COD’s Ayesha Ilham, Anand Prasad, and Suman Shetty were present during the event.
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Trump says he's inviting Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan to next year's G20 summit in Miami
West Palm Beach (AP): President Donald Trump said he will be extending invitations to next year's US-hosted Group of 20 summit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as the Republican administration looks to deepen its relationship with the Central Asian nations.
Trump announced the plan on Tuesday after holding separate phone calls with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Neither country is a member of the G20, but the host country of the annual leaders' gathering of major economies often invites non-members to attend the summit. The 2026 gathering is planned for Trump's golf club in Doral, Florida, near Miami.
“The relationship with both Countries is spectacular,” Trump said in a social media post about the calls. Trump is currently on vacation at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The Kazakh and Uzbek leaders visited Washington last month along with the leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan for talks with Trump.
The administration is giving greater attention to Central Asia, which holds deep reserves of minerals and produces roughly half the world's uranium, as it intensifies the hunt for rare earth metals needed for high-tech devices, including smartphones, electric vehicles and fighter jets.
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Central Asia's critical mineral exports have long tilted toward China and Russia.
During last month's visit, Tokayev announced that his Muslim-majority country will join the Abraham Accords, the Trump administration effort to strengthen ties between Israel and Arab and Muslim majority countries.
The largely symbolic move came as the administration is trying to revive an initiative that was the signature foreign policy achievement of Trump's first term, when his administration forged diplomatic and commercial ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
Trump last month announced that he is barring South Africa from participating in next year's summit at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a US government representative at this year's meeting.
Trump chose not to have an American government delegation attend this year's summit hosted by South Africa, saying he did so because its white Afrikaners were being violently persecuted. It is a claim that South Africa, which was mired for decades in racial apartheid, has rejected as baseless.
