Reves Art Gallery in association with Telangana Rangula Pallaki will host an Art Exhibition for 10 days beginning from April 19, 2015 to April 28, 2015 at the Reves Art Gallery located at Jayanagar VIII Block. The inauguration of the expo will take place on April 19 at 4 pm at the art gallery.
T Harish Rao, Minister of Major Irrigation, Mining, Geology, Marketing & Legistative Affairs, Government of Telangana will inaugurate the expo at 4 pm. The other guest at the inauguration include: B V Papa Rao, Advisor, Government of Telangana and Mamidi Harikrishna, Director, Department of Language & Culture, Government of Telangana will also preside.
About 16 artists from across Telangana will display their art works that include paintings and other works. These art works are also for sale and are priced from Rs 30,000 to couple of lakh of rupees.The organisers said 12% of the total sales will be used for charity. The charity will go to handicap artists from Mehaboob Nagar district.
Oxford University Press (OUP), the world's largest university press is delighted to announce that its India branch office, Oxford University Press India, has been given the ‘Diamond Award’ by the Federation of Publishers’ & Booksellers’ Associations in India (FPBA) at their 60th Annual General Meeting today. This award is recognition of OUP’s distinguished services to the Indian books industry.
The Diamond Award is the highest category of awards and is being given for the first time by FPBA to organizations in business for 75 years or more. Earlier, Golden Awards were given in the year 2010 to organizations that had been around for more than 50 years.
Speaking on the occasion S.C Sethi, President - Federation of Publishers & Booksellers Associations in India said, “The awards given by FPBA celebrate and reward excellence in publishing. We are delighted to present OUP with the ‘Diamond Award’ in recognition of the contribution made by them to the publishing industry in India.”
Ranjan Kaul, Managing Director - Oxford University Press India said “we would like to express our gratitude to the Federation of Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Association of India for this honour. OUP has a rich and long history of publishing in India, and this award is recognition of its valuable contribution to education and academic publishing in the country for the last 103 years.”
The FPBA conferred the Diamond awards during a ceremony at the Le Meridien in New Delhi during their 60th AGM. FPBA is the oldest and largest association of publishers’ and booksellers’ in the country, with membership of over 4000 organizations.
