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The President on a two day visit to Kolkata tomorrow

| | Jun 29, 2017, at 12:08 am
Kolkata, June 28 (IBNS): Pranab Mukherjee is coming to Kolkata on a two-day visit on Thursday.

He will grace the 125th Anniversary celebration of Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis, the doyen of Statistics in India at Amarkunja, Indian Statistical Institute on Thursday.

Thereafter the President will be the Chief Guest at the Inaugural Session of Global Summit on Academics and Economic Reforms – Role of Cost and Management Accountant, organized by the Institute of Cost Accountants of India at the Science City.

The President will inaugurate the Unified Campus of Bose Institute at Salt Lake Sector – V tomorrow evening. A Banquet will be hosted by the Governor of West Bengal in honour of the President at the Raj Bhawan later.

The next morning the President will receive the first copy of a coffee table book written by Shri Bahar Uddin at the Academy of Fine Arts and he will also formally inaugurate an exhibition of Painting and Sculptures there.

The President will, before flying back to Delhi, on June 30, 2017, will inaugurate the celebration to commemorate the Bi-centenary of Bengali Newspaper organized by the Press Club, Kolkata.

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