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New Delhi, Jun 17 : India has signed a deal with an Ukraine firm to modernise its 100 medium lift AN-32 cargo aircraft.

The contract, worth over 400 million dollars was signed between Ukrainian military export monopolist Ukrspetsexport and India to upgrade the planes operated by the Indian Air Force.

Antonov Aircraft Company, headquartered at Kiev, will give the eponymous 20-tonne-capacity aircraft "a full upgrade of on-board communications and navigation systems," Defence Ministry officials said.

Kiev - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday warned of a new flare-up in the Russian-Ukrainian gas conflict, and possible reductions in energy supplies to Europe.

Berlin's top diplomat during a visit to the Ukrainian capital Kiev with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sidorski called for renewed efforts to head off an impending impasse.

"There are pressing interests to prevent another another gas supply conflict," Steinmeier said, in comments to reporters in the Ukrainian capital.

Guwahati, June 17 : Located on the outskirts of Guwahati, Parijit academy in Pamohi village of Assam is a dream school for the poor.

The school has come up as a big ray of hope for the poverty-stricken parents who wanted their children to get education despite themselves being illiterate.

Imphal, June 17 : Loktak Lake, which has the only floating wildlife sanctuaries in the world is a gift of nature to the people of Manipur.

A three-day Loktak water festival was organised here recently to project and promote Loktak as a major tourist destination. The theme of the festival was ''Save Loktak, Save Our Life'.

This internationally important and biologically-rich lake besides being a unique wintering ground of various migratory waterfowls was the permanent home of many resident water birds.