Chandigarh, Oct 25 : Le-Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect, who designed Chandigarh in the 1950s has a museum dedicated to his name. Old Architects'' building in Chandigarh''s Sector 9, which was the office of Le Corbusier, has now been converted into a museum.

Called `Le Corbusier Museum and Research Centre'', it is the sixth such center in the world and the second in India after a museum in Ahmedabad.

Le Corbusier designed and constructed buildings throughout Europe and India and one each in North and South America. He was an urban planner, painter, sculptor, writer and modern furniture designer.

Srinagar, Oct 29 : An army personnel’s body with a bullet injury was found in his unit in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara District, a police spokesman said today.

Srinagar, Oct 29: The filing of nominations for the second phase of Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls began today with the issuance of notification.

Four seats in Rajouri and two in Ganderbal district will go to polls in this phase on November 23. The last date for filing nominations is November 5.

The nominations for the first phase in Jammu and Kashmir has started picking up with several political parties finalizing the names of their candidates.

Friday is the last date for the submission of papers for the first phase in which ten assembly constituencies in Bandipora, Leh, Kargil and Poonch districts will go to the polls on November 17.

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US-based cell phone manufacturer Motorola has made announcement about the availability of its GPS-enabled MOTOMING A 1600 phone in the Indian market.

Packing a host of multimedia features, the newly launched handset offers navigational services and comes preloaded with landmarks of 30 cities.

The new model MOTOMING A 1600 features a transparent flip cover, 1 GB MicroSD card, an expandable memory capacity of up to 4 GB plus a 3.2 mega pixel camera.

The new phone also comes packed with some features of MapmyIndia.

New Delhi, Oct 29 : The first partnership development workshop under the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) South-South Cooperation Programme will be held here today. 

The workshop will be hosted by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the World Bank. 

GFDRR South-South Cooperation Programme is a major initiative to facilitate collaboration among low and middle-income countries to mainstream disaster risk reduction and recovery into the development planning and programming.