Varanasi: Roger Gopaul, high commissioner of Trinidad & Tobago, who was on a visit to Varanasi, attended an ancestral heritage and family reunion programme organized by Vishal Bharat Sansthan at Subhash Bhawan in Lamhi village on Wednesday. He performed aarti at the temple of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and met tribal children living in Subhash Bhawan.He expressed happiness after meeting 40 members living there as a family. He also saw the Anaz bank run by the organisation. Rajeev Srivastava, president of Vishal Bharat Sansthan (VBS), honored the high commissioner by presenting Ramnami dupatta and tricolor badge.Gopaul saidThe culture of Trinidad is like Indian culture. Our ancestors were from India only. I go to Ayodhya every year to celebrate Diwali. TNNWe also published the following articles recentlyAndrew Fleming is the new British Deputy High Commissioner to East, Northeast IndiaAndrew Fleming has been appointed as the new British Deputy High Commissioner to East and Northeast India. He will be responsible for strengthening the UKs relationship in the region. Prior to this role, Fleming served as the British Deputy High Commissioner to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for five years. He has experience in promoting business and trade between the UK and the states he worked in, as well as working on issues such as community cohesion, interfaith, and countering violence against women. Fleming is determined to establish connections across the region and deliver on shared priorities.New chief information commissioner, 2 commissioners likely to be appointed todayHeeralal Samariya, currently an information commissioner, is set to become the new chief information commissioner of the Central Information Commission (CIC). Two new information commissioners, Anandi Ramalingam and V K Tiwari, are also expected to be named. The appointments are to be administered by President Droupadi Murmu on Monday. The CIC has been without a chief for over a month, and the new appointments will prevent it from becoming defunct, but it will still be short of its full complement of a chief and 10 information commissioners.Andrew Fleming joins as the new British Deputy High Commissioner to East and Northeast IndiaAndrew Fleming has taken on the role of the new British Deputy High Commissioner to East and Northeast India. He aims to strengthen the UKs relationship in the region and ensure that the UK-India 2030 Roadmap is relevant across all 13 states and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This is not Flemings first time in India, as he has previously served as the British Deputy High Commissioner to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. He has also worked on international policy issues in various parts of the world.

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