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Singapore-based The Travel Corporation (TTC) Friday said it has launched two programmes in India to attract high net worth tourists from cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad.

The two programmes are 2019 Premium and Luxury Gold Journeys.

"The focus is on India as it being the most emerging market in Asia currently," Managing Director for Asia for Insight Vacations and Luxury Gold, the two brands of The Travel Corporation (TTC), Anthony Lim said in a statement.

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Niti Aayog CEO releases handbook on Atal Tinkering Labs

* Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant Friday released a handbook on Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs), which captures experiences of young innovators of the country.

On the eve of National Youth Day, Kant also announced a 10-month student entrepreneurship programme, a government initiative to help the top six innovations of the Atal Tinkering Marathon 2017, to transform their innovative prototypes into functioning.

National Youth Day is observed on January 12 to mark the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.

According to an official statement, the handbook will serve as an action plan that can provide the basis for a smooth scale up approach for the ATLs initiative, via the public-private-partnership and Centre-State cooperation.