<div dir="auto"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:24pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear friends and esteemed colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Festival greetings to all and my best wishes for a great 2024.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This is to share with you that on numerous requests due to overlapping holidays, the deadline for submission of manuscripts for 2024 8th ISMSI, an annual event of IICCI, has been extended till 30th January, 2024 </span><a href="http://www.ismsi.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.ismsi.org</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In case you are not able to submit till now, I hope you will avail this extended deadline and submit yours.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you and will look forward to receiving your papers in the coming days.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With kind regards,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Suash Deb </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;padding:16pt 0pt 24pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General Chair, ISMSI 2024</span></p></div>