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Business: Malls to replace municipal schools in Delhi
To meet the educational expenses of over nine lakh children, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has hit upon a unique plan. The civic body proposes to auction 60 school campuses for construction of malls and hotels. A proposal to auction 15 of the identified schools has been forwarded to the MCD commissioner even as the corporation faces increasing pressure to cater to more students. While the decision is in itself controversial, what might trigger suspicions of a scam is that MCD had originally planned to sell off nine schools but has now increased this number to 60.discuss | | category: Business | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
The land of Maharashtra , in central-west India, was ruled by a local dynasty, the Satavahanas from 300 BC to 230 AD. After which, it constantly morphed into many different kingdoms. In 1292, Ala-ud-din Khilji, an Islamic invader, defeated the Yadavas of Devagiri, but the Yadavas continued to rule till 1310. A branch of the Yadavas ruled parts of Konkan and Khandesh regions of Maharashtra for a century thereafter[citation needed]. Although the Maratha capitals fell to invaders, the regional lords held their power base and influence. In 1453, an invasion of Bahamani in the region of Vishalgarh resulted in a defeat of Yadavas. Over time, an understanding evolved between the sultanates, and the local regional lords and their erstwhile master Yadavas. The Yadavas became a vassal of Bahamani. In 1492, the Bahamani sultanate broke into five kingdoms each called a Shahi.discuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: UK to get Japan’s famous bullet trains
The UK transport minister, Lord Adonis, is proposing a 200 mph high-speed rail service modelled on the bullet trains pioneered in Japan in the 1960s. He believes there is a strong case for building a £20 billion high-speed line that would cut journey times from London to Manchester, one of Britain’s most congested routes, from 2hr 7min to just 80min.discuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: Approval of Kishen-Ganga project to widen Indo-Pak chasm
The approval of Kishen-Ganga project by the New Delhi can further severe India’s ties with Pakistan. The neighbouring country has been accusing India of violating the Indus water treaty. New Delhi on Friday approved the 330 mw Kishan-Ganga Hydro electric project which was stalled for six months in the context of the controversy over the Baghliar power project wherein World Bank had to intervene and mediate between India and Pakistan to settle the dispute.discuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: Terrorists sexually Humiliated guests before killing them
Disturbing photographs made available to this newspapers by police sources indicate that several of the guests at the Taj Mahal Hotel during the siege November 26 were sexually humiliated by the terrorists and then shot dead. Police sources confirm that even as the terrorists were engaged in a fierce combat with NSG commandos, they were humiliating their hostages before ending their terrifying ordeal. Foreign guests were their particular target. Eight of the 31 killed at the Taj were foreign nationals. Photographs taken by a police forensic team after the hotel was sanitised yield a gruesome picture of some of the guests in the nude.discuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Business: Essar scraps Jamnagar SEZ plan
Essar Group has decided to shelve the idea of developing a 1,125 ha SEZ in Jamnagar, Gujarat in the wake of global economic slowdown. The company was planning to set up a 16-20 million tpa petrochemical refinery at an investment of Rs.15,000 crore.discuss | | category: Business | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Travel: No space for Pakistan in Mumbai
When it rains, it certainly pours. The same can be said for the trouble that happens in context to the Indo-Pak relationship. No matter what the reason, what the cause or what the problem, the two countries are bound to be at each others throat at the slightest provocation. The recent in the list of agonies is Pakistan's search for a place in Mumbai to reopen its consulate has hit a dead-end, more than four years after New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to resume diplomatic operations from Mumbai and Karachi in a key confidence-building measure after coming close to war.
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Business: Maharashtra’s privatised irrigation project in jeopardy
Differences between corporate and government on issues like viability gap funding, tariff structure, share of various sectors like local self government institution, agriculture and industrial sector to use the water, have created a roadblock to Maharashtra government’s attempt to privatise irrigation project. The state’s water regulatory authority has asked state government owned Maharashtra Krishna Valley Development Corporation (MKVDC) to withdraw advertisement seeking expression of interest from corporate within a fortnight.discuss | | category: Business | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Miscellaneous: Clinton Is Said to Accept Offer of Secretary of State Position
Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to give up her Senate seat to become secretary of state in the Obama administration, making her the public face to the world for the man who dashed her own hopes for the presidency, confidants of Mrs. Clinton said Friday.
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News: Global crisis topples Europe’s tallest tower
The Norman Foster-designed Russia Tower being built in Moscow's new central business district by developer Russian Land would be 600m (1,970ft) high. However , the Russian company building Europe's tallest building has halted work on the project, citing the global financial crisis.discuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
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