by rakesh | Nov 10, 2006 | India News
To ensure safe movement of passengers, the trains are run at lower speeds. However, the slow movement of trains causes bunching on the tracks and at terminal stations, making it difficult to move all the trains. More trains, both passenger and freight, are expected to be delayed due to onset of winter and thickening of fog in the days to come.
Passengers and other concerned persons are requested to check up train arrival/departure timings through internet, voicemail or telephone service of the railways. The website addresses of Indian Railways and Northern Railway are www.indianrail.gov.in and www.nr.indianrail.gov.in.
by rakesh | Nov 2, 2006 | India News
Rajasthan’s Industry Commissioner Smt Usha Sharma reviewed the preparations at Rajasthan Pavilion and instructed accordingly.
The Director of Rajasthan Pavilion Shri Ravi Agarwal told that this year a tableau of Royal Court of Bikaner’s Anupgarh Palace would be showcased priorly and noted that the Facade would be decorated with traditional paintings of ”Pichchewai Art.”
In Pavilion various models would depict progress and development made by Tourism and Industrial departments of the State.
In the theme area Langa and Manganiar artists of the state costumed in traditional Rajasthani dresses with textile designs making scintillating performance and spreading songs in sanddumes would be a source of attraction.
In Pavilion the tableaus of Business Information Centre, Agriculture, Mines and Mining, Rajasthali, Rajasthan Electricity Corporation, RIICO, Tourism, Information Public Relations and cooperative Departments would also be decored. Besides this, Rajasthani Handicrafts, Art and delicious Rajasthani dishes would attract the visitors.
by rakesh | Nov 2, 2006 | Business
Amul Kool Café is targeted at ‘Generation X’ who is in search of a healthy beverage which is tasty, trendy, and nutritious. Amul plans to launch in the near future Coffee Mocha, Coffee Sugar free and decaffeinated flavours.
With this launch, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd., Asia’s largest integrated dairy products manufacturing and marketing organization and India’s largest food company, further consolidates its position in the beverage market. The non-carbonated drink market has been showing a hefty double digit growth since the last couple of years. GCMMF is now a leading player in the Indian Dairy beverage market with over 90% market share in branded packaged dairy drinks segment.
In keeping with its goal of emerging as the single largest entity in the dairy beverage market, Amul introduced low calorie thirst quenching drinks, nutritious and tasty Amul Masti Buttermilk in addition to Amul Kool range of flavoured milk and also India’s first Sports and Energy drink Stamina. In keeping with this trend it has now launched Kool Café targeted towards the youth.
The Indian soft drink market is worth about Rs. 6000 crores per annum. The soft drink market can be broadly divided into two major segments – carbonated soft drink and non-carbonated soft drinks. The carbonated drinks account for 85% of the total soft drink market. However, the growth rate has been stagnant and in fact declining over the past few years. The non-carbonated drinks category includes special categories like fruit drinks, juices and dairy drinks, etc. With the changing lifestyles, the growth in non-carbonated drink category has been much higher than the carbonated category. There is an inherent need in the mind of the Indian consumer for a healthy drink. Amul Kool Café satisfies this need.
by rakesh | Nov 2, 2006 | Env & Geography
The combined live storage in these 76 reservoirs at the beginning of monsoon i.e. 1st June, 2006 was 22 per cent of their designed capacity and stood at 82 per cent of the designed capacity as on 26th October 2006. The present storage is 105 per cent of the last year’s storage and 124 per cent of last 10 years average storage during the same period. Out of these 76 reservoirs there are presently 4 reservoirs where this year’s storage is 80 per cent or less than the average of previous 10 years.
In order to derive the best possible benefits from the available water, Central Water Commission is keeping in touch with the Department of Agriculture and Co-operation and providing information of the weekly storage position to the Crop Weather Watch Group for evolving suitable crop strategies and also appraising the situation to various Departments and Ministries involved in Water Resources Planning.
Basinwise storage position as on 26th October’06 is as follows:
The storage position in all the basins namely Indus, Ganga, Tapi, Mahi, Sabarmati, Narmada, Rivers of Kutch, Godavari, Krishna, Mahanadi and Neighbouring East Flowing Rivers, Cauvery and Neighbouring East flowing Rivers and West Flowing rivers of South is better than average of previous 10 years.
Out of 31 reservoirs with significant hydro potential, 4 reservoirs have storage build up less than the average of last 10 years capacity and no reservoir has negative storage i.e. less than MDDL.
by rakesh | Nov 1, 2006 | India News
“Habitat for Humanity builds cannot succeed without volunteerism, preparation and planning,” said Waugh. “Volunteers have to bring passion to what they believe in and what they are creating.”
More than 2,000 volunteers from North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and from across India are taking part in building homes in partnership with low-income families from the Lonavala area.
“We are grateful for Steve’s support at this year’s JCWP,” said Steve Weir, senior vice president of Habitat’s Asia Pacific Area office.”He is making a difference in the life of a family in need of housing and also helping to inspire others to join us.”
Waugh is known as the “man with nerves of steel” for his skills on the cricket field.Waugh served as captain of the Australian team from 1999 to 2004.He also is the most experienced Test cricketer in history, making 168 appearances.Waugh is a philanthropist, who supports many causes including the Steve Waugh Foundation – Australia .He was named Australian of the Year in 2004 for his achievements in cricket and charity. Waugh and his wife, Lynette, have three children.In 2005, he was named Australian Father of the Year.
This year’s JCWP is associated with Habitat for Humanity India’s ” indiaBUILDS” program.The five-year campaign plans to engage 1 million volunteers in helping to provide shelter in partnership with 250,000 people.The campaign also seeks to raise funds for a sustainable revolving fund worth US$50 million.
The Carters are Habitat’s most famous volunteers.Each year since 1984, the Carters have given one week of their time to build homes and raise awareness about the need for simple, decent and affordable housing.Previous JCWP events have been held in the United States (in New York City, Georgia and Michigan), the Philippines, Hungary , South Korea and South Africa.Habitat’s JCWP 2007 will be in Los Angeles,California in USA.
For more information about Habitat for Humanity’s Jimmy Carter Work Project, visit www.habitat.org/jcwp/2006/.
Major partners include Citigroup, Dow India, Vedanta Resources, Posco India, Whirlpool Corporation, Cisco, HDFC Ltd., Aditya Birla Group and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
About Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity International is a global non-governmental organization that welcomes to its work all people dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing. Since its founding in the United States in 1976, Habitat has built more than 200,000 houses in nearly 100 countries, providing simple, decent and affordable shelter for more than 1 million people. For more information, visit www.habitat.org/ap
