by rakesh | Jul 16, 2008 | Travellers look
Shri K.C.Jena, Chairman, Railway Board and ex-officio Principal Secretary to the Government of India inaugurated the renovated New Delhi Rail Yatri Niwas, India’s first Ginger Rail Yatri Niwas here today. The renovated Rail Yatri Niwas developed by Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) and the Roots Corporation Limited (RCL), stands tall sparkling new at the Ajmeri Gate side of the New Delhi Railway Station in new earthly hues and shiny warm reds. This hotel was originally built in 1988 as part of Indian Railways efforts to offer hotel rooms to the railway passengers at reasonable prices.
The property was taken over by IRCTC in April, 2005 with a mandate to upgrade it on PPP basis. Keeping its ultimate objective of world class service at affordable prices in view, IRCTC allotted the task of renovating and operating the hotel on PPP basis, for 15 years, on open tender basis. This task was taken up by M/s Roots Corporation Limited, a 100% subsidiary of The Indian Hotels Company Limited.
The hotel was stripped to its bare shell and renovated in a period of 9 months with an investment of about Rs. 10.5 crores to offer the customers 109 SMART BASICS rooms and a plethora of additional facilities. A guest at the hotel now has a choice of well fitted orange and blue theme rooms with LCD TVs, posturepedic mattresses, anti allergy pillows, tropical duvets, Smart Bev Tea Coffee Maker, complimentary bottles of water and an access card to enter the room.The hotel also offers a gymnasium and a meeting room for the convenience of its guests.
Additionally, it will offer 24 x 7 restaurant, that will offer an array of food from across India and different parts of the world. A book store for catering to a traveler’s intellectual appetite and a Travel Desk for their local site seeing and travel needs are also being made available as a part of offering. There will further be, a 24 x 7 medical store.
The rooms will be offered at an incredible price of Rs. 1199/- inclusive of taxes. Fifty per cent of the rooms will be offered at Rs. 999/- per room per night inclusive of taxes. This hotel will also have four bedded rooms where each bed will be offered at Rs.250/- for a night.
In addition to being in the heart of the Central Business District of the Capital, it is extremely well connected with other parts of the capital located as it is virtually above the Delhi metro station. Rail travelers can call on the Toll Free Number 1800 2093333 OR 011 – 66633333. Bookings can also be made through an email at reservations@gingerhotels.com
by rakesh | Jul 4, 2008 | India News
Rojgar Samachar Now Available on Line A website has been launched in Hindi to cater to the needs of those seeking jobs, the website www.rojgarsamachar.gov.in has been launched by Employment News weekly newspaper, which is a unit of the Directorate of Publications...
by rakesh | Jul 3, 2008 | Business
This was stated by Shri V N Kaila, Controller General of Accounts, Ministry of Finance, while addressing a Conference organized to mark the 60th year of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, here today. He said that there are definite benefits of accrual accounting that cannot be ignored. The decision makers can know the full cost of services they are providing, and this would result in better resource allocation, better management of assets and liabilities. Overall, it would create a desirable measure of the complete financial health of the Government, Shri Kaila added.
Speaking about the issues involved in transitioning to the accrual system of accounting, Shri Kaila said that there are various factors that have created a demand for a transition to accrual system of accounting, such as the changing information needs of the decision makers, the implications of the FRBM Act, outcome oriented budgeting, etc. Stating that the Government at present follows the cash basis of accounting, he added that the developments in information technology and the accounting profession have brought about changes that may assist in this transition.
The CGA is the principal advisor to Government of India on all accounting matters, and is responsible for maintaining the Chart of Accounts used by the Union and State Governments, as also the administration of Receipt and Payment Rules, and maintaining the exchequer control through the Officials of the Indian Civil Accounts Organisation. Since its creation over three decades ago, the Civil Accounts Organisation has achieved prompt payments and settlements of claims, timely rendition of all accounting information to the stakeholders. This has resulted in greater transparency, accountability and thus a greater confidence in the public.
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by rakesh | Jun 26, 2008 | Science & Technology
A new study using this information may solve one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the solar system: why does Mars have two strikingly different kinds of terrain in its northern and southern hemispheres? The huge crater is creating intense scientific interest.
The mystery of the two-faced nature of Mars has perplexed scientists since the first comprehensive images of the surface were beamed home by NASA spacecraft in the 1970s. The main hypotheses have been an ancient impact or some internal process related to the planet’s molten subsurface layers. The impact idea, proposed in 1984, fell into disfavor because the basin’s shape didn’t seem to fit the expected round shape for a crater. The newer data is convincing some experts who doubted the impact scenario.
“We haven’t proved the giant-impact hypothesis, but I think we’ve shifted the tide,” said Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna, a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
Andrews-Hanna and co-authors Maria Zuber of MIT and Bruce Banerdt of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., report the new findings in the journal Nature this week. Artist concept of the Mars Global Surveyor.
A giant northern basin that covers about 40 percent of Mars’ surface, sometimes called the Borealis basin, is the remains of a colossal impact early in the solar system’s formation, the new analysis suggests. At 5,300 miles across, it is about four times wider than the next-biggest impact basin known, the Hellas basin on southern Mars. An accompanying report calculates that the impacting object that produced the Borealis basin must have been about 1,200 miles across. That’s larger than Pluto.
“This is an impressive result that has implications not only for the evolution of early Mars, but also for early Earth’s formation,” said Michael Meyer, the Mars chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
This northern-hemisphere basin on Mars is one of the smoothest surfaces found in the solar system. The southern hemisphere is high, rough, heavily cratered terrain, which ranges from 2.5 to 5 miles higher in elevation than the basin floor.
Other giant impact basins have been discovered that are elliptical rather than circular. But it took a complex analysis of the Martian surface from NASA’s two Mars orbiters to reveal the clear elliptical shape of Borealis basin, which is consistent with being an impact crater.
One complicating factor in revealing the elliptical shape of the basin was that after the time of the impact, which must have been at least 3.9 billion years ago, giant volcanoes formed along one part of the basin rim and created a huge region of high, rough terrain that obscures the basin’s outlines. It took a combination of gravity data, which tend to reveal underlying structure, with data on current surface elevations to reconstruct a map of Mars elevations as they existed before the volcanoes erupted.
“In addition to the elliptical boundary of the basin, there are signs of a possible second, outer ring – a typical characteristic of large impact basins,” Banerdt said.
by rakesh | Jun 19, 2008 | Entertainment
This is a unique convention in that Guinness Book of World Records is sending a delegation to record the event. Over 2500 dancers will perform ballet on the largest stage ever.
This massive convention will be attended by about 2,500 performers flying into California from different parts of the world — Russia, Europe, Australia, Singapore, most states of the US and India. The objective of the convention is to enable Kuchipudi dance form to get an international status and introduce Kuchipudi stalwarts from India on a single platform.
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The inauguration will be marked by a carnival, “Kuchipudi Shobha Yatra,” in the streets of Cupertino to be led by its Mayor Dolly Saldoval, with several festive statues brought from Kuchipudi village. Several senators, mayors, and members of Congress will also participate.
In reverence to the “teacher-disciple” tradition followed in imparting the Kuchipudi dance form, the first day will be marked by “Guru Pujotsavam (honoring teachers),” where renowned Kuchipudi exponents like Pasumarthi Gopalakrishna, Vempati Chinasatyam and Vedanta Satyanarayana Sharma will be honored.
Registration counters located at De Anza College will open on June 20th, marking the grand opening of the event. More information about the event can be obtained at the website http://kuchipudi.siliconandhra.org/.
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