Friday, June 6, 2008
Grand Express link
clipped from http://www.grandtrunkexpress.com/This was the only train that served as the blood vein running from North to South for years until the Tamil Nadu Express was introduced. From coal driven this is now electric powered. It has AC class for the rich and unreserved coaches for the poor.
Lowest fares in the world: but make profi: Indian Railways
clipped from knowledge.insead.eduIndian Railways is the world's largest employer and one of the biggest and busiest rail networks in the world, carrying some 17 million people and more than one million tonnes of freight daily. It was, however, until very recently, a loss-making organisation, which was heading for bankruptcy. Starting his term in 2004 with a budget of just $200 million with which to save the national institution, India's Minister of Railways Lalu Prasad engineered a dramatic turnaround. Last year, Indian Railways' revenue came to $6
Indian Railways is one of INSEAD's biggest executive education clients, and the Minister visited the school's Asia campus as part of his tour of Singapore and Malaysia. During his visit to INSEAD, he told a gathering of MBA participants, alumni and executives about his strategy for bringing the rail network into the 21st century.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Fueling exit
clipped from in.news.yahoo.comNew Delhi, June 5 (ANI): Union Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in a statement issued here today has categorically stated said that in the wake of recent diesel price hike, the Indian Railways will not pass Railways' additional financial burden on its users - both Railway passengers and freight customers.
Railways to absorb impact of diesel price hike: Lalu
Thu, Jun 5 06:35 PM
Prasad pointed out that Indian Railways consume 2.27 billion litres diesel per annum and an increase in the price of diesel by Rs. three per litre would cost Railways Rs. 681 crore annually and Rs. 560 crore for the remaining ten months of the current financial year.
He said that Railways have decided to absorb the diesel price hike by improving its productivity, efficiency and volumes.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The Olympics 2008 venue - 1
clipped from en.beijing2008.cnThe National Stadium
Post-Games use: The Stadium is to stage sports events at national and international levels, as well as cultural and entertaining activities;
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Stress - individual and family
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coding problem!
clipped from http://www.nosle.com/loc/gth/nsl_rss.jsp?href=null&a2=1212366038&title=To+APP+or+NOT+to+APPWe are planning a new software project. I have some basic questions on the architecture.
I function as a product manager for this product and I would like some advice on basic questions so we do not over engineer our products, keep it simple and ensure a timely release.
My questions might seem to be anti Java as in the past I have extensive C programming experience. But now in Java the app server is very common and my tech leads are pushing for JBOSS.
the count down
clipped from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/olympics/nosplit/countdown/socountdown.xmlCountdown to the Beijing Olympics
67 days to go . . .
67: The number of countries that were represented at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, two less than had participated in Helsinki four years previously.
Among those nations making their Olympic debut in 1956 were teams from Cambodia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Kenya, Liberia, Taiwan, Uganda, Malaya and North Borneo (the latter two countries now combined as Malaysia).
The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland did not compete because of the Soviet invasion of Hungary while Egypt and Lebanon declined to attend because of the French and British intervention in the Suez Canal dispute.
olympic ball
clipped from http://www.king5.com/sports/sonics/stories/NW_060208SSB_storm_player_leaves_team_JG.530ca9ee.html07:20 AM PDT on Monday, June 2, 2008
Associated PressSEATTLE - Seattle Storm forward Kelly Santos has joined the Brazilian national team in Spain in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The FIBA Olympic qualifying tournament for women at Madrid gets under way on June 9 and the 6-foot-3 Santos is not expected to return to the Storm until June 16.
After joining the Brazilian national team in 1997, Santos earned a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic games and also competed in the 2004 Olympics.
johnson, sprint,
clipped from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/03/SP3H111U02.DTL&hw=olympics&sn=003&sc=505Johnson returns gold
Sprinter 'feels betrayed' by relay teammate
Associated Press
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Olympic champion Michael Johnson says he was "shocked" by former teammate Antonio Pettigrew's doping admission and will return the gold medal the two of them helped the United States win in the 4x400-meter relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
"As difficult as it is, I will be returning it to the International Olympic Committee because I don't want it," Johnson wrote in a column in today's Daily Telegraph in London. "I feel cheated, betrayed and let down."
brown's boycott
clipped from http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8864882?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.comUK's Brown won't attend Olympics opening
He became the second major world leader after German Chancellor Angela Merkel to decide to stay away from the opening ceremonies, although Brown's office insisted Wednesday that he was not boycotting the Olympics and would attend the closing ceremony.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said last month that he was debating not attending the opening ceremony.
Asked whether President Bush would go to the opening portion of the Olympics, White House press secretary Dana Perino demurred, citing the fluid nature of a foreign trip.
