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- Ghaziabad Development Authority awaits railways nod on elevated road
GHAZIABAD: Even as work on the 9.3km six lane UP Gate to Raj Nagar Extension elevated road is on in full swing, the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) is gearing up for the most challenging part — construction of the section of elevated road which would go over Vasundhara railway-over-bridge (ROB)."We are already in talks with the railways and have submitted our design, so that the railways could decide in which part the elevated road could be built," said Chakresh Jain, executive engineer, GDA. "In return, railways has demanded Rs 12.50 crore as supervision charge which entails laying of electrical lines," Jain said, adding that in a week's time the amount would be handed over to the railways.This part of the construction work is critical as rail traffic from Vasundhara ROB is heavy at all times of the day and diversion of traffic would be needed during the construction. "It is one challenge that the railways and the GDA would have to address to meet the June 2017 deadline," Jain said.According to the GDA design, the elevated road section over the ROB will be 20 metres above the ground as against the normal 8 metres. "When the road is at a height of 20 metres from the ground, with the ROB being nine metres from the ground level, it will ensure that train movement remains unaffected. That is an engineering challenge and we are happy that we receiving full cooperation from the railways," Jain said.Being built at a cost of Rs 1,147.6 crore, the project is touted as the country's longest elevated road to be built on a single pier. Once complete it would reduce the travel time from Raj Nagar to UP Gate considerably from the existing 40 minutes.
- Ghaziabad Development Authority awaits railways nod on elevated road
GHAZIABAD: Even as work on the 9.3km six lane UP Gate to Raj Nagar Extension elevated road is on in full swing, the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) is gearing up for the most challenging part — construction of the section of elevated road which would go over Vasundhara railway-over-bridge (ROB). "We are already in talks with the railways and have submitted our design, so that the railways could decide in which part the elevated road could be built," said Chakresh Jain, executive engineer, GDA. "In return, railways has demanded Rs 12.50 crore as supervision charge which entails laying of electrical lines," Jain said, adding that in a week's time the amount would be handed over to the railways. This part of the construction work is critical as rail traffic from Vasundhara ROB is heavy at all times of the day and diversion of traffic would be needed during the construction. "It is one challenge that the railways and the GDA would have to address to meet the June 2017 deadline," Jain said. According to the GDA design, the elevated road section over the ROB will be 20 metres above the ground as against the normal 8 metres. "When the road is at a height of 20 metres from the ground, with the ROB being nine metres from the ground level, it will ensure that train movement remains unaffected. That is an engineering challenge and we are happy that we receiving full cooperation from the railways," Jain said. Being built at a cost of Rs 1,147.6 crore, the project is touted as the country's longest elevated road to be built on a single pier. Once complete it would reduce the travel time from Raj Nagar to UP Gate considerably from the existing 40 minutes.
- Don't file frivolous cases against authorities: Delhi court
NEW DELHI: A court has sent out a stern message to the society over filing of frivolous complaints against constitutional authorities like sitting judges after finding a "trend" of people devising "ingenious means" to file such complaints. Such complaints only cause "deep anguish" to all stakeholders and bring esteemed institutions to disrepute, it was noted. Observations of chief metropolitan magistrate Sumit Dass came on a complaint filed against a sitting high court judge. It was alleged by the complainant's lawyer Santosh Kumar Suman that in a case pending before the high court, the complainant was being "compelled to give an amount of Rs 25 lakh to the petitioner or coerced to do so". "A trend has appeared where litigants like the present complainant have devised ingenious means to file frivolous complaints leveling false allegations, unmindful of the fact that their allegations not only cause deep anguish to all stakeholders but also bring esteemed institutions to disrepute," the court said. The court had also offered an option to the complainant to withdraw his complaint. "However, the complainant and his counsel persisted and made submissions. As such, I am of the opinion that a time has come that a stern message should be sent to the society at large that filing of such complaints or seeking initiation of criminal proceedings without any rationale or basis against constitutional authorities on flimsy/personal reasons would not be tolerated at all," the court stressed. The court had found the contents of the complaint "scandalous", therefore, not seeing necessity to reproduce the same in its order. According to the court, not only was the complaint not maintainable but also contemptuous as it indirectly cast aspersions both personally as well as on the judicial dispensation system. Citing relevant provisions of the IPC, CrPC and The Judge (Protection) Act, 1985, CMM Dass said, "The complaint is utterly frivolous, apparently filed for the purpose of gaining publicity." The court came down heavily on complainant Shashi Kumar Mahajan, holding him accountable for filing the case without any rationale and on flimsy grounds – not to be tolerated at all. "I may also add herein that advocate(s) being the officers of the court are also duty-bound to maintain the dignity of all so that the respect of the public in the judicial dispensation system is not eroded," the court noted. Calling the complaint "contemptuous, preposterous and slanderous", the court asserted that it is indeed the duty of the advocate to appear on behalf of litigants, but it nowhere means that the image institutions are maligned or tarnished. Accordingly, the court imposed Rs 10,000 as costs on Mahajan besides directing the Bar Council of Delhi to file its opinion on filing of such complaints and also asking it take action against Suman.
- Cidco asks quarry operators to obtain green nod; competent authority to take a close call
Cidco has asked quarry operators to obtain green nod from the district environment authority constituted few months ago as per the central government order for any extension of lease rights of the 70 quarries in the Thane district. The geographical area corresponds to the NMMC jurisdiction.
- Schoolgirl from Hubballi authors English novel
HUBBALLI: At 11, Anika Annigeri has emerged as arguably the youngest novelist in India with her children's adventure "The Adventurous Eight". The novel is attracting the attention of scholars Speaking to TOI, Anika, a class 7 student of St Michael's Primary School here, said that though her mother tongue is Kannada, it is not difficult for her to write in English. "As my father was in America for a few years, I was born and brought up there. I used to think in English and have been reading English fiction since first standard. This motivated me to author this novel. I can say that it's a harmonious blend of qualities of all books that I have read in the past 6-7 years. I request all parents to make their children read novels, stories and other books," she said. Harsha Annigeri, her father and an architecture lecturer at KLES' BVB Engineering College, Hubballi, said that he used to buy Kannada and English books for his daughter whenever I visited Bengaluru. "We observed that she was getting up early in the morning during previous summer holidays and typing something in the laptop. When asked, she said she is writing a novel. We took her seriously when she completed about 60 pages and found it something worthy," he said. When Anika's parents approached Prof Mallikarjun Patil, a senior author and chairman of the English department at Karnatak University, he initially hesitated to go through the book and insisted that the girl speak to her. "He interacted with her for an hour and found the book worthy of publication," Harsha recalled. Prof Patil said that the novel speaks about future. "She has a good imagination power which is very essential to be creative. It teaches readers, particularly children, to dream good things. As Anika has good mastery over English, the novel has emerged as good children's classic," he said. Mentioning the story, former MLA Chandrakant Bellad said that six cousins and their two pet dogs are on a summer vacation on Moonbay Island and discover a dangerous plot of miscreants to steal important documents related to rare medicinal plants. "It contains 14 chapters and enhances curiosity at every phase. These 6+2 lives find suspicious characters in the island and fight the culprits till they are punished," he said. Ganga Kadam, Anika's Kannada teacher, said that she checked on the internet and found that Anika is youngest novelist in India. "Anika is an ideal student who is a frontrunner in both curricular and co-curricular activities," she said. "A novel in English by a class 7 girl is a feather in the cap for the education department. We will instruct all schools to buy this novel. We will also request our DDPI to supply this novel to all schools of the district so that students get inspired," Umesh Y Bammakkanavar, block education officer, Hubballi. "Seeing the quality of the novel, our management approved to publish it under the Sapna Ink scheme, which is best self-publishing package with free author copies, in just four hours," Raghu MV, branch head, Sapna Book House, Hubballi.
- Citizens dub Bangalore Development Authority's consultation meetings on Comprehensive Development Plan 2031 'a sham'
Although the decision of the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) to include citizens in the planning process by holding consultations on the draft of the Revised Master Plan 2031 or the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) appeared to reflect the government's intent in taking democracy to the grassroots, citizens who participated in the public consultation meetings dubbed it a smokescreen.
- With campus elections round the corner, authorities are jittery about the violence
KOLKATA: A loud explosion shook the always-on edge Garden Reach out of slumber in the dead of night four years ago. A crude bomb manufacturing factory in an under-construction building had blown up, claiming many lives, including that of a local councillor's son. Within hours, a skirmish between two students' groups outside Harimohan Ghose College snowballed into a pitched battle, killing a sub-inspector when a stray bullet hit him in the chest. But what emerged later was even more stunning.The bombs were being made for the impending students' body elections in the college. "The explosives and arms we recovered from the under-construction building was enough for a fullblown battle for area domination," recalled a police officer who was posted at Garden Reach. This is the ground reality on the college campuses of Bengal -the mini battlefields. The intensity of student politics in Bengal isn't new. Neither is the violence that accompanies it. Veteran educationists say violence took root in campuses during the Naxal movement in the 1970s. Gopal Sen, the vice-chancellor of Jadavpur University back then, was killed just outside the university and Naxals were suspected to be behind his murder. After a brief hiatus, Left Front came to power and with it, a very violent form of campus politics entered colleges. Skirmishes between CPM's student wing SFI and Congress's student wing Chhatra Parishad became commonplace. Colleges, like Bangabasi, Surendranath, City College, Charu Chandra, Asutosh and St Paul's, became the laboratories of these political parties where impressionable minds were fed on dreams of a revolution. "In most cases, it was 'outside influence' that incited violence among the various groups. The 'outsiders' were from the higher echelons of political parties behind student unions," said the principal of a college in north Kolkata. Crude bombs, hockey sticks, and knives were more prominent on the campuses than books and research materials. Union rooms and adjoining party offices were frequented much more than the laboratories and the libraries. Jona and Mona, two brothers who had a shop in Sealdah where their father sold incense sticks, controlled both Surendranath and Bangabasi colleges in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The narrow and winding lanes helped the troublemakers vanish from the spot after unleashing terror. "Petos (crude bombs) were kept in a party office on Surya Sen Street. So were hockey sticks. Even at the hint of trouble, our boys used to fetch the ammunition and start an attack on the opponents," said a former general secretary of Bangabasi College, who now dabbles in real estate. A turning point came in 2010 when Swapan Koley , a student at a college in Howrah, died in one such clash. Souvik Hazra, another student of Asutosh College, lost his eyesight when a brick hit him in the face during a clash between TMCP and SFI supporters. However, it was the death of Sudipto Gupta, an SFI activist who had gone to participate in a political programme, that forced everybody to sit up and take note of the problem. "But the political parties continue to use students for a much bigger political gameplan," said a former Trinamool student leader. Since then, violence on college campuses has taken on a more organized, and methodical form today. Complete dominance of one party has also played a role but this could also have a boomerang affect. The latest strategy is to flex political muscles to heat up the atmosphere during college elections or to demonstrate the union's clout to new students, who are potential recruits. It is only for good reason that some states like Maharashtra and Kerala have completely proscribed student union elections. But not in Bengal, where campuses are the nursing grounds for future politicians. Ex-CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, CM Mamata Banerjee, CPM MP Mohammed Salim and many others had cut their teeth in college politics. Naturally , when the stakes are so high, the competition is fierce too. As another season of campus elections draws near, jittery authorities are leaving no stones unturned to avert any violence and mishap. From shifting the nomination process to online to making adequate security arrangements, they are trying every possible method. The students' movement has come a long way from the days of the freedom movement and " Amar naam tomaar naam, Vietnam Vietnam" (my name, your name, Vietnam Vietnam) to mindless violence for mere power play and political muscle-flexing.
- High court to Jaipur development authority : Explain illegal cancellation of post office land
Rajasthan High Court has asked the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) to inform the court on Monday the action taken against the JDA officials responsible for illegally cancelling the land allotted to the post office at Vaishali Nagar or inform the court of the cost to be imposed on the JDA for its illegal act.
- National Tiger Conservation Authority tells forest department to submit report on tigress death
The National Tiger Conservation Authority has asked the forest department to submit a report about the death of a tigress in Nagarahole reserve forest due to suspected overdose of chemicals used during an operation to nab it.
- Authorities provide no help, residents build bus shelter on their own
Residents of Panchakshari Nagar, which falls under the jurisdiction of Navangar in Hubballi, have built a posh bus shelter fitted with CCTV after their appeal to the Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) and North Western Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC) went in vain.
- Authorities plan to bring zebras, giraffes to Aurangabad zoo
AURANGABAD: The visitors of the city zoo may soon have an opportunity to see zebras and giraffes as the authorities are forming a proposal to get the rare African species to the city. A team of zoo authorities recently visited zoos in Hyderabad and Vishakhapatnam to explore the possibility of bringing these animals from there. The team also studied the environment suitable for these animals. However, deputy municipal commissioner Auyb Khan — part of the team visiting the zoos — said it would not be feasible to shift zebras and giraffes from Hyderabad and Vishakhapatnam. "Only one pair of animals is there in these zoos. Thus, we cannot bring them here. Moreover, the wild animals are quite young forcing us to drop the idea. But we are certainly looking forward to arrange the animals from different places," he said. Meanwhile, sources told TOI the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation-run Siddhartha Garden is planning to bring a pair each of giraffe and zebra from foreign countries like Israel, Malaysia or Indonesia. The civic body will have to spend at least Rs 18 lakh to air lift these animals. Municipal commissioner Om Prakash Bakoria has already given his nod for the proposal. "These animals are popular among zoo visitors. If we bring these animals here, we will certainly see rise in the number of visitors. Moreover, being the tourist capital of the state, the city zoo should have wide variety of animals," he said. It should be noted that the city zoo is already facing shortage of space and authorities will have to create a space of about 2 acre for these African animals. A senior officer in the zoo said space will not be a constraint. "We are planning to acquire space allotted for traffic garden and use it for the zoo. In addition to this, we are soon shifting two elephants from and thus their space can be provided to the new inmates," he said.
- Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority expands GBike service
The Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority (GUDA) has decided to add 300 cycles more to its GBike service to cover entire Gandhinagar city and areas under GUDA. The decision to expand the service was taken in the wake of postive response from city residents.
- National Tiger Conservation Authority gets defence ministry nod to use drones in tiger reserves
In a major move to protect tigers, Melghat is among the 13 tiger reserves in the country to get approval from director general of civil aviation (DGCA), ministry of home affairs (MoHA) and ministry of defence (MoD) to implement monitoring with the help of drones, commonly known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
- Government plans district-level authorities to handle land acquisition disputes
With delay in land acquisition hampering key infrastructure projects, Karnataka government has taken steps to set up district-level authorities to facilitate speedy disposal of disputes relating to acquisition, compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement.


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Carnival Ecstasy Cruise Review by havingfun488: Better than expected!
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Better than expected!
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Galveston
My husband and I recently took our first cruise. I thought it would be an ok vacation and my husband was a little skeptical, but we decided to go because it was more affordable than some of the other options we had explored. Boy we were surprised!!
After the first hour on the ship it finally hit us we were on officially on vacation. The ship is a little dated and the carpet near the elevators was ugly enough to cause it's own sea sickness but other than that I really didn't have any complaints. My husband was a little stressed by the fact that the remote on the TV never worked when he tried to use it and when they came to fix it the silly thing worked every time....LOL!
Lots of reviews seem to think the food is not all that great, however I am a chef and restaurant owner and I think what they do is an amazing job considering they are feeding over 3,000 people (three meals daily and then some). That is no easy feat I don't care who you are. Our waiter remembered our More name after the first night and made us feel welcome.
Last but not least, I was all about the adults only section where screaming little ill behaved brats are forbidden. Don't get me wrong I love well behaved children, but more times than not these days they are telling the parent what to do instead of vise versa, so a big KUDOS to carnival for offering this option. I only wish they offered an adults only cruise for patrons over the age of 25.
Not only would I recommend this cruise to others, we have booked the same cruise leaving on Valentine's day 2011 as well as the second or third sailing of the Magic, coming to Galveston in Nov. 2011. Less
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