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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:42:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MNS keeping a watch on MNCa4s recruitment drive]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:42:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The labour wing of MNS, Maharashtra navanirman kamgar sena recently threatened to launch an agitation if the private sector does not reserve 80 per cent of all jobs for Marathi-speaking locals. Obviously, the private sector protested strongly.It seems they have already written letters to more than 45,000 companies to comply the demand. It might sound very big and revolting and what not. But there is a goverment resolution issues in 1973 to reserve 80% of the industrial jobs to locals and basically MNS will take that law in their own hands to implement it.Lets see how media is going to put it.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[REL moves tribunal to protest extra power to BEST]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:23:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Following Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply Transport (BEST) general manager Uttam Khobragade's outburst on Thursday, Reliance Energy Limited (REL) argued before the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity on Friday that the Maharashtra Energy Regulatory Commission (MERC) has erred in approving the Power Purchase agreement (PPA) without considering the impact on REL consumers.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MNS violence: North Indians flee Nashik, industries hit]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:57:38 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The escalation in violence against North Indians in Nashik has prompted many of them to flee the city. North Indians are leaving the city by every possible means -- buses, trains and even private vehicles.An estimated 10,000 people have left the city in the last 48 hours.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PM felicitates Twenty20 World Cup winning team-India]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:51:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[India's euphoric triumph in the recent Twenty20 cricket World Cup on Tuesday reached a high point with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh felicitating the winning team at his residence.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jinnah House]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:23:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<category>Mumbai</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Jinnah House was the residence of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan; in Mumbai, India. It was built in 1936 at a then exorbitant price of 2 lakh (200,000) rupees when Jinnah returned to Mumbai from England to take charge of the Muslim League. Now worth around $400 Million the house is the subject of a dispute between India, the government of Pakistan and Jinnah's daughter. The bungalow is located on Mount Pleasant Road (now Bhausaheb Hirey Marg) in the upmarket Malabar Hill area of South Mumbai. Its opposite neighbour is the residence of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.Designed by architect Claude Batley in the European-style architecture, the sea facing palatial bungalow is constructed using exquisite Italian marble and walnut woodwork. Specially imported Italian stone masons were employed for its construction with Jinnah personally supervising the construction &quot;brick by brick&quot;. The property encompasses an area of 10,000 square metres (2.5 acres). The mansion, with its pointed arches and impressive columns, is currently in a dilapidated state, and much of the walnut panelling has rotted.The historic building was also the venue for the watershed talks on the Partition of India in September 1944 between Jinnah and MK Gandhi. Ironically on 15th August 1946, exactly a year before India gained independence, another round of talks was held here between Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru which altered the course of Indian history.Jinnah was extremely attached to his house. After India was partitioned, Mumbai remained in India and Jinnah left his abode as he became the Governor General of Pakistan. He requested to Nehru, the then Indian Prime Minister to allot his house to any foreign consulate, preferably European, as he wished it to be given to a European family who would appreciate the architecture. Nehru acceded to Jinnah's request and offered him a monthly rent of three thousand rupees. Unfortunately Jinnah died in September 1948 before the deal could be finalised.As a personal favour to Jinnah, Nehru did not declare the property as Enemy Property, as was done to most properties held by emigrants to Pakistan. In 1955, in a Cabinet speech he suggested it be gifted to the Government of Pakistan, but could not gain the sanction of the Cabinet. Though India's Foreign minister and the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan suggested that the mansion be handed over to Pakistan in 1956, the suggestion never materialised.The premises were leased to the British High Commission as the residence of the Deputy High Commissioner from 1948 to 1983. The first floor of the building also held the offices of senior Commission officials. It remained vacant until 2003, when a part of it was given to the Indian Council for Cultural Relations to be used for cultural activities. In March 2005, India's Minister of State for External Affairs, E Ahemad reiterated that the house would remain as a cultural centre.Pakistan had since 1979 requested that India sell the property, or at least lease it to its government as a tribute to its founder in order to convert it into their Consulate. Though Narasimha Rao, India's foreign minister in 1980, agreed in principle to lease Jinnah House as the residence of local Consulate-General of Pakistan, the plan was never realised.During his visit to India, President Pervez Musharraf had renewed Pakistan's claim to the house. The President had suggested to the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee that it should be given to Pakistan so that it could be turned into a consulate. Talks in June 2004 between the foreign ministers of the two countries over the land resulted did not gain any guarantees from India.In May 2005 Pakistan High Commission officials were shown around various properties in Mumbai and its suburbs for the setting up of its consulate but not the Jinnah House. Indian government sources say that the claim by the Jinnah's heirs will be treated &quot;sympathetically&quot;, and have no intention of handing it to Pakistan.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Aaj apna moderator ka Birthday hain !!!]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:21:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[BIRTHDAYSBirthdays make some people glad,Birthdays make some people sad,Some people like a birthday surprise,But some don't want to advertise!Cecily Mopsey<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bars & Pubs in Mumbai]]></title>
<link>http://www.marathikatta.com/Mumbai/Bars__Pubs_in_Mumbai-1/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:45:09 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Check out the Bars &amp; Pubs that are located in mumbai...<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MUMBAI Its name was Bombay !]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:07:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, its MumbaiA city, MumbaiIts name was Bombay;But was turned into Mumbai,The drys strats here at 40a4clock.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dial 139 to book train tickets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:08:49 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dial 139 to book train ticketsThe facility will start after 6 monthsYou will be able to book a long-distance train ticket over the phone. But only after six months.In the meantime, by dialing 139 you can get access to information on passenger name record (PNR), availability of accommodation, fares and train timings, next month.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Old speech from our old president]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:51:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice.   Look at Dr. Sudarshan; he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.   In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T. Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life was. She replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her, you and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation. Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.   Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, the choice is yours.   YOU say that our government is inefficient. YOU say that our laws are too old. YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage. YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke, YOU say the airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination. YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits. YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?   Take a person on his way to Singapore. Give him a name - YOURS. Give him a face - YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity... In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramzan, in Dubai. YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds ( Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISDcalls are billed to someone else.' YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop,'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon? (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand. Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston??? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU, who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. YOU, who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India? Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay, Mr. Tinaikar, had a point to make, &quot;Rich people's dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,' he said. 'And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure in his bowels? In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job.Same in Japan . Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility. We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms. We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity. This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public. When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system? What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr. Clean to come along &amp; work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away. Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England. When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money. Dear Indians, the article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too.... I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians..... 'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY' Let's do what India needs from us.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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