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22nd December 2009
Want to beat inflation? Lunch at Parliament House
New Delhi: Can you imagine a vegetarian thali lunch for Rs 12.50 or a katori (small bowl) of dal at Rs 1.50, and chapatis for a Re 1 each at a time when the prices of essential commodities are touching the sky?Yes it is possible, even if food is getting out of the reach of the poor in the country. Welcome to the Parliament House canteen, where delectable dishes are never pricey. A series of catering units run by Indian Railways at Parliament House, including at the library and the annexe building, serve food at rates which are a good decade old but are hard to digest for a newcomer.
MPs, who are seen shouting at each other and castigating the government over the rising food prices, definitely relish the cheap canteen food. But, mind you, the facility is not for them only. Parliament staff, security personnel and journalists too enjoy the delicacies at rates which an ordinary citizen outside cannot even think of.
Sample the rates: Vegetarian thali — comprising dal, subzi, four chapatis, rice or pulav, curd and salad — for Rs 12.50. A non-veg thali costs Rs 22; curd rice Rs 11; vegetable pulav at Rs 8 and chicken biryani Rs 34; fish curry and rice Rs 13; Rajma rice Rs 7; chicken curry Rs 20 and butter chicken Rs 27.
Stomach this: dosa AT Rs 4
If you want to have soup, enjoy a bowl full at Rs 5.50, and for a heaped plate of cooked rice you need to shell out just Rs 2. A dosa is available for only Rs 4. Low rates make desserts sweeter. A katori of kheer costs Rs 5.50, while a fruit cake is available for Rs 9.50. Where does this come from? All this costs the government a huge amount of tax-payers’ money. The gap between actual cost and what MPs have to pay is bridged with a food budget set by Parliament.
“Over Rs 5.3 crore has been allocated for the current financial year for canteens. The Lok Sabha pays Rs 3.55 crore and the Rajya Sabha shells out over Rs 1.77 crore,” an official said. “Not only MPs, we serve food to everybody who is allowed inside Parliament.
SOURCE: AM
21st December 2009
A van-derful moment for SRK
Ever since Shah Rukh Khan purchased the costliest and biggest vanity van which has all the modern amenities, his favourite filmmaker Yash Chopra has been very keen to see it. Tickled by curiosity, he had expressed his wish to Shah Rukh. After all, it’s a swanky, fully loaded van fit for a superstar.
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Shah Rukh Khan | Yash Chopra |
Normally, no actor is allowed to take his vanity van inside, but yesterday Shah Rukh was given a special concession.
As soon as Shah Rukh drove in at 4.30pm, Yash Chopra came out. Shah Rukh emerged from the van, held Yash Chopra’s hand and took him inside. “Yash considers Shah Rukh as his son. Shah Rukh also has very high regard for Yash Chopra,” said our source.
Yash Raj’s head honcho spent a full 30 minutes inside the van where Shah Rukh showed him all the amenities very respectfully. “He loved the van. It’s like a one-bedroom house,” our source added.
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Shah Rukh Khan’s vanity van (Pic: Satish Malavade) |
SOURCE: AM
19th December 2009
Emma watson crowned biggest grossing female star
The 19-year-old star, best-known for her role as Hermione Granger in the six Harry Potter films released so far, has clinched the win with $5.4 billion in global box office receipts, Daily Express reported.
The teen star’s total will continue to tally when she appears in the remaining film of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2, next year and in 2011 respectively.
However, Watson feels she is touched by the simple things in life and money is never on her mind.
“I really don’t have time to spend my money,” she had said recently.
Source: AM
18th December 2009
Amul butter to cost Rs 2 more per 100-gram pack from next week.
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which sells its dairy products under the brand ‘Amul’ will increase butter prices by Rs 2 per 100 gram pack from next week.
“Due to an increase in the input cost, we have to pay more to milk producers, hence, butter prices will be raised by Rs 2 per 100 gram pack,” said Chief General Manager of GCMMF R S Sodhi.
The price of the 100-gram butter pack has been raised to Rs 25 from Rs 23, effective next week as the new stocks are being dispatched, he added.
“Let me inform you that dairy fat prices have doubled the world over over the last three months. Considering this, the increase in butter prices is much lower than other food items,” Sodhi said.
GCMMF had increased milk prices by Re 1 in August this year citing rise in input cost.
GCMMF has a daily average milk collection of 8.4 million litres and its sales turnover touched Rs 67,113 million last fiscal, he said.
“Due to an increase in the input cost, we have to pay more to milk producers, hence, butter prices will be raised by Rs 2 per 100 gram pack,” said Chief General Manager of GCMMF R S Sodhi.
The price of the 100-gram butter pack has been raised to Rs 25 from Rs 23, effective next week as the new stocks are being dispatched, he added.
“Let me inform you that dairy fat prices have doubled the world over over the last three months. Considering this, the increase in butter prices is much lower than other food items,” Sodhi said.
GCMMF had increased milk prices by Re 1 in August this year citing rise in input cost.
GCMMF has a daily average milk collection of 8.4 million litres and its sales turnover touched Rs 67,113 million last fiscal, he said.
Source: AM
17th December 2009
Rihanna goes topless for magzine cover
London: Singer Rihanna will be seen posing topless on the cover of GQ magazine’s January 2010 issue, with her hands strategically covering her body.Rihanna is seen looking seductively into the camera, reported aceshowbiz.co.uk The Barbadian-born singer also does a nude pictorial for the inside pages.
Who shut CCTV cams at Cancer hospital?
The mystery surrounding the Iraqi woman, who visited Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute recently to join a course and vanished, ensnared security agencies further on Wednesday after they learnt her entry had not been recorded by the centre’s CCTV cameras. In a strange occurrence, CCTV cameras installed at the institute, located on Civil Hospital’s campus, were reportedly switched off the day the burqa-clad woman, Hula Younis Fadhil, turned up at the premises.
This has further stoked suspicion of security agencies, who are now frantically trying to find out why the cameras were off. A source familiar with the ‘investigation’ into the disappearance of Younis, said that the apparent shutting down of cameras for a day had resulted in trading of conspiracy theories among security agencies.
“The woman visited the institute on November 16 (to enrol in a course in research). This is the only day when cameras at the cancer institute were off. Efforts are on to find out the cause and person behind this sudden stoppage of surveillance,” the source claimed.
More than 15 CCTV cameras were installed at the cancer institute after a bomb went off at Civil Hospital on July 26 last year. This surveillance system was put in place specifically to monitor entry and exit of hundreds of people from the premises every day.
According to the source, there are two CCTV cameras at the entrance of the cancer institute. “There’s a camera even outside the office of the institute’s director, Dr Pankaj Shah,” the source said. “The footage of these cameras and others installed at Civil Hospital can be monitored from three places.”
Contrary to the source’s claim that cameras were off the day Younis visited the institute, Shah, said that there was no stoppage of surveillance. “Cameras were on the day she turned up here. However, the place where she enquired about a course in research doesn’t have a camera,” Shah told Mirror.
The burqa-clad Iraqi woman’s visit and sudden disappearance from the cancer centre has unnerved state’s security agencies because the Union home ministry recently put Gujarat on high terror alert.
Younis is currently “not being treated as a terror suspect” or as a person who poses any kind of threat to Ahmedabad. However, she is a cause of worry for security agencies, including the Ahmedabad police, because there is literally no information on the foreign national’s whereabouts. Even the Ahmedabad airport reportedly doesn’t have any details about her arrival or departure.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that Younis apparently provided inaccurate information about her background to enrol at Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute. Younis said in her correspondence that she was a teaching assistant at a college of science in University of Baghdad. The director of the cancer institute, Dr Shah, told Mirror that an online search for this science college had proved futile.
“In one of her mails, she said that she was from Baghdad University’s science college. After she abruptly left our institute last month, we tried to find information about this college on the internet. We found a link to the university, but we couldn’t find any details about the college,” he said.
Shah also said that a web link of the varsity provided by the Iraqi woman in her mail didn’t work. It also emerged on Wednesday that Younis contacted the cancer institute as early as August this year. “She sent us an e-mail to enquire about a course in research for the first time on August 20,” Shah said. “She wrote her mail: ‘I would like to get a work bench of training course during not more than six months’.”
She also said that her husband, Hyder Ali, was pursuing a PhD in India. The mystery Iraqi woman later three mails to the cancer institute.
“On August 27, she sought our nod for enrolling into the course. On September 9, we gave her preliminary consent, and asked her to bring documents relating to her academic background and other personal details,” Shah said. “When she finally visited our institute on November 16, she told staff members that she had arrived in Ahmedabad only a day earlier.”
Shah said that he informed the police commissioner about Younis’s visit after she left without completing administrative formalities, including paperwork. “We are a responsible institute, so it was our duty to apprise cops of a foreign national’s sudden disappearance,” he said.
He also said that the institute had sent an e-mail to the Iraqi woman, warning her of termination of her application for the course. “We have asked her to respond within seven days or lose chance to enrol at our institute,” Shah said.
Source : AM.
16th December 2009
‘Avatar’ the future of movies?
James Cameron has once again broken all boundaries and created a visual extravaganza that’ll have audiences running to the theatres!Avatar, Cameron’s latest magnum opus is all set to release worldwide this Friday, and from the global reports , it seems that the visionary director has indeed created a film that’ll revolutionise the world of cinema.
Avatar wowed critics at its London premiere last Thursday, with some early reviewers calling it ‘jaw-dropping ,’ ‘mind-blowing’ and a gamechanger in Hollywood for its digital effects. The 3-D epic adventure by the director of 1997 blockbuster Titanic, is one of the most expensive films ever at a cost of about Rs 2,000 crores to make and market. If initial reviews are any indication, it may be money well spent for film studio 20th Century Fox.
“James Cameron has proven his point. He is the king of the world. Movie magic is back!” proclaimed a showbiz newspaper. A UK tabloid called it “the most dazzling film of the decade.” Another called it a “hugely rewarding experience”. Looks like this is surely one film that cannot be missed! In India, Fox Star Studios is planning to release the film on a grand scale. Confirms Vijay Singh, CEO, Fox Star Studios India. Avatar will be released in 700 prints, in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, which is by far one of the biggest releases for a Hollywood film in India.”
Source: Ahmedabad Mirror.
15th December 2009
College teache
rs say they won’t fill education dept
rs say they won’t fill education dept has sent the forms to all colleges under the current UGC guidelines.
College teachers are up in arms against the appraisal forms sent by the state education department to all colleges recently.
Under the current UGC guidelines, it is compulsory for all college teachers to fill in the appraisal forms which include details such as research work, papers presented in seminars etc.
On Sunday, members of Gujarat, North Gujarat University Area Teachers Association held a meeting and decided that teachers would not fill the forms.
“Principals are unnecessarily pressuring teachers to fill the forms. There is no need to do so at present, as the UGC has not sent a notification regarding the same yet and proper documentation has also not taken place. Teachers are still discussing this move, so there is scope for debate before implementation,” a teacher said.
Source: Ahmedabad Mirror.
14th December 2009
Kankaria gets ready
The Kankaria Lake is all lit up these days. And, this is just a preview of the grand decking-up that will be on show when the carnival begins on December 25. A year on, the lakefront has been a big draw. It will be the place to be during the week-long extravaganza.
Source: Ahmedabad Mirror.
13th December 2009
Barricades to replace railings outside Kalupur railway station
In an attempt to ensure hassle-free traffic flow near Kalupur Railway station during the night, the city traffic police has decided to do away with the 20-ft railing on the Kalupur-Sarangpur road.
Barricades will come up at the spot to deal with the daytime rush of passengers and visitors entering and exiting the station.
These will then be removed from 9 pm to 8 am, the lean hour for traffic so that vehicles can make mid-block U-turns instead of driving down till Sarangpur bridge and then taking a U-turn.
A letter in this regard has been sent to AMC officials. “Ever since I took charge as the JCP, I visited several places in the city to find out what causes traffic congestion on this road. It is mainly due to the fact that the hired vehicles carrying passengers from railway station mixes with the routine traffic,” said Mohan Jha, joint commissioner of police, traffic.
“Removal of the railing will help people make a cut towards Kalupur instead of driving up to the Sarangpur and then making a U-turn,” he added.
“Once the railings are removed, barricades will be placed here. Our cops will ensure there’s no congestion on this road,” said M M Anarwala, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Traffic.
“The motorists going towards Shahibaug will not need to drive till Sarangpur and then make a U-turn. These barricades will be removed from 9 pm to 8 am as not many trains halt during the night at the station,” the DCP added.
Source: Ahmedabad Mirror.
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