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Today Mamta Banerjee (honourable Railway Minister of India) presented the Union Railway Budget for the year 2009-10. As expected it was a budget for the benefits of common people. I am really happy with the implementations which she brought forward for Tatkal reservation systems. Let’s see what is in for you in Railway Budget 2009?

Actually the first impression which came in mind after seeing the Railway Budget 2009-10 is that Railway Minister sticks to the basics. The major attraction of the budget is that there will be no hike in the fairs of passengers and goods. It will surely bring smile on the face of common people, many of them were expecting a slight hike in the fairs as the recession time is still going on.

The most important aspect which came from this Railway Budget is in the Tatkal reservation system. New Railway Minister Mamta Banerjee has reduced the period of advance booking under the Tatkal reservation scheme to 2 days now. Earlier it was of 5 days. Another benefit which she gave to the passengers is that now the Tatkal tickets will be booked up to the destination of the passenger not from the beginning station to the end station. It will reduce the charges. She also promised that now the Tatkal charges will also levied as a percentage of the fare. This will also further reduce the fare.

Mamta Banerjee promised 50 world class stations in the cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. These stations includes Howrah, Sealdah, New Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Kolkata, New Jalpaiguri, Puri, Agra, New Delhi, Jaipur and many more. She has the planning of developing these stations with the help of Public and Private sectors partnership.

Mamta Banerjee emphasized the medical, and security facilities on the trains, especially on the trains of the long distance. She will be planning to bring one Doctor in all long distance trains. She will also implement the ambulance facilities in long distance trains.

She has announced 57 new trains while extended 27 trains and increased the journey of 13 trains. She announced to open ATM’s in 200 small and medium stations. Overall we can say that this budget is prepared considering about the common people of India and thus she completed her promise to them.

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Hey friends, I am creating this post for you people to wish a warm Best of Luck to the Team India. As you all are aware that 12 cricket playing nations India, Bangladesh, Ireland, Pakistan, England, Netherlands, Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sctland are going to fight for the World Cup in the Twenty 20 cricket format which is beginning today at England.

As you all are aware that Team India is the defending champions and other 11 countries are going to challenge them for the trophy. India is placed along with Bangladesh and Ireland in the Group A, while Pakistan, England and Netherlands are placed together in Group B. The most toughest group of the tournament is the Group C which contains Australia, Sri Lanka and West Indies, while the Group D is containing New Zealand, South Africa and Scotland.

At the moment Team India is looking highly capable of retaining the Title. The team at the moment is a bunch of some highly talented youngsters along with some multi talented guys and captained by the Mr. Cool M. S. Dhoni. If you look at the top order then dashing opener Virender Sehwag is there with much talented Gautam Gambhir. This opening pair is the best of all the teams which are playing there. If you give an eye on the middle order then you can truly find India as the World Champions. Middle order of team India is having the firepower in the form of the King of Six Yuvraj Singh, most attacking batsman Suresh Raina, very dependable Rohit Sharma and the skipper himself. Along with them the team has the superb all rounders like Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja and Irfan Pathan. Now if you see the bowling attack then it too have the balance which is very much required for a World Champions team, the seam attack department is there in the hand of Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, highest wicket taker in the IPL 2009 Rudra Pratap Singh and much reliable Praveen Kumar, and then the spin attack is there in the hand of Harbhajan Singh and Pragyan Ojha. Remember the team has two batsman who can bowl brilliantly at crucial time, I am talking about Yuvraj Singh and Rohit Sharma, Both has shown their talents in the IPL 2009 by taking the hat-trick in the tournament. Yuvraj Singh took 2 hat-tricks while Rohit Sharma took 1. Now if your team is having these type of players how can you assume them not to retain the trophy. Only thing which can damage the performance of the team India is the overconfidence, which they will have to take care of.

So friends, here is the space where you can wish the best of luck to your favorite Team India especially in your own style. You can post the comment here and this will show them how much you love them and how much you care about the world champions.

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I know you can tell me that you can make an over bridge in case a railway track is coming in between the road, but it is not the perfect solution always. Yes friends we are talking about the delays in the preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Indian Capital New Delhi.

The construction of the Ring Road bypass from Salimgarh Fort to Velodrome Road has run into another roadblock. This project was a critical traffic link for the Commonwealth Games. This time it is the Northern Railway’s (NR) that’s causing the delay of the project.

The Public Works Department (PWD), which is the major institution in India to take care of the Roads, had requested Northern Railway’s to construct one carriageway of the bypass as a road under bridge on Old railway bridge and a bridge over the feeder railway line near Rajghat Power House.

For execution of these works, Northern Railway’s had submitted an estimate of over Rs 45.5 crore which was accepted and the amount was paid in October 2008, a senior PWD official said. Although PWD, through its various correspondences and meetings with railways, had presumed that the estimate also included the approval for construction of the Ring Road bypass on railway’s land adjacent to the tracks.

However, Northern Railway’s now wants the Delhi state government to seek formal approval from it regarding leasing or transfer of land.

Now the real problem has arrived. As we know that time is running fast, and almost all the projects related to Commonwealth Games are getting delayed, considering this PWD is not prepared to take any chances. So PWD sent one letter to Northern Railway’s that construction of the bypass must be completed at the earliest.

The PWD has asked railways to accord requisite permission to lease or transfer land measuring 2520 square meter on priority basis.

In this type of situation I can hardly believe that Commonwealth Games are going to organize properly in Delhi. I am waiting for the comments of the readers on this topic.

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I know it sounds a bit strange but it is a fact that Delhi Metro’s decongestion plan kicked off with the arrival of the first of eight airlifted train coaches from Germany on Thursday. I think it is the first time in India that one train has been airlifted.

The metro train coach was flown to Indira Gandhi International’s cargo terminal in an Antonov aircraft. I am not aware how much this transportation is costing but the first train has arrived around one and a half months before schedule.

‘‘We wanted the coaches urgently as the increase in ridership was not pre-empted. The trains will take about three months for commissioning and by June end; we are expecting all nine new trains to be operational. This will immediately provide relief from the congestion,’’ confirms E Sreedharan, managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. The DMRC is expecting to receive one coach every alternate day till both trains arrive.

The trains will be refitted at the Khyber Pass depot of Delhi Metro and will be applied on tests on the Noida stretch. After getting the entire passenger safety certifications, the trains will be added to the system and probably be shifted to the Jahangirpuri-Central secretariat route.

‘‘We expect the first train to be ready for use in three months after which one train will be added every week,’’ Sreedharan added.

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For the first time in the history of academy awards, any Indian musical score is rocking on the red carpet of Oscar awards. The best movie of the year is “Slumdog Millionaire” as it won eight academy awards tonight in the 81st academy awards ceremony. For the first time, an Indian movie has claimed so many Oscar awards and this is a matter of pride for the entire nation.

The 81st academy awards were dominated by Indian movies. Although Indian films are generally dominated by music, but those musical movies are not liked in the biggest award ceremony of the world, this time Slumdog has changed the trends, and as according to the Irfan Khan who is in a leading role in this movie the “Jai Ho” song which has won the best original score and best original song in 81st academy awards, is playing every where in US at the moment. Slumdog has won eight oscar awards including Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Music Song, Best Music Score, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Adopted Screenplay, and Best Sound Mixing.

“Smile Pinki” was another one which also won the award in Short Documentary award. This is the small documentary movie which is based on a little girl “Pinki” from Uttar Pradesh India. This is the touching moment for the little girl Pinki who don’t even know Hindi or English, she only know Bhojpuri.

A. R. Rahman became the first Indian to won the Oscar awards for the category of Best Original Score and Best Original Song. On the other hand Guljar too won the Oscar awards for the Best Original song. Rahman and Guljar both won the awards for their song “Jai Ho” in Slumdog.

So it’s the time of party for India, for Slumdog crew and Rahman. Rahman was looking dapper in a black sherwani. Like a good Indian boy, he mentioned his mother and said a few words in his native tongue Hindi that “Mere paas Maa hai” means I have my mother with me and her blessings are with me. She came with me.

So two Indian movies Slumdog Millionaire and Smile Pinki brought Oscar to India and thus they also brought the hope, expectations, joy and happiness to the country. I News India wish all the crew members of both the movies big Thanks for bringing the matter of pride for India.

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One of my friend Suman, who works as an air hostess in GoAir, which is commonly known as a Low-Cost-Carrier, recently told me that she use to pray everyday before going to take the flight. I hope you will take it as a pray to save life from accidents or bad weather, but it is not true. She prays for not meeting any unruly passenger on the board.

It is told to each air hostess to greet every passenger on board with a smile. This is one type of mandate for them. They got the training of treating passengers with smile while during their training period only. Despite all these, within her 3 to 4 years of service she met with around hundreds of unruly passengers on board.

A few days back we heard about the incident of the hijack of the Delhi bound GoAir flight. It was actually cleared later that the passenger, who was actually a Chartered Accountant from New Delhi, misbehaved with the air hostesses on the flight and he used a few words which created the confusion of a plane hijack. Due to some terror attacks during recent time the matter became serious and the passenger faced the police case.

When I asked Suman about this then she told me that it is a common type of incident for them. In fact she use to face harassment every second day. One recent survey in a Hindi newspaper too claimed the same and they predicted routs from Goa and to Goa as the worst root for air hostesses. Other than Goa, Mumbai-Delhi is also a bad route.

Most of the time offender passenger is let off, and this gives them more desire to repeat the same act in future too. Even when I saw the news coverage of the recently held hijack drama, I found that person laughing and giving smile to cameraman after the incident. Even he was talking to the policeman as if he was a politician and they came to see-off him. If the same type of incident occurs in some other countries then police tackle it in some different way. That customer will become blacklisted forever, but in India no such type of actions are taken against them.

According to the reports, these types of incidents mostly happen with the flights which are considered as low fare and which go to the tourist places. Mostly passengers fight for the window seat or for a glass of water from air hostess and some time they try to touch the air hostess too. In most of the cases no one complains against them and that’s why the same type of incident happens repeatedly.

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It is a story of a high profile drama, something which is related to the top constitutional posts. A few days back the Chief Election Commissioner of India Mr. N. Gopalaswami has recommended the President of India removing one Election Commissioner from his post.

It created one constitutional problem, as it was the first of this type. The timing of this event is the matter which is making it worse. Around three months are left for the CEC Gopalaswami to the post of the Chief Election Commissioner and his recommendation has given the strength to the opposition parties like BJP to blame the UPA Government and put them under scanner.

BJP was against the appointment of the Election Commissioner Navin Chawla, from his appointment time only. He was blamed to gain funds from some leaders of Congress Party, in the name of the trust running on the name of his Misses. BJP claims that he is suppose to close to the Congress Party of India and thus they shout against the appointment of him for the post of Election Commissioner.

The recommendation has created a situation of panic for the ruling UPA Government in India. They can neither accept this recommendation nor are they in a stage to refuse this. It was sure that due to the seniority Chawla was supposed to become the CEC after the retirement of Mr. N. Gopalaswami.

The time of the recommendation made by Mr. N. Gopalaswami is a matter of concern, as people are seeing one sort of attraction towards one party behind this decision. Although CEC Mr. N. Gopalaswami has denied any report of this type. He said that BJP is not the reason behind his decision rather it is his personal opinion based on the working pattern of Mr. Navin Chawla.

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Today is the 60th Republic Day of India and I do remember the Indian Army, which is the best in the world. Today morning I was watching the news related to the Republic Day celebration and I thought we should not forget the Indian Army on this occasion which has brought so many proud moments to the nation.

I was not at all happy with the post 26/11 situation in the country, since we do believe that we should have taken some strong steps against those militants and especially against those bastards whose hands are behind them. If Indian army would have given the orders then they have the capability that they can destroy all the terrorists either hiding in India or abroad. But, there are some diplomatic issues related with India. We have an image of peaceful nation, and we never try to destroy that image. It is good, no doubt, but I am not sure when the time will come that we will take revenge of the death of our own civilians. A few years back terrorists attacked our Parliament but we did nothing, even the same happened with us this time too. Only 10 people from Pakistan came to our financial capital and killed more than 150 people and injured so many people. Although all the proofs are clearly saying about the hand of Pakistan in the attack, but we never took some strong action against them.

I don’t know for what our politicians are waiting for? Indian Army is always saying that they are ready to take any type of actions against any army, but Indian Government is not giving them the order. I know their capability and I deeply believe that the time has arrived that they should be allowed to take action against militants. I am not writing this post against any country but yes I am always against that country which is supporting the militants who are killing our own civilians.

Indian Army has proofed their strength in the past too and they have the capability of doing the same in the future too. I still remember the Kargil war. On the occasion of the 60th Republic Day I News India pay homage to the soldiers who lost their life to save our country.

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Every year we think whether India would be able to win an Academy Awards or not, but through out my life I never get the chance to see any Indian movie to get these prestigious award. For the first time in my life I am expecting that India will be able to bring the Academy Awards this time.

The expectations are too high and you know from which film. Yes I am talking about Slumdog Millionaire, which is nominated in 11 categories Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Score, Best Song, and Best Sound Mixing.

The movie Slumdog Millionaire already won the Golden Globe for the first time for India. With this victory Slumdog Millionaire has generated huge expectations among we Indians, and we would really be happy to see them winning the Academy Awards.

The final nominees for the 81st Academy Awards are as follow:

Best Picture:

Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk

Best Director:

Danny Boyle, for Slumdog Millionaire
Darren Aronofsky, for The Wrestler
David Fincher, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Christopher Nolan, for The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant, for Milk

Best Actor:

Brad Pitt, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Clint Eastwood, for Gran Torino
Frank Langella, for Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, for Milk
Mickey Rourke, for The Wrestler

Best Actress:

Kate Winslet, for Revolutionary Road
Angelina Jolie, for Changeling
Anne Hathaway, for Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins, for Happy-Go-Lucky
Meryl Streep, for Doubt

Best Supporting Actor:

Dev Patel, for Slumdog Millionaire
Josh Brolin, for Milk
Robert Downey, for Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, for Doubt
Heath Ledger, for The Dark Knight

Best Supporting Actress:

Kate Winslet, for The Reader
Amy Adams, for Doubt
Penelope Cruz, for Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, for Doubt
Marisa Tomei, for The Wrestler

Best Original Screenplay:

Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
WALL-E
The Wrestler

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader

Best Animated:

Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best Documentary:

The Betrayal
I.O.U.S.A.
Man on Wire
Standard Operating Procedure
Trouble the Water

Best Foreign Language Film: (For this category “Taren Zamin Per” was also an contender, but the movie did not get the chance to reach to the final phase.)

3 Monkeys
The Class
Everlasting Moments
Revanche
Waltz With Bashir

Best Cinematography:

Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Defiance
Revolutionary Road

Best Art Direction:

Slumdog Millionaire
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader

Best Costume Design:

Slumdog Millionaire
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess

Best Editing:

Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk

Best Visual Effects:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

Best Makeup:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Reader
Synecdoche, New York

Best Score: (For this A. R. Rahman won the Golden Globe award for India, for the first time.)

Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Milk
WALL-E

Best Song:

Slumdog Millionaire
Bolt
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
WALL-E
The Wrestler

Best Sound Mixing:

Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
Defiance
Iron Man
WALL-E

Best Sound Editing:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Defiance
Iron Man
WALL-E

The source of all these informations are http://www.movieretriever.com/blog/editors/235/And-the-Nominees-for-the-81st-Academy-Awards-Will-Be…

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So after a long drama finally actor Sanjay Dutt announced that he is coming in politics and will fight the Lok Sabha elections from the Lucknow constituency. He got the offer of ticket first from Samajwadi Party and then he got the offer from the Congress. Finally he announced that he will fight from the ticket of Samajwadi Party only, he has a thinking that Congress party did not supported him during his bad phase. Although his father Sunil Dutt was in Congress party and his sister Priya Dutt is too represent Congress party.

Although I am not at all against the decision of Sanjay Dutt fighting the election from Lucknow, it is his personal decision and I think it is his right too. I am also not at all against his decision of choosing SP ahead of the Congress Party. I am a big fan of Sanjay Dutt, I like him in “Sajan” as well as I liked him in “Vastava” “Munna Bhai MBBS” and then in “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” too.

One thing is sure that his role in “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” was liked by the viewers but I am not sure if he is so much popular that he can defeat the leader like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and that too in his own constituency Lucknow. The Gandhigiri, which shows a new way to so many people out there in India, will probably give a hands up to Sanjay but still he is not so much popular that he can be a big player in the field of politics.

I am not sure if it he is fighting the elections will be legally right as he was once faced the court, that too in a serious offend. I am not sure if people will also like him in politics.

Please provide us your valuable comments whether you like Sanjay Dutt coming into politics or not.

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