The residents of Bogada Chawl who have evicted by the BMC from their century old dilapidated building are yet to get alternative accommodation to be given by BMC.
Everyday a group of women and children sit on a protest at the entrance of the building which is of36,000 sq meterst at a prime location just next to Tata Memorial hospital.
The housing society of Bogada Chaw,l Baman Deo Cooperative Housing Society formed by Bogada Chawl tenants had passed a resolution to cancel the agreement with the present Builder Spee Relators which was duly informed and approved by BMC. According to documents provided by Baman Deo Cooperative housing Society the builder does not at all have the financial capacity to develop the building. They have paper evidence showing that the Spee Realtors who had taken a personal loan of a few lakhs of rupees has not been able to pay monthly installments to the bank. Such a builder who has taken such a small amount of loan and who cannot pay the interest by no means could build a structure of 36,000 sq meters says Chandra Shekhar secretary of Baman Deo Housing Society .
They want a builder who has a sound financial background be appointed their builder. They have in fact with the consent of the majority of the members selected Shayog Homes as their builder.
Therefore they have with majority of the housing society passed a resolution to terminate the agreement with Speed Realtors and Letter of Intent be revoked.
In spite of this request BMC went ahead and asked the developers Speed Realtors’ to provide them with alternative accommodation and using police force of about 250 -300 personnel’s made them vacate the building. The tenants demand for immediate proper alternate housing.
US-based news and blogging platform Huffington Post on Monday launched its Indian edition in association with Times of India Group.
HuffPost India combines Huffington Post’s news and blogging platform with the local expertise and reach of the Times of India Group, a statement said.
HuffPost will be the first major global entrant into a fast growing digital news space in India where a number of stand-alone players as also those which are part of traditional media groups have set shops.
Global media investment conglomerate GroupM has also come on board as a strategic partner for brand synergies and advertising in India for the Huffington Post, a news and blogging platform.
“The launch comes at a moment when India is facing huge and unique challenges, but also when India’s spiritual traditions have taken their place at the center of a global conversation about what it means to live a good life,” said President and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group Arianna Huffington.
Owned by AOL, Huffington Post has 119 million multi-platform visitors per month in the US (comScore, October 2014) and has over 80,000 bloggers.
“We are very excited to launch Huffington Post India. Huffington Post is the first real digital-first news success story globally, and their impact is seen across the world. We look forward to bringing HuffPo’s conversational approach to news to a large section of Indian audience,” said Satyan Gajwani, CEO of Times Internet (TIL), the digital arm of The Times of India.
Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Maghreb, Germany, Brazil, South Korea and Greece.
Institute of Transport Economics and Meteorological Institute in Norway and four Indian research institutions – The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI, Delhi), School of Planning and Architecture (SPA, Delhi), Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore) and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), will collaboratively work on developing mitigation and adaptation strategies for the transport sector in India
New Delhi, December 10: The Research Council of Norway has launched a new research project ‘CLIMATRANS – Coping with Climate: Assessing Transport Sector Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Indian Cities’ that will be implemented during the next three years. The project will assess climate change impacts in urban areas in India and aims to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies for the transport sector. Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru have been selected as case cities for further research.
The Indian transport system is one of the largest in the world and the demand for mobility and energy use for the transport sector has increased with rapid growth of economic activity. India is experiencing a dramatic increase in urbanization and increase in car ownership, which has resulted in a number of negative impacts.
“It is important to study Indian cities in terms of both their present as well as the projected transport sector contributions to local emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of future climate change. In fact, climate change might already have caused adverse effects on different settlements in India,” explains Dr Farideh Ramjerdi, Institute of Transportation Economics, Norway, who is the CLIMATRANS project manager.
CLIMATRANS is an interdisciplinary project within the realms of social and natural sciences and in close consultation with city and national stakeholders. Institute of Transport Economics and Meteorological Institute in Norway and four Indian research institutions – The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI, New Delhi), School of Planning and Architecture (SPA, New Delhi), Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore) and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) – will collaborate in this research.
“Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing cities in Asia with a thousand vehicles being registered everyday. In 15 years, the city is projected to have 4.7 million cars on its roads. Increasing congestion and slow peak hour speeds are a result of private vehicles taking up 90 per cent of road space. But policies have so far focussed on constructing elevated roads and underpasses rather than improving public transit facilities and non-motorized transport,” points out Prof Ashish Verma, CLIMATRANS project partner from IISc, Bangalore. “It is important to understand the consequences of these trends in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation so that policy makers in Bengaluru have a clear scientific perspective while framing transport policy towards a sustainable city.”
“In Delhi, vehicles contribute to an estimated 67 per cent of the total pollution load,” remarks Prof Sanjay Gupta, CLIMATRANS project partner from SPA, Delhi. “While various policy interventions such as reduction in sulphur content of diesel and petrol, implementation of Euro norms and CNG have led to reduction of emission levels, the progress is far from satisfactory and needs a serious relook in terms of evolving desirable policies and strategies which ultimately would improve the environmental quality of the city.”
“We hope that the project will enhance our understanding of how climate change affects the transportation sector and vice-versa. The outcome of the project should help policy makers in developing strategic transport plans for adaptation and mitigation,” says Dr Munish Chandel, CLIMATRANS project partner from IIT Bombay.
“As the countries of the world discuss climate commitments in Lima this week and in Paris next year, this study will produce valuable information for the transport sector in India,” notes Ms Neha Pahuja, CLIMATRANS project partner from TERI.
Real news of India has compiled a list of amazing photos of 2014. The year that was, of natural calamities, celebrities, and daily life activies
india on Wednesday dropped attempted suicide from a list of crimes punishable by prison, potentially paving the way for the release of a human rights activist who has been on hunger strike for the past 14 years.
The government informed parliament of its decision in a written reply from the home ministry on Wednesday, saying it was acting on a recommendation of the Law Commission.
The government panel for legal reform had deemed the suicide law “anachronistic” and “undesirable” in a 2008 report.
Irom Sharmila has been on hunger strike in protest against army atrocities in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. Under the old law anyone attempting to kill themselves is liable for a jail term of a year.
She has been under detention throughout her fast, and is force-fed by tubes several times a day.
The World Health Organization has listed India as one of the countries with the highest suicide rates – 21.1 per 100,000 people in 2012.
The Indian government said 134,799 people committed suicide in 2013, a rise of 11.9 percent over the previous year. There was no data on the number of attempted suicides, it said.
More than 800,000 people each year worldwide commit suicide — around one person every 40 seconds — WHO said in September.
The tense email exchanges between Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin and Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal have been leaked on Internet by the hackers.
In the exchange, Rudin and Pascal discuss Angelina Jolie, who seems to have objected to director David Fincher working on Sony’s Steve Jobs biopic, rather than overseeing the actress in her forthcoming Cleopatra film, reported E! News.
Earlier this year, it was reported that Jolie and her husband Brad Pitt were planning to co-star in Cleopatra, alongside all six of their children.
In another email, Pascal accused the producer of making threats.
Rudin also attacked Megan Ellison, the film producer daughter of billionaire Larry Ellison.
Leaked emails have also revealed that Sony want the next ‘Jump Street’ film to crossover in some way with ‘Men in Black.’
The leaked documents also include studio’s attempt to convince Leonardo DiCaprio to not walk out of Jobs biopic, which eventually changed directors and studio and finally landed with Danny Boyle and Universal.
FBI is investigating the huge hack that has led to the leak of thousands of sensitive files containing personal information about employees, unreleased films, pay cheques of the actors, their phone numbers, social security numbers and other such details, which is now available online.
The first time John Lennon met Paul McCartney, Lennon was about ready to go onstage with his band the Quarrymen. One of the group members knew McCartney from school, so he introduced him to his bandmates. Lennon was 16; McCartney was 15. It was July 6, 1957, and the most significant meeting in rock history was about to go down.
The six-piece Quarrymen were setting up for their 8 p.m. performance in the garden of Liverpool’s St Peter’s Church. After chatting for a few minutes, McCartney showed Lennon how to tune his guitar. He then played a few classic rock ‘n’ roll songs — including cuts by Gene Vincent and Little Richard – to show Lennon what he was capable of.
Then the Quarrymen performed. “I just thought, ‘Well, he looks good, he’s singing well and he seems like a great lead singer to me,’” McCartney said of Lennon’s performance to Record Collector magazine in 1995. “Of course, he had his glasses off, so he really looked suave. I remember John was good. He was really the only outstanding member, all the rest kind of slipped away.”
Incidentally, that Quarrymen show was recorded on tape and sold for approximately $120,000 in 1994.
After the show, the Quarrymen, along with McCartney and another pal, went to a pub, where they lied about their ages to get served. Lennon was so impressed with McCartney’s natural talent and knowledge of music that he and the other members of the group later asked McCartney to join them, even though Lennon was a bit hesitant to invite such a powerful figure into his group.
A year later, George Harrison joined the band. By early 1959, everyone else had quit, leaving the trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison without a real group. Within a year, they picked up another member, a drummer and renamed themselves the Beatles. You know the rest.
The 31-year-old beauty, who filed for a divorce from her hip-hop superstar husband Wiz Khalifa earlier this year, has revealed she feels at her most attractive when she’s not wearing any clothes.
Amber shared: “I feel sexiest when I’m naked.
“I’m all natural. I don’t have fake boobs or a fake butt.”
Amber, who has previously dated Kanye West, also revealed the traits she finds most attractive in a man.
She told Oyster magazine: “Anyone who can make me laugh can [capture] my heart, for sure.”
Amber also revealed she drinks “whenever I feel like it” and never wants to be asked “to have a threesome”, explaining she “[doesn’t] share”.
What’s more, the curvaceous star – who has a 22-month-old son, Sebastian, by her estranged husband – explained what she has learned from her previous relationships.
She said: “Not to give too much of myself … Save some for just me.”
This comes shortly after Nick Cannon – the estranged husband of Mariah Carey – denied having any romance with Amber.
In an interview with BBC Radio 1Xtra, Nick said: “I have not done a ‘ting’ with Amber Rose. It’s the truth, it’s the truth.”
New Delhi, Dec 11: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has garnered over Rs 9.6 crore in donations, in excess of Rs 20,000 from thousands of its supporters and well-wishers in the last financial year, according to data submitted to the Election Commission. A number of political parties recently submitted their annual reports of contributions of over Rs 20,000 received by them, as stipulated under Section 29C of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 which enables recognised political parties to get tax exemptions on this income, to the Election Commission (EC) which gives them to the Income-Tax Department for scrutiny in this regard.
New Delhi, Dec 11: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has garnered over Rs 9.6 crore in donations, in excess of Rs 20,000 from thousands of its supporters and well-wishers in the last financial year, according to data submitted to the Election Commission. A number of political parties recently submitted their annual reports of contributions of over Rs 20,000 received by them, as stipulated under Section 29C of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 which enables recognised political parties to get tax exemptions on this income, to the Election Commission (EC) which gives them to the Income-Tax Department for scrutiny in this regard.
Records state that the AAP got a total of Rs 9,61,51,672 from as many as 1,571 donors who had contributed varied amounts of funds through cheques, cash or electronic transfer to the party. The tally, for the 2013-14 fiscal, is led by the Congress which has received donations worth over Rs 66 crore and NCP which has got slightly more than Rs 14 crore under the same category. The BJP is the only national party which has not submitted this data to the EC till now. Other recognised parties who have not submitted this information to the poll panel include TRS, BJD, YSRCP, INLD, LJP, National Conference and PDP. Among others parties who submitted their donations list includes JD (S) at over Rs 5.48 crore, JD (U) over Rs 2.17 crore, CPI (Marxist) more than Rs 2.09 crore, CPI over 1.28 crore, Shiv Sena over Rs 1.81 crore and TDP more than Rs 1.01 crore.
Nelson Mandela’s country, one year after his death, a feeling of grim frustration has taken hold.
South Africa is a land of highest highs and lowest lows — and over the past few months, the pendulum has swung to the pessimistic end of the spectrum.
As South Africans paused Friday to remember their former president and reflect on his legacy, the country’s weighty challenges — a sputtering economy, resurging crime, political paralysis — were front and center.
It doesn’t help that many of us are in the dark. Huge swathes of South Africa’s cities have been without electricity for hours and days as Eskom, the musty old power utility, enforces “load shedding,” or rolling blackouts. The power cuts in recent weeks have been the worst in many years as Eskom struggles to meet demand.
This isn’t the only state entity in trouble — postal workers just last week returned from a months-long strike. With no mail delivered since August, and with Christmas nearing, there is a massive backlog of letters and parcels.
All of this spells trouble for an already faltering economy, with GDP growth forecast at just 1.4 percent for 2014.
Recent Comments