India’s first monorail to run in Mumbai

Mumbai: An Indian-Malaysian consortium led by Larsen and Toubro (L&T) will construct the India’s first monorail system here, it was announced on Monday.
The L&T-led consortium, which includes Scomi Engineering Bhd of Malaysia, will implement the Rs 2,460 crore project for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).
The contract involves design, construction, installation, commissioning and integrated [...]

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Confession tribunal opens up after 830 years

http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/16/stories/2009011656622200.htm
ROME: One of the Vatican’s most secrecy-shrouded tribunals, which handles confessions of sins so grave only the Pope can grant absolution, is giving the faithful a peek into its workings — for the first time in its 830-year history.
The so-called “tribunal of conscience” invited the public into the frescoed halls of its imposing 16th-century palazzo [...]

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Punjab to set up nine govt colleges soon

Chandigarh: The Government of Punjab has decided to set up nine government colleges in educationally backward districts of the northern Indian state.
“One such college for girls would be opened in Amritsar,” Punjab Education and Civil Aviation Minister Upinderjit Kaur said at a formal interaction with mediapersons on the sidelines of the concluding function of Punjabi [...]

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MCD giving shape to e-Gov plan

New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has geared up to implement its e-Governance project in all its 35 departments.
“Soon many MCD offices will become paperless, common man’s crowd will thin out and people will avail MCD services at home,” an MCD official said.
The project aimed at abolishing ‘Inspector Raj’ and bringing transparency will [...]

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MCD giving shape to e-Gov plan

New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has geared up to implement its e-Governance project in all its 35 departments.
“Soon many MCD offices will become paperless, common man’s crowd will thin out and people will avail MCD services at home,” an MCD official said.
The project aimed at abolishing ‘Inspector Raj’ and bringing transparency will [...]

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Video conferencing between Punjab jails, courts

Chandigarh: Punjab would soon introduce video-conferencing facility between various jails in the state and courts in those areas, a minister said here on Tuesday.
The move follows the assent to an amendment in the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) by the President of India under which people in judicial custody could be produced before the courts either [...]

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Himachal to extend health insurance in 10 districts

Shimla: The Government of Himachal Pradesh has decided to extend the Health Insurance Scheme, launched in Kangra and Shimla districts for the below poverty line (BPL) families, to the remaining 10 districts in the hilly Indian state.
Announcing this at the third Annual Conference of the State chapter of Indian Medical Association (IMA) at Una, state [...]

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CSF to monitor terror activities in northeast

Agartala: The Government of India has decided to set up an effective intelligence gathering mechanism for the north-eastern states by forming a body called the Common Surveillance Facilities (CSF), officials said here on Sunday.
“The senior most Additional Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) would be the head of the proposed CSF, whose independent officials [...]

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What Obama presidency means for India

New Delhi: With Democrat Barack Obama winning the White House, India is hopeful that its multi-faceted ties with the US, revolutionised by a landmark nuclear deal during the Bush tenure, will acquire new force.
“The real strategic partnership between India and the US will begin with a new government in Washington and New Delhi next year,” [...]

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DHL help to reduce child mortality in Maharashtra

New Delhi: Leading courier company DHL on Tuesday partnered with United Nations Children’s Education Fund (Unicef) and gave a grant of US $650,000 to reduce child mortality in 1,000 villages of Maharashtra.
The company, in alliance with Unicef and the central government, will empower communities to improve child survival over a period of three years in [...]

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