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China Railway says to sell $914 mln A-shares

June 21, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

June 20 (Reuters) – China Railway Group (0390.HK) (601390.SS), the country’s largest construction and engineering firm, proposes to sell new A-shares for up to 6.24 billion yuan ($914.1 million) to fund infrastructure projects.

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The company said it planned to issue about 1.52 billion A-shares listed in Shanghai at not less than 4.11 yuan each. The shares will be sold to no more than 10 target investors, including its parent China Railway Engineering Corp.

China Railway will use the money to fund its Shenzhen Subway Line 5 project and a bridge and road project in China’s Liuzhou, it said in a statement late on Friday.

Its state-owned parent had agreed to subscribe 851.58 million new shares for about 3.5 billion yuan.

China Railway said the parent’s subscription shares will have a lock-up period of 36 months and other investors in the deal were not allowed to sell the shares in the 12 months after the placement.

For a company statement please click here 0618469.pdf Trading in the stock is expected to resume on Monday after being suspended last Thursday.

Shares of China Railway have fallen about 14 percent this year in Hong Kong, while its Shanghai traded stock fell 27.5 percent this year to 4.57 yuan on Wednesday. ($1=6.826 yuan) (Reporting by Alison Leung; Editing by Ron Popeski)

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17 school kids killed in Brazil road accident

June 6, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Sao Paulo, June 6 (IANS/EFE) At least 17 school students were killed and three injured in a road accident in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia, media reports said.

The students were riding in an open truck, which was hit by a trailer while it was going over a bridge near Laje town, TV Globo reported.

The truck fell from a height of 15 meters while the driver of the trailer fled the scene, fire department officials said.

The victims were returning home after taking part in a series of school competitions.

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Key that could have saved Titanic to go on sale

April 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, Apr 16 (ANI): The key that could have saved the doomed ship ‘Titanic’ is expected to fetch at least 70,000 pounds at an auction.

The key to the ship’s binocular box, which belonged to second officer David Blair, was transferred from the ship just before its maiden voyage.

However, he forgot to hand it to his replacement, reports the Daily Express.

Thus, officers had no access to binoculars on the bridge or in the crow’s nest – and 1,517 people perished when the ship hit an iceberg on April 15, 1912.

The crow’s nest key sold for 90,000 pounds in 2007 and the second key, with three others, is tipped to make a similar sum in the sale at Devizes, Wiltshire.

They are being sold by Titanic historian Peter Boyd-Smith. (ANI)

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Key that could have saved Titanic to go on sale

April 16, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, Apr 16 (ANI): The key that could have saved the doomed ship ‘Titanic’ is expected to fetch at least 70,000 pounds at an auction.

The key to the ship’s binocular box, which belonged to second officer David Blair, was transferred from the ship just before its maiden voyage.

However, he forgot to hand it to his replacement, reports the Daily Express.

Thus, officers had no access to binoculars on the bridge or in the crow’s nest – and 1,517 people perished when the ship hit an iceberg on April 15, 1912.

The crow’s nest key sold for 90,000 pounds in 2007 and the second key, with three others, is tipped to make a similar sum in the sale at Devizes, Wiltshire.

They are being sold by Titanic historian Peter Boyd-Smith. (ANI)

India,China agree to set up a hotline for PMs

April 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Beijing,April 07(ANI): India and China on Wednesday signed an agreement to establish a hotline between the Prime Ministers of the two countries.The agreement was signed by the Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi,after their first round of talks in Beijing.

These hot lines would be installed within next few weeks to bridge the communication gap between the two leaders.Meanwhile,Krishna reiterated that India wanted to establish cordial relationship with China.

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India, China sign agreement to create a hotline for PMs

April 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Beijing, Apr 7 (ANI): India and China today signed an agreement to establish a hotline between the Prime Ministers of the two countries.

The agreement was signed by External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi after their first round of talks here.

This is the first time that India has established a dedicated hotline facility with any country.

These hot lines would be installed within next few weeks to bridge the communication gap between the two leaders.

Speaking to reporters, Krishna described it as a land mark development.

“The establishment of the hotline facility shows how close India and China are with each other,” he added.

Sources confirmed that China has also agreed to the stop issuing staple visas to Kashmiries and will make an announcement on this shortly.

During the hour-long meeting, both Foreign Ministers discussed issues of mutual importance. By Lokendra Singh (ANI)

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Swansea seniors in cyberspace

April 1, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Tasmania’s first internet cafe for seniors has opened in Swansea on the east coast.

The May Shaw Health Centre has opened the internet cafe with funding from the Rudd Government’s Broadband for Seniors initiative and donations from the local community.

The centre’s business manager Mike Hannon says getting older people online helps them remain active and productive.

“It gives older people a bridge back to the younger generation because they then have a common interest in the technology that enables them to communicate.”

“We consider it vitally important that we can offer our residents, who generally are well into their 80s, something that takes away the disadvantage of being old and gives them the advantages of [being] anyone and anything they want to be on the internet,” he said.

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Greens to block Williamstown development

March 30, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Greens are seeking to strip Victoria’s Planning Minister, Justin Madden, of control over a controversial development in Williamstown.

Mr Madden has intervened in the development, which includes plans for a 13 storey tower near Williamstown’s old woollen mill site.

Greens Upper House MP Colleen Hartland will move a motion in State Parliament to return control of the precinct to the local council.

She says if passed, the motion would be binding on the Government.

“Unlike in previous times, when we did it for the Barwon Heads Bridge, the Government was able to overturn it, but that is because they were the proponent,” she said.

“In this case it is a private proponent, so we don’t believe they would be able to overturn it.”

She says she will need to get support from other parties to pass the motion.

“The Greens, the Liberals and the DLP would need to vote together to pass it, and then what it would mean is that we disallow the amendment,” she said.

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‘Cowboy’ duck hunters anger landowner

March 23, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A man has labelled a group of duck hunters “cowboys” after nearly being shot near his home in Nagambie at the weekend.

Ian Barfold says he walked to the front of his property near Kirwans Bridge when he heard gunshots nearby.

He says one pellet narrowly missed his head when he got to the jetty.

Mr Barfold says it is a residential area and people could have been hurt.

“I’ve got five grandkids and one on the way. We’ve got two beautiful labs, it’s like heaven for them down here, so they swim in the water quite a bit,” he said.

“You know there’s a lot of risk there.”

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VicRoads asked to kick in for park plan

March 19, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Shire of Campaspe will seek compensation from VicRoads to fund work outlined on in the master plan for Echuca’s Victoria Park.

VicRoad’s proposed route for a second Echuca Moam bridge will run through the park and as a result council has had to amend its master plan for the area.

Mayor Peter Williams says if the bridge goes ahead it will directly impact on the lawn tennis clubs and access to the park.

“Given that the second bridge is going to cut right around the end of Victoria Park, there is clearly going to be an impact on that park,” he said.

“We are hopeful that as a part of that process [VicRoads] may well in fact contribute some of the funds towards making this plan happen.”

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Aboriginal artefacts could move bypass

March 16, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Tasmania’s Department of Infrastructure is considering re-routing the Brighton bypass around an aboriginal heritage site.

A preliminary report has found a three and a half hectare area in the path of the proposed route contains artefacts and evidence of habitation that could be of world significance.

The Department was considering expanding the planned bridge over the site to preseve the remains – but is now considering an alternative proposal put forward by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre which would circumvent the site.

The Department’s Norm McIlfatrick says the proposal would follow an existing rail corridor, involving significant adjustments to the existing plans.

“Obviously we can’t put a kink in a large bypass,” he said.

“So a re-route would mean a significant sweeping of the bypass in an alternative route.”

The Department has previously said diverting the road was unlikely to be viable.

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26 killed, 34 hurt as bus falls off Sawai Madhopur bridge

March 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Jaipur, Mar. 15 (ANI): At least 26 people, including students and teachers, were killed and 34 injured when the bus in which they were travelling collided with a stationary vehicle and fell off a bridge into a dry river bed in Rajasthan”s Sawai Madhopur district on Monday morning.

According to preliminary reports, the mishap occurred along the Sawai Madhopur-Dausa border, 162 km from Jaipur, as the victims were returning home to Jhalawar from an educational trip to Vrindavan.

Twenty-one people died on the spot, while five succumbed to injuries in a hospital, Vikas Kumar, the Superintendent of Police of Sawai Madhopur, was reported, as saying.

The students and teachers belonged to a teacher”s training institute in Khanpur in Jhalawar. (ANI)

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Floods close border tourist road

March 13, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A south-west Queensland mayor says the main road into South Australia has been closed to all traffic and it is not known when it will reopen.

The Thargomindah to Innamincka Road has been closed because of flooding in the Cooper Creek at Nappamerrie.

The creek is rising and is over the Burke and Wills bridge, but the approaches have also been washed away.

Bulloo Mayor John Ferguson says it will fly engineers to the site next week, but the closure will affect several industries.

“It’s an important tourist route. There’s roughly about up to 40,000 tourists that go over that bridge a year,” councillor Ferguson said.

“It’s also very important for the oil industry and the cattle industry when they can move around as it goes into South Australia.”

He says about 20 kilometres away is the famous Dig Tree, which is why a lot of people use the bridge.

“If the approaches are washed away we’re going to have a bridge out on the river sitting on its own and you won’t be able to get to it,” Cr Ferguson said.

At Thargomindah, the local school reopens today after several days of closure due to flooding and the Bulloo River is slowly falling.

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Flooding halts coal mine production

March 12, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

It could be weeks before a central Queensland coal mine is able to reopen.

Cockatoo Coal has stopped production at its Baralaba mine because floodwaters have cut access to the site.

Mine manager Ray Delaforce says about 100 workers have been sent home until the Baralaba-Woorabinda Road reopens.

“Its brought our business basically to a halt, we have not been able to basically cross this bridge since the seventh of February so we just haven’t been able to produce coal

“We’ve had to put the mine in a care and maintenance situation, just to maintain pumps and that and try and hold the status of the mine safely until we can actually access it again.”

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London’s bridges clash over updates, tolls on Twitter

September 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 12 (ANI): Britain’s most famous bridges are at loggerheads on Twitter, by teasing each other not only for their updates, but also over toll prices.

The famous London Bridge is relentlessly teasing its neighbour Tower Bridge for the tedium and pomposity of its updates.

On the other hand, the Severn Bridge and Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge have fallen out over tolls.

And it all started when the managers of Tower Bridge set up an official Twitter account to alert Londoners every time it was raised to let ships pass.

It repeatedly posted updates like: “I am opening for the SB Lady Daphne, which is passing upstream. I am closing after the SB Lady Daphne has passed upstream.”

But, soon someone set up a rival account under the name “I’m London Bridge”, and it’s first words on the site made it clear that it was at a war of words with Tower Bridge.

“Certain other bridges in London think they’re so cool getting a Twitter account. Well they’re not. I’m the coolest bridge in London. Official,” the Telegraph quoted it as saying on Twitter.

While London Bridge’s attempts to get a reaction from its more admired rival have so far proved unsuccessful, but it is still continuing the taunting.

In fact, its witty posts have attracted a decent audience – it has 1,400 followers, compared to Tower Bridge’s 1,900 – and spawned a host of imitators.

Last month, two of the bridges in West Country- the Severn Bridge and the Clifton Suspension Bridge- crossed swords over toll charges.

The Severn mocked the Clifton Suspension for its inability to accept 5p coins, provoking responses like-”You aren’t in Bristol so don’t get all uppity with me young pup” and “FIVE PENCE PIECES ARE EVIL AND NOT WORTH MY TIME.” (ANI)

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Artist recreates Taj Mahal – with toothpicks!

September 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 12 (ANI): An artist has recreated the Taj Mahal and other famous landmarks around the world using toothpicks.

It took Stan Munro six years, six million toothpicks and more than 170 litres of glue as he built his latest exhibition, entitled ‘Toothpick City II – Temples and Towers’.

The 38-year-old’s models at the Museum of Science and Technology in Syracuse, New York, feature buildings such as Big Ben, Tower Bridge, The Vatican and Sydney’s Opera House.

“Toothpick City was so much fun to build, I decided to build another one. This one is bigger and much more detailed,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.

“I want this exhibit to be a celebration of religious diversity, architectural achievement and historical accuracy – or just ‘wow, that’s a lot of toothpicks’.

“No one has built all these buildings to the same scale and put them side by side before – let alone out of toothpicks.

“I really wanted to see what it would look like. If you can’t travel the world, I want people to see this exhibit and think they just did,” he added. (ANI)

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Army to tie up with IGNOU for giving soldiers a better life after retirement

September 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): To empower soldiers educationally and to provide them with an opportunity of a second career option after retirement, the Indian Army has come out with a plan according to which soldiers who join service after school can study for a degree in market driven courses.

The Indian Army will tie up with the Indira Gandhi National Open University to set up community colleges on the pattern of the US system of community colleges in its cantonments and other defence establishments to impart education in market-driven courses and soft skill programmes.

The Army will sign an MoU with IGNOU on September 4 to give academic diploma or associate degree and graduation degree to soldiers, which is seen as a step towards empowering the soldier to live a life with dignity and confidence after retirement.

The project named ‘Gyan Deep’ will benefit many of the 1.2 million soldiers of the Army. Nearly 50,000 trained soldiers retire every year from the army after an average of 15 years of service.

“The jawans will be given BA, BBA, BSc and BCom degrees depending on their area of work,” a senior officer said.

For soldiers who join after Class 10, the army will be organising bridge courses to bring them at par with those who have completed Class 12.

The Army-IGNOU Community colleges will function as autonomous bodies conducting examinations and their courses are hitherto fore. By Praful Kumar Singh (ANI)

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Terry signs new five year contract with Chelsea

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep.1 (ANI): Chelsea and England captain John Terry has signed a new five-year contract that will keep him at Stamford Bridge until 2014.

The contract is worth 150,000-pounds-a-week, making him the best-paid player at the club and elevating him into the elite earners in world football, reports The Telegraph.

The England captain will earn close to 39 million pounds over the course of the contract and will in all likelihood see the England defender see out his career at the club he joined as a 14-year-old.

A club statement read: “Chelsea are delighted to confirm that John Terry has signed a new five-year contract that keeps him at the club until the end of the 2013-14 season.

This reaffirms both John’s and Chelsea’s long-stated desire for him to be at Stamford Bridge for the rest of his playing career.”

Terry’s salary will be the highest yet paid to an English footballer and will make him the second-best paid player in the Premier League behind Robinho, of Manchester City.

Terry has made 276 appearances in 12 seasons at Stamford Bridge and has won 54 England caps since 2003. (ANI)

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Bihar flood victims allege government apathy

August 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kevati (Bihar), Aug 27 (ANI): Angry and anguished villagers have blamed government apathy for the flood-related havoc across Bihar.

Thousands of people have been displaced after the Misraulia dam broke in theState’s Darbhanga district inundating several villages in the region.

The water has flooded the National Highway 105 Highway, taking away tracts of road with the flow.

Villages have turned into mini islands and are cut off from the rest of the region. Floods have affected around a million people in eleven districts of the state.

Reportedly, over 100 villages are reeling under floods in Darbhanga district.

The death toll due to floods has risen to 23 in the state, with seven fresh cases being reported on Wednesday.

The villagers alleged the government has turned blind eye to their woes and want the government to provide relief to them.

“The flood water has cut away large tracts of land in Khirma. The administration is turned a blind eye towards us. A boat was provided to the villagers, which was broken and hence it sunk with 25 people onboard. Till now, there has been no help from the government. Further on, there is a bridge, which has also been washed away by the flood water. There is around five to seven feet of water on the road but there is no rescue work being carried on to save the people,” said Janki Ahmed, a flood victim.

Movement is also restricted due to the washing away of roads in the region.

Paramilitary forces have been called in to rescue stranded people, but according to some paramilitary officials, it is impossible to carry out rescue work in inundated villages.

“Our main aim is to rescue people. But villages here are cut off from the rest of the region. We conducted a survey and found that the villagers here did not want to leave their homes, instead, they want the government to provide them with relief material. It is impossible to carry out rescue operation here,” said Manoj Kumar Chwarsla, a paramilitary official.

State Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is conducting an aerial survey of the flood-affected regions to assess the damage.

“I will conduct an aerial survey of the flood affected regions and hold discussions with the officials there. Instructions have already been issued to the officials there as to how to deal with the situation in the flood-affected areas. How people have to be rescued, how to provide relief material to them and all this work is being carried on by the disaster management department,” said Nitish Kumar.

The villagers are forced to remain indoors and are even facing food shortage in some areas.(ANI)

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13,000 yr old spear tip sheds light on ancient Americans

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, August 25 (ANI): Archaeologists have unearthed a rare Clovis point spearhead in the town of Sahuarita, Arizona, US, dating back to 11,000 to 13,000 years, which could help illuminate the way early humans lived in this part of the state.

According to a report in The Sahuarita Sun, the white rock spearhead, roughly two inches long and an inch wide and missing its tip, likely dates back 11,000 to 13,000 years when the earliest well-established human inhabitants of North America fastened objects like it to the end of wood poles and hurled them at mammoths, bears and other large prey.

These Clovis people, as they’re now called, are the predecessors of the ancestors of Native Americans.

They hunted and gathered all over the continent and in the Southwest, they primarily inhabited New Mexico and the San Pedro basin, which runs north from Sonora, Mexico, along the San Pedro River in Southeastern Arizona.

As a result, the bulk of the state’s Clovis points are found at mammoth kill-sites near Naco and Sierra Vista.

But a find in the Tucson basin, which roughly covers the area between the Santa Rita Mountains and north Tucson, could indicate a broader inhabitancy, according to Arthur Vokes, who has curated the Arizona State Museum’s architectural repository for nearly 30 years.

“Human beings have been in this region for about 11,000 years or so. It does reflect the age of regular occupation here,” he said.

By examining the type of rock the point is made out of, Vokes said he could learn about ancient trade and hunting routes.

The spearhead was discovered during a routine archaeological survey on Arizona State Trust land by an environmental consulting company, according to Steve Ross, an archaeologist with the State Land Department.

It’s distinguishable from more contemporary arrowheads because it’s larger and matches a style of tool construction used by ancient people halfway around the world.

“Through research, they’ve traced this type of point-making back to the Asia area,” Ross said. “So as they migrated over the land bridge (between modern-day Russia and Alaska,) they brought this type of point-making with them,” he added.

According to Ross, spearheads like it were eventually phased out, perhaps due to extinction of large animals or even the annihilation of the Clovis people by an environmental event, like a comet. (ANI)

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China Railway says to sell $914 mln A-shares

17 school kids killed in Brazil road accident

Key that could have saved Titanic to go on sale

Key that could have saved Titanic to go on sale

India,China agree to set up a hotline for PMs

India, China sign agreement to create a hotline for PMs

Swansea seniors in cyberspace

Greens to block Williamstown development

‘Cowboy’ duck hunters anger landowner

VicRoads asked to kick in for park plan

Aboriginal artefacts could move bypass

26 killed, 34 hurt as bus falls off Sawai Madhopur bridge

Floods close border tourist road

Flooding halts coal mine production

London’s bridges clash over updates, tolls on Twitter

Artist recreates Taj Mahal – with toothpicks!

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Terry signs new five year contract with Chelsea

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