Monday, October 20, 2008

Traffic rules rock

Traffic restrictions have been re-introduced in china's capital Beijing, in an attempt to bring back the clear skies seen during the Olympics. Each car must spend one day a week off the road, in a scheme based on registration numbers. Beijing residents miss the clean air and quiet streets they enjoyed throughout the Games. The new rules are expected to take some 800,000 cars off the road every day, according to the Beijing Municipal Committee of Communications.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Creating of new Channel

We usually know about a famous channel CNN-IBN, have you ever noticed truth about that channel. Here is little information about that famous channel. Rajdeep Sardesai (born May 24, 1965 in Ahmedabad) is an Indian political commentator and TV personality married to Sagarika Ghosh, daughter of Bhaskar Ghosh, while director of DD a India Government run TV Channel. Sagarika, before joining CNN-IBN, worked with the Indian Express. He was the host of the award-winning talk show The Big Fight on NDTV 24x7, one of the leading Indian news channels and was particularly appreciated for his coverage of the Gujarat riots. Rajdeep Sardesai later quit NDTV to start his own company, Global Broadcast Network (GBN) in collaboration with the American giant CNN and Raghav Behl's TV18. The latter broadcasts the Indian Edition of CNBC, the Hindi consumer channel, Awaaz and an international channel, SAW. The new channel with Rajdeep as the Editor-in-Chief has been named CNN-IBN. It went on air on December 17, 2005. Channel 7 has also come under this umbrella after Rajdeep bought a 46 percent stake in the channel.Also

Friday, October 17, 2008

Zimbabwe rivals united in power

Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have agreed to share political power. The agreement reached a consensus after four days of mediation at Harare, brokered by South African President Thabo Mbeki. The agreement would be signed and make public later. Post agreement, Mr Tsvangirai would be Prime Minister with Mr Mugabe continuing as president.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Indian logistics industry likely to grow 15 - 20 %

According to a report by Cushnam and Wakefield the Indian logistics Industry is expected to grow at 15% to 20 % per annum by 2015. As per C& W estimates, the marker share of organized logistics players is likely to double to approximately 12% in the same period. The new logistics centers will give big boost to the industrial activities in the country. The report also revealed that 110 logistics parks spread over 3,500 acres at an estimated cost of $1 billion are expected to be operational by2012. Around 45 million sq ft of warehousing space will be ready in the next four years.Also fdaware.com.