20 September 2008

Jet Airways to start Trivandrum-Muscat daily flights

Another good news for Gulf Malayali's. Their travel problem from and to the Gulf countries are almost solved now.Lot of direct flights to different destinations of Middle east from all the three airports of Kerala, kozhikode,Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.
Here is another addition to that,
According to the media reports ,Jet Airways will start Trivandrum- Muscat daily, direct flights, from September 15.
Jet Airways will operate these services with Boeing 737-800 aircraft with a two-class configuration-- Premiere and Economy.
Flight 9W 530 will depart Thiruvananthapuram at 0755 hrs and arrive Muscat at 1030 hrs.
Flight 9W 529 will depart Muscat at 0030 hrs and arrive Thiruvananthapuram at 0535 hrs.

11 September 2008

Kamal Hassan, Mohanlal together in major Ravis 'Kandhar'




Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal team up for 'Kandhar'.The movie is about about the conspiracy behind hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999.The movie will be directed Major Ravi ,who has done two movies in the past 'Keerthi Chakra' starring Mohanlal and 'Mission 90 Days' starring Mammootty."Kandhar" is expected to hit cinemas by June-2009.Kandhar will be a bilingual film in Tamil and Malayalam.

BSE launches a Desktop Gadget - Market Watch

BSE has remained fore-runner in meeting the needs of the market to empower market participants with right information at right time. SENSEX, the market barometer has always retained the Top-of-Mind recall value among the millions of investors globally.Market dynamism and expectations from market participants has always kept us on meeting newer challenges. Here is a widget, known as Market Watch, that will change your desktop experience. To install follow two simple steps :
Click here to download the gadget installable(or copy-paste http://www.bseindia.com/gadget/gadget.asp on your browser)
Run the setup from where you have saved the above fileThis is a desktop gadget that helps in tracking the market movement.Your Desktop will now...
Remain connected to the market
Help track SENSEX and market trend
Allow quick access to BSEIndia live report and some special reportsThe above is sent to you as advance information, as the tool is available for download from BSEIndia website, freely. Soon we shall be informing the masses about this.Courtesy: BSE India

05 September 2008

Amitabh Bachchan turns blogger

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has turned blogger with bigadda.com, a youth networking site, to connect with his fans worldwide.
Speaking about his new initiative, Bachchan said, ”bigb.bigadda.com allows me to express myself, share and reflect my emotions, thoughts, opinions and listen to what people have to say to me and show them the ‘real’ side to my larger than life image that they see through media. It’s a platform which I control and share my own drama without anyone editing or interpreting my thoughts.”
Amitabh also posted his views on his upcoming film Bhootnath and asked readers responses.
Bigadda.com has gained a user base of 1.6 million, where 40 per cent users are from tier II cities like Tuticorin, Bhilai, Amritsar, Guwahati, Surat and Nashik.
The site gets almost 10 per cent of users from countries like Sri Lanka, Pakistan and from Indians from Dubai, United States and United Kingdom.
This news is available on NDTV 24×7. DirecTV make sit possible to access this channel in the US and also guarantees excellent picture and sound quality.

GAIL shareholders approve 1 bonus share issue for 2 equity shares

GAIL shareholders approve 1 bonus share issue for 2 equity shares
Authorized capital to be doubled to Rs. 2000 crore
GAIL to enhance petrochemical capacity at its Pata plant
Company on path to achieve Rs. 50,000 crore revenue by 2011-12
Enhancing the transmission / distribution capability, Petrochemicals and City Gas / CNG activities to be focus areas for future growth
GAIL Training Institute to become Profit Centre
New Delhi, September 4, 2008. The shareholders of GAIL (India) Limited approved the issuance of 1 bonus share for every 2 equity shares held in the 24th Annual General Meeting of the Company held today in New Delhi.
The paid-up capital of the company is Rs. 845.65 crore and the Reserves and Surplus as on 31st March 2008 were approximately Rs. 12,160 crore. The Board of the Company had earlier, in June this year, recommended the issuance of bonus shares.
The shareholders also approved the payment of 100 percent dividend for the year 2007-08.
Addressing the shareholders, Dr. U. D. Choubey, Chairman and Managing Director, GAIL said that the Authorized Share Capital of the Company is proposed to be increased from Rs.1,000 crore to Rs.2,000 crore.
Dr. Choubey said that GAIL has completed the expansion of Pata plant by commissioning a new HDPE plant with additional capacity of 100,000 TPA. It is proposed to further augment the capacity to 5,00,000 TPA gradually going upto 8,00,000 TPA.. Increased production of polymers at Pata shall further add values for stakeholders, he said.
“GAIL is making special effort to nurture and develop talent pool in the gas sector through its state-of-the-art Training Institute with centres at Noida and Jaipur. GAIL intends to convert GAIL Training Institute into a profit centre as SBU”, said Dr. Choubey.
He further said that cooperation, collaboration and competition have become the mantra for success in the hydrocarbon sector. “In the year that follows, we hope to unfold a number of projects in our core business areas to further strengthen the market position of your Company. Three focus areas decided by the Board and Top Management Team (TMT) have been identified as (i) enhancing the transmission / distribution capability, (ii) Petrochemicals and (iii) City Gas / CNG activities”, he added.
He reiterated Company’s commitment to increase revenues to Rs. 50,000 crore by 2011-12 and added that “with the existing projects and new business initiatives being taken, I can confidently state that your Company is moving steadily on its way to achieve this goal”.
Five new trunk pipelines and two capacity augmentation projects of GAIL are moving forward rapidly for timely completion. This will enable the Company to continue and consolidate its dominant position in the gas transmission and marketing segment raising the Company’s pipeline handling capacity to over 300 MMSCMD by 2011-12 at an estimated investment of Rs 20,000 crore.
Dr. Choubey also said that GAIL is advocating two key initiatives towards achieving energy security through natural gas. First is creation of CNG Corridors along national highways, in proximity to trunk gas pipelines across the country to supply / dispense PNG and CNG to domestic and commercial vehicles. It can enable large scale conversion of vehicles to CNG resulting in substantial savings in the petroleum import bill and save precious foreign exchange, besides providing a cleaner environment. Second is to enhance regional cooperation to foster energy trade, investment, technology transfer and skill development etc in participating nations.
GAIL (India) Limited recorded sustained performance in all key physical as well as financial parameters in the Financial Year 2007-08. According to the audited figures, the company recorded a Turnover (excluding internal consumption and net of excise duty) of Rs. 18,008 crore in the year 2007-08. The Profit After Tax during the year 2007-08 was Rs. 2,601 crore. The Board of Directors has recommended payment of total dividend at the rate of 100 percent on the paid-up share capital of the Company for FY 2007-08. GAIL is one of the leading public enterprises with a consistently excellent financial track record. Turnover during the last ten years has shown a compounded annual growth rate of 13 percent.
Courtesy: GAIL (India) Limited