In To-day's Newspapers
Mar 14th 2012, 5:10 pm
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Re: In To-day's Newspapers
Well they should be able to cope, they should have been designed to cope and updated to cope - and don't say unexpected growth - Joseph Bazalgette's London sewers are still working more than 150 years later. Perhaps if Bombay's sewers were kept clear of rubbish they would work a little better.
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But you can hardly compare London with the amount of monsoon rainfall, (about 3'+ in one day in 2005), high tides, low land etc. and yes the increase in general population and squatters is vast.
Mar 14th 2012, 8:10 pm
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Re: In To-day's Newspapers
Goa has 90,000 Russian tourists a year
14 Mar. Russian and India report. The Russian Federal Agency for Tourism, together with the Russian Travel Association World Without Borders, represented Russia in Mumbai as an attractive tourist destination. Russian Consul in Mumbai, expressed concern that far fewer Indians are coming to Russia than Russians visiting India. “Goa alone has about 90,000 Russian tourists a year. And we had just 50,000 Indian visitors last year, of whom only 5,000 were tourists.
Go to Goa!
14 Mar: Business Review India, Fondly referred to as ahippie beach-joint, Goa is more than just sun, sand and sea. The seductive state offers exotic flora and fauna, thrilling adventure sports, rich historical sites, wild nightlife, excellent shopping experience and great food …
www.goanvoice.org.uk.
p.s. If you ever find the magnificent shopping Malls in Panjim, as advertised 18 years ago in a travel book, please let me know.
14 Mar. Russian and India report. The Russian Federal Agency for Tourism, together with the Russian Travel Association World Without Borders, represented Russia in Mumbai as an attractive tourist destination. Russian Consul in Mumbai, expressed concern that far fewer Indians are coming to Russia than Russians visiting India. “Goa alone has about 90,000 Russian tourists a year. And we had just 50,000 Indian visitors last year, of whom only 5,000 were tourists.
Go to Goa!
14 Mar: Business Review India, Fondly referred to as ahippie beach-joint, Goa is more than just sun, sand and sea. The seductive state offers exotic flora and fauna, thrilling adventure sports, rich historical sites, wild nightlife, excellent shopping experience and great food …
www.goanvoice.org.uk.
p.s. If you ever find the magnificent shopping Malls in Panjim, as advertised 18 years ago in a travel book, please let me know.
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Mar 15th 2012, 6:29 am
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Re: In To-day's Newspapers
I would not call it magnificent but the shopping mall that opened a year ago in Panjim has a few good shops in it, lifts, toilets and a place to eat (it is also next door to KFC), only thing is they have decided to extend up another two floors and judging by the huge cracks opening up in the walls it may not take the weight.
Mar 15th 2012, 9:10 am
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Mumbai has had 60 years to sort out the problems with the Victorian sewers and later additions.In 1991 they attempted to lay a new sewer line near Malibar Hills.As usual the contractor went bust and then street people moved into the pipes.Because they had been there for over a year, they got squatters rights and the coperation of Mumbai had go to court to get them out of their pipes before the work could continue...! There is no excuse for what goes in Mumbai in Monsoon.The dumping of thousands of tone raw sewage,toxic garbage and dead animal carcasses in to the bay is beyond the pale.Another thing the Shiv Sena have never ever said a word about it either.The so-called protectors of Maharashtra......! The Indian government would rather go to war with Pakistan than clean up all the rubbish thats slowly clogging up its arteries.....
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictu...reactions.html
Mar 15th 2012, 6:00 pm
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*WARNING* not for the faint hearted, filthy India in pictures
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictu...reactions.html
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictu...reactions.html
Awful - my pet hate, is the spitting that really repulses me."The Goan Gob" Ugh" I have seen Dr. Dukles telling locals off for doing it outside his hospital.
Mar 15th 2012, 6:36 pm
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That person writing the clip must have spent a long time getting the worst photos from Varanasi. We went there some years ago to put ashes, and I was not looking forward to it. However out in the boat in the evening with the fires burning in the distance it seemed calm and peaceful and somehow 'right'.
There were plenty of fish in the river.
Mar 15th 2012, 7:12 pm
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Agree it is an awful habit not seen in 'polite society'. I personally can't remember particularly seeing women spitting whatever their social group. Others may have.
That person writing the clip must have spent a long time getting the worst photos from Varanasi. We went there some years ago to put ashes, and I was not looking forward to it. However out in the boat in the evening with the fires burning in the distance it seemed calm and peaceful and somehow 'right'.
There were plenty of fish in the river.
That person writing the clip must have spent a long time getting the worst photos from Varanasi. We went there some years ago to put ashes, and I was not looking forward to it. However out in the boat in the evening with the fires burning in the distance it seemed calm and peaceful and somehow 'right'.
There were plenty of fish in the river.
It does seem like the guy writing the article has a hannibalistic and morbid fascination for photographing corpses - his point was made after about two of them - so I find it rather worrying that he appears to have spent a large portion of his holiday searching for rotting dead things - a bit psycho if you ask me - Clarice!!!
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Mar 16th 2012, 4:29 pm
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Black market gangs join the iPad stampede to ship tablets to India (as enterprising teen, 16, jumps back 14 spots in queue for £300)
Black market gangs join the iPad stampede to ship tablets to India (as enterprising teen, 16, jumps back 14 spots in queue for £300)
Mar 16th 2012, 9:10 pm
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India in uproar over death of Baby Falak – an unwanted child handed into hospital covered with HUMAN BITE MARKS
A child abuse case that has gripped India for months took a tragic turn last night, with the death of an abandoned baby girl. Doctors in Delhi said the battered two-year-old suffered a fatal heart attack.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ITE-MARKS.html
A child abuse case that has gripped India for months took a tragic turn last night, with the death of an abandoned baby girl. Doctors in Delhi said the battered two-year-old suffered a fatal heart attack.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ITE-MARKS.html
Mar 16th 2012, 10:43 pm
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India in uproar over death of Baby Falak – an unwanted child handed into hospital covered with HUMAN BITE MARKS
A child abuse case that has gripped India for months took a tragic turn last night, with the death of an abandoned baby girl. Doctors in Delhi said the battered two-year-old suffered a fatal heart attack.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ITE-MARKS.html
A child abuse case that has gripped India for months took a tragic turn last night, with the death of an abandoned baby girl. Doctors in Delhi said the battered two-year-old suffered a fatal heart attack.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ITE-MARKS.html
Mar 19th 2012, 6:14 am
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From Daily Mail 19.3.2012 - Aid to India to be axed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-handout.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-handout.html
Mar 19th 2012, 8:58 am
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From Daily Mail 19.3.2012 - Aid to India to be axed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-handout.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-handout.html
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Mar 20th 2012, 9:55 pm
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Re: In To-day's Newspapers
http://zeenews.india.com/news/goa/cc...on_764936.html
Panaji: Over three dozen CCTV cameras will soon start capturing all the movements and activities on Goa's crowded beaches, as part of state government's nitiative in curbing illegalities on the shores.
Panaji: Over three dozen CCTV cameras will soon start capturing all the movements and activities on Goa's crowded beaches, as part of state government's nitiative in curbing illegalities on the shores.
Mar 21st 2012, 8:31 am
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I see they have got that b**tard in France who killed the school kids and the 3 soldiers.He claims he acted for Al Quada. He is surrounded in a house in Toulouse and has already shot two coppers who knocked on his door !
Mar 21st 2012, 6:41 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17456541
Mohammed Merah, the man believed to be the gunman on a scooter who killed seven people in south-western France,
France gunman 'set to kill again'
French prosecutors say the Toulouse shooting suspect, now surrounded in his flat, planned more killings and admits being trained by al-Qaeda
Mohammed Merah, the man believed to be the gunman on a scooter who killed seven people in south-western France,
France gunman 'set to kill again'
French prosecutors say the Toulouse shooting suspect, now surrounded in his flat, planned more killings and admits being trained by al-Qaeda