Wow,DH i thought it had gone to Texas....in the 90s when ever i caught a plane to Mumbai i always tried to get a seat on the left side of the aircraft to have a look. It was bought by the Indian Navy as a marine reconnaissance plane as they were going very cheep at the time.Lockheed brought them out as an Atlantic carrier and 2 years later Boeing came up with the 707 jet and it was redundant.Wonderful looking plane though. Real class.The last time i saw it the poor thing was covered in weeds and green algae ! Its a pity India and here i mean the individual states, because the National Museum in Delhi is fantastic, in that most of them are in shocking conditions. Chennai is beyond words.Kolkatta Museum of Natural History is complete rubbish and they should give you money to visit the dump.Mumbai is excellent and was refurbished a couple of years ago.Dont ever visit Chennai Museum it will make you cry.....!

There is a Wikipedia page with photographs too DH

I've had a notification of a new post on thread 'Warning' but when I click on it I get a message to say I'm not authorised to see it!

AndyD

There's a surprise!


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Read yesterday that they are going to build a sewer pipe line from Baga Bridge to Calingut Football field which will take two years to construct at a cost of 70 Crore, i think the article mentioned.....This means that the whole road will have to be dug up just after they built the bloody pavement to save pedestrians from walking in the road.Construction will begin in September.The article was in the Panjim edition of The Times of India yesterday. I read some years ago that the actual sewerage plant was going to be behind Riverside Hotel but i thought it was just another goan pipe dream.Does this mean any spill off will end up in Baga Creek or will they pour the lot in the creek at night like all the hotels and restaurants do now ?

Hope all the moaners are enjoying the new "silent" forum.

Nothing to upset you................ in fact, nothing.


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Its the Sugar Plum effect J5....all the garbage has biodegraded and turned into 100 Rupee notes that are now hanging on the palms like coconuts in May. There are no Pot Holes like Curlies in South Anjuna anymore even on the roads....All the waiters wash their hands before serving you and they will never short change when you have a had a few over the limit. Newtons staff are very polite and refuse to give change in toffees or chits.The Mandovi is running milk and honey and smells of Chanel number 5.All the MLAs in Porvorim have given all the money they have swindled over the years to charity and and are now wearing bry-nylon shirts and working for nothing.The Herland has finally found out how to work a spell checker....All the police have resigned and applied to work in IKEA as shop floor helpers and finally Mr Brito has admitted his food is totally crap and over charged and will offer refunds to all and sundry......bugger me is that enough ?

Is all the above true PJ??????

Maybe we should change our promise to stay only in South Goa in future and we should plan to venture again to the North.
Where do you buy the requisite brown undies? (or is that only for men?)

A picture of The Honoured Guest at the launch of Mission Rabies in Goa at Kala Academy this evening!




It was actually very interesting!!

India might be forced to remove the subsidy on petrol & diesel because of the balance of payments deficit. They only pay 38 Rupees a litre in Delhi for diesel ! What is it here £1.40 ?

Massive subsidies on petrol, diesel, lpg, fertiliser, rice* and wheat* and a seriously ineffective tax collection system - it's pretty amazing that they've kept inflation down to around 10% for the last few years.
Subsidies never work; they are introduced with the best of intentions but soon become so significant that removing or significantly reducing them becomes politically impossible, eventually tax levels become intolerable or mega-inflation sets in - either way the economy collapses.
India is hamstrung by a Constitutional commitment to 50's socialism.
* and these set to be rolled out to 3 times as many people, at least in part to get Congress re-elected.

AndyD 8-)₹

The total fuel subsidy bill for India is roughly 16 billion pounds at the current exchange rate and only 12% actually drive so it is in fact a subsidy exclusively for the middle classes.There are no figures for two wheelers.

And what about trucks I dont think the middle class drive 20 ton lories, and by the way diesel goes up 0.5 inr every month to cut back the subsidy and bring the cost in line with petrol. This is due to now, just over 50% of cars delivered are diesel.

http://uk.advfn.com/news/DJN/2013/article/59037335


India State-Run Oil Retailers' Losses on Subsidized Sales Rise
Date : 02/09/2013 @ 15:23
Source : Dow Jones News

By Saurabh Chaturvedi

NEW DELHI--A steep fall in the value of the rupee currency and higher international crude oil prices have widened Indian state-run fuel retailers' losses on subsidized diesel and cooking-fuel sales.

Indian Oil Corp. (530965.BY), Bharat Petroleum Corp. (500547.BY) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. (500104.BY) are losing 12.12 rupees ($0.18) a liter, or 18.6% more than in the 15-day period ended Saturday, on each liter of diesel they sell in the latest fortnight, the oil ministry said in a news release.

Their losses on subsidized cooking gas and kerosene, which is used mainly as a cooking fuel in India, have gone up by 9.8% and 14.2%, respectively, compared with the average losses on their sales in August, it said.

These widening losses add voice to the demand by the local oil industry for a steep increase in the prices of subsidized fuel products. The industry wants the prices to be raised by three rupee to four rupees for a liter for diesel, 50 rupees for a 14.2-kilogram cylinder of cooking gas and two rupees for a liter of kerosene.

The government controls the prices of these products and partly compensates the three state-run fuel retailers for selling them at a discount. The rest is absorbed by state-run Indian upstream companies and the retailers.

The government stopped setting the price of gasoline in June 2010. In January this year, it asked retailers to "make small changes" in the price of diesel from time to time, signaling a partial decontrol.

Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum review their fuel prices every two weeks based on various factors, including global oil prices and currency fluctuations. These companies account for more than 90% of India's retail fuel business.

The Indian rupee has fallen about 20% against the dollar since the beginning of May. This has increase the cost of crude oil for India's refiners as the country gets about three-fourths of the oil it requires through imports.

Meanwhile, crude oil prices have gone up because of worries that any military intervention in Syria could lead to disruption in the supply of oil from the Middle East.

On Saturday, the three fuel retailers increased the price of gasoline by 2.53 rupees a liter and diesel by 0.50 rupee a liter.