Work on the new rail line is being carried out and the train is likely to be flagged off in another 2 years. 5 km of the new rail line falls in India while the rest falls in Nepal. The whole project would cost Indian Railways Rs 248 crores.

Incidentally, it was the dream project of then Rail Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav who laid the foundation stone of the new line in 2007.

The railways also proposed to upgrade the Bathnaha railway station into a model station which will provide better amenities to commuters from across the border as well.

The move comes in the wake of instances where security agencies could not have a real-time access to some emails as they were registered outside the country but were opened in India.

During a recent high-level meeting held in the office of Union Home Secretary R K Singh, the Department of Information Technology (DIT) was asked to take up the matter at the earliest with the content providers. During the meeting, director general from CERT-in informed that content provider Yahoo automatically locates all email accounts registered in India to the server in India, minutes of the meeting said. However, Yahoo accounts registered outside India and subsequently accessed from India are routed through servers outside India, it said. “It was decided to advice Yahoo, Gmail etc that all emails accessed from India should be routed through servers in India,” it said, adding that the DIT would take up the matter with the content providers.

The need for this was felt after security agencies failed to access accounts of suspected terrorists of Indian Mujahideen during the surveillance period as the same had been opened in a European country. When the content provider was approached, the sleuths were told that in order to see the mails, which had been accessed from India, a request to a European nation where the server was based, was required, official sources said.

In a similar step, Battery operated cars were started in the Zoo last year.

The zoo lake is also in for a new look. “A total of three fountains are being installed in the lake. They will beautify the lake and also draw more boat riders,” said a senior official. Besides, work is also in progress for renovating the zoo’s railway station meant for ‘toy train’.

The railway station’s shed is small and does not cover the entire train when it stops there. Therefore, zoo authorities are getting the total shed area increased. In a beautification bid, the entire area of the railway station will be covered with mosaic tiles.

“I am absolutely committed to keeping the airline going unless some government agency wishes to ground it,” Mallya told reporters. “The point is our banks accounts have been frozen by income tax authorities very suddenly and that has crippled us.”

As per the latest reports, The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was not satisfied with the crisis-hit Kingfisher Airlines’ reply on the flight cancellations, according to sources. Sources in the DGCA said that they wanted a detailed reply from Kingfisher on the safety of passengers.
The DGCA gave the crisis-hit Kingfisher Airlines time till Wednesday to submit its flight schedule with the 28 operational aircraft. DGCA chief Bharat Bhushan said that out of the 64 aircraft with Kingfisher, only 28 were operational.

Kingfisher shares plunged nearly 20 percent in early trade on Tuesday ahead of a meeting between the airline’s top executives and the country’s aviation regulator. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked the carrier to explain the cancellation more than 100 flights since Saturday.

Of the 64 planes in its fleet, Kingfisher is using just over a dozen to operate flights currently, stranding thousands of passengers at airports across the country.

With one of the world’s most expensive yachts and a cricket and Formula One team, Kingfisher Airlines’ billionaire chairman is known as the “King of the Good Times” for a jet-set lifestyle that has shadowed India’s own rise as an economic power.

The 56-year-old Mallya is also chairman of United Breweries (Holdings) (UBHL.NS), a conglomerate with interests as diverse as aviation, breweries, biotechnology and real estate. The group has annual sales of more than $4 billion.

Born: Dec 19, 1974 at Launceton, Tasmania

Matches: 375 (winning 165 of 230 as captain)

Debut: Against South Africa at Wellington on February 15, 1995

Total runs in ODIs: 13,704

Second highest scorer behind Sachin Tendulkar

Centuries: 30

Second highest number of centuries behind Tendulkar

Batting average: 42.03

Highest score: 164

Wickets: 3

Won three 50-over World Cups as a player: 1999, 2003, 2007

Led Australia in the last two World Cup victories

Married long-time girlfriend —law student Rianna Jennifer Cantor—in June 2002.

Two daughters Emmy Charlotte and Matisse Ellie

On Australia Day 2012 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to cricket

He is one of only three players in history to have scored 13,000 Test runs. Statistically, he is the most successful captain of all time, with 48 victories in 77 Tests between 2004 and 31 December 2010, while as a player he is also the only cricketer in history to be involved in 100 Test victories

“We wanted to make sure that Twitter content can be where Twitter users are already going,” Twitter’s director of business development, April Underwood said. “Discovery through search is so important.”

Anton Pavlov, Yandex’s blog search manager, said in a statement: “People share news, exchange opinions and discuss all sorts of matters in real-time all the time. This kind of information will help us enhance our search results.”
Yandex is still in alpha version and is a very primitive search engine lacking most of the features Google has. However, it has about 60 percent market share in Russia, ahead of Google with about a quarter of the market, although global leader Google has recently begun to erode its lead.

Google no longer partners with Twitter, favoring its own fledgling Google+ social network for social search results.

Asked about a possible renewal of a partnership with Google, Twitter’s Underwood said: “Anything’s possible, but there’s not really an update to provide there at this time.”

Twitter has more than 100 million active users and 400 million visitors per month. Its valuation tops $8 billion, even though it has not yet established a money-making model.

Google+, which is more akin to Facebook than Twitter, has 90 million users.

Twitter and Yandex declined to give financial details of their agreement. Microsoft has been reported to have paid $30 million for its deal with Twitter.

Yandex reaches about 2.8 percent of global Internet users, according to Web metrics firm Alexa, while Bing reaches about 3.4 percent.

Kumar’s Super 30 initiative has been getting great appreciation in Canada, including in the legislature of British Columbia province with the minister of advanced education, Naomi Yamamoto, calling him a “gifted teacher”.

“Your exceptional teaching career is laudable. We proudly welcome innovators and scholars of distinction from around the world and I am pleased to welcome Anand Kumar to British Columbia for his remarkable way of spreading the light of education in the darkened corners of the society,” said Yamamoto.

Last week, at the initiative of assembly member Marc Dalton, the British Columbia legislature adopted a resolution honouring Kumar and lauding Super 30 for its role in shaping the destiny of many students from poor families.

“His inspiring tale is something that can act as a big motivation for all teachers. He deserves to be honoured,” Dalton said. Later at a function in Vancouver, Dalton presented a citation on behalf of the government to Kumar. South Asian Cultural Society president Biju Mathew said Kumar was selected from a list of 70 role models from South Asia.

About Super 30
Super 30 is an Educational Entrance Program in which 30 students from economically backward class are selected each year and groomed Free of Cost for IIT Joint Entrance Exam. It is run under the banners of Ramanujan School of Mathematics founded by Mr. Anand Kumar.
Started in 2002 it has churned 236 IITians till date.

This was revealed by Sri Ashwini Kumar Chowbey, Minister of Health GOB. He had handed over aetter in this regard to Mauritius Art and Culture minister Mookhesswar Choonee during the three-day Global Bihar summit on resurgent Bihar

The Hospital will be named afterDr. Rajendra Prasad and Seewoo Sagur Ram Ghoolam, also known as the father of the nation of Mauritius.

We have also written letter to Mauritius prime minister to give his consent for setting up the medical college hospital proposed at Mairwa in Siwan, Choubey said.

As reported in Economic Times, it would invest in 3 separate NH projects viz. 50 km of Patna to Bakhtiarpur route, 84-km stretch connecting Muzaffarpur to Sonbarsa and 70-km Mukamma to Munger.

The 50-km stretch between Patna to Bakhtiarpur, is also the busiest section in Bihar. The estimated total cost of the project is Rs 908 crore and the company has been granted a concession period of 20 years by the National Highways Authority of India. Although the completion date is set for March 2014, C&C is planning to complete it three months ahead of schedule.

Other projects include 84-km stretch connecting Muzaffarpur to Sonbarsa with an estimated cost of 656 crore and 70-km Mukamma to Munger stretch with an estimated cost of Rs 444 crore.

The Project’s deadline is March 2015. It will be located along the Bailey Road.

A separate Buddha museum would also be constructed at Vaishali. Bihar government has also identified 35 acres of land in Vaishali district it. The holy relics of Lord Buddha, presently kept in the Patna Museum, would be shifted to the Vaishali museum.

Historic Patna Museum is also being upgraded to meet the growing tourist requirements. An open-air sculpture park would soon be developed on the campus of Patna Museum. A cafeteria will also be opened there. Facilities for drinking water and toilets are also being developed on the museum premises.

An exhibition, which will showcase major events and developments of Bihar during the last 100 years, will begin at the Patna Museum on Friday and added the exhibition would remain open for visitors till March 22.