States - World Snap

Ever felt frustrated attempting to park your car, and wondered if you could find a device that you could ride to your destination and then fold up? Sounds like a wild dream? Perhaps not much longer ? mechanical engineers at the MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, who will hold an exhibition on May 14, have thought of solutions for some of those intractable mundane headaches. Students, ex-students and faculty will put in exhibition devices that could save you time and bother. LASRA-SZ2, …

Pune

May 11, 2010 Worldsnap Staff

PCB members under police scanner

Two elected members and two former vice presidents of the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) are under the scanner of city police on charges of allegedly issuing extortion threats, cheating and resorting to criminal manipulation of cantonment board records during the allotment of the Vehicle Entry Tax (VET) contract recently. The police have served notices to four members for alleged involvement in extortion and harassment of the VET contractor. Confirming the development, ACP (Wanavdi divisio…

Mumbai

May 10, 2010 Worldsnap Staff

Once held for graft, ex-Mhada officer gets MSRDC post

A state government official soon to be chargesheeted in a case of accepting bribe of Rs7.5 lakh has been appointed by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) as their commercial officer as well as the public relations officer (PRO). Interestingly, while the move has led to widespread resentment among the officials of the loss-making corporation, MSRDC chairman Jaydatt Kshirsagar said he was unaware of the background of Vijay Kalam Patil, the officer concerned.Kalam Patil, …

Mumbai

May 10, 2010 Worldsnap Staff

‘Trial run taught us valuable lessons’

With his company bagging the prestigious contract for constructing the country’s first-ever Monorail, Kanesan Veluppillai, president of Scomi International is understandably a proud and happy man. The Centre even made a special mention of the project in the Union Budget 2010-11. In an interview with Ninad Siddhaye, Kanesan says India is emerging as one of the largest markets for monorail – even bigger than the metro – with several other states evincing interest in jumping onto the monorail ba…

Bangalore

May 10, 2010 Worldsnap Staff

Powerless to prevent the steep fall in sales

So the frequent power cuts have become the bane of your life? Imagine how much worse it must be for someone whose livelihood depends on offering you a comfortable space. Shopkeepers complain that it was metro work that first affected sales; now, it’s the frequent power cuts. ?Power goes off nearly four times each day, and we’ve had a 25% drop in sales,? says Sireesh Babu, secretary of the Bangalore Trade Association.Running a generator costs at least Rs10,000 a month. ?And even if we do…