As far as tall orders go, for Delhi to advance from their cluster in the Santosh Trophy can be compared to climbing a mountain during a galestorm.
After a dirty battle for power during the Delhi Soccer Association elections a month ago, the forthcoming national championship escaped everyones attention - or, as usual, nobody bothered. Now that the opening match of their Santosh Trophy campaign is nearly upon Delhi as they face Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, the DSA officials and coach Anadi Barua are finally wide awake, ruing how time has flown past.
The team, though honing their skills for nearly a month during a training camp, came together only a couple of days ago when Sunil Chhetri and Parveen Rawat joined the camp.
Barua insists that the team is in fine fettle, ready for the big war. However, this claim does not hold much water: Key striker and captain Chetri has joined the preparations at the last minute, and Rome was certainly not built in a day. Jammu and Kashmir though, will be no pushovers.
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All the six private bidders for the modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports are still in fray and the empowered Group of Ministers (eGoM) on the matter is likely to meet on December five to select two private consortia from among them, who would form joint ventures with Airports Authority of India for the process.
Official sources said Air Plan (Australia), the global technical advisor assisting the government in the matter, has "graded" the six bidders on the basis of their technical bids.
Instead of shortlisting any of the bidders, all the six bids would be sent by the Civil Aviation Ministry
Delhi Metro Line-II to enter Gurgaon
Commuting to the capitals satellite town Gurgaon will become easier as the Delhi government Tuesday decided to expand the Delhi Metro Line-II seven kilometres inside the IT township.
Delhi Chief Minster Tuesday said that Line-II of Delhi Metro would now go up to Sushant Lok, Gurgaon, and would traverse through populated neighbourhoods like Saket, Hauz Khas and Malviya Nagar.
The line from the Central Secretariat to Sushant Lok will be of 28 km and is expected to be operational months before the Commonwealth Games to be hosted here in 2010.
The stretch up to Saket
The government is finally wielding the stick to clear fog-induced chaos at Delhi airport, literally.
Blaming the airlines for the chaos and confusion at the airports every winter, the government on Tuesday threatened not to allow private airlines to fly out of Delhi from next winter unless they have trained pilots to operate flights in foggy conditions.
The minor hiccup that the government seems to have not bothered to take note of: The current airline rules do not permit start-up airlines to directly train their pilots on the latest CAT-3B system operational at IGI Delhi.
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After much delay, Delhi commuters will finally get a taste of the High Capacity buses, which will be introduced in capital's public transport system next week.
Six High Capacity buses, manufactured by Tata, will begin running as a feeder service to Metro rail, connecting South Delhi with the heart of the city, Transport Minister Haroon Yusuf told reporters here today.
The buses will connect R K Puram in South Delhi with Central Secretariat and then Patel Chowk, the last two being important Metro stations.
Yusuf said two other corridors have been identified for the High Capacity buses.
"We have asked the civic agencies to
After foraying into Dubai, real estate player Omaxe is all set to enter the Mauritian property market with a plan to develop a 50-acre residential project.
The Delhi-based company has identified a project of 50 acres and planning to develop a residential township there, sources said.
The land for the township is likely to be provided by the government and the company is expecting to receive the ownership of the land within a week, they added.
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