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Ever heard of a train running on a road? It does in Jammu and Kashmir. Set to chug in Kashmir's bewitching landscape in snowy February 2007, the first-ever trial train to Kashmir took off for the Valley on Tuesday not on traditional tracks but on the 300 km-long Jammu-Srinagar national highway, adding another historic chapter to the Rs 4,700 crore Jammu-Udhampur-Qazigund-Srinagar-Baramulla national rail project.

Thursday, November 30, 2006 (Thiruvananthapuram): A Malaysian contractor working on a project in Kerala killed himself in Kuala Lumpur earlier this month. It has now been revealed that Lee See Ben left a suicide note, saying the system in Kerala was extremely corrupt and it had become difficult for him to continue working there. Lee was in charge of a World Bank aided project for the Kerala State Transport Corporation and was believed to be frustrated. The project had been stalled for the past six to seven months because the government hadn't paid the company dues of about Rs 12 crore. G

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When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 Hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar . . . and the coffee.. A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.

Terrorism feeds on fear. Fear is a personal feeling that can only be dealt with individually. A nation cannot be afraid, but its leaders can easily infect people with their personal fear. The history has already proven that in the UK and USA. They are the current #1 terror targets in the world. It's their irrational reactions to terror threats, such as counter-attacks, that keep spreading even more fear. By aggressive reactions they have made themselves ever more valuable targets to future terrorist attacks. What is 'terrorism' depends completely on perspective.

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"EUREKA...it works!" were the first words. With high dreams deep inside, it seemed to be a reason to a very successful tomorrow, untill light was thrown at it. And suddenly all the enthusiasm witnessed its gradual fall. Yes, I'm talking about AMITA, an acronym to "Automatic & Instantaneous Torque Application". An 'original' thought to something that could easily have been a reason or rather 'a key' to the door, to the other side of which is the vast world of wisdom & appreciation. Hi, this is Buddhabrata [a.k.a.

Lately many pleas have been made that Mohammed Afzal Guru's execution should be stayed because his death 'could fuel separatism in Jammu & Kashmir.' The state chief minister himself has been an ardent advocate for clemency for the terrorist who attacked the Indian Parliament in December 2001 (and nearly provoked a war between India and Pakistan). The 'secular' protagonists claim that his execution will make a martyr of Afzal.

Bangalore: Silicon Valley or Coolie Valley? March 01, 2004 Politicians, bureaucrats and residents of Bangalore take pride in the fact that they live in what they call the Silicon Valley of the East.

OM BHŪR-BHUVAH-SUVAH TAT-SAVITUR-VARENYAM BHARGO DEVASYA DHĪMAHI DHIYO YO NAH PRACODAYĀT Om, we meditate (DHĪMAHI) on the spiritual Effulgence(Bhargas) of that Adorable Supreme Divine Reality(Varenyam Devasya), the source or projector(savitr) of the three phenomenol world-planes—the gross or physical(Bhuh), the subtle or physical(Bhuvah), and the potential or casual(Suvah), both macrocosmically(externally) and microcosmically(internally).