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The owners of the Kochi Indian Premier League (IPL) Team have exchanged a new round of accusations with IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi.

Now, the CEO of the Kochi franchise, Shailendar Gaekwad, claims that Modi offered them 50 million dollars to sell the team. A sign, says Gaekawad, that Modi desperately wanted a new IPL franchise in another part of the country instead of Kochi.

Attacking Modi for repeating on Wednesday that it's not clear exactly who owns the team, the owners retorted, "How can Modi say 'We don't know who the owners are'."

The consortium that won the bid for the Kochi team for 1530 crores is led by Rendezvous Sports Group and claims that its members submitted all required documents to the IPL, "including our PAN cards."

Gaekwad, said that at a meeting with Modi, "We were asked a lot of personal questions about some of our owners which we could not readily answer. He asked questions about when did you meet Sunanda (Pushkar) and other such irrelevant things....We said that whatever questions were unanswered we will mail all the details as soon as possible. We felt that most of the questions were planted. Before we could give all the answers he went on Twitter and said at the press conference that we did not have knowledge about all the owners."

Via:http://goo.gl/PANJ

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AMAZING : Chinese Concept - The train that never stops at a station:

A brilliant new Chinese train innovation - get on & off the bullet train without the train stopping. VERY COOL CONCEPT !

No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. If there are 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou, just stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy and time.

A mere 5 min stop per station (elderly passengers cannot be hurried) will result in a total loss of 5 min x 30 stations or 2.5 hours of train journey time!

How it works (view the movie - in mandarin though!):

1. For those who are boarding the train : The passengers at a station embarks onto to a connector cabin way before the train even arrives at the station. When the train arrives, it will not stop at all. It just slows down to pick up the connector cabin which will move with the train on the roof of the train. While the train is still moving away from the station, those passengers will board the train from the connector cabin mounted on the train's roof. After fully unloading all its passengers, the cabin connector cabin will be moved to the back of the train so that the next batch of outgoing passengers who want to alight at the next station will board the connector cabin at the rear of the train roof.
2. For those who are getting off: As stated after fully unloading all its passengers, the cabin connector cabin will be moved to the back of the train so that the next batch of outgoing passengers who want to alight at the next station will board the connector cabin at the rear of the train roof. When the train arrives at the next station, it will simply drop the whole connector cabin at the station itself and leave it behind at the station. The outgoing passengers can take their own time to disembark at the station while the train had already left. At the same time, the train will pick up the incoming embarking passengers on another connector cabin in the front part of the train's roof. So the train will always drop one connector cabin at the rear of its roof and pick up a new connector cabin in the front part of the train's roof at each station.

Innovation?

Source:email

Putting curtains to all the confusions regarding IPL Kochi team, Lalit Modi, IPL commissioner signed the franchise deal, providing official status to the team. Mr Modi signed the deal in a private hotel at Bangalore. Vivek Venugopal signed the deal for Rendezvous consortium. Owners of the consortium, who won the bid for Kochi held discussions with BCCI officials at Mumbai on Friday.

The advocate board of BCCI went through the documents submitted by the sponsors of the Kochi team and gave green signal to proceed. BCCI officials then directed Rendezvous consortium sponsors to proceed to Bangalore and have the signature form Lalit Modi. All official procedures connected with the approval of Kochi team is likely to be over by Monday.

Rumors where ripe regarding the future of the Kochi team with a section of news carrying news that BCCI is likely to cancel the franchisee of IPL team as the team owners sold 25% shares for three persons without receiving any money. Owners of Rendezvous consortium then met BCCI officials at Mumbai to clear the air. A top Congress leader too intervened in the matter taking it up with Sharad Pawar, former BCCI president.

Via

This site is useful to find the pan card details of one.
It's worked for me.

Try it yourself
www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/e-Filing/Services/KnowYourPan.html

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• Rs.1500 crores investment


• 25 Lac sq. ft. of shopping, leisure & entertainment


• 5 star luxury hotel by Marriott


• Family Amusement Center


• 3000 plus car parking


• Special area of promoting Kerala products


• Completion in June 2011


• Direct jobs for 8000 and indirect jobs for more than 20,000 people

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Enjoyable shopping, splendid dining, and non-stop entertainment and fun backed by exceptional facilities – just imagine how wonderful it would be when you get all these under one roof! This is what we at Lulu Shopping Mall strive for. As such, we provide a peerless host of options to satisfy the unique needs of our customers to make their each visit a comfortable as well as enjoyable experience, which among many others, are

* Lulu Hyper Market (2 Levels)
* 3500-seated Food Court that has 18 multi-cuisine kitchens and three fine restaurants
* 60,000 sq ft, 7-screen multiplex with fabulous computer games, bowling alleys, rides, and amusement
* Expansively spread check-out counters
* Ample parking space that can easily accommodate up to 3000 vehicles
* Money exchange centres
* Bank counters
* 16 pairs of escalators, travelators, elevators, and lifts
* Spacious corridors
* Large glass central atrium with translucent roof
* Facilities for the disabled
* Easy access and exit

Kochi gets to be the gateway of Kerala where entertainment is concerned. The State’s first multiplex (Cinemax) is opening its doors wide to cinema lovers today, yes, at Oberon Mall. The city’s first big mall has opened part ially. Oberon Mall is right on the bypass, at Edappally. As you turn from the traffic signal at Edappally to the bypass, and drive ahead for a few minutes, its huge dome comes into view.

It is a fourscreeen multiplex which can seat between 700 and 800 people.
Ticket rates have not been fixed yet.

First film will be Prithviraj's 'Thanthonni'

Actor Prithviraj inaugurated the multiplex at 6.30 p.m. Today. After the ceremony the movie ’Thanthonni’, a Prithviraj starrer, screened. Apart from Prithviraj, other actors from the film also attended the inaugural function.

Although the official inauguration will be held Thursday the regular shows will begin only from Friday. In the multiplex that has four screens has a total of 634 seats. Shows will begin from 10 a.m. There will be shows at 1 p.m, 7 p.m and 10 p.m. There will be a small time difference in the beginning of shows at the four screens. Although the exact ticket rates at the multiplex, that has two classes, are not known, there are hints that they will be over Rs 80.

Enjoy the experience of World Class Cinema in Kerala now……



Website:www.cinemax.co.in

Photos copyrighted to respective owners. Got the photos as email. So not know the source @ the moment