Cochin Port Reconstruction Project Uplinking for News Channels with Foreign Equity Final results of NDA and Naval Academy Examination 1 2002 India and Kuwait to widen Cooperation in IT, Telecom Now Privatisation of Judiciary also?
Uplinking for News Channels with Foreign Equity
RAJYA SABHA
New Delhi - December 9. Three companies with foreign equity have been permitted uplinking of 24 hours news channels from India. These are; Jain Studio Ltd. (20% foreign equity), Zee Telegilms Ltd. (57.54%) and New Delhi Television Ltd. (16.47 %). The proposal of the Star News Broadcasting Ltd. is under process. The Star News is indirectly wholly owned subsidiary of Star Group Ltd. which in turn is indirectly wholly owned by the News Corporation Ltd. Except Star News Broadcasting Ltd., all the other companies have their offices registered in India and have Indians on their Boards. The Star News Broadcasting Ltd. has informed that its Head Office is in Hong Kong and registered Office in British Virgin Islands. The Company has three Directors, two Americans and one Britisher. This information was given by the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Smt. Sushma Swaraj in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.-keralamonitor.com
Cochin Port Reconstruction Project
The Ministry of Shipping has taken up the following projects for the development of Cochin Port during the last three years.
Reconstruction of Boat Train Pier (BTP) Jetty into a multi-purpose Jetty.
The port has completed the project of reconstruction of Boat Train Pier (BTP) jetty into a multi purpose at an estimated cost of Rs. 17 crores from Port’s internal resources in the year 2001, which can receive bulk carriers upto 35,000 DWT. The capacity addition on completion of this project was 0.5 million metric tonnes per annum.
Establishment of an International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT).
Tender for this work was invited in 1999. However, due to various reasons, it could not be finalised. Fresh tenders have been invited and the process of qualifying the bidders is in progress. Capacity addition with this project will be to the tune of 5 to 40 million tonnes per annum in phases.
Setting up of an International Bunkering Terminal under private participation. Tender for this project was invited during 2001 and prequalification of bidders have been completed. Request for proposals (RFP) have been issued to short-listed bidders and due date of submission is December 13, 2002. It is expected that capacity addition with this project will be to the tune of 1 million tonnes per annum in the initial stage and can go upto 10 million tonnes per annum in the final stages. Establishment of an LNG Terminal by the Promotors, M/s. Petronet LNG Ltd.
The Port has allotted about 40 acres of its land for establishment of an LNG Terminal. The selection of contractors has been completed by M/s Petronet and market tie-up for consumers is in progress. This terminal will handle about 2.5 million tonnes per annum initially and in the final stages it will handle about 5 million toner per annum of LNG.
This was stated by Shri Su. Thirunavukkarasar Minister of State for Shipping in a written reply to a question by Shri J. Chitharanjan in Rajya Sabha today. keralamonitor.com
Final results of NDA and Naval Academy Examination 1 2002The Union Public Service Commission has declared the final results of the National Defence Academy (NDA) Examination, held by the Commission in April, 2002. There are some common candidates in the lists of result for Army, Navy, Airforce and Naval Academy. The total number of candidates in the three lists is 161. The number of vacancies as intimated by the government is 195 for Army, 39 for the Navy and 66 for the Air Force and 35 for the Naval Academy. The results of medical examination have not been taken into account in preparing the lists. The candidature of all the candidates is provisional subject to their submitting of the requisite certificates.
For any further information, the candidates may contact Facilitation Counter of the Commission, either in person or on Telephone numbers 3385271 or 3381125. The result is also available at Union Public Service Commission website at http://www.upsc.gov.in. keralamonitor.com
