Seeking permission for direct import of jet fuel, Kingfisher Airlines has informed the government that steps are being taken to improve cash flow of the debt-ridden carrier by procuring ATF through suppliers' credit on lower interest rates.
 "...it is essential for us to improve our cash flow on an urgent basis. Sourcing of ATF (aviation turbine fuel) through imports has the potential to lower our overall procurement cost of ATF...bring down our cost of working capital as suppliers' credit at lower interest rates will be feasible," the beleaguered airlines said in a letter to the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT).
It said that the ATF which constitutes for about 40 per cent of the total operating cost of an airline, attracts sales tax between four per cent and 30 per cent in different states. The airline would make arrangements with service providers for storage and handling of ATF at ports and into planes at Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore airports. Sources said the DGFT has sought from the airline details like the quantity and value of imports proposed to be imported directly.
As per the Foreign Trade Policy, only state trading enterprises like IOC are allowed to import the ATF. However, DGFT has powers to "grant authorisation to any other person to import any of these goods on grounds of genuine hardship". Even in 2008, Kingfisher had made a similar request to the DGFT, which was declined by the Petroleum Ministry. Views of the Petroleum and Civil Aviation ministries would be sought before DGFT takes a decision on the issue, sources said. Kingfisher reported a net loss of Rs 468.66 crore for the second quarter ended September 30. It has a debt of over Rs 6,000 crore.

The Punjab government today notified the enhanced special allowance to certain categories of employees of Punjab Civil Secretariat and equivalent offices from June 1, 2011.
The decision would also be applicable to employees of Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretariat, Financial Commissioner's Secretariat, Punjab Raj Bhawan, Legal Remembrance's Office and Punjab Public Service Commission also.
Stating this here today, an official spokesman said the state government said special allowance rates would be as under; Superintendent Grade-1 (Rs 1200), Private Secretary (Rs 1200), Personal Assistant (Rs 600), Senior Assistant (Rs 480), Junior Auditor/Auditor(Rs 480), Senior Scale Stenographer (Rs 480), Junior Assistant (Rs 480), Junior Scale Stenographer (Rs 300) , Steno-Typist( Rs 240) and Clerk (Rs 240).

i did  and it bleeding lil bit and fell down in school

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i did hit my on well

The Canadiens will try to slow down the sizzling Boston Bruins tonight, as the Original Six rivals meet for a Northeast Division battle at Montreal's Bell Centre.
After posting a 3-7-0 record in October, the Bruins have yet to lose a game in November, rattling off eight straight victories to begin the month. The defending Stanley Cup champions have been an offensive juggernaut during the hot streak, as they Bruins have been held to less than four goals just once over the last eight games.
Boston scored six times in its most recent victory, rolling past the New York Islanders, 6-0, on Saturday at Nassau Coliseum.
Chris Kelly had two goals and an assist for the Bruins in Saturday's road test, as Boston posted its first eight-game winning streak in almost three years. The Bruins hadn't won eight straight since capturing 10 in a row from December 12, 2008 through January 1, 2009.
Patrice Bergeron, Nathan Horton, Andrew Ference and Zdeno Chara also scored for Boston while Tim Thomas had 23 saves for his second shutout of the season.
"The human tendency is to let up and we did a good job of staying with it for most of the game," Thomas said of having a big lead. "There was only a couple of really good chances."
The win over the Isles marked the start of a three-game road trip for the Bruins, who are 3-2-0 as the guest this season.
Boston's last two losses, however, came in a home-and-home sweep at the hands of the Canadiens on Oct. 27 and 29. Montreal notched a 2-1 regulation win in Boston to open that series and then posted a 4-2 decision in the home portion.
Montreal has won three of four and eight of the last 10 meetings against Boston overall and the Bruins have lost five straight at the Bell Centre. The B's haven't won in Montreal since a 3-0 win on Feb. 7, 2010.
The Canadiens were able to end another Eastern Conference team's lengthy winning streak in their last outing, as Montreal disposed of the visiting New York Rangers, 4-0, on Saturday. New York had won seven in a row, but was denied its first eight-game winning streak since the 1974-75 season.
Carey Price stopped 17 shots and Brian Gionta scored twice to lift the Habs to the easy victory over the Blueshirts.
The Canadiens also got goals from Erik Cole and Tomas Plekanec in the victory, their fourth in the last six games. Price recorded his second shutout of the season and the 14th of his career.
"Our awareness in our defensive zone is right on," Price said. "I think what we're doing is that we're keeping the gaps close and not giving them any room."
Canadiens defenseman Hal Gill has missed the last four games with an infection that required a hospital stay, and although he was released from care on Friday, Gill will sit out tonight's test as well.
Fellow blueliner Jaroslav Spacek is also expected to miss his fourth straight game tonight with an upper body injury.
The Canadiens have a poor 4-4-3 record on home ice this year, but Montreal will shoot for a third straight victory at the Bell Centre tonight.

this year  patriots will win

The NBA lockout drags on as the disagreements only continue to develop further between the NBA Players Union and the league's owners. As a result, it will be teams like the Boston Celtics that will suffer tremendously as a result of the never-ending lockout.

The Celtics are a veteran ball club that enter arguably their last season as championship contenders with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen as their leaders. The Big Three may be getting their rest, yet in turn they are also getting that much older.

The lockout has not only worsened, but according to the Washington Post, it has gotten to the point in which the players have filed antitrust lawsuits against the league for keeping them out of work. According to the Post, two groups of players have filed antitrust lawsuits against the league in both California and Minnesota.

These are the five big reasons why a continued NBA lockout and the potential loss of the 2011-2012 NBA season hurts the Boston Celtics significantly more than it helps head coach Doc Rivers and the team.

noooooooooooooooooooooo!
Cheenay drivers and winter, NOT a good combination. :angr:
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i kown sis it same thing for school in winter

india win world cup kabaddi 2011

Hosts India lifted the winners title in the men's and women's section of the second World Cup Kabaddi tournament in Ludhiana. The India men team easily beat the Canada side 59-25 in the final match played at the Guru Nanak Dev stadium in Ludhiana on late Sunday. India was the winner of

 
the inaugural edition of the World Cup Kabaddi 2010 also.
The winners were given a cheque of Rs 2 crore while runners-up Canada got a prize money of Rs 1 crore. The total prize money in the tournament was Rs.4.11 crore for the 14 men's and four women’s participating teams.

Neighbouring Pakistan, which was the runners-up in the first edition of the Kabaddi tournament in 2010 and was expected to reach the finals this time also, finished third in the tournament. They beat Italy 60-22 in the match to decide the third position played here Sunday.

In the women’s section, hosts India won comfortably against the British women Kabaddi team. They beat their rivals 44-17.

The prizes were given away by Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.

He announced that all players of the winning teams would be given government jobs.

Former Pakistan prime minister Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain specially came on Sunday through the Wagah-Attari land route for the closing ceremony of the event held before a packed stadium in Ludhiana.

The closing ceremony of the 20-day event was a glittering affair with several performances and fireworks display.

Actors Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone took to the stage to enthrall the audience.

Akshay Kumar drove into the stadium and the stage on a superbike. He later took a round of the stadium on a convertible Mercedes with Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.

 Egypt's Cabinet offered to resign Monday night, government officials said, as thousands of people gathered again in Cairo to protest the military-led government.
The military leadership accepted the mass resignation soon after the prime minister's office said it was offered, said Lt. Col. Amr Imam, a spokesman for the ruling Supreme Council for the Armed Forces.
But a short time later, a spokesman for Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said that the resignation was not complete. Mohammed Hegazy said around 11 p.m. (4 p.m. ET) that Egypt's ruling military council "is currently in another session with the Cabinet and has not accepted" the Cabinet members' proposed mass resignation "yet."
Tahrir Square -- the hub of the activist movement that led to the ouster of longtime President Hosni Mubarak 10 months ago -- was packed again Monday with protesters calling for Egypt's military leaders to step down.
The demonstrations in Egypt's capital continued despite ongoing chaos and violence, as security forces clashed with demonstrators for a third straight day.
One of those who submitted his resignation, Justice Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz al-Juindy, said the forces' crackdown prompted the mass move to quit the government.
"I resigned because of the events in Tahrir (Square), because of the political responsibility," explained al-Juindy, referring to the bloody confrontations in Cairo between security forces and demonstrators.
Twenty-four protesters have died in these recent clashes, Health Ministry spokesman spokesman Dr. Adil al-Dawi said shortly before midnight Monday.
Among police, 102 officers and conscripts have been injured, with wounds ranging from gunshots to burns from Molotov cocktails, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. One officer has a critical bullet wound to his head.
Those figures, though, pale compared to the roughly 1,700 citizens who have been wounded, according to the same Health Ministry spokesman. That includes at least 207 on Monday.
The military said it is "extremely sorry" for the events under way and called for an investigation.
The Supreme Council is calling upon "all political forces to hold dialogue as soon as possible in order to address the escalation" of unrest, a spokesman for the military leadership, Maj. Mohamed Askar, said late Monday.
With citizen activists again at odds with security forces in Tahrir Square, the scene this week in many ways resembles what happened in February.
After Mubarak was ousted, military leaders took control with the promise that eventually a civilian government would be elected and take over.
Military leaders still insist they will hand over power to a new government when one is elected. Parliamentary elections are set to take place November 28. But a complex electoral process follows, and presidential elections could be a year away.
Demonstrators say they are concerned the military -- which would continue to be Egypt's top authority until a president is in place -- wants to keep a grip on the country. And many have voiced anger about a proposed constitutional principle that would shield the military's budget from scrutiny by civilian powers. They say they worry the military would be shaped as a state within a state.
These sentiments are reflected in the 2011 Arab Public Opinion Poll, conducted by University of Maryland professor Shibley Telhami and released Monday. Some 21% of respondents believe that Egypt's military rulers are working to advance the gains of the revolution, while double that figure -- 43% -- say they are trying to slow or reverse the gains. The survey of 750 Egyptians, conducted between October 22 and 30, has a margin of error of 3.7%.
"People here feel that they have been cheated and that they have moved from an autocracy to a military dictatorship," protester Mosa'ab Elshamy said. "So they are back to the square -- back to square one -- to ask for their rights once again."
On the streets of Cairo, some protesters have gone further -- shouting that they believe Mubarak is running the military council and, in fact, the entire country from prison. He and his sons Gamal and Alaa face charges of corruption and of killing protesters.
Violence on the streets has intensified the sentiments among demonstrators.
On Monday, CNN saw police use tear gas and rubber bullets in attempts to disperse the protesters, who responded with Molotov cocktails. Both sides threw rocks as well.
CNN saw captured protesters beaten and shocked with Taser-like devices. CNN also saw bullet holes and a pool of blood. Witnesses said one young man was shot from a nearby building. Witnesses showed CNN mobile phone footage of the wounded young man before an ambulance picked him up.
Doctors at Tahrir Square said injuries in the latest fighting include gunshot wounds, excessive tear gas inhalations and beatings to the head.
"I have received many people suffering of convulsions," said Tarek Salama, a medic in a makeshift hospital in Tahrir Square. "Lots of gunshot wounds from rubber and bird shots. And I have seen two cases who have been hit with actual live bullets."
Still, security forces efforts to control the demonstrators have not succeeded in stopping the people -- many of them shouting "freedom" -- from gathering day after day, night after night.
In fact, more and more protesters appeared to be joining the efforts.
Some political factions have vowed to hold a sit-in Tuesday at Tahrir Square, demanding the immediate resignation of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. They also demand the immediate punishment of those who have killed protesters in the past few days.
The Alliance of the Revolutionaries of Egypt are calling the event a "million man sit-in."
The Muslim Brotherhood -- one of the largest organizations in the nation -- has said that it is not having its members join the event.
Military officials have said they will allow protests, so long as they are peaceful.
On its official Facebook page, the Supreme Council of Armed Forces issued a statement about the "extremely urgent" developments that could affect the country's "stability and security."
The armed forces are "extremely sorry for what the events have led to," the statement said, calling on all political parties and coalitions "to come and work together."
The armed forces also called for an investigation into "the reasons behind the incidents," according to a CNN translation.
The forces stressed their commitment to "handing over power to an elected, civil administration" and said they do not "seek to prolong the transitional period in any way."
Mohamed Higazi, a spokesman for the prime minister's office, said the government will continue dialogue on reaching a constitution that ensures the election of a civilian government.
Besides Cairo, clashes between protesters and police have also reportedly broken out in the cities of Suez and Alexandria.
Some on the streets expressed little confidence in the government, saying there had been little progress since Mubarak's ouster.
"Nothing has changed," said Zahra, one protester in Cairo. "We've gone backwards. The military council is garbage. Mubarak is still alive and well, and the people are dying."
Hisham Qasim, a publisher and human rights activist, said that Egypt can't afford anything -- including another revolt -- that could further hamper its already struggling economy. The nation's once-thriving tourism industry continues to struggle, while unemployment remains high.
"The poverty belt is now the ticking time bomb in Egypt," Qasim said. "It threatens that what we went through (earlier this year) could be repeated. ... I don't think we'll survive a second uprising in the span of 10 years."