News and Events of India

Taking alcohol and after that driving or simultaneously doing both, would lead to a crime in many of the cities of India. The Chandigarh police have recently organized a special team who will be looking at the people who are driving under the influence of alcohol in the city in the new year eve. Few days before the police have announced several times that the partygoers and the motorists should not mix up drinking with driving and if they do so, then they are going to be punished.

The city has witnessed many accidents due to driving in the drunked condition. So the police is going to take suitable steps right from now. They are going to arrange several teams which will be provided alco-meter and they are going to vigil the whole night across the whole city and they are sure this will prevent many accidents. They are going to set up check posts in many areas of the city.

India’s most leading private airlines Kingfisher has decided to reduce its airfare in the beginning of the coming year. Vijaya Mallya, the chairman of Kingfisher Airlines, said that Kingfisher is going to effect fare cuts in all its flights from january 1, 2009 but he has not mentioned how much he is going to reduce. In this month, the price of air turbine fuel was decreased to half of what it was in the month of July. This is the lowest price in case of air turbine fuel since last two years. That’s why it is a great oppertunity of Kingfisher airlines to increase their market share by offering five star flying experience at very reduced fare.

Jet Airways had already reduced their airfare by Rs 400 in a month before and now they are also thinking to reduce the fare further which can be effected from the beginning of the coming year. So its a great challenge for Kingfisher to grab the present market.

India is one of the most ideal tourist countries in the world. Every year a huge number of tourists come to India from all over the world. So India has developed it’s tourism sector quite largely in the past few years. But the recent attack in Mumbai, has effected India’s tourism sector very badly. Already due to the worldwide recession period, tourism of India has faced a big loss in these current days and terrorist attack in Mumbai  has caused more slowdown in this sector.

Many tourists from various countries who booked their tour to India, have cancelled their booking due to the problem of insecurity in India. Compared with the past condition, 50% slowdown is currently going in this sector and with the help of the Ministry of Tourism it can be improved to 30% in the coming days. Hotels are the most important component in this sector and if bookings are down in hotels, then the whole sector is going to be affected. So the ultimate solution of this slowdown is to cut down the tariff of the hotels by atleast 20-25%

Southern star Asin performed quite well in her debut film “GHAJINI” and now a days she is moving all the way to Mumbai. Actually she is from Chennai and recently she has got a huge number of bollywood projects in hand and that’s why she has decided to stick with bollywood and “GHAJINI” gave her a success. She has finalised a house at Bandra,Mumbai and in the beginning of the next year she will be settled there with her parents.

Fact about her nature is that she is a very fun-loving person and she is very talkative. Her mother is a doctor and father is a sucessful businessman. She has done a great job in her debut bollywood film with the famous star Amir Khan and before it, she has done a Tamil film “Nayantara” which was also a hit.

The global meltdown has effected the Information Technology sector of India in such a way that the sector is going to face the worst condition in the next year. An union of ITES(Information technology enabled services) sector said that around 50,000 Information technology and business process outsourcing jobs may be lossed in the period of first six months of the year 2009.

 Already 10,000 employees of IT and BPO sector, lossed their jobs in the month of September to december. The chances of losing jobs are high in the case of small and big companies whereas on the other hand employees of medium sized companies feel the heat of that. From an servey it is seen that generally freshers and high paid employees of a company are losing their jobs at the time of global economic crisis. A global union of IT sector has suggested that the companies should do one thing to cope up with this situation and the thing is to cut the salaries and incentives of the employees. This would be much better than losing a job.

This year, the christmas celebration will be quiet for most of the bollywood celebrities. The star from kerala, Asin said that he will be going to his home Kerala for having fun with christmas trees, cakes, carols, candles etc in this Christmas. He also pointed out that in his debut firm “GHAJINI” ,people will not only look at the muscle of Amir Khan but he will be the another attraction in the film. He just want the film to be a superhit in this festive season.

Actress Malaika Arora said that she will be doing midnight parties as usual in this festival and on 25th she will be busy with her family.

Actor cum supermodel Dino Morea said that his christmas celebration will be done at his home this year because his parents are all down from Bangalore. He will be enjoying this festival with midnight parties with his friends and family.