Monday, 14 January 2013

[www.keralites.net] Union minister busts Air India ticketing scam

 

Such energetic and honest Ministers should be in the helm of affairs instead of the old aged seasoned corrupt and selfish politicians to unearth such foul plays.  Hats off to Mr. KC Venugopal and his team.  If he is doing his duties in the right perspective our corrupt senior leaders won’t permit him to continue with such corrective actions in the Civil Aviation Ministry  as all are linked to such foul plays in one way or other and they won’t like anyone working against their interests.

 

Best regards,

 

Moideen kutty Mohamed

Riyadh

 

 

 

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Union minister busts Air India ticketing scam

A prompt minister has unearthed an anomaly that Air India authorities “ overlooked” for years. Minister of state for civil aviation K. C. Venugopal, while flying on an Air India flight, detected a ticket scam and virtually busted it singlehandedly.

Venugopal was travelling to Kochi on a Delhi- Kochi- Thiruvananthapuram flight on January 4. The minister noticed as many as 23 vacant seats on the flight. Suspecting something amiss, he asked for the passenger manifest but the crew failed to produce one. Venugopal then instructed his office to file a formal complaint with the chairman and managing director of the airline, Rohit Nandan, and it did so promptly.

Air India launched an inquiry into the complaint and by January 10, two officers from customer service — Kalyani Atre and Marie Bernascone — were suspended from duty. Interestingly, the Air India Employees’ Guild has not asked for the revocation of the suspension of the two officers, but complained to the labour commissioner to go deep into the racket as it suspects the involvement of top officials of the airline in the malpractice. Venugopal decided to inquire into the reason behind the vacant seats as a Kerala minister was denied a seat on the same flight due to “ non- availability of tickets”.

Confirming the incident, Venugopal said many passengers were waitlisted due to overbooking. “ I inquired about the occupancy after seeing the vacant seats. I asked my office to lodge a complaint and ask for an inquiry.” He said it is possible that bulk bookings of unknown persons may have been done by manipulating the computer system. “ Air India promptly ordered an inquiry,” the minister told.

Sources said the cost of an Air India ticket on Delhi- Kochi- Thiruvananthapuram flight on that day was ` 30,000 and hence the airline lost ` 6.9 lakh on that particular flight. Upset over the losses, Venugopal, sources said, has now decided to examine the history of old bookings. The ticket “ inconvenience”, suspected to be caused deliberately by officials of the government airline to benefit private carriers, has been a regular phenomenon with Air India flights. Jitendra Bhargava, former executive director, Air India, said it could be due to a technical glitch in online booking.

“ This kind of situation where a passenger is denied a seat on a flight has been there for a while and I have faced it myself. Much of this is to be blamed on systems error, which is often corrected by personal intervention and monitoring. I, too, had sorted out requests from passengers in the First Class category when they were denied seats citing ‘ booked status’, but in reality the seats were all unoccupied. The corrections were made possible only with direct checking.” Bhargava, however, did not rule out a ‘ foul play’ by agents and said they should be thoroughly probed and if found guilty, should be blacklisted. “ It could be possible that some agents are diverting the traffic to other airlines for incentives and a malaise within Air India cannot be overlooked completely… it needs to be examined to the roots.”

The former executive director complimented the minister for highlighting the issue and taking disciplinary action. Kapil Kaul , CEO, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, South Asia, favoured a probe into the anomaly. “ Seat racket is rare in the current multi- carrier scenario. It was a usual thing when government- run carriers were monopolising the skies. I am surprised if it has happened when there are too many seats chasing the passengers. Although there can be a possibility when an entire group opted out at the last minute, but there should have been a correction by the airline in its system and for current seat status.

Nothing can be ruled out though… a thorough probe will only clear the picture.” Aviation experts smelt a racket behind the ticket non- availability. “ The minister may have accidently stumbled upon the racket on that particular day. What about other days? Hundreds of flights may have taken off with empty seats causing loss of crores of rupees to the national exchequer,” said an analyst. The national carrier has been bleeding at a time when private carriers in the country are making a killing. Official figures show that Air India suffered an average loss of ` 404 crore every month from March to October in 2012.

The figure was revealed recently when civil aviation minister Ajit Singh reviewed the functioning of the national carrier. An audit of the airline’s books showed that the company had a cash inflow of ` 1,348 crore per month while the outflow due to high fuel cost was ` 1,752 crore, leading to the cash deficit. Air India is currently reeling under an accumulated loss of over ` 28,000 crore

 

 

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[www.keralites.net] The True Genesis of Internet Business

 

Well, you might have thought that you knew how Internet business started, but here's the TRUE story .....

 

 


In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of
Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot.

And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg.
Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.

And she said unto Abraham, her husband: "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"

And Abraham did look at her - as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said: "How, dear?"

And Dot replied: "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in
between to send messages saying what you have for
sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price.

And the sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."

Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success.
Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.

To prevent neighbouring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was called Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew To The People (HTTP)

But this success did arouse envy. A man named Maccabia did secrete himself inside Abraham's drum and began to siphon off some of Abraham's business. But he was soon discovered, arrested and prosecuted - for insider trading.

And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung.

They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.

And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the
deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land.

And indeed did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates' drumheads and drumsticks.

And Dot did say: "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others."

And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as it came to be known. He said: "We need a name that reflects what we are."

And Dot replied: "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."
"YAHOO," said Abraham.
And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.

Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside.

It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE)

And that is how it all began.


Truly!!!

 
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[www.keralites.net] Amazing Boat Made of Chocolate

 

George Larnicol, a 55-year-old French chocolatier, managed to create and sail a 3.5-meter-long boat made of chocolate.
On Saturday, September 25, the walled city of Concarneau, in north-western France, hosted an event unique in the world – the launch of a full size chocolate boat. George Larnicol, the mastermind behind this crazy creation, first attempted to sail a chocolate boat on August 15, but the boat crumbled to pieces when turned over from where it was mounted. But one small failure wasn't enough to make Larnicol quit, and on Saturday, he returned to Concarneau port, with a new chocolate boat named "Bateau Chocolat II" (French for Chocolate Boat II)
The 1.2-ton-heavy boat had a sugar framework, while the rest of it was made entirely of pure chocolate. It took Larnicol and his team one and a half months to complete, working eight hours a day, which adds up to a total of about 400 hours.
George Larnicol and a friend got in the chocolate boat and sailed in it for a bout an hour, waving proudly to the audience, and smiling the whole time. The attached electrical motor allowed the Bateau Chocolat II to reach a top speed of 15km/h.
Chocolatier George Larnicol, who owns a chain of chocolate shops in western France, promised to build a giant 12 meter-long yacht, with two masts, made of 6 to 8 tons of chocolate, sometime in 2012. That's going to be a sight to be hold, and you can bet you'll read about it on Oddity Central.
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ദല്‍ഹി പെണ്‍കുട്ടിയുടെ കഥ സിനിമയാകുന്നു

 

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തിരുവനന്തപുരം: ദല്‍ഹിയില്‍ പീഡനത്തിനിരയായി മരിച്ച പെണ്‍കുട്ടിയുടെ കഥ മലയാളത്തില്‍ സിനിമയാക്കുന്നു. നവാഗതനായ വേണു ജി.എസ്.ശരവണാണ് സംവിധായകന്‍. ഉത്തര്‍പ്രദേശ്, പഞ്ചാബ് എന്നിവിടങ്ങളിലാണ് ചിത്രീകരണം.

ലക്ഷ്മീറായ് ആണ് ദല്‍ഹി പെണ്‍കുട്ടിയാവുന്നത്. ഉണ്ണിമുകുന്ദന്‍, സലിംകുമാര്‍, സുരാജ് വെഞ്ഞാറമൂട്, ലെന എന്നിവര്‍ മറ്റ് വേഷങ്ങളില്‍ എത്തുന്നു. ചിത്രത്തിന്‍െറ കളക്ഷനില്‍നിന്ന് 25 ലക്ഷം രൂപ ദല്‍ഹി പെണ്‍കുട്ടിയുടെ കുടുംബത്തിന് നല്‍കുമെന്നും സംവിധായകന്‍ വാര്‍ത്താസമ്മേളനത്തില്‍ പറഞ്ഞു.

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