Date archives: June 24, 2010

Gurbheg Singh, a teacher at the Sathya Bharti School in Khanpur village in Punjab, remembers Harpreet Kaur as a shy little girl. She spent the early minutes of her first day at school in 2007, fiercely determined not to come out of hiding from behind her father’s legs. Singh had…

[slideshow] Source: TOI

NEW DELHI: If creaky, user-unfriendly airports form an indelible first impression in the international traveller’s mind about a city, New Delhi will soon cease to be seen as a dysfunctional and chaotic city. When Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport begins operations on 14 July (11 days after…

If airports are an indication of a country’s economic progress, then India has certainly arrived on the world stage. While China may have been the first to draw world attention by building state-of-the-art transport systems, its Asian neighbour is now catching up, projecting the new, swanky Terminal 3 (T3) at…

If creaky, user-unfriendly airports form an indelible first impression in the international traveller’s mind about a city, New Delhi will soon cease to be seen as a dysfunctional and chaotic city. When Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport begins operations, the Capital will suddenly transform into an efficient,…

  New Delhi: The inauguration of Terminal 3 from next month will make life easier for flyers. Unlike last year when domestic airlines started migrating to new departure terminal 1D in phases in mid-July, this year all the designated airlines will shift operations to T3 not in a phase-wise manner…

NEW YORK: India’s population of high net worth individuals grew by as much as 51 per cent to over 1.26 lakh in 2009, riding on the surge in market valuations and improved economic growth, a report said. According to the 2010 Merrill Lynch-Capgemini World Wealth Report, in India, the number…