Air Chief F. H. Major lays foundation stone of Officers’ Mess in Leh

September 25th, 2009 BIHTA - Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday laid the foundation stone for a hospital in here, about 40 kilometers from Patna, capital of Bihar. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was present on the occasion.

March 1st, 2009 CHENNAI - The central government is determined to develop Ennore Port in Tamil Nadu as the country's 'eastern gateway port', Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T.R. Baalu said here Saturday.

March 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Saturday laid the foundation of a new greenfield airport at Pakyong in Sikkim and an airport terminal building at Dibrugarh in Assam. The minister, who began his tour to launch airport modernisation projects across the country Feb 20, has so far laid the foundation of nine airport terminal buildings and also inaugurated a swanky departure terminal at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi.

February 28th, 2009 CHENNAI - External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will Saturday lay the foundation stone for Neyveli Lignite Corp's (NLC) 1,000-MW thermal power plant in Tuticorin. 'The Rs.59-billion (Rs.5,900 crore) project has a couple of special features like the reverse osmosis desalination plant, gas insulation switchyard and pile foundation apart from NLC's first venture into power generation with coal,' NLC chairman and managing director A.R.

February 28th, 2009 HYDERABAD - United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi Friday laid the foundation stone for the permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Andhra Pradesh's Medak district. The campus for the premier technology institute is coming up on 500 acres of land at a cost of Rs.10 billion in Kandi village, about 100 km from here.

February 28th, 2009 SURAT - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Friday laid the foundation of a new terminal at Surat airport, the eighth such terminal project in the country since Feb 20. The new domestic terminal, a glass and steel structure, will have a floor area of 8,474 square metres and offer modern passenger friendly facilities like central heating and air conditioning system, Patel said.

February 27th, 2009 VADODARA - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Thursday laid the foundation of a new terminal here, the seventh since Feb 20, after inaugurating the departure terminal at the Delhi airport earlier in the day. After Vadodara airport, the minister will lay the foundation stone of the terminal building at Surat airport Friday, officials of the Airports Authority of India said.

February 24th, 2009 MANDI - Union Labour and Employment Minister Oscar Fernandes Monday laid the foundation stone of the proposed Rs.10 billion Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Medical College and Hospital here. 'The 500-bed ESIC Medical College and Hospital will be completed by 2010-2011,' Fernandes said.

February 23rd, 2009 KOLKATA - Stung by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's oblique criticism of West Bengal's opposition leader Mamata Banerjee, her Trinamool Congress Sunday dubbed him as a spokesman of the state's ruling Left Front major Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). 'We have a 'hero of West Bengal' who is now acting as a spokesman of the CPI-M.

February 22nd, 2009 PANAJI - The number of airports in India will go up from the present 85 to about 400 in the next 10 years, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said here Saturday. It was a busy day for Patel, who visited three cities to inaugurate two new air terminals and lay the foundation stone of a third.

February 22nd, 2009 KANGRA - Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan Saturday laid the foundation stone of the proposed Rs.1.05-billion (Rs.105-crore) steel plant of the state-run Steel Authority of India here, ending the months old uncertainty over the project. 'Using thermo-mechanical treatment technology, the steel plant will produce wire rods, wire drawings and corrugated sheets,' Paswan said.

February 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh will lay the foundation stone of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Orissa Thursday, an official said. Arjun Singh was to lay the foundation stone Wednesday but the programme was rescheduled, an official of the industry department told IANS.

January 16th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Days after he hogged the limelight with India's top industrialists calling him prime minister material, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said he was not in the race for the top post and that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s senior leader L.K. Advani was the right candidate.

January 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Army commemorated its 61st Foundation Day Thursday by paying homage to martyred soldiers. Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta and Chief of Air Staff Air Marshall Fali Homi Major paid floral tributes at the Amar Jawan Jyoti at the India Gate here.

January 7th, 2009 EZHIMALA - Dedicating the Indian Naval Academy here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that the Indian Navy has a key role in protecting the country from threats coming across the sea. All through his brief speech, Singh stressed upon the threats from across the sea and urged the Navy to develop credible strategies to counter these threats.