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Mobile handset company Spice Mobility today said it will invest Rs 1,000 crore this fiscal to further expand its business through opening new centres and going in for acquisitions.
The company in the long run will also look to merge Spice Mobility with Spice i2i in order to streamline its various businesses.”The company will be investing Rs 1,000 crore during FY’11-12 to position itself as a mobile internet company and will also work to streamline its various operations under one fold,” Spice Mobility Chairman B K Modi told reporters here.The company will be using the funds for building new offices, regional centres, hiring new employees, he said adding the resources would generated internally.
In order to expand in the Indian mobile retail market, the company has created a seven cluster distribution model for which it plans to hire about 300 more people for further strengthening customer relationship, Modi said.
To kick start its new positioning campaign, Spice Mobility today showcased its new logo and unveiled the dual SIM phone on the Android platform, which the company will be launching next week in the market.
“Earlier, we were known as a mobile phone company. Now we have merged our various divisions like devices, retail and value-added services into one and focus on mobile internet. Our market capitalisation stood at Rs 2,400 crore,” Modi added.
The company, continuing its acquisition spree, is close to buying Indonesia-based Nexian for which the company has already raised $200 million and the Bangladesh-based Sprint, for which it has to seek regulatory clearances.
The Spice group is present in areas like mobility, finance, infotainment and innovative technologies through its various companies like Spice Mobility, Spice Hotspot, Spice Digital Spice Labs, SpiceI2I, S-Unno, Spice CSL, Spice BPO, Spice Online Retail Spice Money (WSFL) and Spice World and Spice Cinemas

New Delhi:  As Air India pilots’ strike enters its sixth day today, the Delhi High Court will hear a contempt case against three pilots including Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) President A S Bhinder and General Secretary Rishabh Kapur.
The Delhi High Court had directed the pilots on strike to go back to work by 5 pm last Friday but over 800 pilots defied court orders. The three pilots facing contempt charges have not yet responded to the notice served by the court last week. If found guilty, they could be asked to spend six months in jail.
Meanwhile, just like the past three days, 90 per cent of the airline’s domestic fleet will be grounded today. With no solution in sight to the crisis caused by the pilots’ stir, the airline has further curtailed its operations with limited flights till May 6.
The national carrier has also decided to put into use bigger, wide-bodied aircraft including jumbo jets for the already few domestic flights that it is currently operating.

The CMD of Air India, Arvind Jadhav, in an SMS to the employees of the national carrier appealed to “persuade” striking pilots to return to the negotiating table and work to “save our airline.” (Read: Air India chief appeals in SMS)
The Bharatiya Janata Party, meanwhile, slammed the Prime Minister’s Office for the mess.
Dubbing the strike as a cover-up to shut down the airline, BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, “The present dispensation of Air India has nothing to do with the Civil Aviation Ministry, it is completely being controlled by the secretariat of the PMO…The CMD of Air India directly reports to the PMO, so all my charges are towards the PMO”.
The pilots had on Saturday said they were willing to return to work if authorities gave them an assurance that their demands regarding their pay hike would be looked into. They also said they had not yet received any formal invitation for talks from the management of Air India management.
At the heart of the battle is the issue of how much pilots are paid. In 2007, the government merged Air India with Indian Airlines, assuming it would lead to a more cost-efficient national carrier. The desired results are nowhere on the horizon, despite 2000 crore rupees being infused into operations.
The pilots on strike were all originally hired by Indian Airlines; they say that four years after the merger, they are still paid significantly less than the pilots who joined them from Air India. Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi is not moved by their plight. He said 1600 pilots make 800 crore rupees. “Many of them are plus two, not even graduates, and they are getting Rs. 3.8 lakh a month… I hope sense will prevail upon these people. Are they starving?” he added.

source: ndtv

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MATHURA (UP): Overshooting a signal, Delhi-bound Goa Express today rammed into the last bogie of the stationary Mewar Express killing 22 people,
Trains collide including the guard and two pantry car staff, and injuring an equal number near here in the wee hours. ( Watch Video )

The Goa Sampark Kranti Express hit the Udaipur City- Hazrat Nizamuddin Mewar Express, which is said to have been halted on chain pulling by some passengers, between Mathura and Vrindavan at around 0430 hours after its driver apparently ignored the signal.

The guard of Mewar Express and two staff members of the pantry car of Goa Express were among those killed while 13 of the injured have received grievous wounds. Five of the seriously injured were rushed to Delhi by train for treatment.

The unreserved second class-cum-luggage rake, at the rear end of the train bore the brunt of the collision and a number of people trapped in it were recovered by personnel of the army, police and fire services.

The luggage section of the coach probably prevented heavier casualties among the women and children who were in the coach.

Railway Minister Mamta Banerjee has announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to families of each of the dead, Rs 1 lakh to those seriously injured and Rs 10,000 for those with minor injuries.

Railway officials said the driver of the Goa Express was either over-speeding or may have jumped the signal. Both the driver R K Chaturvedi and assistant driver Lakshmikant have been taken off duty and an inquiry by Commissioner of Railway Safety (North-East) has been ordered.

Banerjee said the investigation would also cover whether there was any chain pulling by passengers.

“Prima facie the driver of the Goa Express disregarded the signal…Either he did not stop the train at the signal or did not proceed on a cautious speed,” Deputy Regional Manager of Railways, Agra zone, R D Tripathi told reporters.

UP Minister Laxminarain Choudhry said a compensation of Rs 10 lakh would be given to the family of the deceased and a job.

Two bogies at the rear of the Mewar Express, which was on its way to Delhi, derailed due to the impact of the accident. The pantry car of the Goa Express also suffered damage.

Several trains were temporarily diverted after the mishap and the track was cleared at around 2 PM for normal traffic with the help of a large number of railway workers. Heavy machinery was used to remove the damaged and derailed bogies.

About 150 personnel of the Army, whose help was also sought, assisted the railway staff in clearing the track.

Gas and foam cutters were used to extricate the trapped passengers, including women and children, from the mangled bogie.

The Mewar Express, from which the damaged bogie was detached, left for Delhi with the passengers about five hours after the accident. Some of the passengers were also accommodated in buses.

All the trapped passengers have been extricated, Sri Prakash, Member (Traffic) Railway Board said.

Giving an account of the mishap, a passenger of the Mewar Express said, “There was a loud bang. We were suddenly thrown out of our seats. People and luggage from the upper berths fell on us and there was panic all around.

“There was almost a stampede inside the bogie. People sleeping on the upper berths fell off on those occupying lower berths,” said the middle-aged passenger, who was lucky to survive the crash with no injury.

A distraught woman passenger, injured in the accident, said from her hospital bed that she was fast asleep when the unreserved compartment of the Mewar Express train was hit.

“I could not move my legs. Bags and suitcases fell on me after a loud thud,” she said. Passengers said the collision occurred minutes after the Goa Express changed track.

An eye-witness, Ramesh Charan, 40, said he saw the speeding Goa Express crashing into the last coach of the stationary train and rushed to the accident site to lend a helping hand.

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