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By Hilary Howard Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori Trenitalia, Italy 's national railway, which introduced high-speed rail service between Naples and Milan last December ( www.italiarail.com ), will soon be getting some competition. In 2011, a new privately owned high-speed train company, Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori, will introduce a stylish, candy-apple-red fleet of 25 trains collectively known as Italo. The trains' interiors will be designed by the Italian car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro. Called Automotrice Grande Vitesse (A.G.V.; an updated version of the French high-speed T.G.V.), Italo trains will provide service to locations between Naples and Turin . Company officials estimate that a trip from Rome to Milan, about 350 miles by rail, will last three hours and that trains will be able to travel up to speeds of 225 miles an hour. The billion-euro project, spearheaded by the head of Fiat and Ferrari, Luca di Montezemolo, includes investors like the French rail company S.N....

Antulay shoots mouth, says Karkare death suspicious Minority Affairs Minister AR Antulay found himself facing fierce criticism on Wednesday after raising doubts whether former Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare had been killed by elements unhappy with his investigations in cases involving “non-Muslims”. Karkare was independently investigating certain non-Muslims who were terrorists, Antulay said in an apparent reference to the Malegaon blast case in which Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and Lt Col Shrikant Purohit are allegedly involved. “Any person going to the root of the terror has always been the target” , Antulay said. The minister’s remarks came under immediate and sharp attack from the BJP and the Shiv Sena. “The Prime Minister must clarify whether these remarks are an ‘individual misdemeanor or the collective wisdom of the cabinet’,” said BJP spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy. Sena member Ananth Geethe demanded a clarification from Chidambaram. Later, in an apparent attempt to ...

A journey Through Time... scrolling just a few pages of BBC and Indian Media. (I am sorry, the text is in image form and comprehendible to english readers only, for other languages, please open this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5394686.stm and use a translation service, such as http://babelfish.yahoo.com/) ‘Samjhauta, Hindi for friendship, Express’ is only one of many CBM’s that have been undertaken by the two countries to improve relations, was initiated to increase people to people to contact between the two arch rivals. On February 17,2007, the train that travels from Delhi to Lahore was hit by a bomb, killing as many as 68 people. Most of the casualties consisted of Pakistani nationals. Many conspiracy theories were hatched in an attempt to explain what had really gone by. Always the Poor Sufferers of INDIA: The Muslims of INDIA Déjà Vu Some Interesting User comments.... can you see the same comments this time as well ALL THE BLAME GAME AND HATRED/ANGER Then Comes M...