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Print | More cruise liners opt New Mangalore Port for operating their cruise vessels in the ensuing season which commence from October. | |
| A team from Royal Caribbean International, one of the leading cruise operators of the world, visited the Port on Tuesday and hled discussion with the Port Chairman, Traffic Manager and Deputy Conservator alongwith the representatives of M/s J B Baxi – the vessel agent. This is the second visit of the team during the current year. Adam Sharp, Manager of Royal Caribbean, after visiting the port area has expressed happiness over the facilities available at NMPT for handling cruise vessels. He was very much impressed by the facilities available at the Cruise Lounge, neat and tidy berth area, concretised roads, security arrangements, immigration facility, greenery in and around the port, availability of local ground tour operators, proximity to tourist areas, etc. The liner has already prepared their plan for bringing 13 cruise vessels during the next one year. The first vessel M V Aidadiva is scheduled to call at the Port on November 12 with 1,300 plus passengers. The biggest vessel M V Brilliance of the Seas with a length of 293.5 metres and 2000 passengers with 500 crew members on board is expected to call at the Port which will be the biggest cruise vessel and ever handled at the Port. The cruise will call at the port on April 1, 2012. NMPT Chairman Dr P Tamilvanan has briefed the team about the facilities available at the Port and assured to extend all cooperation for the smooth handling of these cruise vessels, according to a press release. During the year 2010-11, 14 cruise vessels with 5,854 passengers called at the Port out of which 4,119 passengers have opted for ground tour and enjoyed the scenic beauty including 1000 Pillar Jain temple, Soans farm, Gokarnanatha temple, St Aloysius chapel, Kadri temple, cashew factory, etc. |
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Foot-in-mouth: Nepal’s acting PM prays future quakes would hit US
KATHMANDU: After foot-in-the-mouth remarks by US officials that stung Asia in the past, now it is the turn of Nepal’s acting prime minister to make a political gaffe, saying he prayed quakes would hit the US and other developed nations in future instead of Nepal.
Home minister Bijay Kumar Gachhedar, who is also a deputy prime minister in the new Maoist-led cabinet, made the politically incorrect statement in parliament on Tuesday while answering lawmakers’ queries about the state’s efforts to provide relief to people hit by Sunday’s earthquake.
Gachhedar, who is currently Nepal’s acting prime minister as well, tried to defend the government by saying it was not possible for it to prevent earthquakes.
"We can’t stop quakes," the chief of ethnic party Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (Democratic) said. "India couldn’t do it, China couldn’t do it. Then how can we? I pray to Pashupatinath that in future earthquakes hit the US and other developed nations (instead of Nepal)."
The gaffe comes at a time Nepal’s new Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai is in New York to attend the 66th UN General Assembly and has been invited to a reception to be hosted by American President Barrack Obama.
The slip should be all the more embarrassing with the US currently training the Nepal Army to increase its disaster preparedness and risk mitigation.
The Nepal Army and US Army are taking part in a four-day Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange in Kathmandu that ends on Wednesday.
The exercise is meant to focus on building multilateral inter-operability in disaster response between the US and Nepal and identify areas to increase preparation and risk mitigation.
It is part of Pacific Resilience, the US Army’s Pacific Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Initiative that seeks to bring the disaster response stakeholders from all echelons of government, military, and civilian agencies together at one venue to build working relationships for future relief endeavours.
The US and other developed nations like Britain and Australia are also members of the Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium established to help Nepal cope with disasters like earthquakes and floods.
Though Gachhedar’s party was instrumental in Bhattarai winning the prime ministerial election, the politician has already embarrassed the prime minister once by transferring the efficient home secretary, reportedly because of the latter’s crackdown on criminals close to Gachhedar.
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