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Pilgrims to Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirupati Tirumala have the facility to book for accommodation and sevas offered by TTD online at their official website at www.ttdsevaonline.com. To avail this facility the pilgrims have to book in advance from 3 days to 90 days. The pilgrims are advised to visit the official website of ttd and check the availability of accommodation of rooms and sevas. The rooms are available with budgets ranging from Rs.100/- to Rs.2000/- . the following sevas are available for online booking in advance.

Visesha Pooja, Archanananthara Darshanam, Suprabhatam, Nijapada Darshanam, Thomala Seva, Archana, Tiruppavadai, Astadala Pada Padmaradhanamu, Sahasra Kalasabhishekam, Kalyanotsavam .

The devotees visiting Tirumala Tirupati have to give their particulars and photo id details and upload the photo. Driving license, pan card, passport and voter id card are accepted for photo id. The pilgrims have to carry the photo id along with them while visiting Tirupathi. Payment for sevas and accommodation can be made either through master or visa cards.

The pilgrims can also make cash offerings to hundi and donations online.

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Now the passengers traveling by Indian railway trains have got the facility to enquire the PNR status by calling a single toll free number 139 from any where in India. To get the PNR status of train ticket number, 139 is the only number that has to dialed from all places including metros, cities, towns and villages in India. There is no need to suffix the code when dialing 139 for pnr status enquiry for Indian railways. 139 for pnr status can be dialed from BSNL and MTNL land line numbers, Idea, Vodafone, Garuda, Spice and Dolphin cell phone operator services.

Those calling from Mumbai and New Delhi can be able to check their Indian railway ticket pnr status by dialing 139 followed the ten digit PNR number on the ticket. The schedule of trains of Indian railways and status of arrival and departure can be tracked by dialing 139 followed by the train number.

The travelers on the Indian railway trains can have online advance reservation for berths and seats online by visiting the website www.irctc.co.in and making the payment through credit card or debit. The passengers have to carry their photo id like voter id, pass port, pan card or any other id issued by state and central government agencies. The current PNR status of railway tickets for reservation of berths and seats can be checked at irctc website of Indian railways.

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For those who love to listen to music, take snap shots of special moments, viewing videos for them the latest mobile phone model launched by nokia in India, Nokia 5800 xpress music is the perfect choice.

Nokia 5800 weighs about 109 grams and a thickness of 51.7mm, with a full touch screen of 3.2 inches thick and up to 16 million colors. The Nokia 5800 also has an automatic orientation sensor that rotates your phone’s display depending on the angle it is being held.

Nokia 5800 Express Music Mobile Phone is available in blue, red and black colors.

The Nokia 5800 has 81MB of internal memory and its memory card can be extended to 8GB of memory and has Bluetooth.

The battery in nokia 5800 xpress music comes with Standard Li-Ion 1320 mAh battery with Up to 406 h stand by time with a talk time of Up to 8 h 45 min

General features of Nokia 5800 xpressmusic mobile phone:

Messaging: MMS, SMS, Email, Instant Messaging

Browser: RSS feeds , WAP 2.0 HTML and xHTML

Camera: 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels with Carl Zeiss optics and auto focus, video streaming with flash; secondary video call camera

Games: Java downloadable,

MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player and MPEG4/WMV/3gp video player

Stereo FM radio with RDS and TV out, 3.5 mm audio output jack

Document viewer, Photo editor, T9, Built-in hands free

Price of nokia 5800 xpressmusic in India: Rs.19,999/ M.R.P.

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BSNL EVDO Card is a broadband connection that gives peak net speed upto 2 mbps and the effective download speed of 512 kbps, with unlimited bandwidth. BSNL EVDO card for broad band is a mobile and can be used for both Desktop computers and laptops on the move.

Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ ,According to reliance, provides a maximum speed upto 3.1 mbps. The speed reliance committing is burst speed but the average affective download speed comes to 512 kbps of the wired broadband connection.

Reliance netconnect broadband+ is limited to 35 cities and BSNL Evdo broadband can be used even in remote villages and towns in india.

The unlimited feature claimed by reliance limits the bandwidth to 10 GB per month, where as BSNL Evdo has no restriction on the usage of bandwidth.

The cost of netconnect broadband+ is Rs.3500/- and the monthly bill of Rs.1750/-, where as the monthly unlimited bsnl evdo card bill is Rs.550/- per month.

The old customers owning reliance netconnect CDMA 1+ are not having the choice of replacing the netconnect CDMA 1+ to Reliance netconnect broadband+.

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In India the popular Hill stations like shimla, ooty and Kulu were developed by british during their rule as vacation spots. These hill stations are used for summer holiday destinations in India.? Lavasa, a city (hill station) being developed near to pune and Mumbai. Lavasa is India’s first hill station being developed after independence.

Location of Lavasa:

Lavasa is located ion the backwaters of Warasgaon dam on the Western Ghats in Maharastra state and is at a distance of 50 kms from Pune and 180 kms from Bombay. The total area of Lavasa is 12,500 acres or 51 sq.km.

Developers of Lavasa:

Lavasa is developed by HCC Real Estate, a subsidiary of HCC ( Hindustan construction company and having investments from LM Thapar Group, Venkateswara Hatcheries group, Vithal Naniyar and Deutsche Bank Singapore.

Lavasa intends to serve the housing needs of those working in software companies at the IT Park in Hinjewadi and manufacturing units at Pirangut.

The master plan of Lavasa was developed by HOK, USA, and planning by Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum. Branding is being done by Landor, (Hong Kong) and? Accenture and AC Nielsen have conducted the project feasibility and research. Hincon Techno Consultants is the primary engineering consultant.

Lavasa has got award of excellence from ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) and was appreciated by Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) for its Master Plan.

Status of Lavasa Hill station project:

The first phase of the Lavasa hill town project is scheduled for completion in Dec 2009.

Route Map of Mumbai- Lavasa:

Route Map of Pune-Lavasa:

Route Map of Chandini Chowk – Lavasa:

LAVASA Photo Gallery:

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The property prices both in India and global have increased many fold during 2002 to 2007 because of various reasons like low interest rates for housing loans, less yields on stock markets during 2002-2005, low interest rates on bank fixed deposits followed by FDI ( Foreign Direct Investment) allowed by the government for real estate sector. This has resulted in many corporate companies entering into real estate sector making the cost of raw material increased there by increasing the construction cost. With many players coming into real estate market in India has caused for surplus supply of built areas like apartments consisting of housing flats, gated community ventures with duplex independent houses, bungalows, luxury Villas, commercial complexes, shopping malls, office space in commercial complexes.

With the fall in US housing sector and recession across global and credit crunch the banks in India also have down sanctioning loans to real estate sectors. Rising inflation figures , both the public sector and private sector banks providing housing loans have increased the rate of interest thus making the dreaming a home unaffordable to common man.

With the fall in land prices and decrease in construction cost the cost of built up space for housing as well as for commercial office and retail mall space the prices have come down nearly 30% to 50% across major real estate markets in india like New delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Visakhapatnam , Bhuvaneswar, Goa, Jaipur, Chandigarh Cochin and Ahmedabad.

As the real estate prices are near bottom in India, it is the right time to buy the property in India as an investment point of view with long term perspective spanning a period of 5 to 10 years.

15th lok sabha elections are scheduled to be held in 5 phases.the phase 1 and phase 2 of elections are completed on 16th and 23rd of April 2009. the third, fourth and fifth phase of elections to be held on 30th April, 7th and 13th May 2009 and counting of votes will be held on 16th of May 2009.

UPA ( United progressive alliance) consisting of Indian national congress, RJD, DMK, SP, NCP, JMM, Trinamool congress party IUML, RPI, Lok janasakti party, AIMIM, JKNC and Sikki democratic front.

NDA (National Democratic Alliance) headed by BJP with constituents like Shiv sena, Siromani akali dal, Rastriya lok dal, AGP, INLD, JDU and mizo national front.

Third Front consisting with left parties consisting of CPI, CPI(M), TDP, TRS, Revolutionary Socialist Party, AIADMK, Janata Dal (Secular), All India Forward Bloc, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Pattali Makkal Katchi

Recently another alliance called fourth front is coming into picture with BSP, PRP, Nagaland People’s Front , Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam, Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party , National Loktantrik Party , Kerala Congress

Dr. Manmohan singh is the Prime minister candidate from congress and L.K.Advani is the PM candidate from BJP. The other leaders in race for prime minister ship include leaders like Mayavathi, Sharad pawar, Lalu Prasad yadav, Mulayam singh yadav.

Dr. Manmohan singh is honest, non corrupt, non controversial, intellectual having vision on the global financial markets. LK Advani is a mass leader.

We have to wait till may 16th that whom will the Indian voters vote for the 15th loksabha.

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