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Metro chokes Yamuna with debris - Hindustan Times  News Entry# 134678
by: प्रतीक  Today (03:05AM)

The cool and swift Metro ride that has changed the way Delhi commutes has a dark side as well. It uprooted thousands of trees. The major infrastructure boost also meant that the already dying Yamuna river was choked further with huge quantities of concrete -- all debris from Metro sites.   File...
KMRL inks contract with DMRC | The Hindu News Entry# 134677
by: प्रतीक Today (03:02AM)

After months of intense wrangling, the Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) have signed on the dotted line. The two entered into a contractual agreement at New Delhi on Thursday, fixing four years as the time frame for completing Kochi Metro. The work is scheduled...
Rail traffic hit by protest against dalit minor's murder - The Times of India News Entry# 134676
by: प्रतीक Today (02:59AM)

LUCKNOW: Rail traffic was affected on the Delhi-Howrah route and officials including an additional district magistrate were injured as locals indulged in stone pelting and blocking of railway track to protest murder of a 10-year-old dalit girl in Firozabad on Thursday. According to reports, the police had refused to lodge...
Escalator at Thane station by June - Hindustan Times News Entry# 134675
by: प्रतीक Today (02:49AM)

There is good news for suburban commuters from Thane. The first escalator on Mumbai’s suburban network will soon be functional on platform no. 3 and 4 at the Thane railway station and will connect to a 12-metre-wide foot overbridge (FoB) at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) end. On May 19, components...
825 lives lost till March, crossing tracks main reason - Hindustan Times News Entry# 134674
by: प्रतीक Today (02:41AM)

Despite steps taken by the railways to ensure better commuter safety, 825 people have already lost their lives on the railway tracks in the first three months of 2013. According to data compiled by Government Railway Police, of the 825 people who died, 525 were killed on Central Railway (CR) and...

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Blog Entry# 477343

Posted: Jul 10 2012 (10:13AM)

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pkvenkatramani** 14915 blog posts 22 correct pred (85% accurate)

Entry# 477343

VOILA. Ad on Home page
Makemytrip.com

6 posts - Tue Jul 10, 2012 - are hidden. Click to open.

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Soumitra Chawathe** 20402 blog posts 46400 correct pred (67% accurate)

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@477343-0 @pkvenkatramani**

Now can't see any ads. Perhaps removed.

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moderator** 3999 blog posts 8 correct pred (62% accurate)

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@477343-6 @pkvenkatramani**

Thanks for reporting. Some facts about ads.
As it stands, a general truism about websites is that any benefit from ads is directly proportional to their nuisance value. No user irritation usually means no value. This is the reason that most newspaper and other websites show aggressive and intrusive popups and such - otherwise the advertisers are not interested. We hope things will never come to such a pass here, and we never get so desperate.
On this site, members will not see ads. Also, guests will only see ads very rarely, since a very few of them are distributed randomly. So, chances are that even guests will see no more than one ad over several hundreds of pages surfed.
As such, we'll...
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Jul 10 2012 (10:48AM) ↑⇑ ↓⇓ ←→

pkvenkatramani** 14915 blog posts 22 correct pred (85% accurate)

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@477343-8 @moderator**

The ad that I reported can hardly be called intrusive or aggressive. As a matter of fact I liked it, particularly the size and positioning.

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