Russia’s largest rolling stock maker Transmashholding (TMH) has emerged as the lowest bidder for the tender to manufacture 200 #VandeBharat trainsets in India at Rs. 120 Crores/ Train Set.
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TMH’s company Metrowagonmash bidded in partnership with Railway PSU Rail Vikas Nigam Limited the lowest by a long Margin.
For the faster delivery, the plan is to divide the order between the two lowest Bidders in a 60:40 ratio provided that the 2nd lowest bidder matches the lowest quote. In this case BEML - Titagarh Wagons.
If the 2nd lowest bidder refuses to match the lowest rate, the offer will go to others; if none agrees to lower the rate, the entire 100% order will go to the lowest bidder (THM-RVNL).
The tender, the biggest Vande Bharat induction call in one go by India so far, seeks to bring in sleeper versions of the marquee train, along with the current seating-only types.
French rolling stock maker Alstom stood at the 4th spot while Swiss company Stadler in partnership with Hyderabad-based Medha, suppliers of the propulsion system of the current Vande Bharat, has quoted the 5th lowest rate.
The offer is to manufacture the trainsets in India and deliver them in a phased manner in about 2-5 years while also looking after the maintenance of the trainsets for 35 years
The trainsets will be manufactured in the railway factories in India like Latur in Maharashtra, Sonepat in Haryana, and ICF Chennai.
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⚡ Russia’s MoD has reported that toxic chemicals had been delivered to Kramatorsk, publishing image showing a rail transport arriving in #ukraine Kramatorsk) with a cargo of chemicals in one of its cars, accompanied by a group of foreign nationals.
The consignment consisted of 16 sealed metal boxes, eight of which were labelled with a chemical hazard symbol, a BZ inscription and marked with two red bands, corresponding to the class of poisonous substances of temporary incapacitation action.
Five of the boxes were labelled as 'C-S-RIOT', three were labelled as 'C-R-RIOT' with a single red band, which corresponds to irritant substances.
🇮🇳 Gagandeep Singh, 22 yr Jammu man who lives in Italy since 2007, was arrested at New Delhi’s IGI airport with 5 mobile phones.
He had created fake WhatsApp a/c using the @VPIndia#JagdeepDhankhar's images as profile pic to dupe Italian bureaucrats into giving him favours.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit, Prashant Gautam said,
The matter came to the notice of the IFSO unit after a few senior government officials reached out to them last October, following which an FIR was lodged.
The accused have been booked under sections:
IPC 419 (punishment for cheating by personation)
IPC 170 (personating a public servant) and,
Section 66 (computer-related offences) of the Information Technology Act.
The other accused, Ashwani Kumar, 29, is a resident of Patiala.
RED FORT was NOT built by Mughal rulers namely Shahjahan during his tenure (1628- 1658 AD) in between 1638 to 1648 AD by Employing Ustad Ahmad Lahauri as Chief architect, but instead what they did was only few modifications.
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A stone tablet inside Red Fort by modern archeologists proclaims that the Fort was built between 1639 to 1648 AD.
But, a painting of Shahjahan's time preserved in the Boldeian Library, Oxford depicts Shahjahan recieving Persian ambassador inside the Fort in 1928.
How can Shahjahan recieve someone in 1928 in Red Fort if it was built in 1939 AD.
The painting was reproduced in the Illustrated Weekly of India, Page 27, March 14, 1971.
This documentatory evidence disapproves the notion that he build the Red Fort.
A virus similar to 'normal' pox [smallpox] that generally runs its course within a month. Incubation is 7-21 days. Strains from West and Central Africa identified. It's thought around 1 in 10 of those who are infected in Africa die.
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▪️Human Transmission
Close contact. More cases detected in gay men, but experts say too early to confirm intercourse main cause. Originated from contact, bites or eating infected animals.
Pustules, lesions and blisters on the skin, head, back/muscle ache, and fever. Smallpox vaccines and antiviral treatments are already available and have been cleared to treat monkeypox - but efficacy doubts.
Bhutan’s Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB) programme launched in partnership with India.
Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB), a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), launched its programme in Bhutan.
India was chosen as the Partner Jurisdiction and has provided the Tax Expert for this programme.
This programme is expected to be of about 24 months’ duration through which India in collaboration with the UNDP and the TIWB Secretariat aims to aid Bhutan