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...takes nerves of steel to deal with Delhi's unruly traffic, but old localities like south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar can test even the most skilful and gritty of Delhi drivers. After 25 minutes of honking the horn to demand my right of way from intrepid pedestrians and aggressive drivers in cars, two-wheelers, bicycles, auto-rickshaws, cycle-rickshaws and even hand-propelled rickshaws for the disabled, I finally find a parking slot at Central Market, one of New Delhi's oldest bazaars. No global business can afford to ignore...
...that simultaneous operations on the two runways - whose flight paths merge instead of lying parallel - be discontinued. Those simultaneous runway operation had been implemented in April 2006 to increase flight departures and arrivals from 25 to 42 per hour. That was, however, a violation of international safety norms because Delhi's runways do not lie parallel. A new parallel runway will not be operational until the middle of next year, and traffic movement will slow down considerably until then...
Inadequate attention to safety concerns is also reported from the ground - in October, a young ground staffer was run over by an inter-terminal bus inside Delhi's international airport. Earlier this month, a state-level minister was hurt when the driver of the boarding bus braked suddenly to avoid a collision at Delhi's domestic airport. The bus driver had been talking on a cell phone...
Many observers believe privatizing the airports may solve many problems. But it is always a touchy subject in India. The Delhi and Mumbai airports were privatized last year in the face of strong protests from employees' unions and left-wing parties allied with the ruling Congress party. Like many other things in India, politics rears its head in running the airline industry. "Important policy decisions... are pending before the government," says Joseph Thachil, former editor of aviation magazine Skyflier, "but with elections due in 14 months, they will likely remain pending...
...chief, Gul helped run the Afghan mujahideen as a force to counter and eventually defeat the Soviet Union in the 1980s; later he helped establish the Taliban in Afghanistan. He also organized the guerrillas fighting the Indian army in the sections of Kashmir held by New Delhi...