UAE Celebrates Eid on Sunday, Confirms the Moon Sighting Committee

Tomorrow, 20th September will be the great day for Musalmans in UAE as they will be celebrating Eid Al Fitr as confirmed by the Moon Sighting Committee today. It is also considered as Shawwal 1 and this was announced at a press conference by Minister of Justice, Dr. Hadef Jua’an Al Daheri.

At 8.15pm the official message was announced after an hour and half meeting with the committee at the Judiciary Department of AbuDhabi Government. They also supported the decision with clarifications from the committee from UAE as well as the adjacent countries.

At the same time, he also greeted the other members including His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan as well as the Vice President and Prime of Minister of UAE, His Highness Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum on this auspicious occasion.

The committee also confirmed the same only after an intense approval from the Saudi Arabian committees of sighting moon over there to celebrate this special occasion.

Lailatul Qadr was observed on 17th by Muslims all across

Lailatul Qadr, the Mystic Night also known as the Night of Power was witnessed by Muslims all across the globe except in some parts. It is actually an off day among the last ten days of Ramadan and 27th eve being considered very pious. The revelation of the Almighty was brought down by Gabriel to Propher Muhammed (PBUH) on this very night.

This holy night is considered to be far better than One thousand nights as Allah heard who pray, recite Quran and go on with dikr the entire night until dawn. It is during this night that the angels are known to be coming down to this earth with instructions and bounties from the Almighty. There are also opinions that the descending of the scriptural amalgam started along the mid Shahban and ends up with the Mystical night.

Always keep your Ibadat on the peak during these 10 days leaving aside all the other works you have to collect all that you can to take along with you while you go away from this world to the real World. These 10 days are the most significant of all where you can wash off your sins and impurities to transform yourself to a new person as a whole.

45 Acres Offered by the West Bengal Govt to Infosys, Wipro

On Thursday, the Government of West Bengal called up the two major IT Giants, Infosys and Wipro to come up with two centers at the Rajarhat along the north eastern part of Kolkata. Along with his call, he also assured to give away 45 acres to each one of them.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the CM of West Bengal said, "I'm proposing today (Thursday), through the media, that we are ready to give 45 acres of land each to Wipro and Infosys. If they agree to the proposal, they can come and immediately take possession of the land and start new centers." He conveyed this at the press conference which was held at state headquarters of CPI-M.

Bhattacharjee also conveyed that he will be giving off the land on lease to both the companies.

"These companies can create 16,000 jobs in two years. I already had a talk with my cabinet colleagues, IT Minister Debesh Das, Housing Development Minister Gautam Deb and others about the proposal. We will start talking to the companies. The price of the land will be negotiated with them,"

About the venue, he conveyed that the place had enough market complexes, road facilities as well as housing areas to enlighten up the entire concept.

"Now the state government will talk to these companies with the proposal. We can immediately hand over the proposed land to them (Wipro and Infosys).

"A few months back we'd identified land near Vedic Village area to set up an IT township there. But we didn't have any idea that they were acquiring land with muscle power and also with the help of some anti-social elements. Some unfortunate things also happened there... I was little upset with that," he said.

3 Days Harvest for Flyers: Airfares Slashed 50%

The Jet Airways were the first ones to introduce this new offer of slashing the ticket rates to 50% due to their tremendous loss owing to the strike last week. The next and spontaneous move was administered by the other airlines in India stating the same cutting down the rates for the coming three days.

According to one of the estimations it has been stated that the bookings of Jet Airways tickets tumbled down from 23,000 to 7,500 in a single day. The new proposal for the flyers by the airways was “50% discount on total fare (economy class)”. This was valid on all the domestic flights which were operating across Jet Airways as well as Jet Konnect and this travel will have a life until 18th of September, 2009.

This walk out has taken out the toll for the airlines determining a total loss of more than Rs.200 crores, approximately $40 million.