Gateway Distriparks Limited, is a Container logistics company with Pan-India presence providing Container Freight Station (CFS) / Inland Container Depot (ICD) services. With the addition of Punjab Conware CFS, GDL will now be operating two large CFSs at the premier gateway port of JNPT, an ICD at Garhi Harsaru, near Gurgaon and CFSs at Chennai & Vizag. GDL is the first private sector player to operate container trains. GDL also recently entered the cold chain logistics business through its subsidiary, Snowman Frozen Foods Limited, a JV with Mitsubishi Group of Japan.

Mr. Gopinath Pillai, is Non-Executive Chairman of Gateway Distriparks Limited. He is also the Chairman of WLL and is on the Board of several private companies in Singapore and India. He has extensive experience in the areas of finance, industry and trading. He currently serves as the Non-resident Ambassador of Singapore to Iran. He is also Chairman of the Institute of South Asian Studies established by the Singapore Government.

Anil Mascarenhas of India Infoline poses a few questions to Mr. Gopinath Pillai who says, GDL is well poised to take on the rapidly growing opportunities in the CFS, container rail & cold chain business and become a true End to End Logistics services company.

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The Rs 2,500 crore Murli Dhar Lakh Ram (MDLR) Group has plans to construct the biggest hotel project over 11 acres in Gurgaon. According to its CMD, Gopal Goyal, it is making its debut into hospitality with back to back three hotel projects.

He added that these hotels will have a tie-up with an international brand for marketing and are being targeted in the luxury segment with luxury villas, commercial complex, spas, etc. Informing about his second project, Goyal says, This project is coming up in the Manesar IMT located in the heart of the industrial model township with an elite neighbourhood with boutique fashion bars and lounges and a suspended glass pool, scheduled to have a soft launch in November 2008. The third project is coming up in sector 14 of Gurgaon which will be a high rise luxury hotel.

MDLR has over the years expanded their activities from real estate development to high value construction areas. It has its business interests in commercial and residential real estate development, farmland development, facility management, shopping malls, resorts, hotel, multiplexes and restaurants. It even launched short-haul airline operations in few sectors starting from Chandigarh.

Source : expresshospitality.com

The prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Education City at Sonepat is all set to get rolling as the Haryana government would soon invite applications from organisations of international repute to start their institutes at the education city.

The implementing agency for this prestigious project, the Haryana Urban Development Authority, has completed the detailed project report for this education city, to be developed on an area of 2,000 acres.

Overcoming the initial hurdles created by the villagers of the area, whose land had been acquired for the project, the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-government decided to adopt the land allotment method for the project. This kind of project that involved academic and educational organisations cannot be build after auctioning the land. The project had to be treated a little differently than the other commercial projects, said a senior official, adding that the government had rejected the proposal to auction land for this project.

More : cities.expressindia.com

N.N. Gupta was tired of the neighbourhood stray dogs and cows, noisy vegetable vendors and the clutter of new construction spoiling his view.

So Gupta, a 61-year-old executive director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, moved from East Delhi three months ago to a spot in Greater Noida where he says his view and peace will never be disturbed.

Gupta and his wife now live in the 450-acre Jaypee Greens Greater Noida golf village. Their five-bedroom house overlooks an 18-hole championship-level golf course designed by legendary golfer Greg Norman.

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Last January, there was a major fire in the 12-storeyed Cyber Greens building in DLF, Gurgaon. Though the fire could have been easily doused, Haryana Fire Service (HFS) tenders could not reach beyond the 8th floor. DLF authorities had to request Delhi Fire Services for equipment to control the fire.

It has been more than a year now, but undermanned firemen in Haryana continue to work with outdated equipment. They do not have hydraulic platforms, so they still use conventional mechanical ladders, unmindful of the fact that the township has over 100 skyscrapers.

Developers such as DLF, Ansals and Unitech, among others, have constructed more than 100 high-rise buildings. About 40 more high-rises have been built by Vatika, Vipul Omaxe and others.

More : hindustantimes.com