Sorry Mr Trump... I used to undermine your talent on that Mexican border wall...

And yes, we're going to have wall along our bullet trains too...

Indian Railways to build 3,000-km wall to guard tracks, keep away people 

//After the incident in Amritsar last month, when a train mowed down 60 people who had gathered on the tracks to watch a Ravan effigy being burnt at a Dussehra celebration, the Indian Railways has decided to build 3,000 km of walls to fence its tracks and ward off trespassers in residential areas. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal is learnt to have taken the decision days after the Amritsar mishap. The Railways has estimated that the project will cost about Rs 2,500 crore.//

//The Commission of Railway Safety stipulates that in order to obtain safety clearance for train speeds of 160 kmph, the railway tracks need to be fenced or walled.//

//A part of Budget 2018-19, these works, estimated to cost about Rs 650 crore, were being funded by the Rashtriya Rail Sanrakshana Kosh — the Rs 1 lakh crore special safety fund to be utilised in five years. Officials said tenders have already been floated, and are likely to be finalised by next month.//

I feared that slowly but inexorably British influence would decline, and American influence expand. For my generation born and bred in empire, it was not an easy change. I had to come to terms with American power without a British buffer. The British had enforced their will with a certain civility. The Americans were different, as I could see from the way they dealt with South Vietnamese leaders, and even with Thai and Filipino leaders who were not in as parlous a position as those in Saigon. America was a power on the ascendant, with bulging muscles and a habit of flexing them.

From Third World to First

-Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore Press Holdings / Times Editions

PC: gettyimages - Lee Kuan Yew and Lyndon Johnson

I had many pressing concern: first, to get international recognition for Singapore’s independence, including our membership of the United Nations. I chose Sinnathamby Rajaratnam (affectionately called Raja by all of us) as foreign minister. He was eminently suitable, with anti-colonial nationalist credentials from his student days in London before and during the war, but no rabid radical. Friendly, urbane, sincere, he had the right balance between standing up for principles and the need for diplomatic compromise. He was to be much liked and respected by all those he worked with at home and abroad. As messages of recognition flowed in, Toh Chin Chye, the deputy prime minister, and Raja as foreign minister set off to New York to take our seat at the UN that September of 1965.

From Third World to First

-Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore Press Holdings / Times Editions

Photo: Minister for Foreign Affairs S. Rajaratnam (left) with Ambassador Tommy Koh, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept 30, 1974.

நண்பன் Haamid Yuvan... கஜா புயல் பாதிப்பு நிவாரணத்துக்கு ஒருங்கிணைக்கிறாப்ல... உங்களால முடிஞ்சத நம்பி பண்ணுங்க... அது பத்தோ அல்லது ஆயிரமோ...

வரவு செலவு கணக்கு அவர் பக்கத்திலேயே பகிரப்படுகிறது...

-----

If you or your friends willing to donate, please do as soon as possible !

Google Pay number : 9976494433

UPI Id : viewhaamid@okaxis

Paytm : 8012376737

Account No : 918010044409435

Name : Haamid Ali Nalla Mohamed

Bank : Axis Bank, T Nagar

IFSC : UTIB0000014

-----

Amount ₹ 1,11,208 collected so far !

Amount Spent : ₹ 17,250

Amount Remaining : ₹ 93,958

Will update the exact amount spent and amount remaining details Tonight !

#GajaCycloneRRR #SaveDelta

I listen to Kidron's proposal on military training but told Keng Swee to put them on hold until Lal Bahadur Shastri, the Prime Minister of India reply to my letter seeking there urgent help to build our armed forces.

I have written to Shastri for a military advisor to help us build up five battalions. Two days later, Shastri replied sending "sincere good wishes for the happiness and prosperity of the people of Singapore" but did not mention my request. I had half expected the Indian government might not want to take sides against Malaysia, a Muslim country. India was afterall relatively close neighbour in Asia.

I told Keng Swee to proceed with Israelis, but to keep it from becoming public knowledge for as long as possible so as not to provoke grassroots antipathy from Malay Muslims in Malaysia and Singapore.

From Third World to First

-Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore Press Holdings / Times Editions

நா நக்கல் செஞ்ச அளவுக்கெல்லாம் இல்ல... நேற்றிரவு கஜா புயல் தன் வேலையை காட்டிட்டுதான் போயிருக்கு...

Avt India அண்ணா பகிர்ந்த வேதாரண்யம் நிலவரம்...

#1

கஜா புயல்...

Gaja cyclone...

#2

கஜா புயல்...

Gaja cyclone...

#3

கஜா புயல்...

Gaja cyclone...

#4

கஜா புயல்...

Gaja cyclone...

#5