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The Indian Skyscraper Race is ON. India’s tallest commercial skyscraper planned in Gujarat.
The latest project named Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), is planned , located at Gandhinagar, the capital city of the industrial Indian state of Gujarat, and nearby the state’s commercial capital of Ahmedabad.
These are some of the Information about proposed GIFT.

• GIFT city will have 312 large buildings
• More than 40 buildings will have 50 floors
• The tallest building, being the signature 86-storey, 405 mt (1,328 ft) “Diamond Tower"
• Another tower, the Gateway building will have 75 floors while the 65-storey Crystal Tower.
• An artificial island
• Integrated mass transit and dedicated expressways
• Residential townships
• Creation of 5,00,000 (approximately) direct and indirect jobs
• Total Investment: 70,000 cr, Area: 500 HA
  

The 500 acre GIFT aims to be Global Financial Services hub.
Here are some pictures..


Diamond Tower: Tallest tower in GIFT

Fun Fridays at Magnet are always great. But this time it was extreme, as the Dance Competition was organized.
Most of us don't know dancing, but we can. The theme was 'Back to 70s', then how we can do it, in damn Couple Dancing?

The largest Indian telecom company, BSNL is planning to build a mobile WiMax network covering three states on the subcontinent capable of serving 250 million people.
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is leaning on Soma Networks to build the broadband-speed network in response to government requirement that 20 million broadband lines be in service by 2010.
The WiMax rollout will first hit the largest and most-connected states, but BSNL is planning on extending the network if things go well. When it's done, 400 Indian cities will be covered, with downstream speeds of 1.5 megabits per seconds. No word on when that might be, but the race is officially on, Sprint.

On the 19th & 20th of January '07 Ahmedabad Magneteers were in Mumbai to attend a wedding of The Chairman of Magnet, Nirav Mehta. Wedding was on 19th.
On 20th we just hanged out there with a bit of planned plan.

Snaps are here..


These are the videos, taken while Steamer Ka Safar started from Gateway of India.