| IndyCar Driver Tomas Scheckter Holding Charity Auction on eBay
IndyCar Series driver Tomas Scheckter is holding a charity auction on eBay to benefit the Gift of Hearing Foundation. The winning bidder will have their name or company logo placed on Scheckter's helmet for the Kansas Lottery Indy 300 at Kansas Speedway on April 29.
Proceeds from the final sale will be donated to The Gift of Hearing Foundation, which is dedicated to increasing access to cochlear implant surgery and services for those who have been identified as candidates for this technology. .
Energy Ministry to open bidding for power buy in Apr
Energy ministry will open bidding for purchasing electricity from private power producers in April as scheduled, Minister Piyasvasti Amranand said Wednesday.
Invitations to IPPs (independent power producers) will be issued late this month. The selection process will be by the next government, Piyasvasti said.
Bids must be submitted by October, with the selection of winners set for April 2008 and the finalisation of a power purchase agreement in October that year, Piyasvasti said.
According to Piyasvasti, the government plans to buy 3,000-4,000 megawatts from private producers for adding new power generation capacity during 2011-2013. This will boost the country's current total installed capacity of 27,789 MW.
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India may call bids for new Mumbai airport by year-end
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India expects to invite bids for a greenfield airport in Mumbai by the end of the year, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Monday. "The land issues have been resolved. The government will now proceed for cabinet approval on bidding," Patel told reporters on the sidelines of the U.S.-India Aviation Partnership Summit. The Navi Mumbai International Airport is to be built at a cost of 42.35 billion rupees on public-private partnership by forming a special purpose company. The project is designed to ease congestion at Mumbai's existing airports, among the busiest in the country. Maharashtra's City and Industrial Development Corp. and the state-run Airport Authority of India will hold equity to the extent of 26 percent and the rest will be held by a private developer.
1st Day — Collectible, Ephemera & Decorative Auction
First hour of the auction will be dedicated to sell a collection of approximately 100 HUMMELS from a home in Montgomery, MA.
Several POST CARD & TRADE CARD Albums, autographed albums including wooden post card 1909.
CLOCKS: New Haven banjo, Atmos Jaeger Le Coultre, Kroeber time strike & alarm shelf clock, coocoo clocks etc.
CABINET PHOTOS; old car wreck, two hearse photos, Indian in military uniform.
BOOKS: Children's books with mystery and Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, cookbooks & recipe pamphlets. Old SHEET MUSIC lots and children's records.
STAMP lots, COINS & numismatic coin catalogues.
Old German STEINS. POTTERY & CHINA: Roseville Futura vase, Mason's ironstone Staffordshire vases, early McCoy planter, signed Italian contemporary pottery, Famille Rose jardinière, Majolica pedestal & jardinière signed Limoges by Osborne DeWolf.
No applications for sixth Yukos asset auction - fund -1
MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - No applications have been received by the deadline for a sixth auction for smaller assets of the now bankrupt oil company Yukos [RTS: YUKO], Russia's federal property fund said Thursday. Yukos, once Russia's largest oil company, was declared bankrupt August 1, 2006, after three years of litigation with tax authorities over the company's tax arrears. The initial price of the lot for the sixth auction scheduled for April 20 was 3.13 million rubles (about $121,240), with a bid increment of 31,000 rubles (about $1,200), the fund said. The first auction held March 27 to sell Yukos' 9.44% stake in state-controlled crude producer Rosneft was won by Rosneft's subsidiary RN-Razvitiye, which offered 197.84 billion rubles for the lot (about $7.6 billion), compared with the lot's initial price of slightly over 195.5 billion rubles (about $7.5 billion).
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