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Ringh Send email
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Jun 11, 2012
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Real Estate Cheating
Hi dear one's i do not agree on above words... why because they have explained me, every thing about there projects how exactly it works out and how we ll be beneficial at present and as well as in future so i;m totally satisfied with their service and i booked a flat @ silk board SAROVAR project .. and i would like suggest you to buy a flat.. so that you can save your money up to 15 lakhs...
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Vasu17 Send email
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May 28, 2012
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Real Estate Cheating
hi, any one has taken the apartment from dream z infra, which is completed.As they told they have already completed one apartment in silk board area.
Please provide the number so that we will get the feedback.
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sauravdk
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May 14, 2012
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Dreamz Infra biggest frauds
MR sachin naik MD of dreamz infra. He has even changed his name. he had company called squarefoot properties. then he closed it its now called dreamz gk infra india pvt ltd. he is also starting company called master mind properties. His girl frnd Disha a kannada actress is 65 % stake holder in the company.he keeps hiring employees make them work for 2 months and fire them without salary. he sells appartment to customers where he wouldnt have even bought the land. nothing is his own. he makes fraud money from customer with 18 months of construction period . he doesnt own any land. he has criminal record against his real name in australia as well.
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sauravdk
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May 14, 2012
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Dreamz Infra is Big Fraud
Squarefoot properties are real home makers
SQUAREFOOT PROPERTIES - Thieves, Cheats, Frauds
DREAMZ INFRA is another name of squarefoot properties.
Goondas - Squarefoot Properties / Dreamz infra.
Thieves, Cheats, Frauds, Killer - Squarefoot Properties / Dreamz infra.
The Squarefoot Properties / Dreamz infra is a BROKER.
They will book one flat to MULTIPLE persons.
One dump who pays highest at end will get the flat.
Sometimes they sell single flat to MULTIPLE people too with FAKE papers.
They will RUN like a DOG for getting your booking money.
Once your cheque is cleared, they will AVOID you and search for another booking the same flat.
They will CHEAT you.
I booked a flat in Dreamz Infra.
They have taken 12 lacs rupees as booking amount.
TWELVE LAKH RUPEES - I have paid.
Can you think how many days savings will make TWELVE LAKHS rupees?
I took 10 years to make this money. But these FRAUDS took it at a single instant.
I have paid them in July, but no refund so far.
I have lost my MENTAL stability and so I have lost my JOB too.
I am writing this to make aware all the People NOT to get trap with such squarefoot properties.
I am SURE that someone will surely comment good thing on my review,
bcz they have HIRED excellent guys only for putting good reviews on internet.
Because of many bad reviews over mouthshut.com, they have DELETED that thread.
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Sachin and Kanhaiya- are the MD of Squarefoot Properties / Dreamz infra
They have served JAIL for many times.
And they are out with the help of one of their police relative.
But how long they will survive in this world.
Their main targets are the Software/IT people or non-Karnataka persons.
Because Software/IT people are very busy in their life.
Software/IT people are very good, innocent,
and will always fear to walk to Police station.
So they will ask your procession casually while taking the booking amount.
Once you say any software comany or your profession,
they will run behind you like a Dog for booking amount.
Then you are trapped.
SQUAREFOOT PROPERTIES / DREAMZ INFRA are 100% FRAUD.
Please share this information through Facebook / Google+ / hi5 / Orkut, email etc.
Thanks to all for reading this.
SQUAREFOOT PROPERTIES / DREAMZ INFRA review is they are OPEN MARKET CHAETERS.
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sauravdk
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May 14, 2012
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Dreamz Infra review
Beware of Dreamz GK Infra company since they are big Frauds and cheating innocent people like Software Engineers, etc. It is is into Real Estate and selling Flats at very low price in Bangalore. They have earlier cheated many people to the tune of crores of rupees. They take advance 25% to 100% depending on the Bakra they find. Once you pay they will never get back to you.
When you step into their office they will try to impress you by offering free snacks, dry fruits, soft drinks etc... They also take you to a site in posh Taxi. They will run behind you till you pay the advance and after that they vanish.
Don't get fooled by these people. Earlier they had company named Squarefoot properties which they closed down after cheating many people. Very soon they will close Dreamz Infra as well and run away.
Be Alert and never ever fall in their trap even if they offer you at dirt cheap price. If they keep on following you report to the Police.
Many complaints with the Police have already been registered against this company and they are going to run away very soon.
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Rahulgreat64 Send email
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May 5, 2012
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Real Estate Cheating
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Jaisripandey Send email
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Apr 30, 2012
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In the summer of 1973 sunflowers appeared in my father's vegetable garden. They seemed to sprout overnight in a few rows he had lent that year to new neighbors from California. Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of place among the respectable beans, peppers, spinach, and other vegetables we had always grown. Gradually, however, the brilliance of the sunflowers won me over. Their fiery halos relieved the green monotone that by late summer ruled the garden. I marveled at birds that clung upside down to the shaggy, gold disks, wings fluttering, looting the seeds. Sunflowers defined flowers for me that summer and changed my view of the world.
Flowers have a way of doing that. They began changing the way the world looked almost as soon as they appeared on Earth about 130 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 seconds. But once they took firm root about 100 million years ago, they swiftly diversified in an explosion of varieties that established most of the flowering plant families of the modern world.
Today flowering plant species outnumber by twenty to one those of ferns and cone-bearing trees, or conifers, which had thrived for 200 million years before the first bloom appeared. As a food source flowering plants provide us and the rest of the animal world with the nourishment that is fundamental to our existence. In the words of Walter Judd, a botanist at the University of Florida, "If it weren't for flowering plants, we humans wouldn't be here."
From oaks and palms to wildflowers and water lilies, across the miles of cornfields and citrus orchards to my father's garden, flowering plants have come to rule the worlds of botany and agriculture. They also reign over an ethereal realm sought by artists, poets, and everyday people in search of inspiration, solace, or the simple pleasure of beholding a blossom.
"Before flowering plants appeared, " says Dale Russell, a paleontologist with North Carolina State University and the State Museum of Natural Sciences, "the world was like a Japanese garden: peaceful, somber, green; inhabited by fish, turtles, and dragonflies. After flowering plants, the world became like an English garden, full of bright color and variety, visited by butterflies and honeybees. Flowers of all shapes and colors bloomed among the greenery."
That dramatic change represents one of the great moments in the history of life on the planet. What allowed flowering plants to dominate the world's flora so quickly? What was their great innovation?
Botanists call flowering plants angiosperms, from the Greek words for "vessel" and "seed." Unlike conifers, which produce seeds in open cones, angiosperms enclose their seeds in fruit. Each fruit contains one or more carpels, hollow chambers that protect and nourish the seeds. Slice a tomato in half, for instance, and you'll find carpels. These structures are the defining trait of all angiosperms and one key to the success of this huge plant group, which numbers some 235, 000 species.
Just when and how did the first flowering plants emerge? Charles Darwin pondered that question, and paleobotanists are still searching for an answer. Throughout the 1990s discoveries of fossilized flowers in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America offered important clues. At the same time the field of genetics brought a whole new set of tools to the search. As a result, modern paleobotany has undergone a boom not unlike the Cretaceous flower explosion itself.
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Now old-style fossil hunters with shovels and microscopes compare notes with molecular biologists using genetic sequencing to trace modern plant families backward to their origins. These two groups of researchers don't always arrive at the same birthplace, but both camps agree on why the quest is important.
"If we have an accurate picture of the evolution of a flowering plant, " says Walter Judd, "then we can know things about its structure and function that will help us answer certain questions: What sorts of species can it be crossed with? What sorts of pollinators are effective?" This, he says, takes us toward ever more sensible and productive methods of agriculture, as well as a clearer understanding of the larger process of evolution.
Elizabeth Zimmer, a molecular biologist with the Smithsonian Institution, has been rethinking that process in recent years. Zimmer has been working to decipher the genealogy of flowering plants by studying the DNA of today's species. Her work accelerated in the late 1990s during a federally funded study called Deep Green, developed to foster coordination among scientists studying plant evolution.
Zimmer and her colleagues began looking in their shared data for groups of plants with common inherited traits, hoping eventually to identify a common ancestor to all flowering plants. Results to date indicate that the oldest living lineage, reaching back at least 130 million years, is Amborellaceae, a family that includes just one known species, Amborella trichopoda. Often described as a "living fossil, " this small woody plant grows only on New Caledonia, a South Pacific island famous among botanists for its primeval flora.
But we don't have an Amborella from 130 million years ago, so we can only wonder if it looked the same as today's variety. We do have fossils of other extinct flowering plants, the oldest buried in 130-million-year-old sediments. These fossils give us our only tangible hints of what early flowers looked like, suggesting they were tiny and unadorned, lacking showy petals. These no-frill flowers challenge most notions of what makes a flower a flower.
To see what the first primitive angiosperm might have looked like, I flew to England and there met paleobotanist Chris Hill, formerly with London's Natural History Museum. Hill drove me through rolling countryside to Smokejacks Brickworks, a quarry south of London. Smokejacks is a hundred-foot-deep (30-meter-deep) hole in the ground, as wide as several football fields, that has been offering up a lot more than raw material for bricks. Its rust-colored clays have preserved thousands of fossils from about 130 million years ago. We marched to the bottom of the quarry, got down on our hands and knees, and began digging.
Soon Hill lifted a chunk of mudstone. He presented it to me and pointed to an imprint of a tiny stem that terminated in a rudimentary flower. The fossil resembled a single sprout plucked from a head of broccoli. The world's first flower? More like a prototype of a flower, said Hill, who made his initial fossil find here in the early 1990s. He officially named it Bevhalstia pebja, words cobbled from the names of his closest colleagues.
Through my magnifying glass the Bevhalstia fossil appeared small and straggly, an unremarkable weed I might see growing in the water near the edge of a pond, which is where Hill believes it grew.
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The Tiger Airways strategy
Tiger Airways establishes airlines in markets where we believe our low-fare, low-cost business model has exceptional potential for sustainable profitability.
Our aim is to create a portfolio of profitable routes throughout Asia and Australasia. We believe that our focus on providing customers with affordable air travel positions us well for growth as Asia and Australasia is the world's most populous region, with the fastest growing aviation market in the world, and the low-fare, low-cost model remains under-developed in the majority of countries in the region.
Our business model
Our business model is based on that of other successful low-cost airlines in the world. Our model involves scrutinising every single aspect of the business to remove non-essential costs without compromising passenger safety, security or punctuality. Our business model is designed to maintain simplicity, and our disciplined approach to executing this model has given us the ability to achieve one of the lowest operating costs for any start-up airline. Our objective is to maximise profitability by developing a portfolio of routes with consistently high passenger load factors and carefully managing capacity. Our disciplined approach allows us to offer our passengers competitive low fares on a consistent and sustainable basis, while enabling us to maintain our low cost base, thus improving our profitability.
Ancillary services and revenue
We provide various ancillary services and generate additional revenue through the provision of additional products and services, connected with our core air passenger service. Our flight-related services include in-flight sale of beverages, food and merchandise. Through our website, we offer our passengers a range of "Tiger Add-On" products such as:
Luggage upsize: Charges are based on the weight of the luggage that passengers are checking in, so passengers only pay for their individual luggage requirements.
Seat Selector: Passengers can select their preferred seats on their flights by paying a fee. Pricing differs by route and the location of the seat selected.
Sports Equipment Check-in: Passengers can choose to bring along their dive bag, or any other item of oversized sports equipment. We also charge a convenience fee for almost all reservations on Tiger Airways as well as a fee for changing reservations. As part of our Internet-related services, we also offer accommodation services, travel insurance and car rental through our website.
Current routes
Please refer to our route map.
Tiger Airways fleet
We operate a single family type of aircraft, currently the Airbus A320 family, because of its efficiency and cost effectiveness. The Airbus A320 aircraft has a track record of reliability in high frequency operations.
Tiger Airways Fleet Total
Singapore 21
Australia 10
Indonesia 3
Total 34
In addition to the 31 aircraft in Australia and Singapore, Tiger Airways has subleased 2 Airbus A319 aircraft to SEAir, bringing the total Group fleet to 33 aircraft.
Tiger Airways uses Airbus A320-200 powered by International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500 & V2524 engines respectively, modern jet engines with proven a track record of reliability and efficiency.
Tiger Airways A320 aircraft have:
A single-class configuration of 180 seats
Cockpit crew of 2
Cabin crew of 4
Average cruise speed: 863 km/h
Cruise altitude: 35, 000 ft
Maximum take-off weight: 77, 000kg
Wing span: 44.1m
Overall length: 37.6m
Cabin width: 4.0m
Maximum fuel capacity: 23, 860 litres
Tiger Airways A319 (part of the A320 family) aircraft have:
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A single-class configuration of 144 seats
Cockpit crew of 2
Cabin crew of 3
Average cruise speed: 833 km/h
Cruise altitude: 39, 800 ft
Maximum take-off weight: 70, 000 kg
Wing span: 34.1m
Overall length: 33.84m
Cabin width: 3.70m
Maximum fuel capacity: 23, 860 litres
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