Asked about the latest breakthrough, the Haryana chief
minister said in view of the rising gender crimes, chowmein
will be banned in Haryana for a fortnight to see if it
reduces gender crimes. "Now that we have identified the root
cause of gender crimes, we will apply the trial-and-error
method to find out what works and what doesn't. To start
with, we will ban chowmein, and the following fortnight we'll
lift the ban on it and shift the ban on burgers. Other kinds
of fast food like pizzas and French fries would also be
banned in turn. While banning each of these foods in turn and
thereby noting the crime stats, we shall conclude which food
needs to be banned in the state to curb the rate of gender
crimes. Women, of course, shall be prohibited from eating any
or all of these fast foods irrespective of any bans on any
kind of food, and it will be easier for us to shift the blame
of gender crimes on women if they are caught cooking chowmein
on the sly," he saidBANGALORE: US private equity firm
Blackstone has inked India's biggest commercial real estate
acquisition deal, which will give it 50% stake in a Bangalore
builder-owned portfolio of three business parks for $200
million (over Rs 1,000 crore).
The deal beats Citigroup's acquisition of a Mumbai office
building earlier this year for Rs 985 crore, which was bigger
than Maple Tree's Rs 800-crore buyout of 2 million sq ft from
Assetz Global Technology Park and Baring PE Partners' Rs 500
-crore investment in RMZ Corp for 6 million sq ft space.
A person familiar with the matter told ET that Blackstone,
which invests in realty firms, has bought stake in an SPV
comprising three commercial properties totalling over 10
million sq ft — Embassy Golf link and Manyata Embassy
Business Park in Bangalore and Embassy Tech Zone in Pune.
