Kunigal Stud Farm

psaram42 - 18-MAR-2009

Mr. Vijay Mallya is again in news this time for the Kunigal Stud Farm. Kunigal Stud Farm has Tippus Heritage Status. A city needs to preserve the Heritage sites as one of the important anchors for preserving local culture.

World Kannadiga Awareness Conference

kannadavesathya - 17-JAN-2009

Dear Kannadigas,

Bangalore Urban Planning Center

Ravi_D - 2-JAN-2009

GOK and IISC will come together to establish a Center for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP). I really like the idea of an institution like IISC heading this effort.

Read this 1/Jan DH Report for more.

Ravi

Street Cleanliness

akhilaravi - 23-DEC-2008

I stay in one of the oldest locality in Bangalore i.e Banashankari I stage, very near to Hanumanthnagar. Recently corporation introduced the system of collecting the Household garbage thru the street cleaning persons. Now they have the push-trolley with plastic bin's which they suppose to come near each house and collect the household garbage. These garbage need to be dumped to another van which collects the garbage from the whole area and take to designated place.

Rallies continue in the city - BSP's turn now

silkboard - 23-DEC-2008

This morning's 30-35 minute commute took over two hours. I come to office, and find it empty. All thanks to BSP's rally at Palace Grounds today. This is the state on eastern suburbs, I wonder what would be the situation in central areas of the city.

Misuse of public money?

n - 20-NOV-2008

There is a proposal to build bungalows for the ministers (here is another article). The bungalow size seems high and extravagant (don't know how the size is arrived at).

Bangalore Apartments - How safe are they?

Vasanth - 26-OCT-2008

Bangalore is becoming like apartment city. So many apartments and many apartments have overtaken the Utility Building in terms of number of floors. How safe are they ? How well are they constructed ?

Hall of Shame

s_yajaman - 1-SEP-2008

Karnataka made it to the Hall of Shame. Please see this report in today's DH.

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Sep12008/...

"This has been confirmed in a 2007-08 survey, conducted by Transparency International India and the Centre for Media Studies, New Delhi. the state which was ranked 17th in a 2005 Transparency International India (TII) survey, has now climbed to the top slot of “very highly corrupt states.”

HAL Heritage Center and Aerospace Museum

blrsri - 28-AUG-2008

MIG 21, they say, created so much scare in the USA when it was launched by USSR, that they spent lot of effort to understand this warplane!

Where can you find this in Bangalore?  at the 'HAL Heritage Center and Aerospace Museum'

The details are below:

Jayanagar 5th Block RWA interacts with MLA and officials

blr_editor - 13-AUG-2008

Mr Mukund shares with us the following piece of news :