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murali772 - 4-APR-2011
After playing out in boardrooms and courtrooms, some of India Inc’s infamous scams have crashed into the classrooms of the country’s iconic IIMs. |
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idontspam - 2-APR-2011
The 23-kilometer (14.3-mile) corridor is the first BRT in China that integrates bicycles in its design. According to Karl Fjellstrom, vice-director at ITDP, there are 5,000 bikes and 5,500 parking docks included in the BRT.
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Cops 'looked the other way' - cricket the reason silkboard - 1-APR-2011
Quoting from Page #2, DNA, this morning, Mr Shankar Bidari, and Mr Sood like to play the generous cop. Looks like it was okay to do certain things on Wednesday night for cricketing reasons. No comments, but wanted to check if anyone else has reactions to these statements of generosity. DNA reporter seems to have liked it. |
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murali772 - 29-MAR-2011
Five persons of a family were killed in a head on collision between their SUV and a KSRTC Rajahamsa bus near Kammadatti on the Bangalore-Chennai National Highway in the wee hours of Saturday. An eyewitness, said that construction was underway on the road as part of the four-laning of the National Highway. Traffic was allowed on only one road as the other road was being tarred. |
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Report on CIVIC's public consultation on Municipal SWM murali772 - 22-MAR-2011
The following are the links to the articles on the fresh garbage tender of BBMP and CIVIC's public consultation held on it (check this) which have appeared in "Citizen Matters": |
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Namma Metro - Play about the 'common' man in a globalised Bengaluru kbsyed61 - 20-MAR-2011
Did any body watch the Drama Play 'Namma Metro', staged by We Move Theatre, a drama group based in Bangalore at the Seva Sadan auditorium in Malleswaram at 7 pm on 12th March? |
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It's no prank: garbage cess from April 1 imran_huq17 - 16-MAR-2011
The cash-strapped BBMP is trying every trick in the book to generate resources and from April 1, you'll be shelling out garbage cess. The question still remains whether it'll ramp up its garbage clearance and disposal. It'll be collected as part of property tax once a year. |
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Should the services of pourakarmikas be regularised? murali772 - 14-MAR-2011
In italics below are the excerpts from a recent report in the New Indian Express (for the full report, click here), and my responses to them (in regular print) |
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BTC - How Bengaluru's elite bribe their clan for social club membership? kbsyed61 - 12-MAR-2011
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'no longer need to grease palms' - Bihar leads while Karnataka waits silkboard - 11-MAR-2011
As per this DNA report today, Bihar state has notified Right to Services (RSA) Act, and just look at what it promises to do |
