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Petition - Remove Criminals and Cash from Indian Elections indian - 26-MAR-2009
Please see my online petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/remove-criminals-and-cash-from-indian-elections |
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BMTC buses on traffic police radar murali772 - 25-MAR-2009
The BMTC is ending up filling the Bangalore City Traffic Police’s coffer. In February 2009, the traffic police has collected Rs 3.17 lakh for various traffic violations involving BMTC buses. |
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81% 'below poverty line' in the state! murali772 - 18-MAR-2009
With elections on the horizon, the Yeddyurappa government directed the food and civil supplies department to give BPL ration cards to whoever produced an affidavit. Of the total 1.32 crore families in the state, today 1.07 crore, or 81% claim to be living below poverty line just to get access to the card! |
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State gets its ‘act’ together, hopefully murali772 - 15-MAR-2009
After an interminably long sitting on tabling of the Karnataka Police Act for more than a year, the state government has decided to implement the Act through an executive order to avoid a possible embarrassment when the monitoring committee set up by the Apex Court would come for a visit later this month. |
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silkboard - 3-MAR-2009
This project wants to get a regular interaction going between Praja members and the office of Lokayukta. The goal of this project is to get information for Lokayukta at regular intervals to help us |
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Lokayukta's reply to our first RTI admin123 - 9-FEB-2009
Some of us here wanted to know more about the Lokayukta office than what the newspapers tell us. Once the excitement of raids and big names get over, we rarely get to know the closure of those cases. So why not ask Lokayukta on a regular basis? Here is what we asked via an RTI application to start with: |
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My Mutalik dreams - 'bhrashtachar sene' swamy - 8-FEB-2009
Prajagale, I have to write about my dream. I dream about aggressive and passionate people like Mutalik running some other meaningful 'sene' also. Eradu Kanasu. 1) bhrashtaachaara sene 2) vaahana sene |
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World Bank/ GBWASP - a different conspiracy murali772 - 19-JAN-2009
There's always been a debate over whether the politician is the bigger problem, or the bureaucrat. I have always held that even bigger than the two, there's another formidable force - the Socialist (the psuedo variety - there are very few genuine ones remaining). And, the solutions to the countries problems lies in tackling him. |
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Traffic Policeman menace in bangalore ramasada - 30-DEC-2008
I feel the Traffic Police in Bangalore in name of Traffic Management is turning into a Traffic Police Menace. I have seen them trying to catch the two wheelers all the time and taking bribe from them. Is there any mechanism available to stop this. Further I also see them stopping the Trucks and taking money from them. |
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State Level Reforms linked to Security issues murali772 - 30-DEC-2008
As important as fixing the security issues, are the fixing of certain key issues pertaining to governance, the deficiencies around which are the actual cause of the precarious security environment prevailing. A few of the more important ones are listed below. |