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murali772 - 7-JAN-2010
It is an extraordinary system where an equipment manufacturer for the telecom industry turns sick and remains sick just as an epoch-making boom takes place in the sector. Lakhs of private units make losses and are unable to cope with the market; only, they don’t have an automatic tap in the public treasury to keep going that way. |
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Indian Society can not be happy till its governance is fixed, fast. psaram42 - 6-JAN-2010
“Gurcharan Das was the CEO of Procter & Gamble India and Vice President for Procter & Gamble Far East between 1985 and 1992. He was later Vice President and Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide. |
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murali772 - 31-DEC-2009
Nothing could have made a better Christmas gift from Santa for jumbos! A crucial corridor used by more than a thousand elephants in Kollegal was purchased by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and transferred to the state government on Thursday. |
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Why Tata still doesn’t get it? murali772 - 30-DEC-2009
Ratan Tata had this to say on the Singur debacle: “More often than not, conflicts related to land are promoted by individuals who do not belong to that area, but who have other political motives.” Quite so, but this, interestingly enough, was the exact position taken by British planters to stop Mahatma Gandhi’s first mass movement in India, the anti-indigo cultivation |
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murali772 - 30-DEC-2009
For the faint-hearted, young men hitting their backs with a bunch of knives, tied together with a rope, has always been a visual torture if they ever witnessed one. But that has been always a practice for Muslims during Muharram. |
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The international effluent trade psaram42 - 30-DEC-2009
Is it so easy to dump harmful chemicals in our country especially in our city of Bangalore? About 40 Barrels of unknown chemical were dumped at vacant railway yard near the slums of Okalipuram supposedly on Monday night. We seem to be totally unaware and un prepared for such exigencies. |
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For ward 151 (Koramangala): Names on Voter List shekhar_mittal - 27-DEC-2009
Smartvote Koramangla guys have digitised the voter list for ward 151 and come up with this:http://www.smartvote.in/koramangala/voterdata/pme/vlist.php |
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One upon a time, before computers in Bangalore E.R. Ramachandran - 26-DEC-2009
Bangalore scene before computers.........(This was published earlier in Churumuri on August 14, 2009 as ‘Once upon a time before computers in Bangalore’ ) |
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Legislators, MPs garner prime sites kbsyed61 - 23-DEC-2009
Deccan Herald carried a news report titled "Legislators, MPs garner prime sites". http://www.deccanherald.com/content/42820/legislators-mps-garner-prime-sites.html Interesting to read is about Dr. Hemchand Sagar's name in the report. |
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House panel indicts Murthy for faulty airport design murali772 - 23-DEC-2009
The Joint House Committee (JHC) probing the construction of the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) has indicted Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy, MP Rajeev Chandrashekar, bureaucrats V P Baligar, K Jairaj and other officials for "faulty" design and construction. |