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murali772 - 1-OCT-2013
Illegal apartment complexes, temples, coconut plantations, temporary sheds, buildings and compounds around Kaggadasapura lake in Varthur hobli will be brought down on Saturday, as the Bangalore Urban district officials will undertake a major eviction drive to clear the encroachments around the lake. |
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murali772 - 31-JUL-2013
Duty calls, but they decided to hold the state on ransom to make their woes heard, by evading duty calls. Hundreds of drivers and paramedical staff of Arogya Kavacha (108 ambulance services) gathered at Freedom Park to press for their demands for job security and wage hikes on Sunday. |
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CAG report on allotment of sites by BDA - action take so far? silkboard - 7-JUN-2013
I notice that there is a lot of halla in newspapers this morning on a new CAG report on financial performance of BBMP. This reminded me of the other report release last year on "Denotification of land by Government and Allotment of sites by BDA". embedding the report through scribd below. |
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murali772 - 26-MAY-2013
A day after 198 corporators condemned the BBMP's decision to freeze 1,970 civic works worth Rs 530 crore based on the report given by the vigilance team, the man behind the investigation tendered his registration and opted for VRS. |
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Mis-carriage of criminal justice murali772 - 18-MAY-2013
In the midst of the recent Karnataka assembly election campaigning, a member of a certain popular yahoo-group suddenly came up with a posting that Dr Ashwin Mahesh, the LokSatta candidate from Bommanahalli constituency, has a criminal record. |
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Battle of Good Vs Bad - Autorikshaw Driver Vs Ranbaxy, IPL kbsyed61 - 17-MAY-2013
What a week! 3 news items that made headlines are worth taking note of. |
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With and Without ticket travel experiences in BMTC Vasanth - 7-MAY-2013
I daily travel a distance of around 2 kms by BMTC bus to catch my office shuttle from Janatha Bazar Katriguppe to Devegowda Petrol Bunk. I earlier used to wait and catch Volvo since it was Rs. 10 and now Rs. 15 for mere 2 kms. I sometime do 'Auto Pool' if I get one of my colleague which costs only 20 for 2, otherwise take our good old 'Parisara Vahini'. |
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"revenue pockets" - pocket-boroughs of politico's? murali772 - 3-MAY-2013
Following are the excerpts from an interview (published in Citizen Matters, for the full text, click here) of the incumbent Congress MLA from BTM layout constituency, who is now seeking re-election from the same constituency: |
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Cash for votes - some investment mathematics silkboard - 30-APR-2013
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The big 'foot path' scam in BBMP srinidhi - 17-APR-2013
We all knew BBMP is the cash cow for all politicians and its contractors along with the so called engineers. The engineers are really good at engineering ways to let fake bills and fake payments to be done without works being carried out.. |
"The rates have gone up". "Many of them want touch phones". "down payment for a new bike". "Digital box for TV" (remember the digitization deadline?). The murmurs are on. The "cash rates" are as high as Rs 4000.