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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. |
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A new Paris... (paris.600.jpg) mcadambi - 17-MAR-2009This image was uploaded with the post A new Paris.... |
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mcadambi - 17-MAR-2009
A new design for Paris: |
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manjari - 17-MAR-2009
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GVK - 16-MAR-2009
At a Rotary Club seminar in Bangalore speakers called for empowerment of society to prevent domestic violence. Police woman Kiren Bedi, citing a UN report said India ranked third in the world - behind only Poland and Japan - when it came to incidence of domestic violence. |
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Bribed voters could get 6 months in jail? silkboard - 16-MAR-2009
Read with interest in a newspaper this morning that Mr P Manivannan, who is the Returning Officer for Mysore is talking about tough measures to monitor misuse of Liquor and Money in Lok Sabha Elections. See this Biz Standard story: DC strict on curbing Malparctices. |
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silkboard - 15-MAR-2009
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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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Moral policing, Ragging, Corruption and Angst jennypinto - 15-MAR-2009
According to Soli Sorabji, the supreme court called ragging a “ violation of Human Rights”, while a Prevention of Ragging in Colleges and Institutions Bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha in 2005, has not been enacted yet. That surely brings a feeling of outrage and helpless in many of us in this country. |
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ABIDE - Please put few more proposals in front of Government Vasanth - 14-MAR-2009
I request ABIDe Members like professor Ashwin Mahesh who has been constantly interacting with us to take few more things with the Government. 1. Public Transport on NICE Peripheral road. |
The advertisements of electric bikes and scooters were everywhere when petrol prices were up in the sky. I wonder how are the sales now. Reva too was running ads back then, but no big news about them recently either. Talking of Reva, after reading around a bit (because I was considering buying it), speaking to a few folks who have also been interested, and two owners, here is what I learned: