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Tata's bid to awaken spirit of leadership murali772 - 27-AUG-2008
Tata Jagriti Yatra 2008 will be an inspirational train journey undertaken by around 400 young and enterprising participants, between 18-25 years, from India and overseas. These youth will participate in the 18 day train journey interacting with social and economic entrepreneurs across the country thus encouraging the spirit of social entrepreneurship. |
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Landfill unit begins operation murali772 - 27-AUG-2008
After much protest from the public, landfill site for hazardous wastes developed by the State government in Dobbespet has started its operation. Hyderabad based Ramky Environmental Management Pvt Ltd, the service provider at the site, has been collecting hazardous waste from industries, since June 19, this year. So far the service provider has collected 1,800 tonnes of hazardous waste. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has entrusted the job of lifting the waste and dumping the same at the landfill unit in Dobbespet, to the service provider. |
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murali772 - 27-AUG-2008
An international team of researchers has just released a Global Urban Competitiveness Report, which takes stock of 500 cities around the world. New York has been found to be the most competitive city in the world, followed, in that order, by London, Tokyo, Paris and Washington, DC. |
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balajiolety - 27-AUG-2008There has been a lot of activity on other posts but i find the infrastructure towards yeshwanthpur and the NH-4 towards nelamngala hardly recieve any updates...can anyone update about these infrastructure projects under development or that are about to start? |
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blrsri - 26-AUG-2008
Ex PM Vajpayee had asked 'aakhir ek aadmi ko kitna chahiye?' Improvising we need to ask 'aakhir ek project ko kitne chahiye?!' http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/26/stories/2008082650210100.htm |
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Vasanth - 25-AUG-2008
India is a growing economy with emerging intelligent and talented people who are rendering their services mostly to the west either directly staying there or offline from India, particularly Bangalore. Lot of Bangalore IT companies develop software for American, UK or German insurance companies. But, our own country is deprived of these kind of insurance to all. People who work in IT are covered by their companies. Government employees are covered by some schemes or the other. Few factories are covered by CGHS scheme. |
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Bangalore Traffic Woes, avoid ad hoc solutions please! psaram42 - 25-AUG-2008
Bangalore, keeping in pace with other cities in the world, has grown exponentially over the past half a century. The Key question while planning traffic solutions for such a growing city obviously would be “how to account for possible future growth?” Bangalore has a very good example in the Kempe Gouda Towers. Kempe Gouda had in his wisdom estimated the boundaries of Bangalore and built the Towers known after him. |
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murali772 - 25-AUG-2008
THE Right to Information Act makes it obligatory on the part of the Government to educate the public about RTI. By this time the Central and State Governments should have published user guides to help citizens use RTI effectively. Now after three years, there is talk of introducing RTI in the school syllabus. For more, click on: Muralidhar Rao |
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kbsyed61 - 24-AUG-2008
Respected Prajagale, The BIAL-RTI efforts workgroup is working in the back preparing the ground for filing the applications. In fact today we had the first Telephonic Meeting to discuss the further actions on this front. As of now, this is the status on BIAL-RTI efforts (see original post): |
