Land Acquisition, R & R Bill - last nail on industrialisation coffin?

murali772 - 28-AUG-2013

The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation, and Resettlement Bill introduced in Parliament is a terrible piece of work. It is a Luddite proposal that threatens all economic development.

Regional Media Workshop on Fuel Efficiency and Sustainable Urban Transport

MaheshK - 16-APR-2013

Regional Media Workshop on Fuel Efficiency

10:00 am – 05:00 pm

Venue: The Woodrose Club, Brigade Millennium 7th Phase, J. P. Nagar, Bangalore

Sustainable Urban Transport

April 17, 2013

"The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill" in the offing

murali772 - 1-APR-2013

Undeterred by stiff opposition from private developers and builders, the housing ministry is pushing hard to bring the real estate regulator bill, aiming to protect home buyers, in the current session of Parliament.

The questionable Food Security Bill

murali772 - 31-MAR-2013

The food security bill will condemn India’s poor to perpetual poverty. The bill plans to distribute grain to two thirds of India’s population at a 90 per cent subsidy costing over Rs 1,00,000 crores.

Living A Rewarding and Successful Life

Bangalore is Mine - 26-FEB-2013

Quite often I have been hearing and reading news of people being termed of living a ‘successful life’.. They have been termed successful based on their talent, achievement, popularity and sometimes, public adulation

Interesting Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) System for Amritsar

murali772 - 25-FEB-2013

Punjab Infrastructure Development Board, Dept of Local Govt - Punjab, and Municipal Corpn of Amritsar are looking at this novel concept, initially over a 3.53 km stretch

What IIM, HBR and New Age Gurus don’t Teach

Bangalore is Mine - 22-FEB-2013

(Below is the blog published by me in my company portal. This is to set the tone for Ashwin Mahesh's campaign for the upcomming elections)

Country of a Billion Fools?

Bangalore is Mine - 16-FEB-2013

Most of us believe (or rather made to believe) that the 4 pillars of our democracy stands on Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Press. However, in reality they are just watchdogs of the actual pillars that have overtaken the nation

Health insurance

abidpqa - 12-FEB-2013

In India, private insurance promise to provide a certain amount of money in case of medical condition. This is not the purpose of health insurance. Health insurers have to provide guarantee that we will get treatment.  We dont have to know how much money they have paid to hospitals or doctors.. If the insurer, has paid x amount to doctor, do we have any benefit?

Why isn't plea-bargaining being practiced In India?

murali772 - 4-JAN-2013

While the demands for Taliban-type punishments grow louder, one point being missed is that tougher the punishment, lesser the chances of it being awarded and longer it will take to execute.