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Visit to International Airport shas3n - 29-MAR-2008Praja members vising the Bangalore International Airport. |
Road over drains - the project is back silkboard - 29-MAR-2008
It was just over an year ago when BBMP talked about the project - about 250 km of roads over Bangalore's storm water drains. Local papers, when covering BBMP budget today, are saying that this project is now funded. Here is a quote from TOI: |
Questions for BIAL (The first List) narayan82 - 29-MAR-2008I have compiled the list of questions. As predicted there are LOTS! Practically I dont think BIAL will have the time to answer each and every one of them! After a point they would care too much about doing so. I suggest we condensing it by trying to answer them ourselves. If it is still not a convincing answer then we can go ahead with it. |
Protest against Error-ridden Voters' list - 31st March murali772 - 29-MAR-2008
Vote Bengaluru protests against error-ridden electoral rolls in Bangalore |
CVS - return to Inspector Raaj murali772 - 29-MAR-2008
When a tax computation system changes, citizens are naturally apprehensive. This is currently the case with the proposed introduction of Capital Value Scheme (CVS) for property tax in Bangalore as mandated in the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act. This changes the widely welcomed Self Assessment Scheme (SAS) that has been in operation since 2000. |
One convincing reason for us to use public transport and bicycles shas3n - 28-MAR-2008
They say a picture says a thousand words. Here is a poster that show the space occupied by same number of people using Cars, bus and cycles.
Can it get any more convincing than this?
Courtesy: Core77 blog.
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blrsri - 28-MAR-2008
By Satish Shile,DH News Service,Bangalore:
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TOI Unlock Bangalore Event - Learnings narayan82 - 28-MAR-2008As you all might have read in the papers, TOI had an Unlock Bangalore event at The Leela on March 28th 2008. Many say the event was merely a publicity stunt (as no other paper was allowed inside), but even so the secondary results were fruitful. |
Same state of ATC, but HIAL OKed and BIAL grounded thebangalorean - 27-MAR-2008Hyderabad’s new international airport does not have a fully functional Air Control Tower, also known as an ATC!CNBC-TV18’s Faye D'souza found out that part of the Air Traffic Control operations is still being done at the old Begumpet Airport. |
murali772 - 27-MAR-2008Governor Rameshwar Thakur's call for constituting a 'Water Resources Regulatory Authority', vide the report in your columns on 26th March under the caption 'PPP can be answer to water scarcity', has not come a day too soon. |