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Towards a level playing field regime? murali772 - 12-DEC-2013
India’s competition watchdog has fined Coal India Ltd (CIL) and three of its subsidiaries a combined Rs.1,773 crore for misusing their position as monopoly suppliers of coal to fix prices and supply poor-quality coal, and do so on conditions that favoured them over the buyers. The specific charges against Coal India, the first state-run company to be fined by the Comp |
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Byappanahalli as a World Class Railway Station - a Terminus for Public Transportation ram14025 - 9-DEC-2013
To-day's Times of India has carried out a news item "Station's Makeover Dreams on hold - Rlys Keep Byappanahalli Out of Pilot Project for World Class Facility". |
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RTO absurdity, nay criminality murali772 - 2-DEC-2013
Hundreds of Bangalore-bound tourists from Tamil Nadu were stranded for hours on Sunday when taxi operators resorted to a snap strike at the check-post, near Hosur. |
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Neta/ Babu car travels the cause of all that is rotten in the city murali772 - 25-NOV-2013
Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy blamed engineers and officials of the BBMP for the poor progress in waste management. “BBMP officials do not seem to see anything. The engineers and joint commissioners sit in their cars and travel through the city but they do not see the garbage on the roads or problems of citizens,” he said. |
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Grab the opportunity to offload Air-India murali772 - 20-NOV-2013
Industry leader Ratan Tata today expressed interest in the possibility of privatisation of Air India, saying he would be very happy to look at it whenever it happened. "As an when it happens, we would be very happy to look at it," the Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group said when asked whether he would be interested if Air India was privatised. |
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Public assets or perpetual burdens? murali772 - 20-NOV-2013
Babus and public sector executives may have to surrender phones and broadband connections from private operators such as Airtel and Vodafone and shift to the networks of state-owned MTNL and BSNL as part of the government's plan to improve the finances of the two PSUs. |
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(Apartment) Residents Welfare Association National Confederation Sat 23 Nov 2013 xs400 - 20-NOV-2013
Saw this in The Hindu (19th Nov, 2013): |
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murali772 - 14-NOV-2013
Cycling and walking are difficult not just because of poor planning. It is also because of the mindset that only those who move in a car have status and road rights. Anyone who walks or cycles is considered poor, wretched and destined to be marginalised, if not obliterated. - - - This is what must change. |
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murali772 - 3-NOV-2013
Reading what I thought were absurd comments, made by certain neta's following the Mahboobnagar bus mishap, I thought I'll start this blog where I'll list these, as also any that I come upon in future: |
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How dare you question me (police)? murali772 - 25-OCT-2013
Rajesh G, in a complaint to the Karnataka Police Complaint Authority (KPCA), alleged that policemen from the Bannerghatta police station assaulted him with a cricket bat on October 16. He had questioned them when they were assaulting two men fighting on the road. The cops turned on Rajesh, causing him injuries to his right ankle. |