Posts : Media Reports

Tata arm bags Mysore water supply project

silkboard - 4-DEC-2008

This piece of news must be noted, its significant. Mysore city corporation (MCC) is inviting a Tata arm to form the largest water supply PPP project in the country. Read the press release directly on Tata group's website. Here are some key points worth your time:

Traffic fines to be increased

mcadambi - 2-DEC-2008

Finally,

The Transport Commissioner, Shri Bhaskar Rao is going to increase the fines and enforce traffic rules better in Bengaluru:

http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/26/stories/2008112651610600.htm

He should seriously consider options such as the "denver boot" for vehicles that are parked opposite driveways and other negligent drivers.

Delhi BRT - much to learn

asj - 29-NOV-2008

Much to learn from this experience -

http://www.itdp.org/documents/Analysis%20of%20Delhi%20BRT.pdf

ASJ

Healthy Bangaloreans might go extinct by 2020

idontspam - 26-NOV-2008

 MYSORE: Bangalore will not have any healthy people left in 15 years if the government fails to arrest soaring pollution levels in both urban and rural levels. This grim warning came from Vision Group 2020, a panel comprising of eminent personalities from the state, constituted for making Karnataka a developed state.

India's Renewable Energy Sector and Green Energy Index Unaffected by Global Economic Slowdown

Shaguf - 26-NOV-2008

India's Renewable Energy Sector and Green Energy Index Unaffected by Global Economic Slowdown

Accident nation

s_yajaman - 26-NOV-2008

There was a report in today's TOI on accidents in India. 125,000 people lost their lives in India in road accidents. India tops the list in road deaths in the world. China has managed to bring DOWN road deaths from 2005 to 2006. In India this has gone up from about 106,000 to 125,000 from 2006 to 2007.

Mumbai to get India's First Monorail - by 2011

santsub - 25-NOV-2008

Come November 29 Mumbaikars' dream of smooth commuting will get a major boost with the laying of the foundation stone for India's first Monorail project at the metropolis. Details below in the link.. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Monorail_in_Mumbai_from_Nov_29/articleshow/3754417.cms

India Calling....

Ravi_D - 25-NOV-2008

"Which raises a heart-stirring question: If our parents left India and trudged westward for us, if they manufactured from scratch a new life there for us, if they slogged, saved, sacrificed to make our lives lighter than theirs, then what does it mean when we choose to migrate to the place they forsook? "

More trees to be axed

asj - 24-NOV-2008

Unashamedly they go on, road after road, for sake of wider roads trees are being axed

http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2008/11/24002940/Over-220-trees-face-the-axe-fo.html

ASJ

Bangalore has higest court cases filed and pending !

kbsyed61 - 24-NOV-2008

We all know about the state of judiciary and its access to our vulnerable sections. In hindsight we all agree that Indian judicial system needs radical reforms in terms delivering the justice in reasonable time period. This is not to put down our judicial system but we all need to be aware of the potential shortcoming the judicial delivery system has.