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Politics over principles characterises India: Shashi Tharoor mcadambi - 15-SEP-2008
Indian politics is essentially debate over principles unlike developed country politics: "The French political scientist Maurice Duverger once explained that politics in India involves conflict over basic principles and in Britain, conflict over subsidiary principles, whereas in the US, party politics amounts to a conflict without principles. For both parties agree on most things: liberal democracy, free-enterprise capitalism, low taxes and superpower status abroad." |
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murali772 - 15-SEP-2008
When Ravindranath first saw the irregularities, he started investigating and found that the buildings did not have occupancy certificates . "But the trade licences were given by the BBMP's health department. When I informed the authorities, they were not bothered. So I took up the issue through RTI and approached the KIC. Following the KIC order in May 2007, the three commercial complexes have been closed down and sealed," he explains. For more |
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Ravi_D - 11-SEP-2008
Read this article from CitizenMatters. Interesting. Notice the spec data for road works? Wonder what percent of roads in B'lore adhere to the spec! |
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mcadambi - 9-SEP-2008
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/New-Bangalore-international-airport-shoddy--Karnataka-CM/359223/ "It's shoddy compared to all airports in India," he said at a function at Vidhan Soudha, the State Secretariat."
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Bangalore Transportation Summit - Praja participation admin123 - 9-SEP-2008
If you have not already heard about the Bangalore Transportation Summit being organised by BMLTA and Transinnova, please refer to the announcement on BMLTA's site. The program for the event is available here.
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is Karnataka going nuts?..homegrown version of the Taliban blrpraj - 7-SEP-2008
This news report is utterly shocking. What is even more surprising is there is not one word of protest in the country. Read: Cracking down on ‘violations of moral code’ in Dakshina Kannada http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/07/stories/2008090750160100.htm |
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'No' to more construction in Cubbon Park murali772 - 5-SEP-2008
A group of 70 city advocates, opposing any construction inside Cubbon Park, submitted a memorandum to the chief justice of the high court on Saturday. In their representation addressed to Justice P D Dinakaran, the advocates said the court should not permit construction of a multi-storeyed car parking complex and a canteen within Cubbon Park, claiming it will be an environmental disaster. |
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AAI messed up the runway at BIA mcadambi - 5-SEP-2008
Our dear AAI (Airports Authority of India) has messed up the landing facilities at BIA and HIA: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/09/03/stories/2008090351240900.htm |
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kbsyed61 - 1-SEP-2008
BIAL has completed its 100 days of operation. It must have gone thru unique experience of trying to cater to different quarters with different expectations. Here is the official media release from BIAL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COURTSEY - BIAL Weblink - http://www.bengaluruairport.com/portal/page/portal/... |
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s_yajaman - 1-SEP-2008
Karnataka made it to the Hall of Shame. Please see this report in today's DH. http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Sep12008/... "This has been confirmed in a 2007-08 survey, conducted by Transparency International India and the Centre for Media Studies, New Delhi. the state which was ranked 17th in a 2005 Transparency International India (TII) survey, has now climbed to the top slot of “very highly corrupt states.” |