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Global Financial District near BIAL Ravi_D - 8-MAR-2010
Today's BS carries this item on a proposed Global Financial District, to cater to banking & financial sector. This 200 Acre plan, located near BIAL is expected to use PPP or JV Model for development. |
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A case study from koramangala on land grabbing vmenon - 24-FEB-2010
Dear all, A posting on a legal win in a land case in Koramangala.It might serve as a boost for others in similar fights and also some indications of methodology, though of course that would change from a case to case basis. |
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Carlton Fire - What can we learn? Ravi_D - 24-FEB-2010
Earthquake in Haiti showed us results of bad construction practices. A 5.1 Richter scale quake is a distinct possibility in Bangalore per this study. |
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BBMP admits to incorrectly sanctioning a plan vaishvittal - 23-FEB-2010
The town planning department of the BBMP has wrongly greenlighted a convention centre near Bannerghatta Road. Residents angered over this and other plan violations in the area. Read this Citizen Matters expose http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1793-bbmp-admits-zoning-violation-panduranganagar Excerpts: |
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srinidhi - 22-FEB-2010
or 'Yaara Appana hesaralli Saala?' The above line depicts it better 'Whose loan is it anyways'..we all know BBMP/Govt coffers are empty and they are living on loans..but what are they doing about it? Nothing..all they are doing is : |
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Mock BBMP Elections tomorrow (as originally scheduled) murali772 - 20-FEB-2010
Mock BBMP Elections to protest mockery of Elections |
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Solution for a decentralized Municipal Waste Management - How & Why? nagrajprabhu - 18-FEB-2010
What can we do about managing solid waste in tier I, II, III cities of India? I am working on a rotating composter which can be used to manage waste locally (decentralized way). I need some help with respect to mechanical engineering to improve the composter efficiency. Does anyone in the group know about any fudning by Govt or other grants for such a project? |
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Public meeting with BDA on War Memorial Rithesh - 18-FEB-2010
Posting on behalf of Vinay Srinivasa (Hasiru Husiru) More info on the proposed War Memorial in this post - http://www.praja.in/en/blog/prajasevaka/2010/01/09/war-memorial-some-facts-and-questions |
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Discussions on “New Age Political Movements in India” psaram42 - 17-FEB-2010
The meeting was held at 4th floor, Auditorium, St Josephs College of Commerce, 163, Brigade Road, Bangalore, on Monday February 15, 2010 between 5:30 – 7:30PM. It was attended by myself and pathy. |
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EC/ SEC - symbol of incompetence, incapacity, apathy, lack of accountability, all put together murali772 - 16-FEB-2010
During the Koramangala SmartVote exercise, this is what the members chanced upon "We introduced the software mainly to enable voters to start an easy search for their names on the voter lists online. However, in the process, we found that a number of names were exactly replicated. |