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sourav894 - 16-OCT-2010
It is a fact, that the virtual world is a replica of the real world. Atleast it tries to be one! I’ll prove my point with a simple example. Searching, is one of the primary tasks in Information Management. Let’s assume your friend is in a train compartment and you have to find him out. What are the ways possible? |
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sourav894 - 16-OCT-2010
It is preposterous to see the long queues outside schools in Bangalore. These fine men and women are here for their kids admission into pre-primary sections. This school will demand lakhs of donation, and these parents will readily pay it! Some schools even demand minimum qualification of parents for admitting their wards. On what basis are they authorized to do so? |
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RTO Bangalore: My quest for answer has begun raghavv - 11-OCT-2010
After avoiding dealing with government offices all these years, finally I am in the trap. Needed to visit RTO to renew my DL. After 2 trips to RTO I am still not able to prove to the officials where I stay. As per the RTO, I need some govt agency (be it LIC, BSNL, BESCOM, KEB) giving me my proof of my residence. |
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Blind, but still reaching out to his countrymen via UIDAI! kbsyed61 - 10-OCT-2010
Read Mr.Iqbal's story of courage, inspiration and sacrifice. How well somebody has said " "The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse." |
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Tale of CWG website - 112 Crore spent? kbsyed61 - 10-OCT-2010
We all boast of being keepers and makers of world's back office solutions and IT systems. The list includes designing the Boeing's dream-liner to Bosch's washer-dryer. Recently concluded Soccer world cup's IT systems were supposed to have been supported by Mahindra Satyam team. Compare to this when we step down on our local website's, are left with disappointments and nothing else. |
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murali772 - 9-OCT-2010
On February 5, 2010, ABIDe had written to the CM, anticipating problems likely to arise from the slew of denotification orders issued by the urban development department. It had termed these denotifications as ‘non-transparent’. The letter had also recommended that “the ad hoc denotification of notified property be stopped completely. |
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BBMP systematically encouraged illegal buildings kbsyed61 - 7-OCT-2010
Source - Cititen Matters: |
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New scam brewing at BBMP, their infra website, and a simple advice silkboard - 7-OCT-2010
Recent reports in local dailies suggest that there may have been bogus or excess-spend projects to swindle money at BBMP. Apparently, some works were carried out without following all procedures, and good number of such projects involved road digging or similar work along the Metro corridor (where one would assume Metro itself would have taken up such work). Anyway, nothing new there. |
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'October Revolution' round the corner Naveen - 6-OCT-2010
Times of India reports:
Talk of bribery: |
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Open Data Project - putting on hold silkboard - 6-OCT-2010
Give the current state of digitization, automation, and storage and access within most government departments, some of us have realized that this project requires far more bandwidth than we can afford at this point of time. |