Raghava
M writes in The HinduTabloids are not just about scandals, glambiz and other trivia. Bangalore Mirror and a local private trust have clubbed up to promote tree planting in their city. Mrs. Janet Yegneswaran, who founded the trust a couple of years back in memory of her husband, has been engaged in encouraging Bangalore residents and neighborhood communities to chip in their bit in her endeavour to make a difference to the city’s green cover.
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Piramal Prize: Social Entrepreneurship For Health Care In India Competition tsubba - 31-DEC-2007
The Piramal Prize seeks to enable cutting-edge entrepreneurial ideas
that bring the highest standards of health to India's masses. Entries,
for-profit or not-for-profit, should emphasize both
profitablity/sustainability and maximum social impact. The most viable
business model will receive INR 10,00,000 (10 Lakh / 1 million) in seed
funding in addition to potential venture capital. |
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56 motorized sky walks for pedestrians! silkboard - 30-DEC-2007
Not that BBMP doesn't care for pedestrians. They have been talking about motorized sky walks for sometime now, and earlier this week, a BBMP tender showed up with plans for sky walks all around the city - 56 of them, and with escalators! "These sky walks are proposed with attractive escalators of adequate capacity on both sides of the road which shall facilitate the vertical movement of the users for climbing as well alighting purposes" As I said, the fancy skywalk talk isn't new. Earlier this year, BBMP had plans for 30 "capsule lift" based sky walks, refer this tender dated 12th Feb 2007: |
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Bangalore Disaster Management Cell tsubba - 28-DEC-2007
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Residents' Initiative To Turn The City Green GVK - 28-DEC-2007
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Cooking Gas From Kitchen Waste GVK - 18-DEC-2007
Left over food and vegetable waste discarded in a dump near our apartment complex raise a stink. Apartment residents hold their breath; and curse the municipal waste disposal staff, as they pass by the roadside dump. We could do something about it, if only we are so inclined, thanks to the work
done by Pune-based Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) in developing a household biogas plant that feeds on our kitchen waste.
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Robbing The Hungry - the racket called PDS murali772 - 16-DEC-2007With even the likes of Medha Patkar critical of the system, perhaps the only ones who would be opposed to it's being dismantled would now be just the racketeers and a few pseudo-socialists. Isn't it a crying shame that the country continues to allow as massive a loot as an annual Rs 10,000 crores by this lot?
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tsubba - 12-DEC-2007
Municipal Water and State-Society Relations at the Periphery: Examining the Implications of Reforms in Greater Bangalore. |
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Planetarium and the Vishweshwariah museum - a study in contrast s_yajaman - 3-DEC-2007Last Thursday my boys and I visited the Nehru planetarium. It was a school holiday for them. We wanted to see the 12:45 p.m. show on the solar system. I have already covered the trip itself in another blog. To summarize - we made it in about 40 minutes no thanks to some hare-brained traffic light logic along JC Road. |
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E.R. Ramachandran - 31-OCT-2007
Just before the train reached Mandya, there was some commotion from passengers, 2 bogies away. Soon after, the Ticket collector came enquiring whether there is a doctor in the train to attend to a passenger who had become unconscious.
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tsubba - 21-SEP-2007
With the new Comprehensive Development Plan - Master Plan 2015 - allowing commercial development in residential areas depending on road width, an area of 55 sqkm across the city has been earmarked for mixed land use. Residential areas with roads more than 60 feet wide will see commercial establishments emerging. While commercial space in some of these roads has already been developed, other connecting roads too will see hectic development shortly. Major roads of more than 60 ft width in various localities in the city: Banashankari: Kathriguppa Main Road, Puttana Chetty Road, Uttarahalli Main Road, Puttenahalli Main Road, Ittamadu Main Road, Pipeline Road, and Bugle Rock Road. Benson Town: Millers Road, St John's Road, Mosque Road, and Coles Road. Jayanagar: R V Road, Pattalamma Street, K R Road, Kanakapura Road, B P Wadia Road, Lalbagh Fort Road, and South End Road. |
The train from Mysore towards Bangalore left at 6:45 on 28th
October, last Sunday morning, like any other day. Being Sunday, it was
less crowded, the passengers comprising mostly middle-aged and elderly
and a small group of traders discussing the zooming sensex.After
sometime a sense of ennui, sleepiness took over the train amidst
vendor’s shout of coffee and tea.