Stampedes - Why common in Devotional Places

Vasanth - 16-JAN-2011

Stampedes like  Shabari Malai  stampede has been quite common especially during religious ceremonies, in worship places and during functions.

Corrupt Checkers in BMTC buses

Anithasunil - 12-JAN-2011

I was travelling by a bmtc bus today morning, and was witness to some harassment & corruption!

I got onto a 304 from KRPuram, to go towards Hoodi around 7.30AM. The bus number was KA01 FA 831. Half way through, ticket checkers got into the bus.

Sonia's 5-fold attack on corruption

murali772 - 22-DEC-2010

Obviously conscious of the toll a series of scams and controversies have taken on the credibility and image of the Congress and the government, Sonia Gandhi on Sunday announced a multipronged war on corruption and directed ministers and partymen to tackle the menace head-on.
    
Sonia Gandhi’s five-point agenda for probity in public life:

Govt proposes new RTI rule: Ask, but only in 250 words, on only one subject

shekhar_mittal - 14-DEC-2010

The government has proposed new rules that require a Right to Information (RTI) application to be restricted to 250 words and only one subject. There’s no word cap currently, and applicants can seek information on any number of subjects in a single application.

Creating interactive (Active) publicity materials

Bheema.Upadhyaya - 8-DEC-2010

 I started with simplest interactive material, I will improve it . In this display, any one take tear a piece of paper which has DDC link. This way, if some one is really interested, they can take URL for reference and join. Meanwhile, we will come to know how many people really took it. Any more ideas welcome...

The Absurdity of Signal Timing at Ejipura Road

amu - 6-DEC-2010

I travel daily from Koramangala to Domlur via the 100ft road. There is a huge traffic jam at the Ejipura Crossing, any time of the day. I think this traffic jam is not due to the carrying capacity of the roads but the illogical/absurd green light timing.

The Radia Tapes

pdk - 28-NOV-2010

I'm sure a lot of Praja users have read about and listened to The Radia Tapes and derived a lot of joy and/or sorrow out of them. Others may not be aware of where to access them since the media has virtually blacked out the news, except for some old fogies like The Hindu, Outlook magazine, and DH today and disrespectful upstarts like Open magazine.

LOCAL Scams RTI and political activism

Public Agenda - 23-NOV-2010

Seems quite amazing that since 2 1/2 years and even before the Govt has sunk in land scams and we all knew this from the politicians affidavits in elections but the lid was blown by the former CM and political opponents and RTI activists.

In the emergency how many more people were on the streets

diwali crakers global warming

hemaraj - 19-NOV-2010

I am still pondering in the point of no crakers for diwali.

I have lived all these years every diwali enjoying crakers and festive mood with sweets during diwali.

for the past 4 years after reading a lot about global warming , i had decided we should not burst crakers.

Business-Standard's double standards - worse than Tata's?

silkboard - 17-NOV-2010

Since I read almost all editorials carried by Business Standard, read their (Mr T N Ninnan's?) take today on Tata's Rs 15 cr remark as well. To quote the editorial:

Mr. Tata has neither been brave nor has he served the cause of good governance. His tangential remarks this week ... make him look smaller.