Service tax at restaurants

srinidhi - 1-JUL-2015

Tax rules have changed recently and that affects hotel bills. Please be aware of what you are paying after a meal, when the place is airconditioned...why just airconditioned? beats me!

From 1st june onwards the service tax is 5.6% of the total bill amount .

VAT is 14.5 % of the food bill in Karnataka..guess no other state charges so much!

So if your bill is 1000/-

Laying of sanitary pipes

apsfriends - 8-DEC-2014

Dear Praja Team..... We had the sanitary pipes replacement done at Basavanagudi near DVG Cross Road and Kalappa Block....

How cities or our country can realize clean and free from all filth

Sanjeev - 23-SEP-2014

Citizens actions and good practices need to be replicated accross city Bangalore :

Not so ‘complex’ a problem

At Belandur Lake area : 

Need voter id card for my wife

pramodk - 11-FEB-2013

i got married last year.. now i need voter id card for her.. she does'not have any document as educational certificati, birth certificate, no other documnets.. plz help me in this regards how to apply for voter id card

Please help me.. what the procedure for this for creating a voter id card without documentments only on husband behalf.

Marriage Registration - Need help and suggestions to get it done without agent and no bribe

dvsquare - 2-MAY-2012

Hello PRAJAgalu's,

I need some help/suggestion on registering my marriage @ registrar office, koramangala BDA complex.
Later I will put down all the proper steps and all what needed for the help of people to get it done without any agent and any bribe.

Coalgate: the cost of ideology

murali772 - 2-APR-2012

The Left Front has always opposed amendment of the Coal Mines Nationalisation Act, 1973, that banned private coal mining, save for captive purposes. UPA-1 wanted to amend this Act in 2004 to allow private mining-after which truly competitive auctions would have become feasible. But the LF prevented any amendment.

Open letter to Akhilesh Yadav

murali772 - 19-MAR-2012

Dear Akhilesh Yadav

There are three key infrastructural areas where Bangalore has failed - power supply, water supply, & public bus transport services. And, the solutions to all of them are simple - they are detailed in the blogs linked below:

Guarding press freedom

murali772 - 13-MAR-2012

The Press Council of India (PCI) has objected to the Karnataka speaker’s decision to initiate proceedings against mediapersons for exposing Porngate, in which two BJP ministers allegedly viewed porn clips on the mobile phone of a colleague inside the assembly.

Dr Ashwin Mahesh for MLC

murali772 - 24-FEB-2012

MLC for the Bangalore Graduates Constituency (election to which is coming up around June) is the only reprsentative - at any level of government - who is elected across the whole city, indeed the entire metropolitan region. This is an office unlike any other, and ideally it should be held by someone who can articulate a vision for the Bangalore city and region, and work to build it.

Triumph on Polio - Something to Cheer about?

kbsyed61 - 14-JAN-2012

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