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July 2008

Belgaum ring road: Still a Dream

25 July 2008 - 9:14am — belgaumblog
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Belgaum ring road planned in two phases.

  1. Hindalga-Peeranwadi-Halga
  2. Hindalga-Kakti-Halga

Total ring road length 38 kms. Ring road breadth 100 feet. 285 acres of land needed. Rs.1425 lakh for land acquisition. Ring road total expenditure Rs.30 crores. The plan for the ring road was prepared 10 years ago. Imagine, since ten years nothing has happened on ground; only papers have changed places and this road, which will be a boon to traffic, will remain a dream.

Welcome development in the power sector

24 July 2008 - 11:19am — murali772
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The report in the papers about Karnataka's plan to set up a 2000 MW power plant in Chhattisgarh (vide report captioned 'Chhattisgarh plant to ease power woes' on page 7, TOI of 23rd July - the text is reproduced below, since, apparently because of a goof up by TOI, the 'link' is taking it to a diffrent text) denotes a refreshing change in the mind-set of the powers that be heading the state power sector.

POWER & SPEED create big holes in pockets

24 July 2008 - 12:32pm — belgaumblog
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In the past few days, ‘Singh has become the King’, the share market is now again ready to take a leap upwards and Crude oil prices are heading only southwards. All these things are very nice for the common man. Today crude is trading at about 124.24$ which is of its high of almost 150$.

Book Release: Rich Lands, Poor People

24 July 2008 - 10:34am — murali772
4 Aug 2008 17:00
4 Aug 2008 19:00
Asia/Calcutta
CSE’s 6th ‘State of India’s Environment’ Report on Mining

Orchid Room, Hotel Orchid Harsha,
11 Park Road, Shivajinagar, Bangalore - 560051
August 04, 2008

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi invites you to the release of its latest ‘State of India’s Environment’ report, on mining: Rich Lands, Poor People -- Is Sustainable Mining Possible?

Alipaak it happens only in Belgaum

24 July 2008 - 12:35pm — belgaumblog
“Alipaak” phonetically sounds exactly like the same word in Marathi.

Alipaak, a snack made with groundnuts, puffed rice accompanied with sugar cane juice.

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