August 2008

Ignoratia Juris Non-Excusat

6 August 2008 - 10:18am — mcadambi

Title sound latin to you? Well, thats because it is! It means "Ignorance of laws and procedures is not an excuse".

Unaided schools to teach kannada

6 August 2008 - 2:39pm — swamy

How is everyone seeing this new move from Unaided schools. KUSMA (association of unaided schools) has made kannada teaching mandatory for ICSE/CBSE schools. Quoting from this newindpress article:

P Chidambaram, Honourable Union Minister of Finance - Book Reading at Bangalore

6 August 2008 - 4:45pm — mcadambi

Prajagale,

Shri P Chidambaram, Honourable Union Minister of Finance, Government of India will be in Crossword for a book reading from his book "A View from the Outside : Why Good Economics Works for Everyone"

More about the book: http://www.vedamsbooks.co...

When: 8th August 2008, Friday

What Time: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM

Where: Crossword Bookstore, Residency Road

50 MW to be restored - but, why was it cut?

6 August 2008 - 4:41pm — murali772

The power situation in the state may improve with the Centre promising to restore supply of 50 MW power, which was earlier reduced from the state's unallocated share and transferred to Andhra Pradesh. Read more at:
http://timesofindia.india...

Sandalwood helpline

5 August 2008 - 7:34am — murali772

State Forest Department on Saturday launched the awaited 24/7 ‘Sandalwood Helpline Service’. Launching the service, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Forest Resource Management) M Muni Reddy said, "This helpline service has been launched as a pilot project in Bangalore and will be extended soon to other vulnerable areas in a phased manner".

Coincidentally, sandalwood came up for discussions on PRAJA just last week at
http://praja.in/bangalore...

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