August 2008

BCIL's survey on Bangalore car commuters

21 August 2008 - 6:47pm — shas3n

BCIL recently conducted a survey among car owners who commute to work to find out whether they would be willing to consider a public transport alternative.

They have released the report (executive summary in fact) and it does have some useful insights. You can see the press release here, the executive summary PPT is available here and here is TOI's coverage.

Overloaded trucks of Mangalore

20 August 2008 - 1:44am — silkboard

Was in Mangalore recently, and witnessed the famous overloaded ming trucks first hand. Can someone from the area enlighten us - how does this thing work? Some questions I got are

‘Karnataka 2020′ Vision: Belgaum may benefit

20 August 2008 - 10:20pm — belgaumblog

For all-round development of the State Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said the Government is preparing a vision document ‘Karnataka 2020′.

Belgaum city map of 1894

20 August 2008 - 10:25pm — belgaumblog

I have just found a Belgaum city map of 1894 from the Bombay Gazetteer. The image was in a pdf file & of low resolution and is not very clear. Thanks, Mr.Vilas Patil, a Belgaumite, now working in Pune who has made the present version on the image which is better viewable. See Belgaum in 1894 and now, it has changed.

I request all the readers to send in their comments as to what changes they have found in that map and the current Belgaum.

Aniket Halgekar has reached the 1st ever Orkut and MTV Rodies battleground

20 August 2008 - 10:18pm — belgaumblog

MTV the popular music channel has organized Sony Ericsson MTV Roadies Battleground a reality show and Aniket Halgekar of Belgaum has reached the Finals.

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