March 2009

Fearless Karnataka/ Nirbhaya Karnataka events

8 March 2009 - 10:19am — murali772

Start: 8 Mar 2009 18:00

End: 8 Mar 2009 22:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Moodbidri, Feb 19, 2009. Moral police attack a 15 year old girl, Ashwini Moole. Her crime: Talking to a Muslim male friend. The girl commits suicide.

Bangalore, Feb 24, 2009, time: 9.30pm, Lakshmi who was walking on the road is roughed up by four men who later try to pull her out of an auto as she attempts to escape.

No shrines on public sites, HC tells govt

7 March 2009 - 6:18pm — murali772

The high court on Friday said no church, temple or masjid should exist in public sites and asked the state government to come out with a uniform stand within two weeks. It asked the government what action it proposes to take about places of worship encroaching upon civic amenity sites and other public properties.

Enforcers / Violators?

6 March 2009 - 5:39pm — Ravi_D

Last evening’s drive home was interesting.

Monorail's Ups & downs

6 March 2009 - 7:41pm — Naveen

Monorails or for that matter most of the mass-transits have not been churning out profits. Japan is the only unique exception due to their much higher standards of living & people's higher affordability levels to pay fares. Thus monorails have been profitable there. In fact, monorail makers have been forced to cut manufacturing costs for systems & are offering to install & run their systems as there had been no takers. Some examples :

Smart Growth Principles Book Review

6 March 2009 - 10:37am — psaram42

Getting to Smart Growth II book provides 10 policy options to achieve each of the 10 Smart Growth Principles. These policies are supported with ''Practice Tips'' which offer additional resources or brief case studies of communities that have applied the approach to achieve smart growth.

The 10 principles are:

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