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Residents' Initiative To Turn The City Green

28 December 2007 - 6:15pm — GVK

Tabloids are not just about scandals, glambiz and other trivia. Bangalore Mirror and a local private trust have clubbed up to promote tree planting in their city. Mrs. Janet Yegneswaran, who founded the trust a couple of years back in memory of her husband, has been engaged in encouraging Bangalore residents and neighborhood communities to chip in their bit in her endeavour to make a difference to the city’s green cover.

Trees Trees

27 December 2007 - 12:42pm — blrsri
When I was young and growing up in Bangalore tree growing was done with great enthusiasm..there used to be adds on radio singing..'gida nedi' and then there were drives where forest dept gave free trees for all..and that is the reason I believe that we have so many trees here..'Honge' was and is my fav! At a point even Delhi tried to emulate us for improving their green cover!

Should BMTC be privatised?

27 December 2007 - 12:42pm
Yes
0% (0 votes)
No
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 0

Cycling on verge of extinction in India

27 December 2007 - 12:11am — asj
The West is promoting cycling increasingly but in India many small cities like Pune and Banglore are making it extinct.
The picture below says it all.

Poll: The airport exclusive train should start from ...

26 December 2007 - 1:58pm
Byapanahalli
41% (24 votes)
M G Road
36% (21 votes)
Cantonment Railway Station
22% (13 votes)
Total votes: 58

False Infrastructural Hype of Times of India

26 December 2007 - 10:55am — Vasanth
TOI Bangalore Edition is every friday covering infrastructural project reports - But, most of them are not at all true and just it creates hype.

Builders dumping construction materials in the roas

22 December 2007 - 6:40pm — jkicha
In R.T. Nagar, near CBI road, 3-4 constructions happening in 2 streets. All the builders dump the construction materials like bricks, sand, stones on the streets. This occupies half the narrow street. Is it allowed? Do they have to pay any fee to the corporation for using the streets? They also dig up the streets to get connection and close them with just dirt. To whom, we can report this?

An end to all infrastructural woes of Bangalore

21 December 2007 - 9:38pm — City.Zen
"Burn Bangalore, Burn IT" - says Dr CNR Rao, "if IT is going to take away our values." http://outlookindia.com/f... Infosys was started in Pune in 1980s and shifted to Bangalore soon after because the then Karnataka Govt. (Devaraj Urs?) extended lot of help to it. Imagine this scenario...

Prius not for India?!

19 December 2007 - 4:03pm — blrsri
Wiki says for India's electricity generation we use: coal: 69.1%; oil: 5.4%; nuclear: 2.5%; gas:9.5%; renewable: 13.5% (.3% biomass)(2004) So using electric cars -> use more electricity -> Burining more coal -> pollute more Toyota thinks hybrid cars use in China would not reduce carbon emmissions, what would be the policy in India? So, we dont need the Reva's?

"Tata small car set to offer 25 kmpl mileage"!!

19 December 2007 - 11:00am — blrsri
KOLKATA: Ratan Tata and the Tata group have for months zealously kept a tight lid on the details of the Rs 1-lakh car that is slated to roll out of Tata Motors’ Singur factory in June 2008. But on Tuesday, the shroud came off in singular circumstances.

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