December 2007

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!

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

3 comments

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...

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