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UVCE Hostel - Abode for less than cattle class living

9 April 2011 - 9:28pm — kbsyed61

Every budding PUC (10+2) Physics/Mathematics student from Karnataka longs for joining the prestigious engineering institute - UVCE, if not for IITs and RECs. Students join this prestigious institute from nook and corner of the state.

World cup victory and Yeddyurappa

5 April 2011 - 9:13am — psaram42
Politics

CM's gift to cricket players, as per news reports:

IIMs, ethics and values

4 April 2011 - 5:39pm — murali772

After playing out in boardrooms and courtrooms, some of India Inc’s infamous scams have crashed into the classrooms of the country’s iconic IIMs.

Guangzhou BRT

2 April 2011 - 6:20pm — idontspam
BusPublic Transport

The 23-kilometer (14.3-mile) corridor is the first BRT in China that integrates bicycles in its design. According to Karl Fjellstrom, vice-director at ITDP, there are 5,000 bikes and 5,500 parking docks included in the BRT.

 

Cops 'looked the other way' - cricket the reason

1 April 2011 - 12:26pm — silkboard
Governance

Quoting from Page #2, DNA, this morning, Mr Shankar Bidari, and Mr Sood like to play the generous cop. Looks like it was okay to do certain things on Wednesday night for cricketing reasons. No comments, but wanted to check if anyone else has reactions to these statements of generosity.

DNA reporter seems to have liked it.

Kaggadasapura - Neglected Locality?

30 March 2011 - 5:11pm — anp
Traffic

Kaggadasapura is a negelected locality, as i feel it.

There has been lots of people moving into Kaggadasapura over the last 5 years. Thanks to its proximity to Tech Parks, Old Airport, Indira Nagar etc., It is real saddening to say that infrastructure in this area is not grown propotionally. My concerns of this area are

Narrow MAIN Road

Harassment from anonymous caller

30 March 2011 - 7:38am — rajivrnair
Everything else

Hi

I was wondering if there's a helpline to report an anonymous caller who keeps sending unsolicited SMSs/phone calls to women. This person calls up asking for 'Navin' and if it's a woman, pesters them to talk to him. If they don't pick up the phone, he keeps sending annoying msgs.

Criminal negligence

29 March 2011 - 8:03pm — murali772
Infrastructure

Five persons of a family were killed in a head on collision between their SUV and a KSRTC Rajahamsa bus near Kammadatti on the Bangalore-Chennai National Highway in the wee hours of Saturday. An eyewitness, said that construction was underway on the road as part of the four-laning of the National Highway. Traffic was allowed on only one road as the other road was being tarred.

Auto Rickshaw service in Bangalore city

28 March 2011 - 1:35pm — PManish
Public Transport

Dear Sir, we citizens at Bangalore do not get proper service from auto rickshaw. Here are the list of complaints.

1. Most of the auto rickshaw drivers simply denies to come at our destination place.

2. If someone agree, they will demand lump-sum amount. That amount is much more than actual charges as per meter.

BMRCL - Work Zone Disparities

28 March 2011 - 11:06am — Ravi_D
Infrastructure

See this Hindu Report on Namma Metro's work on Vidhana Veedhi. 

Anti-corruption law for states, IAC proposal, formatted version

28 March 2011 - 9:15am — silkboard
Governance

Follow up to the previous post (with proposed Jan Lokpal bill), here is formatted version of Jan Lokayukta Bill that IAC is proposing to all states of India. For ease of side by side comparison, also uploaded is the current Lokayukta Act of Karnataka (from year 1984, with amendmenets, last one done in 2000).

Jan Lokpal Bill from IAC, and Govt Lokpal bill, latest versions

28 March 2011 - 9:12am — silkboard
Governance

[Update, Aug 20: Took out reference to the reformatted 1.8 version, embedded latest (version 2.3) Jan Lokpall Bill draft, and the one that was introduced in Lok Sabha]

Anti corruption meet at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan a report

26 March 2011 - 6:05pm — psaram42
Governance

The chief guest Justice Hegde arrived at 10:15 hrs well in time. The meeting started around 11:00 hrs, soon after the arrival of H. S. Doreswamy. Doreswamy the freedom fighter is 80 plus years of age. High courts advocate Ravi Kumar and Smt K Uma secretary, Karnataka Jana jagrity Abhiyan joined the other two on the dais.

Japan, take a bow ... sharing an article

26 March 2011 - 3:21pm — S.H.U.L.
Everything else

Wanted to share this article from TOI Sunday times 20th March 2011 Japan, take a bow for grace under fire, from Amrit Dhillon, TNN.

eCity-Phase 2 new Footpath : Visual Report

26 March 2011 - 11:49am — Bheema.Upadhyaya
InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

Few days back new footpath work completed in eCity Phase-2. From XIME to TataBP Solar strech. Here is the photo report. I have no comments posted on this intentionally. Last few pics show how a footpath space is used for "beautification" by a private company. So no footpath laid there :(

 

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