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Draft Concept Note on Smart City Scheme

12 September 2014 - 4:18pm — murali772

To fulfill the vision of the Prime Minister of India of developing ‘one hundred Smart Cities’, as satellite towns of larger cities and by modernising the existing mid-sized cities, the Ministry of Urban Development, as a first step has convened a National Conclave of States and Union Territories on 12/09/2014 for inviting suggestions on the concept note

Quiz on Namma Anti-hero's of recent past

29 July 2014 - 4:50pm — murali772

I had an occasion to set a quiz for a group of friends recently. I set one round on the above subject, and the following were the questions:

1) Refused food and liquor, a former education minister's son and his friends flew into a rage and allegedly set fire to a restaurant (near Mysore)'s thatched enclosure. Name the minister and the son.

Sharing of Union Tax Revenues with States

11 July 2014 - 4:13pm — Sanjeev

Chapter 8 of Finance Commission-XIII ( FC-XIII) made recomendations ( Dec'2009 ) on basis for tax sharing 32% of collection by Center with inter -se distribution of the states share amongst the states on the following criteria :

Solidarity (with Police Constables) vigil

10 July 2014 - 2:06pm — murali772

Start: 10 Jul 2014 18:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Driving License Renewal from RTO without touts/agents, No bribe, No corruption

3 July 2014 - 8:56pm — srinidhi

So it was time to renew my drivers license and most suggestions from folks was 'give it to the local driving school guy, he will do it for a few 100'

Clear case of misuse of SCST Act, 1989

31 May 2014 - 7:44am — murali772

ADGP P Ravindranath, in the dock for allegedly taking objectionable photos of a woman, has accused city police commissioner Raghavendra H Auradkar of practising "untouchability" against him, a Scheduled Caste member.

Your Prime Minister

17 May 2014 - 5:39pm — murali772

NaMo addressing Global meet on emerging markets in Washington through video conference in Oct 13 -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK9vMM9bHWE

BNY's Political Internship Program - My observations!

2 May 2014 - 8:30pm — kbsyed61

"Bangalore Needs You" a non-profit organization run by Prof. Rajeev Gowda, for time to time conducts internship programs on different aspects of public life. In the past months or so it ran a 3 Week "Political Action Internship" program at its office located in Church Street.

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Crony Statism?

19 April 2014 - 12:32pm — murali772

Yesterday, talking about the previous evening's IPL match, a friend said that he was happy that Mumbai Indians had lost, largely because he can't stand Nita Ambani.

Dissecting AAP manifesto 2014

4 April 2014 - 11:47am — murali772

All said and done, AAP has catalysed change country-wide, and it very much deserves to be in the picture, even after the elections, perhaps in place of Congress and as a an alternative to BJP. This is particulaly so as far as Karnataka is concerned, where neither Congress nor BJP has much of a credible standing. And, that's why AAP interests me.

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