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A debate on India’s changing political landscape

30 January 2010 - 1:28pm — psaram42

The debate was held at the Mount Carmel College basement auditorium on Friday the 29^th Jan 2010, between 5:30 to 7:30 in the evening. This debate was organized by Janaagraha in collaboration with the Bangalore International center.

Training for BBMP Corporate aspirants held on 27 Jan 2010 by Urban Research Center

28 January 2010 - 2:26pm — psaram42

The Urban Research Center was founded by about 8 people and duly registered as a society on 31st Jan 2004. The main purpose of the center is supposed to be towards achieving good responsible governance both in Urban and rural context. It is stated briefly as

Yatha Praja....

26 January 2010 - 9:45pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

While I was travelling to Electronic City I witnessed this scene in BMTC bus. Suddenly I recalled praja.in, where I read "Yatha Praja Tatha Raja". I had neither any comments nor any solution except I alerted conductor. The "gentleman" corrected himself after two warnings from conductor.

Frozen projects in Karnataka

19 January 2010 - 5:03pm — idontspam

Glance through a sheet of government data and it’ll reveal that the number of projects actually implemented out of the total projects cleared in the State is shockingly low.

Koramangla Smartvote: Check your name on the voters list

19 January 2010 - 1:15pm — shekhar_mittal

Folks at Koramangla Smartvote have come up with a very cool way of checking out your name in the voters list.

If you want to check your name on the voter list try it out here http://smartvote.in/voterlist/viewvoters.php

Exploitation of mineral wealth

18 January 2010 - 5:00pm — murali772

Jeffrey Lee in Australia is sitting on Uranium deosits which can provide 'clean' energy to the entire country for decades together and beyond. But, he is not interested in selling out even if it will make him amongst the richest men in the world (check this report in Daily Good).

RTI activist murdered - Pune

17 January 2010 - 1:22pm — silkboard

Story from Pune area. RTI activist murdered, allegedly for exposing unauthorized construction of a bunglow in Talegaon.

http://www.hindu.com/2010...

The Hindu bit doesn't mention details of what was being exposed here. Does anyone remember a similar news item reported from Bangalore last year (was it around hooch/liquor shops, not sure)?

Hubli-Dharwad JnNURM

17 January 2010 - 7:36am — tsubba

http://www.hindu.com/2010...

Hubli-Dharwad to be brought under JNNURM

Union Minister for Urban Development Jaipal Reddy has said that Hubli-Dharwad would be included under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in the second phase.

Lakes of Bangalore - My contribution

16 January 2010 - 8:16pm — Prashant.Murthy

This is my initiative to understand the current state of all lakes in bangalore. I think this year 2010, i will visit each lake and get the photos of them and post in a blog. This we can use it in our future references.

Somehow I feel that the lakes in bangalore are dwindling and I am not doing anything about it. This is my attempt towards it.

Right to Information (RTI) act

14 January 2010 - 12:23pm — psaram42

RTI is a powerful tool provided by the Government of India and in tern by each of the individual States. Of late TOI and many news papers have taken the RTI route to expose scams themselves. To days TOI carried the details of the RWA meet organized by the paper yesterday (Wednesday).

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