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PIL Filed against MLAs' America tour

21 August 2008 - 9:38pm — shas3n

A PIL has been filed in the highcourt questioning trip (junket?) that the CM, MLAs and officers are taking. There is an article in thatskannada about this and I guess tomorrow's newspapers might carry this too.

Since the article is in Kannada, I am translating the highlights.

* The team size for the visit was 115.

BCIL's survey on Bangalore car commuters

21 August 2008 - 6:47pm — shas3n

BCIL recently conducted a survey among car owners who commute to work to find out whether they would be willing to consider a public transport alternative.

They have released the report (executive summary in fact) and it does have some useful insights. You can see the press release here, the executive summary PPT is available here and here is TOI's coverage.

BBMP's Koramangala flyover - wanna track it to death?

21 August 2008 - 11:03am — admin

BBMP website's RTI section has the RFP uploaded for grade separator being planned at the junction of 100 ft Inner Ring Road in Koramangala (click here). How about an experiment to give chance for members, even the remote/online-only ones, to go beyond posts and comments? Its simple - help us track this project to death, meaning, ask BBMP for details at every milestone.

Tumkur as satellite for Bangalore?

20 August 2008 - 11:34pm — Vasanth

Tumkur, so close to Bangalore - Just 55 minutes to 1 hour in Non-Stop Train, 1.5 hours by road (delay mainly due to Traffic) is highly under-utilized. Bangalore is growing like anything and the existing space is not sufficient. Tumkur can be well utilized as a satellite city.

Why is Bangalore growing towards Hosur - a city belonging to neighbouring state and why not towards our own city Tumkur? Townships as well as IT companies can be planned between Bangalore and Tumkur in areas that are close both to railway track and the bus route.

Belgaum city map of 1894

20 August 2008 - 10:25pm — belgaumblog

I have just found a Belgaum city map of 1894 from the Bombay Gazetteer. The image was in a pdf file & of low resolution and is not very clear. Thanks, Mr.Vilas Patil, a Belgaumite, now working in Pune who has made the present version on the image which is better viewable. See Belgaum in 1894 and now, it has changed.

I request all the readers to send in their comments as to what changes they have found in that map and the current Belgaum.

Rohan Kokane of Belgaum makes a record in skating

20 August 2008 - 10:22pm — belgaumblog

‘Karnataka 2020′ Vision: Belgaum may benefit

20 August 2008 - 10:20pm — belgaumblog

For all-round development of the State Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said the Government is preparing a vision document ‘Karnataka 2020′.

Aniket Halgekar has reached the 1st ever Orkut and MTV Rodies battleground

20 August 2008 - 10:18pm — belgaumblog

MTV the popular music channel has organized Sony Ericsson MTV Roadies Battleground a reality show and Aniket Halgekar of Belgaum has reached the Finals.

Overloaded trucks of Mangalore

20 August 2008 - 1:44am — silkboard

Was in Mangalore recently, and witnessed the famous overloaded ming trucks first hand. Can someone from the area enlighten us - how does this thing work? Some questions I got are

Ban on iron ore export likely

19 August 2008 - 11:12pm — mcadambi

We in Karnataka know very well how our feudal Reddy brothers control the mining mafia and the transport mafia as well. Our miners prefer to travel by helicopters.

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