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Take that - 130 Crores for temples and mutts

27 February 2009 - 8:56am — Rithesh

“There are no rains and food production has fallen due to the sins committed by various people in the past. I believe in God. I have allocated money so that Gods will be pleased and shower mercy on us.’’ - B S Yeddyurappa

What does it mean to be green

27 February 2009 - 1:08am — idontspam

Stockholm and Hamburg became the first cities to be named European Green Capital on Monday, Stockholm was commended for beach improvements, high recycling rates, its congestion charging system, an extensive public transport system and carbon emissions that were half the national average.

VMD - Vehicle of Mass Destruction

27 February 2009 - 12:09am — mcadambi

Ratan Tata's Tata Motors plans to introduce Tata Nano on Indian Roads by March 2009. Bangalore has 4 million two-wheelers and 450,000 cars. According to the India Infrastructure Report 2006, a two wheeler occupies 10 times more road space than a bus, in terms of per capita road space utilisation.

KSRTC’s profits are all blown up: CAG

26 February 2009 - 1:49pm — murali772

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) overstated profits by a total of Rs 126.42 crore in 2007-08, says the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for the year. KSRTC, in its accounts earlier, had shown a profit Rs 40.54 crore in 2007-08. This means the KSRTC had actually incurred a loss of Rs 85.88 crore in 2007-08.

Votebank Ads?

26 February 2009 - 10:50am — Ravi_D

Have you noticed those huge full-page / half-page ads in the news papers the last few days?

Tidal flow lanes

26 February 2009 - 2:41am — idontspam

reversible lane sign Also called reversible lanes. A reversible lane (called a counterflow lane or contraflow lane in transport engineering nomenclature) is a lane in which traffic may travel in either direction, depending on certain conditions.

Bescom ordered to pay Rs-50 compensation for long outage

25 February 2009 - 3:02pm — murali772

Consumer power rests on knowing your rights. You may remember cursing Bescom when there was a 21-hour power outage on April 29 and 30 last year. But this 73-year-old man did something more - he found out there is a provision for consumers to get compensation if power supply is interrupted beyond certain hours.

BBMP - Budget Preview?

25 February 2009 - 2:18pm — Ravi_D

Read some first snippets about upcoming BBMP Budget in DNA.

E-City Rail Link vs HSRL

25 February 2009 - 11:26am — s_yajaman

Mr.Sreedharan made a few statements about

a, Metro being unviable to airport - needs 40000/hr traffic.

b. Private players who have come forward will get put off by talk of alternative plans

Here is a plan for the private players which will better serve Bangaloreans

Namma Auto initiative - Updates :)

24 February 2009 - 10:09pm — veeracb

[See this post for details of Namma Auto initiative. Here are some updates on it.]

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