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Business placards and hoardings neglecting/insulting Kannada

21 April 2008 - 1:40pm — nijavaada

There are several instances in Bengaluru nowadays wherein placards and huge hoardings put up by business establishments to advertise their product or shop are insulting the local language - Kannada - by printing Kannada characters on a miniscule scale, whereas English (sometimes even Hindi) characters rule the canvas and are larger than life itself.

Elections, Voter ID FAQ

21 April 2008 - 11:40am — admin

Instead of duplicating similar material here, just wanted to point over to some resources over Internet (and phone):

New e-procurement portal - transparency!?

21 April 2008 - 10:42am — silkboard

I didn't know about this new e-procurement portal launched last year by the state government. Have a look here (site isn't setup right, watch the warnings). What should interest us most is "transparency". There is a section intended for "citizens", cool! But the citizen's page doesn't have much right now. A list of tenders is available, which shows up only two items. There is a news and information link too, but that leads to a third party commercial website.

UP: a transport regulatory body to end monopoly of USPRTC

21 April 2008 - 10:14am — silkboard

I am sure Mr Murali Rao would have read this with great interest. UP goverment is going to setup a Transport Regulatory body, thus ending the monopoly of US state road transport corporation over 460 routes that were recently de-nationalized.

Roads in Bangalore

20 April 2008 - 4:30pm — sxthiru

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1.5 ft Drain Open connecting Road side to the bigger gutters.

1. Problem 1, BBMP have built this many of the area, but they fail to monitor the purpose is served. eg, many of this opening are clogged with wastes/sand. hence is it is un operational.
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Replace Indica with Nano for Call Centre and Office Drop off Vehicles

20 April 2008 - 3:54pm — Vasanth

Call Centre and IT companies pickup and drop off vehicle's menance are increasing day by day. Most of the companies use Inidicab for pickup and drop off of their staff. Inicab which is India is a very powerful vehicle, although safe for insiders,if not handled safely will lead to fatal accidents of 2 wheelers and pedestrains.

BIAL Discussions - II

19 April 2008 - 5:30am — tsubba

New thread for BIAL discussions.
please use for further discussions on BIAL.
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Some ideas on education in Karnataka

18 April 2008 - 9:51pm — tsubba

At the outset this, has nothing to do with the civic life of bangalore as such, but as much as bangalore is tied to the rest of the state at the hip, and as much as the output of our schools is cru

Agara lake conversion stirring up protests

18 April 2008 - 10:27am — pradeep

Hi all friends,

I would like all the members to go through this link. Its sad that our own Govt. is messing up our Paradise.Even the Yediyur lake, agara lake, bellendur,hebbal lakes condition is worst. Soon Prestige Group or Mantri or Kantri paradise will acquire...

Signboards in Bengaluru : How useful are they?

17 April 2008 - 9:24pm — VishalMaharaj

Signboards in Bangalore: It is very apparent that we are facing a tremendous space crunch in Bangalore, on road or beside it. Now, apart from expanding the city to accomodate the needs of ever increasing population, we can also modify the existing pattern to fit the needs.

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