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Stop communal, divisive and hate politics - Petition

17 March 2009 - 10:18pm — indian

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Information Available on BMTC

17 March 2009 - 12:59pm — manjari

Information Available:

Operate 5247 schedules
Deploy a fleet of 5441 buses
Make 73240 trips
Perform 11.78 Lakhs Service Kilometres
Carry more than 38.00 Lakhs Passengers
Earn around Rs.258.54 lakhs and
Pay Rs. 14.22 lakh to the Government towards Motor Vehicle tax
Every month, about 2.36 lakhs Monthly public passes are issued

Domestic violence

16 March 2009 - 5:19pm — GVK

At a Rotary Club seminar in Bangalore speakers called for empowerment of society to prevent domestic violence. Police woman Kiren Bedi, citing a UN report said India ranked third in the world - behind only Poland and Japan - when it came to incidence of domestic violence.

Bribed voters could get 6 months in jail?

16 March 2009 - 7:50am — silkboard

Read with interest in a newspaper this morning that Mr P Manivannan, who is the Returning Officer for Mysore is talking about tough measures to monitor misuse of Liquor and Money in Lok Sabha Elections. See this Biz Standard story: DC strict on curbing Malparctices.

Waiting for the new Reva?

15 March 2009 - 8:29pm — silkboard

The advertisements of electric bikes and scooters were everywhere when petrol prices were up in the sky. I wonder how are the sales now. Reva too was running ads back then, but no big news about them recently either. Talking of Reva, after reading around a bit (because I was considering buying it), speaking to a few folks who have also been interested, and two owners, here is what I learned:

State gets its ‘act’ together, hopefully

15 March 2009 - 7:45pm — murali772

After an interminably long sitting on tabling of the Karnataka Police Act for more than a year, the state government has decided to implement the Act through an executive order to avoid a possible embarrassment when the monitoring committee set up by the Apex Court would come for a visit later this month.

Moral policing, Ragging, Corruption and Angst

15 March 2009 - 10:48am — jennypinto

According to Soli Sorabji, the supreme court called ragging a “ violation of Human Rights”, while a Prevention of Ragging in Colleges and Institutions Bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha in 2005, has not been enacted yet. That surely brings a feeling of outrage and helpless in many of us in this country.

ABIDE - Please put few more proposals in front of Government

14 March 2009 - 3:41pm — Vasanth

I request ABIDe Members like professor Ashwin Mahesh who has been constantly interacting with us to take few more things with the Government.

1. Public Transport on NICE Peripheral road.

42.5% of Children are Malnurished in India

13 March 2009 - 2:28pm — Ravi_D

Though not typical of Praja discussions, I think this report is worth sharing and pondering about. It moved me so much, couldn't resist bringing up a national issue...

Take a look at today's NY Times article: As Indian Growth Soars, Chid Hunger Persists.

Bellary Road Big 10

13 March 2009 - 9:53am — susanth

Information first, cribs later! I finally managed to decode the mystery named Bellary Road Big 10. This one operates between Shivajinagar bus stand and Yelahanka. The route as I understand right now is: