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BANGALORE AS A CREATIVE CITY

29 Sep 2011 10:30
Asia/Calcutta

BANGALORE AS A CREATIVE CITY: An Open Consultation to discuss Policy Recommendations involving Urban Arts and Culture Spaces will be held on Thursday 29th September, 2011 (10.30AM to 7 PM), at The National Gallery of Modern Art, Manikyavelu Mansion, 49 Palace Road, Bengaluru - 52 (Ph: 2234 2338)

Weekday Train Trip to Hosur by YH1 - Sept 21, 2011

21 Sep 2011
Asia/Calcutta

Namma Railu Team would be taking another trip to HOSUR by YH1train. This is an exercise to gauge the crowd/demand during the weekday/working day. We will go upto Hosur and return by the same train.

WHEN - Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Pls do join this outing. Another opportunity to meet Praja members.

Myself and Sanjeev would be boarding the train at Hebbal.

Is Public Works Coordination Agreement working? Fresh roads still being dug up

Like many others, I was very happy when the Public Works Coordination Agreement was put in place to have better coordination between various civic agencies.

A quaint and strange station : Byappanahalli railway station

Wearing a deserted look, the Byappanahalli railway station is in dismal shape boasting of the apathy and disinterest exhibited on the part of the authority concerned. The comfort of using other hi-tech railways stations of the city with facilities like the digital indicators and computerised systems vanishes, as soon as one comes face-to-face with this desolated base.

Inhuman lock-up conditions

Both Gali Janardhan Reddy and his brother-in-law B Srinivas Reddy have been lodged at the Central Crime Station (CCS) lockup which is 'famous' for bandicoots paying a visit now and then. Sources told Express that in the absence of a cell in the CBI office at Koti, CBI joint director VV Lakshminarayana has decided to keep the duo in the CCS lockup.

Karnataka High Court Judgement on Land Acquisition for PRR

It is quite unfortunate that the Honourable High Court of Karnataka had quashed the BDA recent preliminary Notification for acquisition of 372 acres of land in connection with the formation of Peripheral Ring Road to ease the vehicular traffic. BDA wanted this extent of land for approach roads and Toll Plazas. Further, they needed land for forming FLY OVERS.

The Most Horrific Traffic in the Entire World

So how do we fix gridlock? IBM says building more (or wider) roads won't help—not enough space or money. The answer lies in data. Which makes sense, as IBM makes money by processing and selling data. But it does make sense—taking the roads we have already and routing traffic through them more efficiently.

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