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The Mangalore SEZ

28 August 2008 - 5:43pm — tsubba
Website: http://www.mangaloresez.c... Launching the website on Tuesday, chairman of the Nitte Education Trust N. Vinay Hegde said: “I am a pro-SEZ person. Mangalore has no future unless we become SEZ friendly.”

Map your world with Google

28 August 2008 - 12:44pm — murali772

You can mark your apartment, your office, your school, the shops in your neighbourhood or elsewhere, landmarks, the roads that you know. You can state whether a road is a one-way, how many traffic lights there are on the road. Indeed, you can mark anything. For more, click on:
http://epaper.timesofindi...

Muralidhar Rao

Praja Q&A with Mr Brunner - postponed

28 August 2008 - 12:42pm — admin

BIAL had called in today to say that as part of their "100 days" campaign, they want to organize a Q&A session with Praja. We are looking at a 30-45 minute long 1-on-1 meeting with Mr Albert Brunner, the BIAL CEO. They will take 2 to 5 Praja.in members. The meeting should happen sometime in September (orig date was 30th Aug, now postponed). Interested?

HAL Heritage Center and Aerospace Museum

28 August 2008 - 11:21am — blrsri

MIG 21, they say, created so much scare in the USA when it was launched by USSR, that they spent lot of effort to understand this warplane!

Where can you find this in Bangalore?  at the 'HAL Heritage Center and Aerospace Museum'

The details are below:

Entropy on roads - examples

28 August 2008 - 11:10am — silkboard
TrafficTraffic jams

bus stand 1Entropy, aka chaos on the roads is a subject we have discussed a lot here. There are about a hundred comments thrown across various posts. How about consolidating those points and making them more presentable via picture posts? Here is my attempt with pictures over last two months. Look, we need to explain and understand one thing very clearly. Flyovers and road widening projects are like buying extra large clothes to deal with obesity. Some folks prefer exercises or medicines to shed some fat.

Tata's bid to awaken spirit of leadership

27 August 2008 - 6:55pm — murali772

Tata Jagriti Yatra 2008 will be an inspirational train journey undertaken by around 400 young and enterprising participants, between 18-25 years, from India and overseas. These youth will participate in the 18 day train journey interacting with social and economic entrepreneurs across the country thus encouraging the spirit of social entrepreneurship.

The train will leave Mumbai on December 24, 2008 and covering 13 cities and villages of India before returning to Mumbai on January 10, 2009, thus covering around 8000 kms.

Landfill unit begins operation

27 August 2008 - 6:29pm — murali772
Environment

After much protest from the public, landfill site for hazardous wastes developed by the State government in Dobbespet has started its operation. Hyderabad based Ramky Environmental Management Pvt Ltd, the service provider at the site, has been collecting hazardous waste from industries, since June 19, this year. So far the service provider has collected 1,800 tonnes of hazardous waste. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has entrusted the job of lifting the waste and dumping the same at the landfill unit in Dobbespet, to the service provider.

Get business friendly

27 August 2008 - 6:00pm — murali772

An international team of researchers has just released a Global Urban Competitiveness Report, which takes stock of 500 cities around the world. New York has been found to be the most competitive city in the world, followed, in that order, by London, Tokyo, Paris and Washington, DC.

Nh-4 development

27 August 2008 - 4:31pm — balajiolety
There has been a lot of activity on other posts but i find the infrastructure towards yeshwanthpur and the NH-4 towards nelamngala hardly recieve any updates...can anyone update about these infrastructure projects under development or that are about to start?

Useful resource - Long-Life Concrete Pavements in Europe and Canada

26 August 2008 - 10:42pm — asj

Here is something which may be of interest and use of Praja members who want to look at local standards and compare with Western standards.

http://international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl07027/index.cfm#execsumm

Have not seen it in detail, seems useful.

Cheers.

ASJ

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