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Protest against shunting out of BMTF chief, and non-appointment of LokAyukta

17 August 2012 - 5:28pm — murali772
18 Aug 2012 09:30
Asia/Calcutta

To protest against the removal of Dr R P Sharma from his position as the BMTF chief (though, re-instated for now by CAT; the debate on the subject on PRAJA, may be accessed here), and the dilly-dallying of the government over the appointment of thr LokAyukta, the LokS

speak out against Talibanisation

17 August 2012 - 2:08pm — murali772

Jnanpith laureate U R Ananthamurthy says we must speak out against any attempt to Talibanize India. That is a responsibility we must not fear to wield.

For the full report in the ToI. click here.

Namma Bengaluru - On verge of losing its place of attracting talent from all over India?

16 August 2012 - 10:27pm — kbsyed61

The latest news of NE people leaving city is certainly a blot on reputation of Karnataka and Bengaluru City in particular. Political class and political atmosphere that was created after 2008 state elections certainly has not helped the cause. It seems the ruling party for whatever reasons have tried to overlook or deny the charge of abetting the lawlessness in the state and the cities.

Traffic Police owns up responsibility for enforcing Number Plate rules

16 August 2012 - 6:14pm — murali772
Enforcement

With the traffic police looking at enforcement of Sec 49 of Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 (under Motor Vehicles Act, 1988), pertaining to 'defective number plates' (the biggest issue here of course pertaining to the Kannada number plates - very few people want to identify it as such, since it is supposed to be a 'sensitive'

GoK to implement report on land grabbing

13 August 2012 - 9:07pm — murali772

The Jagadish Shettar government is considering a proposal to revive the AT Ramaswamy committee report on encroachment of government land in Bangalore. The committee had unearthed over 40,000 acres of land worth Rs 50,000 crore encroached in and around Bangalore.

Time for deeper judicial reforms - Dr J P

10 August 2012 - 7:19pm — murali772

Text of the letter addressed by Dr Jayaprakash Narayan, Gen Sec, Foundation for Democratic Reforms (FDR), to Dr Manmohan Singh.

Esteemed Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh ji,

Easing BTM - SILKBOARD bottle neck !

10 August 2012 - 2:08pm — kbsyed61
Bus
Dear All,
ELCIA have been successful in getting improvements on Silk Board to E-city and beyond with elevated road and flyovers on ORR. Today the real bottle neck is BTM, silk board and Madiwala. This requires out of the box solution acceptable to all stake holders. They have requested associations of ORR, ITPL and WHEELS.,

Hebbal flyover to be part of tolled road to BIA

9 August 2012 - 2:22am — Sanjeev
Traffic

The Hebbal flyover, which is being widened, will be part of the tolled road to Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) and beyond.

Scrap the BDA!

8 August 2012 - 7:28pm — murali772
Urban Development

Apparently, Dr Ashwin Mahesh had posted an article titled "Scrap the BDA" on 'facebook', which a certain Mr Vishy Kuruganti chose to publish on his blog 'techsangam' (accessible here).

Undermining the Commissioner's authority

8 August 2012 - 3:25pm — murali772
Governance

It seems like there is no value for the BBMP Commissioner M K Shankaralinge Gowda’s orders. Eight of the 15 officials, who were transferred by him from the civic body’s Town Planning Department to other departments 10 days ago, are back in the same department using ‘political influence’.



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