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Needed: AAP-TV

22 January 2014 - 8:47pm — xs400
Politics

Given the kind of coverage by the current media houses owned by various politicians and moneybags, AAP needs to have its own channel.

It wont be named Arvind TV. 

The doublespeak of the spindoctors is to be expected.

Not having its own media house is hurting AAP. 

BWSSB's deathtraps

21 January 2014 - 11:13am — murali772

The pictures below offer two views of a dig-up (on 12th main, HAL 2nd stage, Indiranagar, adjacent to Corner House), obviously by BWSSB, to access their manhole cover, the top of which has gone almost a foot below the re-tarred road surface.

Question of Corporate citizens' accountability

19 January 2014 - 5:21pm — murali772
Governance

My posting a link to this comment on the non-professional methods adopted by BBMP to collect property tax dues (going by BBMP's claim) from WIPRO, on OneBengaluruGoogleGroup, led to the following exchange with DV (incidentally, a

First MEMU Maintenance shed at Bangalore Railway Division, step towards Suburban Rail Services.

18 January 2014 - 1:31pm — Sanjeev
Commuter Rail

Proposed construction of maintenance shed for MEMUs at Banaswadi with provision of pit line (Inspection Bay)shed, CC Apron, shunting neck and other miscellaneous works.

Amount: 8.35 crores    Period : 6 Months

Calcutta Suburban Rail services tracking

17 January 2014 - 6:25pm — Sanjeev
Commuter Rail


Calcutta Suburban Rail gets additional coaches from 9 to 12 which resulted in 33 % increase in the capacity.

Why is that Bngaloe SuburbanRail not getting  clearance from Railwa Board.

Arbitrary and unfair water tariff increase for apartment complexes

14 January 2014 - 4:32pm — murali772

Attached is the minutes of the meeting between BAF (Bangalore Apartments Federation, representing 45 apartment complexes) members & BWSSB Chairman Mr. Ravi Shankar, held on 08 Jan 2014.

FDI in Railways

9 January 2014 - 5:04pm — murali772
Commuter Rail

Whether or not foreign direct investment (FDI) will be allowed for high speed trains in Indian Railways is still being discussed as the Home Ministry is yet to respond to the Cabinet note sent by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion’s (DIPP) to the Home Ministry.

Appartments

8 January 2014 - 1:04pm — hemaraj
Urban Development

Bombay has this culture of apartment from a long time, but Bangalore has started this only for the past 20 years , Once a culture is copied even the problems forseen over a period of time and how it is ddressed there, has to be implemented,

deathly underpasses

7 January 2014 - 6:26pm — murali772

The following is the first person account, narrated to me by a friend, of his, his wife's and his driver's almost having drowned in their car in the flooded underpass, near Pebble Bay apartment complex (Hebbal - check location here), on the morning of the 8th Oct, '13 (Since the friend had



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