December 2010

Government apologies

24 December 2010 - 3:23pm — murali772

Australia on Thursday apologized to Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef for wrongly detaining him on terror charges three years back, saying it was a mistake and hoped that the compensation paid to him will mark the end of an “unfortunate chapter”.

Workshop on Urban Mobility, IISc, Jan 10 (Mobilicity)

23 December 2010 - 7:59pm — idontspam

Start: 10 Jan 2011 14:00

End: 10 Jan 2011 16:30

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Discussions will be held to understand the issues (political, social, economic and technical) for developing livable cities; take a systems view of the challenges being faced; identify possible ways forward. Focus will be put on ways to learn from urban case studies from across the world and capture critical issues and their effective solutions for application in t

mail to BMRC on namma metro station names

23 December 2010 - 10:04am — naveen_blr

Thanks Sir,

I am delighted to receive your response.
I do understand some of the concerns you have raised , these can be reduced/fixed using various options.

1.Some company like Infosys/ Satyam would like to maximum put up their hoardings in the stations which would anyways be the case even if we do not lease out the station to them.

Namma Railu in News Again - This time Deccan Herald

23 December 2010 - 1:55am — kbsyed61

Deccan Herald today carried a news item titled "NGO dusts off commuter rail idea" with a NR map.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/122932/ngo-dusts-off-commuter-rail.html

"footpaths proposed in the Metro zone areas"

23 December 2010 - 12:56pm — ashwin

TOI article on ABIDE member Ashwin Mahesh's wishlist for Bangalore in which he is quoted as saying,

"The footpaths proposed in the Metro zone areas around stations are a good beginning"