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Take the bus - Feb 4

1 January 2010 - 3:07pm — silkboard
4 Feb 2010
Asia/Calcutta

Simple event with simple goals. Take the bus for your commute on Feb 4. Try it, and then tell the world (via a survey) why you wouldn't take the bus more often for your commute and solve two problems for the city - congestion, and air pollution.

Commuter rail for Bengaluru - state not interested?

1 January 2010 - 12:03pm — silkboard

First up, happy new year 2010 to all. I thought I should pick out one important piece from Sanjayv's summary post on Railway minister's recent announcements for our state.

Exemplary deed @ Kollegal

31 December 2009 - 12:18pm — murali772

Nothing could have made a better Christmas gift from Santa for jumbos! A crucial corridor used by more than a thousand elephants in Kollegal was purchased by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and transferred to the state government on Thursday.
    

Updates from the Railway Minister

30 December 2009 - 9:21pm — sanjayv

There was an article in The Hindu today citing an announcement by Shri K. H. Muniyappa, MoS Railways- see link here.

Gammon and the Metro - is there a safety concern?

30 December 2009 - 6:12pm — sanjayv

 After the recent bridge collapse in Rajasthan on the E-W corridor involving Gammon, am beginning to wonder about who would conduct a proper audit of the company's practices?  Since Bangalore Metro has offloaded a portion of the work to Gammon, this is particularly worrying for us. There are three major accidents that have been reported in the national press.

Why Tata still doesn’t get it?

30 December 2009 - 3:26pm — murali772

Ratan Tata had this to say on the Singur debacle: “More often than not, conflicts related to land are promoted by individuals who do not belong to that area, but who have other political motives.” Quite so, but this, interestingly enough, was the exact position taken by British planters to stop Mahatma Gandhi’s first mass movement in India, the anti-indigo cultivation

Refreshing evolution

30 December 2009 - 3:06pm — murali772

For the faint-hearted, young men hitting their backs with a bunch of knives, tied together with a rope, has always been a visual torture if they ever witnessed one. But that has been always a practice for Muslims during Muharram.

The international effluent trade

30 December 2009 - 9:42am — psaram42

 Is it so easy to dump harmful chemicals in our country especially in our city of Bangalore? About 40 Barrels of unknown chemical were dumped at vacant railway yard near the slums of Okalipuram supposedly on Monday night. We seem to be totally unaware and un prepared for such exigencies.

Bumpy roads of Bangalore - Road Humps the back breakers not speed breakers.

29 December 2009 - 12:32pm — srikanthml

Maybe this has been discussed earlier.

I am appalled by the state of Bangalore roads of late. Day by day there are more road humps added to the streets without any thought on the inconvenience it causes to the riders/drivers.

For ward 151 (Koramangala): Names on Voter List

27 December 2009 - 7:40pm — shekhar_mittal

Smartvote Koramangla guys have digitised the voter list for ward 151 and come up with this:http://www.smartvote.in/koramangala/voterdata/pme/vlist.php



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