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Life of Piscine Molitor brings an Oscars for the Bangalore boy Vibhish Shivakumar psaram42 - 26-FEB-2013
India is often perceived as a land of magical or spiritual powers. In India the existence of individual spirits as separate from the physical bodies is an accepted belief. Though highly unscientific bereft of any evidence it is deep rooted in the Indian psyche. |
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Illegal convoy cars use by Yeddyurappa psaram42 - 24-FEB-2013
A front page Bangalore Mirror report of 22nd Feb 2013 about Yeddyurappa reveals that he still manages to enjoy government convoy cars for which he was eligible only as a CM, This too along with government drivers, maintenance and fuel! |
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Bangalore is Mine - 16-FEB-2013
Most of us believe (or rather made to believe) that the 4 pillars of our democracy stands on Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Press. However, in reality they are just watchdogs of the actual pillars that have overtaken the nation |
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BMTC volvo hike loses passengers by 50% tellvkb - 14-FEB-2013
After hike in volvo fares BMTC is turned out to be losing passengers. More details at below link http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130207/news-current-affairs/article/bmtc-hikes-fare-loses-passengers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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abidpqa - 12-FEB-2013
In India, private insurance promise to provide a certain amount of money in case of medical condition. This is not the purpose of health insurance. Health insurers have to provide guarantee that we will get treatment. We dont have to know how much money they have paid to hospitals or doctors.. If the insurer, has paid x amount to doctor, do we have any benefit? |
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Citizen Services : Passports, online system and agents! Sanjeev - 1-FEB-2013
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Light Rail at grade..too bold? srinidhi - 28-JAN-2013
As we have seen there seems to be some activity around building light rail as a feeder to metro(Bannerghatta rd - Hebbal). For some historic reasons The Bangalore Airport Rail Link (BARL) Ltd is actually working on the DPR for it. |
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Ward committees etc - sorry, wouldn't work silkboard - 28-JAN-2013
Moving a comment on this excellent post from PSA/Pathy sir up here in the hopes of generating more discussion. And some disclaimer first - 1) I am not against the concept of engagement/consultation. |
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n - 22-JAN-2013
Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) has been embroiled in controversies from the 1997 when the framework agreement was signed. Though the agreement itself does not appear to be on a public domain, a good analysis of the mechanics of PPP agreement is attached. Some excerpts: |
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Identity of our ‘Civil Society’ Bangalore is Mine - 21-JAN-2013
During the protest march at EWS Quarters, Ejipura, the Inspector-in-charge (named Prasad) warned one of the Resident- Representative that they would be arrested if they came in between the demolition work. When an representative from our group (civil society) stepped in and spoke to the inspector, he identified himself from an individual from an welfare group. |