Metro digging work on ITPL road, Whitefield !?

silkboard - 26-AUG-2010

Did anyone else notice the serious digging work going on around ITPL/Mahadevapura main road? This isn't some here and there soil testing type thing, they are making a continuous long trench on the north sidewalk of the main road going to ITPL. What's up? Phase-1 extension till ITPL - just can't be? Or has Phase-2 work begun now? Could be something else. Some pictures:

Feeder bus service - at last

n - 26-AUG-2010

Feeder service has been introduced between the City Central station and KBS/Majestic. Excerpts from the article below (from DH Metro; link - http://www.deccanherald.com/content/91083/enjoying-free-ride.html):

Mayor shelves road widening

Ravi_D - 25-AUG-2010

Just happened to come across this news from couple of weeks ago. BBMP Mayor finally shelves the road widening plans. Temporarily? Your guess is as good as mine.

Aug/6 - Chronicle:  

Entry fee for vehicles in HAL airport / BIAL

rangaraj - 5-MAY-2008

Well done, Mr Commissioner

murali772 - 24-AUG-2010

ASI Nagarajappa and constables Venkatesh, Veerabhadraiah and Nagappa attached to Sanjaynagar police station were suspended, pending a departmental inquiry. On August 2, they barged into an apartment where a birthday party was being celebrated and illegally detained some persons and demanded money for their release.

Guess who is running your city

idontspam - 24-AUG-2010

No its not engineers

Thousand Cities - Growth Center Phenomenon!

kbsyed61 - 23-AUG-2010

Namma Railu - Call to action report rightly places the empahsis of developing the towns around Bengaluru as Growth center. The same spirit has been articulated in today's editorial piece of Indian Express.

BIAAPA - Bangalore International Airport Area Planning Authority

Ravi_D - 23-AUG-2010

Sharing a not so familiar 'authority', notified in '96. http://biaapa.in/. Found this website trying to research ITIR.

Talk on "An Introduction to Sustainable Development"

sanjayv - 22-AUG-2010

 "Development" is a word that is deeply entrenched into the consciousness of an average human being these days. Elections are fought and lost on this platform and the society is fascinated by it.

Hawking - the questions rise again

murali772 - 21-AUG-2010

Recently, a group of residents from certain streets in Koramangala petitioned to the ward level authorities to evict food-vending hawkers from the neighbourhood. Some were on pavements and some occupied vacant plots. After many meetings, the authorities obliged. In some cases, the carts reappeared the same day.