KR Puram bridge area - Good going traffic police!

silkboard - 18-MAR-2009

I have waited to post this, 3 weeks to be precise because I want. After after our street photography adventure at OMR/ORR junction, I have been noticing a few changes at this junction of junctions.

Updated: Big10 meeting with Prof Ashwin Mahesh, *time* 2.30 pm

murali772 - 18-MAR-2009

The interaction session with Prof Ashwin Mahesh, ABIDe member, will essentially be on his team's efforts at innovations in BMTC services, more specifically the "Ho-Ho, and Big-10" services.

Date: Saturday, the 21st March;
Time: 2.30 PM;

Kunigal Stud Farm

psaram42 - 18-MAR-2009

Mr. Vijay Mallya is again in news this time for the Kunigal Stud Farm. Kunigal Stud Farm has Tippus Heritage Status. A city needs to preserve the Heritage sites as one of the important anchors for preserving local culture.

A new Paris... (paris.600.jpg)

mcadambi - 17-MAR-2009

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A new Paris...

mcadambi - 17-MAR-2009

 A new design for Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/arts/design/17paris.html

Information Available on BMTC

manjari - 17-MAR-2009

Information Available:

Operate 5247 schedules
Deploy a fleet of 5441 buses
Make 73240 trips
Perform 11.78 Lakhs Service Kilometres
Carry more than 38.00 Lakhs Passengers
Earn around Rs.258.54 lakhs and
Pay Rs. 14.22 lakh to the Government towards Motor Vehicle tax
Every month, about 2.36 lakhs Monthly public passes are issued

Domestic violence

GVK - 16-MAR-2009

At a Rotary Club seminar in Bangalore speakers called for empowerment of society to prevent domestic violence.  Police woman Kiren Bedi,  citing a UN report said India ranked third in the world - behind only Poland and Japan - when it came to incidence of domestic violence.

Bribed voters could get 6 months in jail?

silkboard - 16-MAR-2009

Read with interest in a newspaper this morning that Mr P Manivannan, who is the Returning Officer for Mysore is talking about tough measures to monitor misuse of Liquor and Money in Lok Sabha Elections. See this Biz Standard story: DC strict on curbing Malparctices.

Waiting for the new Reva?

silkboard - 15-MAR-2009

The advertisements of electric bikes and scooters were everywhere when petrol prices were up in the sky. I wonder how are the sales now. Reva too was running ads back then, but no big news about them recently either. Talking of Reva, after reading around a bit (because I was considering buying it), speaking to a few folks who have also been interested, and two owners, here is what I learned:

State gets its ‘act’ together, hopefully

murali772 - 15-MAR-2009

After an interminably long sitting on tabling of the Karnataka Police Act for more than a year, the state government has decided to implement the Act through an executive order to avoid a possible embarrassment when the monitoring committee set up by the Apex Court would come for a visit later this month.