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tsubba - 31-DEC-2007
Next time you think of littering on Kempe Gowda Road, M G Road, Cubbon
Road or Commercial Street, look out for one of the sixty litter cops in
special uniforms belonging to retired army man, BN Nandukumar's Major
Territorial Army. |
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Piramal Prize: Social Entrepreneurship For Health Care In India Competition tsubba - 31-DEC-2007
The Piramal Prize seeks to enable cutting-edge entrepreneurial ideas
that bring the highest standards of health to India's masses. Entries,
for-profit or not-for-profit, should emphasize both
profitablity/sustainability and maximum social impact. The most viable
business model will receive INR 10,00,000 (10 Lakh / 1 million) in seed
funding in addition to potential venture capital. |
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Knowledge city - DLF township or " gowda family township" pradeepwins - 31-DEC-2007Dear prajegale As every one knows bangalore outskirts are getting filled with township, but i have one doubt- is these township helping bangalore civilians or politicians !!!!!!!! .... ok it may be helping politicians only.. but the bidadi knowledge township is of DLF groups or gowdas family's???? |
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Quickest and Easiest means of Transport Vehicle in Bangalore Vasanth - 31-DEC-2007* A Big Sedan Car (Camry,Corolla)\n* A Small Car (Santros,Altos)\n* SUV/MUV (Innova/Scorpio)\n* Geared Bike (Splendor/Victor/Pulsar)\n* Ungeared Scooter (Activa/KineticHonda/Pleasure)\n |
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BTRAC - smart traffic lights are coming silkboard - 30-DEC-2007
Hope you still remember BTRAC-2010, the nice sounding traffic management project for Bangalore. Seems like KRDCL has started the process of putting up new traffic signals under this project. This bidding document talks of 204 locations for these signals. Thankfully, this document contains the specifications of these new signals as well, and they do seem smart - vehicle detectors, remote control from a Traffic Management Center, pedestrian crossings with audible alarms, and more. Have a look:
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56 motorized sky walks for pedestrians! silkboard - 30-DEC-2007
Not that BBMP doesn't care for pedestrians. They have been talking about motorized sky walks for sometime now, and earlier this week, a BBMP tender showed up with plans for sky walks all around the city - 56 of them, and with escalators! "These sky walks are proposed with attractive escalators of adequate capacity on both sides of the road which shall facilitate the vertical movement of the users for climbing as well alighting purposes" As I said, the fancy skywalk talk isn't new. Earlier this year, BBMP had plans for 30 "capsule lift" based sky walks, refer this tender dated 12th Feb 2007: |
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murali772 - 29-DEC-2007
Economic Times has invited its readers to state what their dream for the state would be. My response was that I dream of a state with the babudom reduced to such an extent that half of Vidhan Soudha (and, of course, the entire Vikas Soudha) itself gets rented out. |
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blrsri - 29-DEC-2007http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=308467 ------------------------------------------------- International airport rail link alignment changed BS Reporter / Chennai/ Bangalore December 24, 2007 |
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BMTC's Point-To-Point Service From January tsubba - 29-DEC-2007
The BMTC is planning to introduce a new flat fare, point-to-point non stop service in
January 2008. The service will offer directional connectivity and will
run at a frequency of 20 minutes
from different parts of the city. BMTC plans to introduce 500 new
suvarna
buses in January and will set aside 20% (100 buses) for this
point-to-point service. |
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Bangalore Disaster Management Cell tsubba - 28-DEC-2007
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Raghava
M writes in The Hindu