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idontspam - 26-MAR-2009
Spot the number of wrongs in this scene |
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murali772 - 25-MAR-2009
Are hawkers losing out to corporate and chain stores? India FDI Watch and Action Aid, which studied the immediate and future impact of corporate and chain retails on hawkers, showed that hawkers' business is declining in areas of Bangalore they surveyed. |
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jennypinto - 25-MAR-2009
prajagale, |
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The Political Compass - assess your political leanings s_yajaman - 24-MAR-2009
Found this on the net. http://www.politicalcompass.org/index It assesses your political leanings along two axes - economic and social. Economic leanings form the X-axis going from collectivism (Pol-pot) to neo-liberalism (Friedman). Social leanings go from Libertarian to Authoritarianism. |
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Global Warming - Local solutions? psaram42 - 24-MAR-2009
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Al Gore Jr (b1948) and IPCC of Geneva Switzerland for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. A must Listen 20 minuets “Al Gore Nobel Speech” |
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Survey results - cleanliness, pollution top local issues!? admin123 - 22-MAR-2009
After about 3000 responses, here is how the results look like. The results are a function of how the poll was structured, and remember, this reflects the sentiments of urban, online populace of the city. Regardless, instead of analyzing this in various ways ourselves, why don't we leave it to readers and members to make sense of thes numbers. In case you are not very good with numbers, we have highlighted the top 3-4 items in each category :) |
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Do you vote for the person (candidate), or the party (ideology) ? silkboard - 22-MAR-2009* Candidate * Party |
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Meeting with Prof.Ashwin Mahesh Naveen - 21-MAR-2009
As part of ABIDe, Prof.Ashwin Mahesh appears to have thoroughly understood all the limitations of having to deal with issues for commencing new city transport services within the existing framework of our polity & citizenry. He touched upon prevailing operational practices & existing mindsets within BMTC as also those of the expectations of people with regard to BMTC services. He dealt with various issues in an extremely systematic & orderly way & explained all aspects – indeed in a most impressive manner. |
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jennypinto - 20-MAR-2009
The Hindu of March 19 had an interesting article : A Gandhian idea gets a British makeover by Hasan Suroor the gist of his story about a new campaign in the UK is "A high-profile campaign, funded by a flamboyant millionaire Tory donor Sir Paul Judge was launched this week with the grand aim of reducing the dominance of the three main organised political parties (Labour, the Conservative |
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BMTC Infrastructure Development under JnNURM! kbsyed61 - 19-MAR-2009
Interesting information about use of JnNURM funds for the BMTC infrastructure. This information is available on BMTC website. |