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Devegowda Petrol Bunk Flyover - Another Silkboard in the making ? Vasanth - 31-JUL-2015
A new flyover is being constructed at the Devegowda Petrol Bunk on the Outer Ring Road from Banagiri side to Kadirenahalli. Again, very poor planning just like many waste flyovers of Bangalore especially Silkboard. This is just similar to Silkboard addressing only 2 out of 12 combinations. |
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Blr - Chennai new infra. connection srinidhi - 20-JUL-2015
Gadkari is back with his mega projects and this time announcing concrete expressways accross India. One of them is to connect Bangalore to Chennai and bring down the travel distance from the current more than 300 Kms to 262 Kms and make it reachable in 3 hours time..land acqusition has already begun on the 70 Km stretch within Karnataka.. |
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srinidhi - 9-JUL-2015
Bangalore loosing its green cover is a constant complaint we all have but most of us have done nothing much about it..however there are some audacious move by agencies who want to keep the 'view' for their expensive billboards unhindered. They go about cutting trees planted on the street in front of the billboards, which tend to block the view if left to grow. |
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srinidhi - 1-JUL-2015
Tax rules have changed recently and that affects hotel bills. Please be aware of what you are paying after a meal, when the place is airconditioned...why just airconditioned? beats me! From 1st june onwards the service tax is 5.6% of the total bill amount . VAT is 14.5 % of the food bill in Karnataka..guess no other state charges so much! So if your bill is 1000/- |
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Solution in STP's around Bellanduru? srinidhi - 23-MAY-2015
As a common trend these days, any alarming occurance in the city is responded with some knee jerk reactions. It can be traffic issues or frothy waterways which CATCH FIRE! |
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Namma Railu Advocacy Campaign - It all started here 5 years ago! kbsyed61 - 9-MAY-2015
Namma Railu - The Citizen's advocacy campaign, it all started here 5 Years ago with that famous 'Praja Train Day'. It was May 8th, 2010 to be the precise day. That one train ride completely changed the lives of many of the Praja members and advocacy campaigns that Praja members have undertaken. |
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Namma Metro: Authorities placing optimism it neither promises nor deserves kbsyed61 - 7-MAY-2015
By M. A. Siraj and Khader B. Syed
It was in June 2006 that the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for the Namma Metro. It was by far the largest urban infrastructure project taken up for Bengaluru whose population is projected to peak to 19 million by 2031.
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srinidhi - 2-MAY-2015
Its been the bane of the slum that Bangalore has become that we do not have any credible mass public transport options in the city even after many years and many thousands of crores! Its almost 10 years that the metro dream started in Bangalore and only parts of it is reality today. That reality is also far from ideal! |
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srinidhi - 26-APR-2015
There are umteen number of slums in Bangalore which were and are being populated for 'vote banks' for the local politicians. So the way they went about it was: |
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idontspam - 2-MAR-2015
The mowing down of the school going 19 year old Arpita & others in Hebbal has caused severe consternation amongst people in Bangalore. The driver has been reported as saying he was new to the city & was looking for a signboard which could tell him the directions to where he needs to go and that diverted his attention from the signal in front of him. |