Wednesday, 9 April 2025 |
Bengal to seek SC review on 25,000 scrapped school jobs |
Mathura resident Tarun Gautam has alleged in the court that police threatened his family and framed his son, a B.Tech student, in false cases under the Gangsters Act, and Arms Act. |
12 UP cops booked over 'fake' encounter of BTech student |
An Air India passenger allegedly urinated on a fellow traveller during a flight from Delhi to Bangkok on Wednesday. Air India has reported the incident to the authorities (DGCA) and is investigating the matter. The airline has also stated that its crew followed all laid down procedures in handling the situation and offered assistance to the aggrieved passenger. |
Flyer urinates on fellow passenger on Bangkok AI flight |
Fish sellers of Chittranjan Park found themselves in a state of disbelief last week when the anti-meat overdrive of the Hindu right hit the local markets with a warning to shut shops because they were close to a temple. |
'We built the temple', say Delhi's CR Park fish vendors |
India has exempted Bangladeshi exports to Nepal and Bhutan as such trade facilitation is mandatory for landlocked countries under the framework of provisions of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). |
India withdraws transshipment facility for Bangladesh |
China on Wednesday hit back at United States President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese exports with 84 per cent levies on its imports from America, intensifying the trade war between the top two economies of the world. |
Friday, January 13, 2006
No more new Infy units in Bangalore
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Finally a Blog Site from Bangalore Dedicated to Indian Girls

A New Blog Website has been hosted Featuring Indian Girls who have made India Proud in Beauty Contest, Sports, Acting, Career, Bussiness, Education and in Many Other Feilds. This Special Blog Site will feature a Girl each Month with her career profile and up-t0-date detail.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
All for a better Bangalore
The public can register all property documents at present, but the state government is planning an amendment to impose restrictions through a legislation in an effort to ensure that Bangalore's growth is more planned. The government had issued a notification on April 23, 2005, imposing restrictions on the kind of documents that can be registered for the sale, mortgage, gift, exchange, agreement to sell, lease or assignment of any site. But, in response to a petition, the Karnataka High Court, in its order dated January 3, 2006, quashed this notification. After reviewing the situation in the aftermath of the order being quashed and a Supreme Court judgment that the HC referred to, deputy chief minister M P Prakash on Monday told reporters: "The judiciary has said an executive order is not enough to impose such restrictions.
Bangalore biz majors revise office hours
Dodging Traffic And Talking Business In Bangalore
For entry one in a week-long blog I'll keep of a reporting trip to India: 24 hours on duty and off. I arrived at my hotel at nearly 3 a.m. Sunday after negotiating the chaos of the baggage claim at Bangalore International—a misnomer, really, since the crumbling former industrial airport owned by military plane maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. has been pressed into service as an international port of call to accommodate the city's booming technology business. It takes 20 hours to get here from San Francisco, and I've been assured that's the short way. It also means that day's night and night day, which led to breakfast at 3 p.m. They do make a strong pot of coffee here though.
I knew I was on tap to meet some executives from IT outsourcing company Microland in the evening, but I wanted to see Bangalore for myself first. So I hired a taxi driver for two hours for the equivalent of $15—for that price the driver will take you around the city, and wait for you while you walk around and see the sights. But getting around can be an adventure. The poor are on foot, the noveau riche drive new cars, and in between surge city buses, auto rickshaws—smoke-spewing, three-wheeled motorized cabs, taxis, trucks, and ubiquitous motor scooters. The roads—the paved ones—have lines on the blacktop, but that's a formality. Generally, the whole lot lurches forward in an urgent mass. Suresh Iyer, a VP at Microland, compares it to a school of fish. They just know where to go.
Which brings me to the Bangalore Club. Built in 1868, it's the type of woody, Raj-era oasis that that still has a men's only bar, and another tie-required chamber with a giant hookah in the corner. My host, Microland chairman Pradeep Kar, a bearded, casually dressed Indian businessman who used to live in California's Silicon Valley, walks me through the place and tells me about his company's origins as a PC importer, distributor, and network designer. That's partly where the 1,300-person IT outsourcing firm's big contracts with U.S. companies like General Electric and Proctor & Gamble sprang from. Microland got out of the computer distribution business in 1998, but its IT services work persists quite nicely. Like most things in business, high-tech money here didn't suddenly appear here whole cloth. But the juxtapositions resulting from it seem to some residents to have done so.
Monday, January 09, 2006
Bangalore has the ingredients to be one of the best cities
What should Bangalore’s priorities be this year? The government of India introduced the National Urban Renewal Mission (NURM) in December 2005, with financial incentives to the states and municipalities. Sixty-three cities have been chosen. Bangalore is one of them. We should make maximum use of this.
Should we try a new approach to citizens’ participation in governance this year? Yes, absolutely! We believe that unless citizens are given a formal role, participation can only be sporadic and through patronage. For the first time a formal role is suggested for the urban citizen through NURM, with a law for citizens’ participation in urban India.
How is citizens’ participation different under the scheme? The dilemma in engaging the urban citizen thus far has been the large numbers. The size of the ward constituency in a metropolitan city is anywhere between 20,000 to 50,000. NURM proposes a simple solution — the area sabha. Every resident within each area will have an opportunity to participate. Citizens need to be proactive and ensure that the government delivers this law.
Is there a silver lining? Bangalore has all the ingredients to be one of the best cities in the world. We were pioneers in Panchayati Raj reforms and have an engaged citizenry and a plethora of NGOs. The BDA has one of the best digitised data information systems and the BMP one of the best financial management systems. With this kind of good quality information must follow good quality decision making.
Bangalore too to catch cold wave
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Bangalore United Pentecostal Church has Released a Special Apostolic Resource Website
The Administrator of this special Project says "We want to provide the best information on any Apostolic Resource to visitors who use our site. Many Apostolic resource are available on net, but since they are scattered all over hundreds of websites, it would be very helpful to visitors if they can find all the prime sources at one spot. That's what Our Project's Main Purpose"
The World Wide Web is filled with so many resource which a normal Christian person search for. Among these thousands of websites, finding an Apostolic Resource would be very time consumable work. This Special Project of Bangalore United Pentecostal Church has a list of 35 major Christian topics and also you will find information on other useful topics. The simple text format of this Website is very user friendly and easy viewable.
The navigator system of this website is a time saving effort and you can always go to the desired page from current page. All the pages takes very less time to load and this is not a much graphical site. More information about this site and Apostolic Resources can be found at www.unitedpentecostalchurch.info
Saturday, January 07, 2006
'World would soon adapt to Bengaluru'
When it comes to changing the names of cities and towns, there's history and there's geography. Wait a second. For Americans, there is also commerce. Boom city Bangalore may be in a momentary rewind mode historically, but there is no looking back in the United States, where the ringing of cash registers can bring about a name change. Would Bangalore call itself Billtown if the world’s richest man plonked down a few billions and promised to fix its beat-up infrastructure? Fat chance? No compunction about such deals in the US, albeit on a smaller scale. Last month, the city of Clark, Texas, renamed itself DISH as part of an advertising campaign for EchoStar Communication, which gave the town’s 125 residents free satellite equipment and services in return (cost: $ 4500 per home).
Back with a bengaluru
Is Changing the name of a city a good idea?
The debate rages on, and most have strong personal views on the matter. We decided to consult numerologist, Sanjay B Jumaani and get another perspective on the issue. Excerpts from the interview:
Earlier, 'Bangalore' added up to 20 (which adds up to 2), which is represented by the Moon, an imaginative, moody and creative number - but a little lazy.
'Bengaluru' adds up by default to a dream number - 33, which adds up to 6, the number of Venus, planet of peace, love, prosperity and harmony. As 3 is Jupiter's number, two 3s make double Jupiter. Jupiter is both the biggest planet and the planet of wealth.
Friday, January 06, 2006
B'lore incident rings alarm bells
Although Pune is perceived as a safe city, the rape and murder of a BPO employee in Bangalore, by a taxi driver attached to a call centre there, has got the city BPOs seriously thinking of enhancing security measures, especially for their female employees. Over 20,000 people work in the 30-odd BPOs in the city. Around 50 per cent of them are women, who work at odd hours and on night shifts. Ganesh Natarajan, chairman of the outsourcing conclave of the Confederation of Indian Industry, western region, and deputy chairman and managing director of Zensar Technologies, said the Bangalore incident is an alarm signal for BPOs. "Most BPOs do reference checks of all collateral staff, including drivers, and ensure that they come from reputed contractors/agencies, apart from making sure that a female never travels unaccompanied on long distances.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Bangalore no more a mere terror hideout
Bangalore loses safe city tag
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Now, Bangalore gets Gurgaoned!
Is Bangalore crumbling? A guide to action...
There are many who seem to think that Bangalore is in terminal decline. They see the consummation of this process in the epic battle between Deve Gowda and S M Krishna. There is a dire prediction of the exit of major IT giants from the city. Some in the media believe that the rot will be stemmed only when there is a truce between these giants. It is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for solving the city's malaise. The news of Bangalore's demise, I am afraid, has been exaggerated. First of all, there should be a more balanced view of the current situation and understanding of where remedial actions are immediately needed. Glib generalisations about the crumbling infrastructure conveys a picture of everything in the city falling apart. Only five years ago, people were complaining about electricity, water, telephones, roads, transport and garbage. Today, one does not hear much about most of these services. The fact is that there has been an improvement in water supply, electricity, telecom, public transport and even garbage removal. Surveys have confirmed these improvements. We need to give credit where it is due. Of course, there is scope for further improvement in all these areas and the matter should be addressed separately. But we need to appreciate that at present from an infrastructural standpoint, the main sectors lagging behind are roads and drains