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Bangalore second fastest growing city (The Times of India)
A study shows that among Indian cities with 50 lakh or more residents, Bangalore is the second fastest growing in terms of population. Read More
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Downturn: Infotech hiring shrinks 40% 5 Jul 2008, 0037 hrs IST, Mini Joseph Tejaswi,T... (The Times of India)
BANGALORE: The boom element in hiring seems to be substantially diminishing. Thanks to the economic turbulence in the domestic and international markets. Read More
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Youth Games postponed (The Hindu)
Bangalore: The Directorate of Youth Services and Sports, the host of the first National Youth Games here, has officially announced the postponement of the Games. The Games was scheduled to be held here from July 22. According to a press ... Read More
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The sooner we clinch deal the better: Kakodkar (The Hindu)
Bangalore: The sooner India clinches the nuclear agreement with the United States, the better it is for the nation’s energy security, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said on Friday. Read More
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Caught in a jam? Heli-hop to your destination (The Telegraph)
Bangalore, July 4: The southern city has got what many in the metros have desired: a pair of wings to beat the traffic. Read More
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Pastiche fancied (The Telegraph)
Bangalore: S. Ganapathy-trained Pastiche (Y. Srinath-up) may win the H. B. Gundappa Gowda Memorial Cup here on Saturday. 1.30pm: Power To Fight 1. Spark Of Elegance 2. You And I 3. Read More
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More Corrupt 5 Jul 2008, 0051 hrs IST (The Times of India)
Recently a raid on the deputy commissioner of commercial taxes in Bangalore revealed that he is the owner of 102 cars. That appears to confirm the common perception that corruption is an intrinsic part of Indian public life. This is validated by surveys too. Read More
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Super division hockey at Madikere (The Hindu)
BANGALORE: This year’s Super division league hockey tournament will be played at Madikere, Kodagu district, from Sept 15 to October 12. This decision was taken at the Karnataka State Hockey Association executive council meeting held at ... Read More
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Ouseph glad to be back (The Hindu)
BANGALORE: British champion Rajeev Ouseph, who arrived here on Thursday, began his training stint at the Tata Padukone Badminton Academy. Ouseph, who is of Indian descent, is a former European junior champion and no stranger to the ... Read More
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Woman On Top excels (The Hindu)
BANGALORE: Woman On Top, Bold Reply, Palazzio’s Son and Blink excelled when the horses were exercised here on Friday morning (July 4). Inner sand: 800m: Lush Foliage (Rajesh Babu) 50, 600/38. ... Read More
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Parts of green belt open for development
Parts of green belt open for development With a projected population of 88 lakhs in the city, parts of the green belt is being opened for restricted development, says Leena Mudbidri Bangalore is growing exponentially and so is the city's population. At the current growth rate, which stands at 3.25 percent annually, the city's population ...
More green for city
More green for city The forestry wing of the BBMP has taken up some projects to increase the green cover over the city. Sai Prasanna reports With a large number of i n f r a s t r u c - ture projects coming up in the city, it has become a priority for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to create lung spaces. Towards this end, the fore...
Airport expressway debate on NHAI Officials Say
Airport expressway debate on NHAI Officials Say Project’s Revenue Model Under Review R Krishnakumar | TNN Bangalore: The airport expressway is far from its final turn. The state has submitted to the high court that the 21.2-km expressway — from Outer Ring Road to the Bengaluru International Airport — has certain feasibility issues. But official sou...
Choked to the brim
Choked to the brim Residency Road is an arterial road leading up to MG Road. But a drive along this stretch is nothing short of a nightmare. Keerthana Thorat does a reality check Bangalore: Flyovers and grade separators are constructed the world over to decongest traffic and facilitate seamless travel. But a flyover in the heart of the city has fai...
Metro: court stays land acquisition
Metro: court stays land acquisition Staff Reporter BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday stayed the acquisition of properties at South End Circle, Jayanagar, by the Karnataka Industries Areas Development Board (KIADB), for the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation limited . Justice B.S. Patil passed the order on petitions by owners of building...
CHURUMURI POLL: Is the ‘India Story’ over?
Six months ago, India was looking at 9 per cent growth rates. Corporate profits were booming at 20 per cent. Consumer demand was huge, inflation was a low 3 per cent, the stock markets were up 50 per cent, the rupee was rising, Indian business houses were buying companies across the world. The world was looking at India, foreign direct investments ...
Even Maggi noodles takes 2 full minutes to make
Much is written about and spoken of the burden on our courts. The sheer backlog of cases that have piled up over years; the number of cases a judge has to handle because there aren’t enough judges; the volumes of documents he has to take home to read even on weekends, etc. But what do we make of the last day in office of Cyriac Joseph , the...
What if BJP backs the Congress on the N-deal?
SHRINIDHI HANDE writes from Madras: It may sound absurd, of course. But I see great benefit to the BJP if it chooses to suppress its political rivalry with the Congress for a few months and support the Manmohan Singh government on the Indo-US nuclear deal. For months now, the left parties have been holding the UPA government to ransom on the n-de...
When Greyhounds were shot like sitting ducks
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: Between bellyaching about the rising prices and the fickle furore over the allotment of land to the Amarnath shrine, not so speak of the moaning about the “horrors” of reality shows (hint to I&B Ministry: ban them!), a terrifying piece of news seems to have snuck beneath the radar of most media o...
Should the PM always be a member of Lok Sabha?
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Plenty of reasons—good, bad, ugly, silly—have been dredged up by those supporting and opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal. But of the all points raised by those who would not like India to sign the dotted line and toe the American line, none is curiouser than the sudden doubts that have arisen in the...
Arly to rice makes menu helthy, velthy & vice
SUDHEENDRA MURALI went to an upscale restaurant in the “Cantonment” area of Bangalore to do some justice to his massive expense account. In the City that is supposed to have got a headstart in the IT industry due to its English language skills, he got a first hand look at its proficiency on the menu card. “I wonder if our educat...
The only Marxism that will survive is Groucho’s
Looking at their dour, scowling faces that threaten doom for the Manmohan Singh government any time now, it might be tempting to ask if Indian communists have heard of any other Marx other than old Karl . Actually, a couple of them do have a funny bone. Sitaram Yechury , for one. In a column he wrote for the Hindustan Times last year, he recounte...
Austerity begins at your home, not at their home
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: With petrol and diesel prices going through the sky, and the energy crisis hitting all and sundry, everybody, starting from the Prime Minister down to government officials, everybody has been advocating austerity and offering advice FOC to you and me. To masses already reeling under the weekly spiral of uninhibited infla...
How to have your gun & eat it too in these times
PAVAN MURALI forwards a cartoon from the Australian agency Inkcinct which, while conveying the irony of the current global food and fuel crisis, feeds the usual stereotype about the Third World. Cartoon : courtesy Inkcinct
‘If a journalist cannot write, then who else will?’
A two-judge vacation bench of the Supreme Court of India has restrained the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat from arresting sociologist Ashis Nandy , for an opinion piece titled ‘Blame the middle class’ he wrote in The Times of India in January this year. Justice Altamas Kabir : “There is no ground for harassing a journalist. Let h...
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