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Bangalore-based Environment Support Group was given the 2012 UN-Water "Water for Life" Best Practices Award for it unprecedented legal work on protection of Bangalore's lakes. ESG's trustee and coordinator Leo Saldanha received the award at a ceremony held at the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, at Rome on 22nd March, World Water Day. As some readers may already know, ESG has been on a major initiative for several years to protect Bangalore's lakes. Its litigation work has led to direct supervision of local government protection efforts by the Karnataka High Court itself. Leo Saldanha (right), Coordinator, ESG,…

Oota from your Thota (OfyT), a programme for organic farming enthusiasts, will be held on March 25th, Sunday, in Malleswaram. The programmes includes lectures and discussions on organic farming, pest control etc. There will also be exhibition and sale of seeds, saplings, gardening accessories, compost bins etc.The event is organised by Malleswaram Swabhimana Initiative (MSI) - the Resident Welfare Association of Malleswaram - along with Garden City Farmers Trust (GCFT), an NGO that promotes organic farming. Citizen Matters is media partner for the event. OfyT was held in BTM Layout last August. File Pic: Yogaraj Mudalgi G Shantaram, Joint Secretary…

1) There will be no power supply from 8 am to 5 pm on March 24th, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV K&C Valley MUSS.Affected areas are: Nagasandra, Agaram Dairy, Challaghatta, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Airport, Golf Link Software Park, Murugesh Palya, National Aerospace Laboratories, NR Garden, Kempapura, Wind Tunnel Road, Yamalur, Konena Agrahara, SR/NR Layout, Salarpuria Touch Stone, Salarpuria Hall Mark, Logica, Ashwini Layout, NAL Control Tower, Amarjyothi Layout, Parts of Domulr, and surroundings. 2) There will be no power supply from 10 am to 4 pm on March 24th, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV Kumbalgodu MUSS.Affected areas are: Ramohalli, Beemanakoppe,…

Because of holidays there will be lot of rush towards Bangalore City Railway Station and Kempe Gowda terminal on March 9th and 10th. This may cause traffic congestion on all the routes leading to these points.To ensure smooth flow of traffic, Bangalore City Police has taken these measures for both days:1) All private vehicle parking is banned on Dhanvanthri Road, Railway Station Road, Tank Bund Road, Platform Road and Khodeys junction.2) All buses going towards Mysore, Kodagu and Kerala will start only from Mysore Road Bus Terminal.3) Buses to Tamil Nadu will start only from Shanthinagar Bus terminal.4) All long…

Jawahar Union won the B Division League Bangalore Blues Cup 2011-12, on March 4th. They beat Bangalore Kickers to win the cup.Both teams have been promoted to A Division for the year 2012-13. Five teams - BWSSB, Young Muslims, Goans, Sunrising and BHEL (EPD) have been relegated to C Division. Thirteen teams had participated in the championship held in Bangalore Football Stadium.  Jawahar Union team with the championship trophy. Pic: Bangalore District Football Association A R Khaleel, Founder President of Jawahar Union, received the championship trophy on behalf of the team. ⊕

Maverick Holdings and BBMP signed a concessionaire agreement on 2 January, 2012, clearing the deck for the construction of 1,640 Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quarters at Ejipura. This is coming after a protracted legal battle that lasted nine years. The agreement was signed between Uday Garudachar of Maverick and BBMP Engineer in Chief BT Ramesh. Pic: Vijayalakshmi P But the residents still do not know where they will be relocated when the construction starts. Neither the BBMP nor Maverick has informed them about the relocation plans. And on January 14, Shantinagar MLA NA Harris had a shocking request to make…

In the case of a citizen's death during a Fire Department mock drill on February 24th, the Police have filed an FIR under Section 304A of the IPC (death by negligence) and are investigating. The case was based on a complaint by the victim's brother against fire department. Section 304A is bailable and carries maximum sentence of two years imprisonment with or without fine. File pic: Kiran Jonnalagadda Lawyer Mukund T S confirms that prosecution can be under Section 304A itself, as there was no intent to murder. "The incident was caused by negligence only, hence the more serious Section…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 12 noon on March 7th, Wednesday, in areas under 66/11KV Vijayanagar MUSS because of maintenance works.Affected areas are: Thimmenahalli, Govindaraj Nagar, MC Layout, Binny Layout, Marenahalli, Hosahalli, PC Industrial Area, Kaveripura, Ranganathapura, KCG Industrial Area, Nanjappa Industrial Area, Prashanth Nagar, Kamakshi Palya, HVR Layout, Syndicate Bank Colony, Pipe Line Road, RPC Layout, Maruthi Layout, Manuvana, Vijayanagar 1st to 9th Main, Selvam Industrial Estate, Sunkadakatte Industrial Area, part of Magadi Road, KHB Colony, Kamala Nagara, Basweshwara Nagara, Telephone exchange, Teacher's Colony, Mudala Palya, A Dasarahalli, part of Vrushabhavathi Nagar, Nagarabhavi BDA…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 2 pm on March 3rd, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV A-STATION for maintenance works.Affected areas are: SC Road, TB Road, AR Circle, Binny Mills, City railway Station, Cottonpet, Akkipet, part of Chickpet, Balepet, Avenue Road, Kilari Road, Mamulpet, Cunningham Road, Palace Cross Road, Abshot Layout, Chakravarthy Layout, Kumar Krupa East Extension, Vasantha Nagar, Palace Road, Kanteerava Stadium, Nagarathpet, Century Club, Central Library, Old Taluk Office Road, Okalipuram, Prakash Nagar, Bashyam Park, Lakshminarayanapura, KP west, Srirampura, RV shetty layout, Krishna Flour Mill, VGP gate, Karnataka Judicial Academy, West End Hotel, Karnataka…

Pawan Kumar the director of the successful film Lifeu Ishtene might just show ‘Gandhinagar' that pedigree and stars don't matter. He plans to produce his second film Lucia using crowd funding. He had earlier expressed his frustration about no takers for his second film. His fans and friends on Facebook and reacted to it and many suggestions started coming his way. In his own words "was bombarded with emails, smses, pings, chat posts etc etc. Everyone coming together to pour in ideas and solutions. Majority of them have suggested to open a public funding and produce the film with the…