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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…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 4 pm on February 25th, Saturday, in the following areas under 66/11KV Attur Yelahanka MUSS for quarterly maintenance and other works.Affected areas: Attur, Vidyaranyapura, MS Palya, KMF, Yelhanka New Town, Yelhanka Old Town, Maruthi Nagar, Chikka Bommasandra, L&T Industrial Area, NCBS, Kattigenahalli, Dwaraka Nagara, BEL Layout, Mother Dairy, Kogilu, Matharu Layout, Judical Layout, IAS Layout, Chikkabettahalli, Doddabettahalli, Allalasandra, IAF, GKVK, Venkatala, and surroundings. ⊕

Apartment Complexes broadly face two major issues when it comes to Water Management. One, sustainable water supply to individual flats - entirely driven by borewells or tankers. And two, cost effective waste water treatment - under-capacity Sewage treatment plants and unclear regulations of Pollution Control Board stress out the Management Committee. Where do you get your water from? How many tankers does your apartment complex have to buy everyday? Fill this Water Survey! The survey results and learnings will be discussed in a session during the water workshop. On 25th February, ApartmentAdda is organising a Water Workshop for apartment communities…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 2 pm on February 25th, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV Banashankari MUSS, 66/11KV Devarabisanahalli MUSS and 66/11KV Hoody MUSS because of quarterly maintenance and other works. 1) Affected areas under 66/11KV Banashankari MUSS: Srinagara, all phases of Girinagar, Avalahally, Basawanagudi, Channamanakere Achukattu, Bank Colony, Srinivasa Nagar, Kalidasa Layout, Nagendra Block, Muneshwara Block, Raghava Nagar, Banashankari 1st, 2nd and 3rd Stage, parts of Shankarapuram Tyagaraja Nagar, part of Bull Temple Road, Kempegowda Nagar, Shankara Mutt Road, part of Rangarao Road, Lakshmipura, Brindavannagar, Dhobhighat, Vidyapeeta, Mahanta Layout, New Timber Yard Layout, Hoskerehalli Road,…

Army Green won the 15th Field Marshall K M Cariappa Memorial Hockey Tournament on February 19th. The team beat MEG'A' by 4-0. For Army Green, the goals were scored by Roam, Hemlet, Gabriel and Binoy at the 20th, 31st, 35th and 57th minutes respectively.⊕