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The Joy of Giving Week is a national movement that hopes to engage every Indian in "acts of giving" - money, time, skills, resources or love. To be celebrated every year for a week including Oct 2, the week aspires to become a "festival" of giving that unifies India across its classes, castes, socio-economic strata and the urban/rural divide. This year the week is celebrated from Oct 2nd to Oct 8th, 2011. As part of one of the programmes conceived for this year, there will be fund raising dinner with a musical concert by singer M D Pallavi at the…

In an unprecedented decision on September 12th, the Principal Division Bench of the Hon'ble High Court of Karnataka constituted by Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice H G Ramesh directed the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to stop construction of the controversial link road (approximately 4 kms. long) through the biodiversity rich, ecologically sensitive and verdant forest campus of the Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra - University of Agricultural Sciences, in north Bangalore. Citizen resentment peaked in 2009 before the battle spilled over into the courts. Citizens protesting outside GKVK campus on Bellary Road in 2009. File pic: Save GKVK…

The Winds of Change Civic Club, VET school, J P Nagar, Bangalore, celebrated Pourakarmika day on September 5th, 2011. The children collected money by selling newspapers, and used that funds bought some snacks to distribute to the pourakarmikas. Students interacting with pourakarmikas. Pic Courtesy: CMCA Students took permission from the ward office, and gathered near the ward office at the time when the pourakarmikas gather after their morning shift. The children greeted them with a 'card' (poster made on chart paper), said thanks for their services, and distributed the snack-packets. The pourakarmikas thanked the children, and expressed their difficulties in…

The Bangalore University presented "World of Books 2011", an international book festival, which was held from the 2nd to 11th September, at Tripuravasini, Palace Grounds, Bangalore. The book festival played host to many leading bookstores including Oxford Bookstore, Hachette and others. The 10-day book festival saw thousands of people flocking in to take a look at the lakhs of books that were on display. For many of the booklovers, this festival has been a season of celebration. "I visit the book festival every year with my daughter," says Geeta, a bank employee, "my daughter is crazy about books and this festival is a…

The boys’ and girls’ teams of Sports School, Kudige emerged victors at the Rotary Indirangar inter-school hockey tournament as it drew to a close on 3rd September. The final matches were held at the Karnataka State Hockey Stadium (KSHA) in Langford Town. It was the 21st edition of the ‘G.S.Randhawa Memorial Inter School Boys Hockey Tournament’, and the maiden edition of the ‘Bangalore Bothi Reddy Cup Inter School Girls Hockey Tournament’. The Kudige boys’ team beat Rashtriya Military School and the girls’ team beat Bishop Cotton ‘A’ in the finals to clinch the title. Jyothi from Kudige and Vivek Kumar…

Uma Devi and I H Manudev won the maiden six-red snooker state-ranking tournament organized by Karnataka State Billiards Association (KSBA). The men and women's finals were played at the KSBA hall near Vasanthanagar on 31st and 30th August respectively. Ajay Bhushan and M S Arun will be the State entries in the forthcoming Nationals at Chandigarh from 17 to 25th September 2011. Manudev and Balaji Reddy get direct entry. Uma Devi and Chitra M will represent women at the National tourney. Uma overcame an ailing Chitra who was suffering from stiff neck pains and spasm. Chitra lost three frames to…

The Karnataka State billiards Association (KSBA), on 6th September, felicitated National Billiards & Snooker Championship winners and achievers in the recently concluded Nationals, which were held at Chennai. The event was held at KSBA hall near Vasanth Nagar. The following players were felicitated at the event. Varsha Sanjeev, 15, a ninth standard student at Sophia High School, received a cash award of Rs 30,000. She is the first triple title winner from Karnataka. She won the Sub Junior Billiards, Sub Jr Snooker, Junior Billiards. Uma Devi Nagaraj 46, received a cash award of Rs 20,000. She has been Billiards State…

When the BBMP budget was passed on Saturday, September 3rd, 171 corporators had got additional grants for ward works. While the allocation was Rs 1-4 crore for most wards, the highest allocation was for Mayor Sharadamma's ward Shettihalli (ward number 12). Mayor's ward received Rs 15 cr.The second highest allocation was Rs 8 cr, for Deputy Mayor S Harish's ward Nagapura (67). Rs 5 cr were allocated to Shanthinagar (117) and BTM layout (176), both of which are represented by Congress.The additional ward grants have taken the budget outlay from the earlier Rs 9196 cr to Rs 9380 cr. This…

In his latest notes on Bangalore Traffic Police's (BTP) Facebook page, Praveen Sood, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) discussed problem areas, which are known to cause commuter issues. A snapshot of the note posted by Praveen Sood. Credit :BTP Facebook page. Titled, ‘K R Puram problem', in the note posted on 22nd August, Sood said that hundreds had posted on the page about the narrowing of the road under KR Puram hanging bridge while going from Hebbal towards Marathahalli, causing bottlenecks. He said that the solution to the issue was not easy as the adjacent lane to the road belonged…

The students of MES College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Malleshwaram, led a very spirited march called the ‘ECO-Ganesha awareness campaign' on Sunday August 28th around the Malleshwaram to raise awareness about the pollution problems associated with immersion of painted Ganeshas made from plaster of paris. Marching for a cause. Pic: Suja Sukumaran They set out into the streets with banners, posters, pamphlets and a street play bound to entertain and educate the public regarding the merits of using clay Ganesha idols instead of painted ones. Every year hundreds of Ganeshas are immersed in the lakes all over Bangalore. Along…