Posted on March 29, 2008 by silkboard
It was just over an year ago when BBMP talked about the project – about 250 km of roads over Bangalore’s storm water drains. Local papers, when covering BBMP budget today, are saying that this project is now funded. Here is a quote from TOI:
“Here’s what people can see within one year: Bangalore will see [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2008 by silkboard
Oh my god! I thought these guys were sportsmen. But for Mr Hayden, it clearly is more than that. Here is his answer to “Away from the field, how were the Indians?” question (full intvw here):
They were reasonably pleasant. At the end of the day, two alpha dogs are never going to sit in a [...]
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Posted on March 15, 2008 by silkboard
Some newspaper reports (Hindu, ToI) this week mentioned that:
… water supply to Bangalore is … 694 million litres a day … consumption which is actually billed … around 429 million litres a day. The unaccounted for water comes to an alarming 38.2 per cent
Wow, 38.2 percent (quoted from Hindu)! This would include two types of [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2008 by silkboard
They spotted Bhajji eating bananas, and thus started the latest round of monkey gesture allegations. From now on, a program director from Animal Planet channel will accompany media-men as they keep watch on Bhajji, his habits and gestures. Bihar will boycott all movies made in Bollywood, and Raj Thackrey, in turn, will force Mumbai-wallahs to [...]
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Posted on March 6, 2008 by silkboard
… after a rather long break. No, this is not S M Krishna writing, its silkboard :)
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