The Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE ( Read more... )

 Dear friends,

This is to invite your organisation to participate in a Public Workshop on ‘People’s Perspectives on Urban Governance and Planning’ on Saturday,5th September, 2009 in Bangalore. It will be held at the Instituion of Engineers(opp. Indian Express Office), between 9.30am and 4.30pm.

Bangalore has had a host of urban governance problems ( Read more... )

Hi All,

The protests opposing the current plans of the Bangalore Metro in the southern reach have been well publicized in the mainstream media. As a result, they have elicited statements from politicians across party lines supporting  the suggestion that the design and alignment of the metro be re-examined before further work is taken up. ( Read more... )

 Congress is against dynastic politics!! (as reported on CNN-IBN on Apr 13)

In our battle against climate change , its stories like these which will help us :-) . Read on. And if at all you did'nt get the link between climate change and this story, please do drop a comment and i'll be glad to explain ( Read more... )

India is set to have general elections for its national parliament in the next 2 months. In this context  some of us (in the FOSS community in India) are running a campaign to have support for FOSS included in the election manifestos( a document which details out what the parties will deliver if voted to power) of various political parties.

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..Now, Thane has announced an ambitious plan to have a cycle track. The lobbies of truckers and personal vehicles are quite clearly up in arms. Their resistance to the cycle track should be seen in the context of what has happened in the town of Fazilka in ( Read more... )

Yeddyurappa promised last week that his son wont be given a ticket and now he's gone back on his word. They've also given tickets to sriramulu's son, umesh kattis brother etc. The left and the BJP , the only 2 cadre based parties had so far rejected dynastic politics. Now the BJP has succumbed under Yeddyurappa.  That leaves just the left parties ( Read more... )

this strip is really amazing... exactly what's happening with most corporates

clairvoyant C&H strip from over 15 years ago that talks about economy

- link courtesy, sibin mohan

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