The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind met in Hyderabad a few days ago and passed a resolution condemning terrorism. what is more interesting was their call for a new muslim party.

Now on the face of it, people may object to one more religion based party..but i think that before people quickly rush out to condemn it, we should examine the issue in a little more ( Read more... )

Hey all.

Wanted to share about a protest walk we're having this sunday, which aims to save arnd 30,000 bangalore trees marked for destruction.

The BBMP is working on a road-widening project that aims to widen 80 prominent roads of Bangalore, to reduce the traffic problems. This road widening involves cutting of 30,000 trees and damage to many houses ( Read more... )

have any of you guys heard of/or used Metadot Portal server?

Hi All,

Software patents have always been very contentious. The patents act 2005 clearly did not allow software patents. However the government has brought out a draft Patents Manual, which might sort of give software patents a backdoor entry.

The Patent Office has been having a series of stakeholder meetings related to the Patent Manual, in which ( Read more... )

After selling away the Garuda Mall land and the Divyasree chambers land for throw-away rates, the BBMP now wants to gift away more of our land to private developers.

Read the article in the Indian Express for more details (link pasted below)

www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx

You can now order various kinds of FLOSS and most flavors of GNU/Linux and have them delivered at your door step at a
very very nominal cost -

check this page:
http://www.zyxware.com/requestcd

they will be charging you for the media and for shipping and handling expenses. (CD-Rs.15, DVD-Rs.25, S&H-Rs.35)

am planning to go to this improv play , well its supposed to be part scripted part improv - first half is scripted then they take audience inputs. its on friday night at 7.30pm,at Ranga Shankara. if any of you want to join, pls ping me.

Details

I dont know how good these guys are but these guys are one of the few guys who do improv in bangalore(other ( Read more... )

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If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

Hi All,

We need some freelance Joomla developers and UI designers to design a intra-office portal and another site.
If any of you know any Banaglore based developers and/or designers , please mail me at vinay.sreenivasa@yahoo.com or pls call at
98805 95032.

Thanks all!
Vinay.