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The Vision to Grow Together

2011-12-25T17:31:00.002+05:30

Wonder whats on the micro minds of these little ones. Secure and joyful as their mum is around or aware of the fact that they have escaped being on someone's platter in the from of spicy omlet. Or may be in future chances are there for them to be displayed with a coat of Indian Masalas after which the world would would give them a name royal name of 'Shahi Tandoori Murgh'. to be contd..

2011-02-20T01:52:00.002+05:30

Lovely bow by Sarang at the Aero India 2011

A Bangalore in Scotland and China

2008-07-02T16:26:00.002+05:30

London: IT’s inspiring. Brand Bangalore is what everyone wants to emulate. They are even planning to create a Bangalore in their country! This seems to be the case in faraway Scotland and neighbouring China as well. A top legal expert on outsourcing is in the process of setting up a think tank that will seek to replicate the Bangalore model of information technology activity in Scotland to attract global business.
Called ‘Scottish Bangalore’, expert Andrew Rigby believes that Scotland could build on its existing strengths in call centres and financial services, and replicate Bangalore’s prosperity based on outsourcing by global companies.
Rigby is in the process of bringing together Scottish government officials, economic development and inward investment agency executives and leading business figures to bring a coordinated approach to the enterprise.
“Leaders across the political spectrum have been supportive of his moves,” he told The Herald. Rigby believes that while Scotland is recognised as a significant player in the call centre industry, it must move up the value chain and become a major player in the global “business process outsourcing” and even more sophisticated “knowledge process outsourcing” arenas.
As for China, inspired by the success of Bangalore on the information technology front, Dalian city in north-east China has set for itself an ambitious target of becoming world’s top IT centre within a decade and stand in the same league as India’s ‘Silicon Valley’. Dalian has already attracted a large number of international and local corporations to set up regional bases for IT. AGENCIES

Discovering South India

2008-06-15T13:16:00.002+05:30

South India comprises of the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. South India lies in the peninsular Deccan Plateau and is bound by the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal in the west, south and east respectively. The geography of the region is diverse, encompassing two mountain ranges - the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats and a plateau heartland.

Bengaluru, being able to be reached from almost across the world with a just single stop, connecting to South India could never be better than from Bengaluru.

This section provides you detailed insights into each of the states and various travel and holiday options for the discerning traveller.

This is BANGALORE for you

2008-06-14T22:00:00.003+05:30

* Bangalore has the impeccable record of highest growh within a span of 20 years [as of 2005]
* Bangalore has the highest number of 2-wheelers in the world.
* Bangalore has the dubious reputation for the highest 2-wheeler thefts.
* Bangalore has the highest number of pubs in India.
* Bangalore has the highest number of breweries in the world.
* Bangalore has the highest number of public sectors and government organisations in India.
* Bangalore has the highest density of traffic in the world.
* Bangalore is considered the fashion capital of the East comparable to Paris.
* Bangalore has the highest number of Anglo-Indians in India.
* Bangalore was the first city in India to receive electricity.
* Bangalore is considered an antipode of Boston, in terms of IT.
* Bangalore has produced the highest number of professionals in USA - almost 60% of Indian population abroad are from Bangalore.
* Bangalore's Lalbagh botanical gardens is credited to have one of the most diverse man made collection of flora.
* Bangalore has produced the maximum number of models from a specific area.
* Bangalore has produced the maximum international sportsmen in India for all sports ahead of even Mumbai & Delhi.
* Bangalore has produced the maximum number of scientists considered for Nobel Prize nominations (from India).
* Bangalore is the only city in India with maximum number of temples, mosques, churches & gurdwaras.
* Bangalore University produces maximum number of doctors in India.
* Bangalore has the richest people in India. The line of poverty is the least of all cities of the world.
* Bangalore was founded in 2nd Century and still has the same infrastructure drainage & sanitary systems - the oldest in the world.

BANGALORE FACTS AND FIGURES

2008-06-14T20:25:00.003+05:30

Every bangalore lover must know about it...
Area :484 square kilometers
Altitude :3000 ft. above sea level
Geographical Location:
Latitudinal Parallels: 12 degree 8' N
Longitudinal Meridians: 77 degree 37' E
Climate: March to May (warmest months)
December to January (coldest months)
June to September (rainy - South-West Monsoon)
November to December (rainy - North-East Monsoon)
Rainfall: Average annual rainfall: 859 mm
Primary rainy season: June - September (South-West Monsoon)
Secondary rainy season: November - December (North-East Monsoon)
Temperature: Maximum: 33 degree C
Minimum: 14 degree C
Language:
Regional Language: Kannada, English, Hindi,Urdu, Telugu and Tamil are widely spoken and understood
Population: Around 7.2 million (In 1871 it was 148,760) which is about 10,710 people per sq km.
The child population between the age group of 0 to 6 in Bangalore is 456,000. Sex ratio among literates has increased from 679 in 1971 to 821 in 2001.
Literacy: 85.74%
Lakes in Bangalore Sankey Lake, Ulsoor Lake and Yediyur
Flowering Trees of Bangalore
Jacaranda, Gulmohar or Mayflower, Parijatha, Moulmein Rosewood, Hibiscus, Tabebuia, Silk Cotton and Indian Coral.
Public Transport Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation
Private Taxi Service See useful phone numbers
Peak Pollution Levels SO2: 8 Microgram/Metre Cube
SPM: 362 Microgram/Metre Cube

* Sulphur Dioxide
* Suspended Particulate Matter
Source: Karnataka Pollution Control Board

GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES

2008-06-14T15:47:00.001+05:30

Acouple of years ago, it was unimaginable that there’d ever be traffic jams in the Frazer Town area. It’s a very different scene now. With the ITC railway bridge being closed for the construction of the flyover over it, the traffic police have had to reroute traffic — the Mosque Road bridge is a one-way out of Richards Town and the Frazer Town police station underpass is a one-way into it, while the Tannery Road underpass remains twoway. But that seems to have caused bigger problems.
Jammed
Anyone who wants to cross the tracks to get to Pottery Road has only two options: the Mosque Road bridge and the Tannery Road underpass. “I need to get to Hutchins Road and I always used to take bridge and that never took more than five minutes,” says content writer Mithali Ghosh, “but now I get stuck in a jam on Mosque Road for as long as twenty minutes.” The pileup starts from the circle and can go all the way up to Bethesda Church. This also poses a problem for motorists going towards Coles Road because the other side of the road is blocked with vehicles going the other way.
And it’s not just Mosque Road; even MM road on either side of the circle is congested. “People are stuck as far down as Everest Theatre. And in order to avoid being stuck on Mosque Road, people take a detour from Coles Road on to Stephen’s Road and come on to MM Road. This just adds to the confusion,” says Mohammed Farooq, owner of a restaurant on Mosque Road. “In fact, the smaller roads that used to be so empty and quiet are now like main roads.”
No way out
Since the smaller roads are also jammed, motorists have no choice but to cool their heels in traffic. “I once had cross the bridge to drop a friend home,” recalls student Jason Vaz, “and when we saw the traffic from the top of Coles Road, we decided to take a left off Mosque Road on to Robertson Road and get to the Tannery Road underpass. But even that road was blocked as far down as GK Vale, so we turned, got back to Mosque Road and she walked back. It was only 8 pm, so it wasn’t unsafe.”
But what happens in the case of an emergency? “You can’t do anything,” says Farooq, “One evening we saw a woman in labour stuck in an auto. We got her out of it and got someone to take a roundabout route to get her to a clinic. There are days when we see ambulances in stuck in jams too.”
There are other dangers on the narrow bridge, adds Mithali. “There’s a smaller road that leads straight on to the bridge and now people are using it to avoid the pile-up at the circle. That’s dangerous because you’re suddenly faced with more vehicles on the bridge, which is too narrow to take so many vehicles,” she says.
What meter?
“Living on the wrong side of the tracks is given a new meaning when you ask auto drivers to take you to Cooke Town, Richards Town or beyond,” says Richards Town resident Ambika Singh. “They never liked crossing the tracks in the evenings and almost always asked for extra fare, but now with the traffic situation on Mosque Road, they don’t even want to come there because they’ll have a problem getting out of it.”
Like Jason says, it’s just easier and faster to walk. “Now that there’s more traffic in the area, using the walkway over the bridge isn’t that creepy anymore,” says student Radhika Bhat.
WHAT ARE THE COPS DOING?
Before the bridge and underpass were made one-ways, there was hardly any need for cops to direct traffic. However, now there are as many as three traffic policemen at the Mosque Road circle. One cop, under condition of anonymity, says, “It’s difficult to direct traffic in this area because of the increased flow.”

Traffic piled up at the Mosque Road circle

Flight of jobs to Bangalore can’t be stopped: Obama

2008-06-11T14:52:00.002+05:30

Chidanand Rajghatta | TNN
Washington: Conceding that migration of American jobs to Bangalore and Beijing due of globalization cannot be reversed, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama laid out his economic vision for the United States on Monday, calling for a more active government role in aiding the distressed.
“I understand that the challenges facing our economy didn’t start the day George Bush took office and they won’t end the day he leaves. Some are partly the result of forces that have globalized our economy over the last several decades — revolutions in communication and technology have sent jobs wherever there’s an internet connection; that have forced children in Raleigh and Boston to compete for those jobs with children in Bangalore and Beijing.
Although it is the second time in less than a month that Obama has referred to Bangalore and Beijing, the citation has been more in a competitive spirit aimed at galvanizing the US rather than the scaremongering about outsourcing that accompanied the 2004 presidential election campaign.
At a college commencement address in Connecticut last month, Obama had urged greater focus on education, telling a graduating class that “At a time when a child in Boston must compete with children in Beijing and Bangalore, we need an army of you to become teachers and principals in schools that this nation cannot afford to give up on.

Carry on Bangalore

2008-06-10T21:57:00.003+05:30

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

City still tops IT/BPO charts

Bangalore: Bangalore remains India’s undisputed No.1 IT-BPO destination. But within Karnataka, Mangalore is seen to be emerging as a strong alternative. Mysore and Hubli-Dharwad are also found to be attractive locations.
A study done jointly by industry body Nasscom and research firm A T Kearney places these four cities from the state among 50 leading cities from around the country that are attractive or emerging destinations for IT-BPO services.
Mangalore finds its place among 15 cities seen as challengers to the ‘leaders’ that include Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, National Capital Region and Pune. It has been found to have a good knowledge pool, with close to 3,000 engineers graduating every year in the city. Social infrastructure like education and healthcare and its 37% cost advantage over cities like Bangalore are seen to be other advantages.

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YOU ARE AN INDIAN IF...................................

2008-06-01T16:34:00.000+05:30

hi people..

you shall go mad reading this ....its so true! i was in splits...

You are Indian if...

1. Everything you eat is savored In garlic, onion and
tomatoes.

2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of
course aluminum foil.

3. You try to eject food particles from between your
teeth by pressing your tongue against them and making a
peculiar noise like, tshick, tshick, tschick, tschick.

4. You are standing next to the two largest size
suitcases at the Airport.

5. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and
think its normal.

6. You peel the stamps off letters that the Post Service missed to
mark up.

7. You recycle Wedding Gifts.

8. You name your children in rhymes (example, Honey &
Money, Sita & Gita, Ram & Shyam.)

9. All your children have pet names, which sound
nowhere close to their real names.

10. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says "No Food
Allowed"

11. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving
someone's house.

12. You load up the family car with as many people as
possible.

13. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house
whether it's the remote control, VCR, carpet or new
couch.

14. Your parents tell you to not care what your friends
think but they won't let you do certain things because
of what the other "Uncles And Aunties" will think.

15. You buy and display crockery, which is for special
occasions, which never happen.

16. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.

17. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.

18. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many
numbers of bowls as possible.

19. Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars, varieties
of bowls and plastic utensils (got free with some
household items).

20. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you
travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15
minutes).

21. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.

22. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.

23. You majored in engineering, medicine or law and
now........are after Software and only Software no
matter which field you belong to.

24. You live with your parents and you are 40 years
old. (And they prefer it that way).

25. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.

26. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you
didn't pay tax.

27. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.

28. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least
to see you off or receive you whether you are travelling
by bus, train or plane.

30. You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.

31. If you don't live at home, when your parents call,
they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.

32. You call an older person you never met before
"uncle."

33. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few
minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant
cousin.

34. Your parents don't realise phone connections to
foreign countries have improved in the last two decades,
and still scream at the top of their lungs when making
foreign calls.

35. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep
them away from getting dirty.

36. When dining out, you think Rs 10 is enough of a
tip.

37. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600
people.

38. You list your daughter as "fair and slim" in the
matrimonial no matter what she looks like.

39. You treat the NRI persons (especially from America)
as if they are the only persons living in this world
(including YOU).

40. You've seen the ground while inside the lavatory of
a train.

41. All your tupperware is stained with food color.

42. You have drinking glasses made of steel.

43. You have mastered the art of bargaining in
shopping.

44. You have really enjoyed reading this mail.