Showing posts with label Bangalore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangalore. Show all posts
Friday, September 12, 2008
Onam : Many shops in Bangalore closed
Due to Onam, Many shops especially in residential areas like Jayanagar were closed. This caused extreme hardship to Baangaloreans.
IMD has no signs of Mild quake tremors in Bangalore : September 12
| TREMORS IN B'LORE ??? However IMD has not issued any reports towards this Bangalore, Sept. 12 (MRS& KMS)- People ran out of their houses here this morning in panic as they experienced mild tremors. It soon became talk of the town as the people started sharing their experiences with their friends and relatives in other localities. Residents of H.S.R. Layout, Kengeri, J.P. Nagar and Nagarabhavi, HMT Colony, Vijayanagar, KHB Colony, Sunkadakatte, White Field and Utharahalli said that they felt the tremors for about 30 seconds from 8.46 am. Many housewives said that utensils tumbled in kitchen and window panes rattled causing panic. Many Bangaloreans told mediapersons that they heard explosion-like sound before the tremors. "I felt like a speeding heavy vehicle passing through the road opposite our house," a housewife said. Manjula, a housewife of H.M.T. Layout, said that she came out running when she heard a loud thud and she felt as if some one was pushing the door. There are, however, more versions about the incident. Some say that the sound could be the result of explosion being carried out for some construction activity. This is not a new experience for Bangaloreans. They had experienced tremors when there was a devastating earthquake in Khillavi in Maharashtra about a decade ago. An official of Mines and Geology Department said that he too was receiving numerous calls. "We are in touch with the Seismology Centre in Gowribidanur where experts will analyse and estimate the magnitude of the tremor," he added. P.S. Prakash of National Natural Disaster Control Cell said that he had passed on the information to Delhi and was awaiting a reply. |
Thursday, September 11, 2008
BMTC , the only Profitable urban state transport undertaking launches Volvo campaign
BMTC posts Rs. 140 cr profit
Anil Kumar Sastry| Rs. 200 crore spent on acquiring buses and constructing depots |
BANGALORE: Despite a steep increase in the cost of inputs and a marginal reduction in the average load factor, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) was able to post a profit of Rs. 140 crore in 2007-08, down from Rs. 224 crore in 2006-07.
Hop onto a Volvo and pay just Re. 1
Special Correspondent| The offer, to attract new travellers, is for four days from today |
KSRTC to construct a 46-storeyed bus station
at Majestic
It is to have traffic integration facility with KSRTC, BMTC, Railways and Namma Metro
Spit and polish: The new buses of the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation that were introduced in Bangalore on Wednesday.
BANGALORE: Even as the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) inducted 50 Vajra (Volvo) buses to augment its fleet of air-conditioned coaches on Wednesday, it has made a promotional offer to Bangaloreans, albeit limited to four days from Thursday, to travel by a Vajra coach to any destination for Re. 1 only.
One can hop onto a Vajra coach (barring Vayu Vajras, which ply to and from the international airport) and travel to any destination just by paying Re. 1. The usual fares on these buses range from Rs. 10 to Rs. 55. The move has been described as yet another effort to decongest Bangalore roads.
Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and Transport Minister R. Ashok, who flagged off 50 Vajras and 50 Suvarna coaches in front of the Vidhana Soudha, said that the BMTC planned to familiarise this state-of-the-art intra-city travel facility to non-users of Vajra coaches. “Though many Bangaloreans are keen to travel in air-conditioned comfort, they are wary of getting into a Vajra bus for various reasons. Hence this decision,” said the Minister. BMTC has been operating Volvo buses in the city since January 2006.
Mr. Ashok said the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation would construct a 46-storyed bus station, the largest in Asia, at Majestic in the city. The estimated cost of the project was Rs. 1,000 crore and global tenders would be called to build it in two years. During the construction period, BMTC buses would operate from the Shantinagar and Mysore Road bus terminals. The proposed bus station would have traffic integration facility with KSRTC, BMTC, Railways and Namma Metro, the Minister said.
ConnectivityLater in the day, at another programme at Banashankari to lay the foundation stone for five travel and transit management centres (TTMC’s), Mr. Yeddyurappa said the Government was committed to providing air connectivity to all district headquarters in two years. “An efficient and sufficient public transport facility has been the backbone of the economy and my Government is committed to provide it to all places in the State,” Mr. Yeddyurappa said. On the occasion, the Chief Minister launched 25 per cent travel concession for senior citizens in State transport corporation buses by symbolically handing over tickets to six senior citizens.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Ashok said his department would ruthlessly curb clandestine operations of maxi-cabs and other private vehicles, which have been operating without permit.
The TTMCs will come up at Koramangala, Shantinagar, Banashankari, ITPL and Yeshwanthpur under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. Mr. Yeddyurappa said that there should be no compromise on the quality of construction and warned of blacklisting contractors if they indulged in substandard construction.
Medical Education Minister Ramachandra Gowda; Bangalore South MP H.N. Ananth Kumar; MLAs B.N. Vijaya Kumar, Ravi Subramanya, M. Krishnappa, M. Srinivas and Ashwathanarayan; Principal Secretary (Home and Transport) Upendra Tripathy; Transport Commissioner Bhaskar Rao; BMTC Managing Director Syed Zameer Pasha and others were present.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Booming Bangalore marvellous
Bangalore's rush to the future has hit a pothole or two, writes Bruno Maddox.
'And on the weekends, what does he do, the British adult man? Where does he go? Anybody? Anybody?" I should know this one, being an adult British man myself. On weekends I generally like to ... unwind? I don't know, actually. It's a good question.
"He goes up to ..? Anybody? The British man, he goes up to ... to Scotland!"
Ram, our friendly instructor, knocks on the screen of a filthy old Compaq desktop where flickers, dimly, a map of the British Isles. They seem very far away, all of a sudden, the British Isles, and in part that's because they are.
I have for three days been prowling the rock strewn, red-mud pavements of Bangalore and now find myself in a telephone call-centre with curling carpets just to the south and the west of that Indian city's centre.
Myself and 12 of the young call-centre operatives of tomorrow are learning the fine points of Anglo-American culture so that, later on during our working lives, we can more easily relate to the faceless Westerners who we'll be reminding to pay their credit card bills.
Frankly, though, it was news to me that 80 per cent of British insurance claims result directly from soccer hooliganism. I also don't see how it could have escaped my attention that many Westerners use the same fork and spoon from childhood to death. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, necessarily. Just that it doesn't ring a bell.
"And why?" Ram continues, cocking his head and touching his chin in a gesture of quizzicality not much seen since the days of the Elizabethan stage. "Anybody? Why does he go up to Scotland on the weekend, the British adult man? He goes to Scotland on the weekend ... for the wines!"
Ram shoots me a wink and caresses his belly in a circular motion. "Mmmmm! Very delicious. Some of the finest wines in the world, they are coming from Scotland."
This is, of course, not actually the case. But there is a larger point: nearly a decade after the south Indian city of Bangalore was anointed as the symbol of globalisation and outsourcing, a gleaming beacon pointing the way to a future of frictionless capitalism, its light still flickers like the screen on Ram's beloved Compaq.
The city remains a work in progress, one that reveals the future's perennial fondness for giving the impression it's just about to arrive ... and then getting called away on other business.
A good place to watch the work progress is from the rooftop patio of Bangalore's superb Ebony restaurant. My hotel, the Ivory Tower, is just across the way and I've been starting my mornings with the traditional south Indian breakfast of idli and dosas and very strong coffee, gazing out over the chaos of Asia's fastest-growing city while being stared at by a team of six waiters who descend en masse anytime I even vaguely look like I might want something.
The view over Bangalore is impressive. Most mornings there are two or three separate buildings burning down in different parts of the city and, as if in response, the gleaming stumps of three or four new glass-and-steel skyscrapers that you don't remember seeing yesterday. The energy is palpable, but it isn't what it was.
Around the turn of the millennium, at the height of the city's high-tech boom, there was so much money and so many people flowing into Bangalore it felt like a city being built in a day. To anyone chancing to pass through (as I did myself in 2002) the pace was pretty close to unmanageable.
The potholed roads were crammed with traffic - mainly helmetless men on scooters, as I recall, balancing computer monitors on their heads - but it didn't seem to slow anyone down. In every vacant lot there seemed to be an office building growing at visible speed. I remember the sign outside one of them: MicroHard. It was that kind of heady atmosphere, when even a terrible pun seemed reason enough to throw up a skyscraper.
Returning to the city today, however, I find it hardly recognisable. The roads are still jammed with cars and scooters but the speed of the traffic - indeed of life in the city - has slowed considerably. Before the boom Bangalore was known as India's "garden city", a tag that seemed destined to join Greenland in the ranks of ironically inappropriate place names.
Nowadays the foliage seems to be reasserting itself - though I trust the splendid, colonial-era botanical gardens were never under threat - and the general mood of the place has mellowed from frantic pioneer hysteria into a sort of chic self-confidence.
There are shopping centres now, and suburbs. There are nightclubs and restaurants and bars. There is even, in the rubbled moonscape of the slum two blocks from my hotel, a wooden shack with a roof made of sari material and plastic bags whose hand-lettered awning proudly reads: laser eye surgery.
Bangalore, it should be said, has been wealthy before - or rather it has been home to wealthy people before, who left behind pockets of old-world colonial luxury to be colonised again by India's new "nouveaux riches"
'And on the weekends, what does he do, the British adult man? Where does he go? Anybody? Anybody?" I should know this one, being an adult British man myself. On weekends I generally like to ... unwind? I don't know, actually. It's a good question.
"He goes up to ..? Anybody? The British man, he goes up to ... to Scotland!"
Ram, our friendly instructor, knocks on the screen of a filthy old Compaq desktop where flickers, dimly, a map of the British Isles. They seem very far away, all of a sudden, the British Isles, and in part that's because they are.
I have for three days been prowling the rock strewn, red-mud pavements of Bangalore and now find myself in a telephone call-centre with curling carpets just to the south and the west of that Indian city's centre.
Myself and 12 of the young call-centre operatives of tomorrow are learning the fine points of Anglo-American culture so that, later on during our working lives, we can more easily relate to the faceless Westerners who we'll be reminding to pay their credit card bills.
Frankly, though, it was news to me that 80 per cent of British insurance claims result directly from soccer hooliganism. I also don't see how it could have escaped my attention that many Westerners use the same fork and spoon from childhood to death. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, necessarily. Just that it doesn't ring a bell.
"And why?" Ram continues, cocking his head and touching his chin in a gesture of quizzicality not much seen since the days of the Elizabethan stage. "Anybody? Why does he go up to Scotland on the weekend, the British adult man? He goes to Scotland on the weekend ... for the wines!"
Ram shoots me a wink and caresses his belly in a circular motion. "Mmmmm! Very delicious. Some of the finest wines in the world, they are coming from Scotland."
This is, of course, not actually the case. But there is a larger point: nearly a decade after the south Indian city of Bangalore was anointed as the symbol of globalisation and outsourcing, a gleaming beacon pointing the way to a future of frictionless capitalism, its light still flickers like the screen on Ram's beloved Compaq.
The city remains a work in progress, one that reveals the future's perennial fondness for giving the impression it's just about to arrive ... and then getting called away on other business.
A good place to watch the work progress is from the rooftop patio of Bangalore's superb Ebony restaurant. My hotel, the Ivory Tower, is just across the way and I've been starting my mornings with the traditional south Indian breakfast of idli and dosas and very strong coffee, gazing out over the chaos of Asia's fastest-growing city while being stared at by a team of six waiters who descend en masse anytime I even vaguely look like I might want something.
The view over Bangalore is impressive. Most mornings there are two or three separate buildings burning down in different parts of the city and, as if in response, the gleaming stumps of three or four new glass-and-steel skyscrapers that you don't remember seeing yesterday. The energy is palpable, but it isn't what it was.
Around the turn of the millennium, at the height of the city's high-tech boom, there was so much money and so many people flowing into Bangalore it felt like a city being built in a day. To anyone chancing to pass through (as I did myself in 2002) the pace was pretty close to unmanageable.
The potholed roads were crammed with traffic - mainly helmetless men on scooters, as I recall, balancing computer monitors on their heads - but it didn't seem to slow anyone down. In every vacant lot there seemed to be an office building growing at visible speed. I remember the sign outside one of them: MicroHard. It was that kind of heady atmosphere, when even a terrible pun seemed reason enough to throw up a skyscraper.
Returning to the city today, however, I find it hardly recognisable. The roads are still jammed with cars and scooters but the speed of the traffic - indeed of life in the city - has slowed considerably. Before the boom Bangalore was known as India's "garden city", a tag that seemed destined to join Greenland in the ranks of ironically inappropriate place names.
Nowadays the foliage seems to be reasserting itself - though I trust the splendid, colonial-era botanical gardens were never under threat - and the general mood of the place has mellowed from frantic pioneer hysteria into a sort of chic self-confidence.
There are shopping centres now, and suburbs. There are nightclubs and restaurants and bars. There is even, in the rubbled moonscape of the slum two blocks from my hotel, a wooden shack with a roof made of sari material and plastic bags whose hand-lettered awning proudly reads: laser eye surgery.
Bangalore, it should be said, has been wealthy before - or rather it has been home to wealthy people before, who left behind pockets of old-world colonial luxury to be colonised again by India's new "nouveaux riches"
The Bangalore Club, established in 1868, boasts a 15-year waiting list for membership and the former patronage of Winston Churchill (who still owes the club some 15 rupees, according to a prominently displayed ledger of irrecoverable debts).
In terms of sheer opulence, though, Bangalore stands in awe - and in the shadow - of the mighty Palace of Mysore. It was only finished in 1912, having been commissioned in 1897 by Mysore's then queen regent, but in its tasteful hugeness and the epic whimsy of its pink marble domes it looks more like something out of Kubla Khan.
Returning to town, I pay a visit to the trendy Park hotel, where young Bangalore allegedly comes out to play. The Park is a towering masterpiece of Terence Conran modernist architecture, and - having arrived too early for the cocktail set - I spend some time inside with the serene figure of chef Abhijit Saha, a man who rises daily to the surreal challenge of running a world-class Italian restaurant in the cradle of modern India.
If that weren't difficult enough, Saha's restaurant is named 'I-t.alia (clearly the Bangalorean impulse to hang millions of dollars on a feeble attempt at wordplay hasn't dimmed very much since the go-go days of MicroHard).
Saha's predicament, in many ways, embodies Bangalore's new precarious stability - but if his minestrone with pancetta is anything to go by, the city has nothing to worry about. Rich and oily, this is a strapping young soup that revels in its surroundings, holds fast to its Italian heritage, but keeps the greenery to a minimum beneath a coiled plume of pancetta.
Invigorated, I ask Saha about his city. He shakes his head. "It is the roads," he says sadly. "The roads here in Bangalore, they are very bad."
I've been hearing this a lot.
Indeed it is this, the quintessentially prosaic issue of "infrastructure", that has slowed Bangalore's growth from meteoric to steady, and upon which may hang the city's future.
The roads are not just bad; they are very bad. But the state government - Bangalore is state capital of Karnataka - doesn't care terribly much. Or it does and it doesn't.
AT&T, Dell and Citibank may have moved whole departments of their companies to India, but those people don't get to vote. To most Karnatakans, the ones who elect people, this is still a rural state with an agricultural economy and fixing Bangalore's roads, understandably, is a relatively low priority to those who plough the clay with iron shares
What we have, here atop the dusty Deccan Plateau, is a city stuck not between past and present - many cities are stuck there - but between past and future.
And I would not have my Bangalore be any other way. Nor could I want a better and more colourful home for those disembodied voices that I know are now there for me, to help me in my hour of need, even if that hour is 3am. And I hope, as we trained telephone call-centre operatives are fond of saying, that I have been able to be helpful.
TRIP NOTES
Getting there
Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways fly from Sydney to Bangalore via their hubs.
Staying there
Hotel Ivory Tower doubles from $80. 84 Mahatma Gandhi Road. Phone + 2558 9333 or see http://www.hotelivorytower.com. The Park Bangalore, modern Indian boutique hotel. Doubles from $260. 14/7 Mahatma Gandhi Road. Phone + 2559 4666 or see http://www.theparkhotels.com. Villa Pottipati Neemrana Hotel, family-owned mansion with eight comfortable rooms and a charming garden. Doubles from $90. 142 Fourth Main, Eighth Cross, Malleswaram. Phone + 2336 0777 or see www.neemranahotels.com.
Each month The Sun-Herald Travel brings you an exclusive bonus extract from Travel + Leisure magazine. The September edition is the magazine's annual Asia issue and features stories on the emerging destination of Taipei, Asia's cutting-edge public spaces and a train journey to Lhasa on the world's highest railway. Today we bring you an extract of Travel + Leisure's feature on Bangalore, which asks whether this Indian city endures as the ultimate symbol of globalisation. Each month Travel + Leisure has the best travel photography and writing from around the world. The magazine's correspondents travel independently and do not accept free travel of any kind. See www.travelandleisure.com.au.
Bangalore is bursting with musical talent
Bangalore is bursting with musical talent, feels Leila Alvares who has entertained the city with several musicals over the past 11 years.
After Broadway hits like The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat and Grease, it's time for All Shook Up, a hilarious musical comedy inspired by songs of Elvis Presley.
With a cast of 35 people, Leila says the entire atmosphere is charged with positive energy. "Among the older members of my cast are Arvind Kasthuri and Prem Koshy. They are not only marvellous, but are great to work with. Among the youngsters too there's tremendous commitment. They are so good; all you need to do is fine-tune them. I don't like people with attitude and if someone doesn't gel with the rest, I just let them go," she says.
For a musical, the most important aspect is the art of choosing the right person for the right character. "For the main role, I opted for a shy person. He is a reasonably good singer and I noticed girls going crazy over him. Now, you find a t r a n s fo r m e d Neville De Nazareth playing the lead in All Shook Up," explains Leila.
And when it comes to the musicians, this director prefers to tread the tested path. "My drummer and lead guitarist have been with me from the start. I've been very fortunate with them, everything in my production is live and I don't go with a new person as far as the music goes unless I know for sure he can play. On the contrary, I experiment with the singing, dancing and acting," says the director.
Once inspired by the performance of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat in America, it is one musical after another for Leila. "Musicals interest me because you are reaching out to a much bigger audience and to those who are not able to sit through theatre," she says.
And which musical comes next? "I've finished with all the classics. After All Shook Up, there's Mama Mia based on the Abba song and Evita . I haven't got rights for both yet," says Leila.
(August 29 to September 1. Chowdaiah Memorial Hall, 7.15 pm.
Contact 25282602)
After Broadway hits like The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat and Grease, it's time for All Shook Up, a hilarious musical comedy inspired by songs of Elvis Presley.
With a cast of 35 people, Leila says the entire atmosphere is charged with positive energy. "Among the older members of my cast are Arvind Kasthuri and Prem Koshy. They are not only marvellous, but are great to work with. Among the youngsters too there's tremendous commitment. They are so good; all you need to do is fine-tune them. I don't like people with attitude and if someone doesn't gel with the rest, I just let them go," she says.
For a musical, the most important aspect is the art of choosing the right person for the right character. "For the main role, I opted for a shy person. He is a reasonably good singer and I noticed girls going crazy over him. Now, you find a t r a n s fo r m e d Neville De Nazareth playing the lead in All Shook Up," explains Leila.
And when it comes to the musicians, this director prefers to tread the tested path. "My drummer and lead guitarist have been with me from the start. I've been very fortunate with them, everything in my production is live and I don't go with a new person as far as the music goes unless I know for sure he can play. On the contrary, I experiment with the singing, dancing and acting," says the director.
Once inspired by the performance of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat in America, it is one musical after another for Leila. "Musicals interest me because you are reaching out to a much bigger audience and to those who are not able to sit through theatre," she says.
And which musical comes next? "I've finished with all the classics. After All Shook Up, there's Mama Mia based on the Abba song and Evita . I haven't got rights for both yet," says Leila.
(August 29 to September 1. Chowdaiah Memorial Hall, 7.15 pm.
Contact 25282602)
Bangalore is bursting with musical talent
Bangalore is bursting with musical talent, feels Leila Alvares who has entertained the city with several musicals over the past 11 years.
After Broadway hits like The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat and Grease, it's time for All Shook Up, a hilarious musical comedy inspired by songs of Elvis Presley.
With a cast of 35 people, Leila says the entire atmosphere is charged with positive energy. "Among the older members of my cast are Arvind Kasthuri and Prem Koshy. They are not only marvellous, but are great to work with. Among the youngsters too there's tremendous commitment. They are so good; all you need to do is fine-tune them. I don't like people with attitude and if someone doesn't gel with the rest, I just let them go," she says.
For a musical, the most important aspect is the art of choosing the right person for the right character. "For the main role, I opted for a shy person. He is a reasonably good singer and I noticed girls going crazy over him. Now, you find a t r a n s fo r m e d Neville De Nazareth playing the lead in All Shook Up," explains Leila.
And when it comes to the musicians, this director prefers to tread the tested path. "My drummer and lead guitarist have been with me from the start. I've been very fortunate with them, everything in my production is live and I don't go with a new person as far as the music goes unless I know for sure he can play. On the contrary, I experiment with the singing, dancing and acting," says the director.
Once inspired by the performance of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat in America, it is one musical after another for Leila. "Musicals interest me because you are reaching out to a much bigger audience and to those who are not able to sit through theatre," she says.
And which musical comes next? "I've finished with all the classics. After All Shook Up, there's Mama Mia based on the Abba song and Evita . I haven't got rights for both yet," says Leila.
(August 29 to September 1. Chowdaiah Memorial Hall, 7.15 pm.
Contact 25282602)
After Broadway hits like The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat and Grease, it's time for All Shook Up, a hilarious musical comedy inspired by songs of Elvis Presley.
With a cast of 35 people, Leila says the entire atmosphere is charged with positive energy. "Among the older members of my cast are Arvind Kasthuri and Prem Koshy. They are not only marvellous, but are great to work with. Among the youngsters too there's tremendous commitment. They are so good; all you need to do is fine-tune them. I don't like people with attitude and if someone doesn't gel with the rest, I just let them go," she says.
For a musical, the most important aspect is the art of choosing the right person for the right character. "For the main role, I opted for a shy person. He is a reasonably good singer and I noticed girls going crazy over him. Now, you find a t r a n s fo r m e d Neville De Nazareth playing the lead in All Shook Up," explains Leila.
And when it comes to the musicians, this director prefers to tread the tested path. "My drummer and lead guitarist have been with me from the start. I've been very fortunate with them, everything in my production is live and I don't go with a new person as far as the music goes unless I know for sure he can play. On the contrary, I experiment with the singing, dancing and acting," says the director.
Once inspired by the performance of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat in America, it is one musical after another for Leila. "Musicals interest me because you are reaching out to a much bigger audience and to those who are not able to sit through theatre," she says.
And which musical comes next? "I've finished with all the classics. After All Shook Up, there's Mama Mia based on the Abba song and Evita . I haven't got rights for both yet," says Leila.
(August 29 to September 1. Chowdaiah Memorial Hall, 7.15 pm.
Contact 25282602)
BMRTC route 365D
Route Number: 365D
Starting Point
:
BILWARADA HALLI
Ending Point
:
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND
Route Length [in KMS]
:
22.5
Estimated Journey Time [in Min]
:
1 hr 00 mins
Time of Departure from [ BILWARADA HALLI ]
:
04:00, 04:40, 05:15, 06:00, 07:15, 07:20, 07:40, 08:15 08:20, 08:35, 09:15, 09:25, 09:45, 09:50, 10:05, 10:25 10:50, 11:45, 12:00, 12:40, 12:45, 13:00, 14:10, 14:40 15:00, 15:35, 16:20, 16:45, 16:40, 17:15, 17:20, 17:35 17:40, 18:10, 18:40, 18:50, 19:25, 20:00, 21:00, 21:15 20:20
Time of Departure from [ KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND ]
:
00:00, 05:00, 05:35, 06:10, 06:15, 07:10, 07:15, 07:30 08:00, 08:20, 08:25, 08:50, 09:00, 09:20, 09:30, 09:45 10:30, 11:10, 11:35, 11:55, 13:05, 13:35, 13:55, 14:30 14:45, 15:10, 15:15, 15:40, 15:45, 16:05, 16:10, 16:30 17:05, 17:30, 17:45, 18:20, 18:50, 19:15, 19:50, 19:55 20:10, 20:55, 21:05, 21:35, 22:00, 02:24
SL.NO
STAGE POINTS
1.
BILAWARADA HALLI
2.
WEAVERS COLONY
3.
BASAVANAPURA
4.
GOTTIGERE
5.
HULIMAVU GATE
6.
BILEKALLAHALLI
7.
GURAPPANAPALYA
8.
BANGALORE DAIRY CIRCLE
9.
WILSON GARDEN POLICE STATION
10.
CORPORATION
11.
MAHARANI'S COLLEGE/CVB
12.
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND
Starting Point
:
BILWARADA HALLI
Ending Point
:
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND
Route Length [in KMS]
:
22.5
Estimated Journey Time [in Min]
:
1 hr 00 mins
Time of Departure from [ BILWARADA HALLI ]
:
04:00, 04:40, 05:15, 06:00, 07:15, 07:20, 07:40, 08:15 08:20, 08:35, 09:15, 09:25, 09:45, 09:50, 10:05, 10:25 10:50, 11:45, 12:00, 12:40, 12:45, 13:00, 14:10, 14:40 15:00, 15:35, 16:20, 16:45, 16:40, 17:15, 17:20, 17:35 17:40, 18:10, 18:40, 18:50, 19:25, 20:00, 21:00, 21:15 20:20
Time of Departure from [ KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND ]
:
00:00, 05:00, 05:35, 06:10, 06:15, 07:10, 07:15, 07:30 08:00, 08:20, 08:25, 08:50, 09:00, 09:20, 09:30, 09:45 10:30, 11:10, 11:35, 11:55, 13:05, 13:35, 13:55, 14:30 14:45, 15:10, 15:15, 15:40, 15:45, 16:05, 16:10, 16:30 17:05, 17:30, 17:45, 18:20, 18:50, 19:15, 19:50, 19:55 20:10, 20:55, 21:05, 21:35, 22:00, 02:24
SL.NO
STAGE POINTS
1.
BILAWARADA HALLI
2.
WEAVERS COLONY
3.
BASAVANAPURA
4.
GOTTIGERE
5.
HULIMAVU GATE
6.
BILEKALLAHALLI
7.
GURAPPANAPALYA
8.
BANGALORE DAIRY CIRCLE
9.
WILSON GARDEN POLICE STATION
10.
CORPORATION
11.
MAHARANI'S COLLEGE/CVB
12.
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND
Saturday, August 23, 2008
BMTC and Volvo buses
BMTC is the first Public Sector undertaking in the country to introduce Volvo bus services for city operation. Presently 74 vehicles are operating on 13 routes, which will be eventually increased.
http://www.bmtcinfo.com/english/volvo.htm
http://www.bmtcinfo.com/english/volvo.htm
BMTC route 365B
Route Number: 365B
Starting Point
:
SAKALAVARA
Ending Point
:
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND
Route Length [in KMS]
:
24.5
Estimated Journey Time [in Min]
:
1 hr 05 mins
Time of Departure from [ SAKALAVARA ]
:
09:10, 11:55, 17:05
Time of Departure from [ KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND ]
:
08:00, 10:20, 15:25, 18:15
SL.NO
STAGE POINTS
1.
SAKALAVARA
2.
BASAVANAPURA
3.
HULIMAVU GATE
4.
BILEKALLAHALLI
5.
GURAPPANAPALYA
6.
LAKKASANDRA
7.
CORPORATION OFFICE
8.
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND
Starting Point
:
SAKALAVARA
Ending Point
:
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND
Route Length [in KMS]
:
24.5
Estimated Journey Time [in Min]
:
1 hr 05 mins
Time of Departure from [ SAKALAVARA ]
:
09:10, 11:55, 17:05
Time of Departure from [ KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND ]
:
08:00, 10:20, 15:25, 18:15
SL.NO
STAGE POINTS
1.
SAKALAVARA
2.
BASAVANAPURA
3.
HULIMAVU GATE
4.
BILEKALLAHALLI
5.
GURAPPANAPALYA
6.
LAKKASANDRA
7.
CORPORATION OFFICE
8.
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND
BMTC route 365A
Route Number: 365A
Starting Point
:
HARAGADDE
Ending Point
:
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND
Route Length [in KMS]
:
31.2
Estimated Journey Time [in Min]
:
1 hr 25 mins
Time of Departure from [ HARAGADDE ]
:
06:15, 09:15, 15:15, 18:40
Time of Departure from [ KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND ]
:
07:45, 13:45, 17:10, 20:40
SL.NO
STAGE POINTS
1.
HARAGADDE
2.
JIGANI
3.
BEGIHALLI
4.
BANNERGHATTA
5.
BASAVANAPURA
6.
HULIMAVU GATE
7.
GILIKAHALLI
8.
GURAPPANAPALYA
9.
LAKKASANDRA
10.
CORPORATION OFFICE
11.
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STAND
BMTC Online Search Bus timings and routes
http://121.246.120.49:8080/bmtcinfo/jsp/ Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation
Bangalore Heritage bus trips
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ITINERARY :KEMPEGOWDA BUS STATIONTIPPU PALACE, KOTE VENKATARAMANASWAMY TEMPLEBULL TEMPLE / DODDA GANESHA TEMPLEGAVIGANGADHARESHWARA TEMPLELALBAGH
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ADULTS
CHILD
SILVER CLASS
RS.200/-
RS.100/-
GOLD CLASS
RS.300/-
RS.150/-
SATURDAY, SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
SILVER CLASS
RS.250/-
RS.125/-
GOLD CLASS
RS.350/-
RS.175/-
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
bangalore bandh : first bandh under BJP albeit for a National cause
it was a workers union strike for a VARIETY OF REASONS mainly working conditions,fuel prices and inflation. Stike in bangalore is partial as auto drivers are not on street. Kolkatta is stranded. delhi airport has cancelled only 6 flights. by and large, country is fine.
On a joking note
Kashmiris and pakistanis need to be shown that Bangalore can close on a hindu issue. CPM can close Kolkatta on trival issues then why can't Amarnath be an issue for Bangalore to show the terrorists that they will be defeated.
Millions of money is given to all religions in India, and Hindus cant get a football size large land just to give shelter to the tourist yatris in amarnath .
shame on the religion whose bethern take out marches for the cause of denying land to Hindus. what a religion.. damn it, shame to saudi arabia and all those islam preachers who deny Hindus the right to practice religion on their terms in Kashmir.
bangalore faced recently blasts. and this bandh call from bjp will show the resolve of the bjp in the south
Monday, August 18, 2008
24-hour Rainfall in bangalore : 13.4 mm
heavy rains are expected in bangalore though the forecast says light rain.
Local Weather Report and Forecast for Bangalore: August 18, 2008 Past 24 hours weather report
Maximum Temperature(°C) 27.1
Departure from Normal(°C) 0
Minimum Temperature(°C) 20.4
Departure from Normal(°C) +1
24-hour Rainfall (mm) 13.4
Today`s Sunset(IST) 18:39
Tomorrow`s Sunrise(IST) 06:08
Moonrise(IST) 20:20
Moonset(IST) 07:59
Today`s Weather Forecast: PARTLY CLOUDY. RAIN LIKELY.
Weather Forecast: Date Temperature(°C) Weather
Minimum Maximum
19 Aug 22 28 LIGHT RAIN
20 Aug 22 28 LIGHT RAIN
Extreme Weather Events During Past 10 Years in the Month Of August :- Year Temperature(°C) 24 hours Highest
Rainfall(mm)(Date) Total Rainfall for the month(mm)
Highest Maximum(Date) Lowest Minimum(Date)
2007 31.7 (17) 19.1 (14) 37.1 (30) 224.0
2006 31.6 (26) 19.3 (8) 17.5 (26) 51.1
2005 30.5 (30) 18.6 (7) 69.1 (24) 229.3
2004 30.7 (31) 18.9 (16) 12.7 (4) 74.6
2003 31.6 (12) 19.0 (20) 27.6 (18) 139.2
2002 32.1 (28) 18.7 (7) 10.3 (18) 45.5
2001 30.1 (26) 18.7 (20) 16.2 (1) 85.1
2000 30.6 (14) 18.1 (10) 91.6 (2) 276.7
1999 30.8 (19) 19.0 (29) 40.6 (19) 94.7
1998 30.5 (4) 18.9 (16) 92.0 (4) 387.1
ALL TIME RECORD: 33.3 (6, 1899) 14.4 (4, 1882) 162.1 (27, 1890) 387.1 (1998)
Local Weather Report and Forecast for Bangalore: August 18, 2008 Past 24 hours weather report
Maximum Temperature(°C) 27.1
Departure from Normal(°C) 0
Minimum Temperature(°C) 20.4
Departure from Normal(°C) +1
24-hour Rainfall (mm) 13.4
Today`s Sunset(IST) 18:39
Tomorrow`s Sunrise(IST) 06:08
Moonrise(IST) 20:20
Moonset(IST) 07:59
Today`s Weather Forecast: PARTLY CLOUDY. RAIN LIKELY.
Weather Forecast: Date Temperature(°C) Weather
Minimum Maximum
19 Aug 22 28 LIGHT RAIN
20 Aug 22 28 LIGHT RAIN
Extreme Weather Events During Past 10 Years in the Month Of August :- Year Temperature(°C) 24 hours Highest
Rainfall(mm)(Date) Total Rainfall for the month(mm)
Highest Maximum(Date) Lowest Minimum(Date)
2007 31.7 (17) 19.1 (14) 37.1 (30) 224.0
2006 31.6 (26) 19.3 (8) 17.5 (26) 51.1
2005 30.5 (30) 18.6 (7) 69.1 (24) 229.3
2004 30.7 (31) 18.9 (16) 12.7 (4) 74.6
2003 31.6 (12) 19.0 (20) 27.6 (18) 139.2
2002 32.1 (28) 18.7 (7) 10.3 (18) 45.5
2001 30.1 (26) 18.7 (20) 16.2 (1) 85.1
2000 30.6 (14) 18.1 (10) 91.6 (2) 276.7
1999 30.8 (19) 19.0 (29) 40.6 (19) 94.7
1998 30.5 (4) 18.9 (16) 92.0 (4) 387.1
ALL TIME RECORD: 33.3 (6, 1899) 14.4 (4, 1882) 162.1 (27, 1890) 387.1 (1998)
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Bangalore map
http://www.maplandia.com/india/karnataka/bangalore-urban/bangalore/streets/outer-ring-road/
Friday, July 11, 2008
e-Filing tax returns in bangalore
Please see my another post where I have clearly mentioned about e-filing tax returns. In this post, I mention about the fine areas that you must take care.
http://freewareindia.blogspot.com/2008/07/filing-income-tax-return.html
a) after you get an acknowledgement, take two copies of the same and sign and submit to relevant IT department.
b) Digital signatures are expensive, so you need to submit within 15 days.
c) the concept of 15 days is a buffer to determine the date of filing. In case you file online on 1st July, you are needed to submit acknowledgement within July 15th. Then you date of tax filing is considered as July 1st. In case you submit acknowledgement on July 16th, that is after 15 days of your online filing, then your tax return filing date is considered as July 16th.
d) In case you are NRI, the assessment officer is shown IT range14 (ward 6). But when you go to Mehri circle, HMT Bhavan, floor 4, south wing, you are asked to go to floor 3, room 303, helpline who in turn ask you to go to Nruputanhga road, IT office-6th floor as you are NRI. So please note your correct range/ward assesing office in your city in case you are NRI.
e) If you file using ITR-2 format xml, please mention the status NRI/individual and the correct range/ward office
f) Even if your taxable income is NIL, you can file e-tax returns.
http://freewareindia.blogspot.com/2008/07/filing-income-tax-return.html
a) after you get an acknowledgement, take two copies of the same and sign and submit to relevant IT department.
b) Digital signatures are expensive, so you need to submit within 15 days.
c) the concept of 15 days is a buffer to determine the date of filing. In case you file online on 1st July, you are needed to submit acknowledgement within July 15th. Then you date of tax filing is considered as July 1st. In case you submit acknowledgement on July 16th, that is after 15 days of your online filing, then your tax return filing date is considered as July 16th.
d) In case you are NRI, the assessment officer is shown IT range14 (ward 6). But when you go to Mehri circle, HMT Bhavan, floor 4, south wing, you are asked to go to floor 3, room 303, helpline who in turn ask you to go to Nruputanhga road, IT office-6th floor as you are NRI. So please note your correct range/ward assesing office in your city in case you are NRI.
e) If you file using ITR-2 format xml, please mention the status NRI/individual and the correct range/ward office
f) Even if your taxable income is NIL, you can file e-tax returns.
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