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How to convert a train ticket into a plane ticket

How to convert a train ticket into a plane ticket

Here’s good news for waitlisted passengers on Indian Railways.  If you are one of those who have booked a rail ticket and if your berth is not confirmed, you can visit the website www.via.com or Via travel agent or call up on their Bangalore Office number 080 41431000. You have to take 3 easy steps: [...]

EXHIBITION OF UNUSUAL GEMS

EXHIBITION OF UNUSUAL GEMS

BENGALURU : C.KRISHNIAH CHETTY AND SONS(CKC) which has won the Best retail employer of the year and the Best retail promotion of the year and have more than 140 years of creating jewellery have organized an exhibition cum sale of unusual gems at Commercial Street and the Touchtone. Natural gems be it Topaz, sapphire, Lapis [...]

GUTTER NEXT DOOR

GUTTER NEXT DOOR

Bengaluru : In V Nagennahalli, R.T.Nagar there is this main drain of Bengaluru that is living with the residents here since 20yrs. Its foul smell has frustrated the people residing around. During the rainy season it looks like a brook, smells filthier and looks dirtier. If it rains heavy the water from the drain floods [...]

INDIA’S GREATEST SINGER LAYS DOWN HIS TANPURA

INDIA’S GREATEST SINGER LAYS DOWN HIS TANPURA

BHIMSEN JOSHI : A TRIBUTE Bhimsen Joshi, who died at 89 on Monday, was the greatest singer of our times. Any such claim will be debated and contested, of course, but not many would dispute that he was the most influential classical musician of our era. Joshi was influential because at least two generations of [...]

CITIZEN JOURNALISM IN BANGALORE CONCLUDES

CITIZEN JOURNALISM IN BANGALORE CONCLUDES

The three day citizen journalism workshop hosted by the JM Foundation and Press Club of Bangalore, concluded in Bangalore on Sunday, January 23. Lokayukta, Justice Santosh Hegde, seen in this picture with award winning consumer rights activist Sakuntala Narasimhan to his immediate right and JM Foundation’s Aloke Thakore to the extreme right and Shishir Joshi [...]

AVOID PARKING ON FOOTPATHS

AVOID PARKING ON FOOTPATHS

Bengaluru : Across Bengaluru, it is a common sight to find vehicles parked on the footpaths. This disturbs the pedestrians as they cannot use these footpaths for walking safely. Many vehicle owners or their drivers do not realize the trouble that they can cause to the public when they park their vehicles on footpath. Footpaths [...]

Paani paani re…..

Paani paani re…..

So we keep talking about water being the absolute resource. Water has been taken for granted, there is no doubt. While over a million people have no access to clean safe drinking water the attitude of pure ignorance and laziness has bought us to a critical condition where no dynamic involvement is voluntarily understood. When [...]

NO MAN’S LAND

NO MAN’S LAND

A hoarding for school admissions, ironically called Angels Playschool, in the middle of a graveyard in Kinnigoli, near Mangalore.

CITIZEN JOURNALISM WORKSHOP IN BANGALORE / BENGALURU

CITIZEN JOURNALISM WORKSHOP IN BANGALORE / BENGALURU

JM Foundation for Excellence in Journalism supported by Press Club of Bangalore & St Joseph’s College of Commerce, Brigade Road. presents a wonderful opportunity to become citizen journalists The three day certificate workshop will be held from Jan 21 to Jan 23, 2011, at St Joseph’s College of Commerce, No. 163 Brigade Road, Bangalore. Eminent [...]