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  issue_name    : "Hasiru Usiru",
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  {
    title  : "Online ಆದರೂ ಬಾರೋ, Offline ಆದರೂ ಹೋಗೋ ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ",
    url    : "http://thatskannada.oneindia.in/column/humor/2010/0729-online-offline-offer-prayer-guru-raghavendra.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+oneindia-all-thatskannada+%28Oneindia+-+thatsKannada%29",
    source : "Thats Kannada",
    date   : "29.7.2010",
    desc   : "Online ಆದರೂ ಬಾರೋ, Offline ಆದರೂ ಹೋಗೋ ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ$$Online ಇದ್ರೆ ಚಾಟ್ ಮಾಡಿ, ಇಲ್ದಿದ್ರೆ ಮೇಲ್ ಮಾಡಿ,ಹಾಯಾಗಿರುವೇ ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ!!!Online ಆದರೂ ಬಾರೋ, Offline ಆದರೂ ಹೋಗೋ, ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ ||repeat||ಓರ್ಕುಟ್&zwnj;ನಲ್ಲಾದರೂ ನೂಕು, ಫೇಸ್&zwnj;ಬುಕ್&zwnj;ನಲ್ಲಾದರೂ ನೂಕು ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ$$ಹಾ ಆ ಹಾ ಆಆ ಹಾಆಆ ಆಆಆಆಆಆ....ಓರ್ಕುಟ್&zwnj;ನಲ್ಲಾದರೂ ನೂಕು, ಫೇಸ್&zwnj;ಬುಕ್&zwnj;ನಲ್ಲಾದರೂ ನೂಕು ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ$$ಓರ್ಕುಟ್&zwnj;ನಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಕ್ರಾಪ್&zwnj; ಮಾಡಿ, ಫೇಸ್&zwnj;ಬುಕ್&zwnj;ನಲ್ಲಿ ಪೇಸ್ಟ್&zwnj; ಮಾಡಿ,ಫ್ರೆಂಡಾಗಿರುವೆ<img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oneindia-all-thatskannada/~4/vXzTUA51oIs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/\>"
  },
  {
    title  : "Road widening at what cost, ask NGOs",
    url    : "http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/road-widening-what-cost-ask-ngos-836",
    source : "Deccan Chronicle: Bangalore",
    date   : "12.7.2010",
    desc   : "<p\>July 11: Civic activists who are opposing BBMP’s proposed road widening project, have called for a socio-economic survey of the chosen roads to check if they really need to be widened. According to them, the survey is needed as a lot of people would be deprived of their livelihood by the project not to mention those who would lose their property. </p\>\n<p\>Spearheading a movement against the project,</p\>\n<p\><a href=\"http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/road-widening-what-cost-ask-ngos-836\"\>read more</a\></p\>"
  },
  {
    title  : "Save our homes, properties, cry citizens",
    url    : "http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6129293.cms",
    source : "TOI: Bangalore Times",
    date   : "5.7.2010",
    desc   : "Writers, NGOs, resident welfare associations (RWAs), citizens, environmentalists and a never-say-die freedom fighter came together on Sunday to protest the decision to demolish properties for road widening in the city."
  },
  {
    title  : "Game for tree-some?",
    url    : "http://www.bangaloremirror.com/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=10&contentid=201007022010070204583057770dacdd3",
    source : "Bangalore Mirror: City",
    date   : "3.7.2010",
    desc   : "There are 150 endemic varieties of trees that secretly nestle within the exotic green cover of the city. Here are some..."
  },
  {
    title  : "೧೫ ವರ್ಷಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕರಗುವ ಹಿಮ ಪರ್ವತಗಳು: ಮೈಗೂರ ಆತಂಕ",
    url    : "http://uni.medhas.org/unicode.php5?file=http://kannadaprabha.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=KPQ20100630115922",
    source : "ಕನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಭ",
    date   : "30.6.2010",
    desc   : "೧೫ ವರ್ಷಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕರಗುವ ಹಿಮ ಪರ್ವತಗಳು: ಮೈಗೂರ ಆತಂಕ"
  },
  {
    title  : "ರಾಜ್ಯ ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಗೆ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧಿಸಿರುವ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು",
    url    : "http://thatskannada.oneindia.in/movies/headlines/2010/06/28-kannada-films-contest-for-2008-09-state-award.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+oneindia-all-thatskannada+%28Oneindia+-+thatsKannada%29",
    source : "Thats Kannada",
    date   : "28.6.2010",
    desc   : "2008-09ನೇ ಸಾಲಿನ ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಗೆ 74 ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು ಸ್ಪರ್ಧಿಸಿವೆ. ಈ ಬಾರಿ ದಾಖಲೆ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಯ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು ಸ್ಪರ್ಧಿಸಿದ್ದು ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಸಮಿತಿಗೆ ತಲೆನೋವಾಗಿ ಪರಿಣಮಿಸಿದೆ. ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಸಮಿತಿಯ ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರಾಗಿ ಹಿರಿಯ ಚಿತ್ರ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕ ಎಚ್ ಆರ್ ಭಾರ್ಗವ ಅವರನ್ನು ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಿದೆ. ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಗಾಗಿ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧಿಸಿರುವ ನಟಿಯರಲ್ಲಿ ಶ್ರುತಿ (ಅಕ್ಕ ತಂಗಿ), ಸುಪ್ರೀತಾ (ಅಂಬಾರಿ), ರಮ್ಯಾ (ಮುಸ್ಸಂಜೆ ಮಾತು),<img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oneindia-all-thatskannada/~4/yWO53d2mXPQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/\>"
  },
  {
    title  : "City to play host to tree festival",
    url    : "http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/city-play-host-tree-festival-497",
    source : "Deccan Chronicle: Bangalore",
    date   : "26.6.2010",
    desc   : "<p\>Bengaluru, June 25: Taking its ‘go green’ initiative a step further Bengaluru will play host to a new two-day festival dedicated to trees.</p\>\n<p\>Several events have been planned for the ‘Around A Tree’ festival, which kicks off on Saturday. Noted artists from the city will display their work at the festival. Paintings depicting nature’s emotions, aggression and propagating care will be disp</p\>\n<p\><a href=\"http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/city-play-host-tree-festival-497\"\>read more</a\></p\>"
  },
  {
    title  : "Consult people at the grassroots",
    url    : "http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/consult-people-grassroots-775",
    source : "Deccan Chronicle: Bangalore",
    date   : "22.6.2010",
    desc   : "<p\>June 21 : One way of making sure that environmental concerns are not relegated to the background when planning infrastructure projects for the city is to set up ward committees and allow local people to have a say through them, in how they will be built, suggests  Vinay Sreenivasa of Hasiru Usiru, a voluntary group working for the environment. </p\>\n<p\>“It is essential to bring about decentralisation</p\>\n<p\><a href=\"http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/consult-people-grassroots-775\"\>read more</a\></p\>"
  },
  {
    title  : "Students up in arms against road on campus",
    url    : "http://expressbuzz.com/cities/bangalore/Students-up-in-arms-against-road-on-campus/183084.html",
    source : "NIE: Cities",
    date   : "20.6.2010",
    desc   : "BBMP says that the road was built keeping the larger interest of public in mind; varsity claims it didnt allowed survey."
  },
  {
    title  : "Protestors adamant, will appeal  to Supreme Court against war memorial",
    url    : "http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_protestors-adamant-will-appeal-to-supreme-court-against-war-memorial_1395299",
    source : "DNA: Top News",
    date   : "12.6.2010",
    desc   : "Despite construction of the memorial having begun, protesters have not been persuaded that this is the best way to remember martyrs. The construction should stop, they say."
  },
  {
    title  : "Road will grow wider only by gobbling up 40000 trees in Bangalore - Daily News & Analysis",
    url    : "http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_road-will-grow-wider-only-by-gobbling-up-40000-trees-in-bangalore_1393332",
    source : "ESG: google news",
    date   : "8.6.2010",
    desc   : "Road will grow wider only by gobbling up 40000 trees in Bangalore\n Daily News &amp; Analysis \n Another 30000-40000 trees would make way for the several infrastructure works planned, said the co-ordinator of the Environment Support Group  , Leo Saldanha, ... \n\n and ..."
  },
  {
    title  : "National War Memorial: Activists to seek Supreme Court relief",
    url    : "http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_national-war-memorial-activists-to-seek-supreme-court-relief_1392439",
    source : "DNA: Top News",
    date   : "6.6.2010",
    desc   : "Karnataka high court order flouts the Karnataka Preservation of Parks Act, 1975, say petitioners."
  },
  {
    title  : "Platform to oppose road widening soon",
    url    : "http://www.deccanherald.com/content/72715/platform-oppose-road-widening-soon.html",
    source : "Deccan Herald: City",
    date   : "1.6.2010",
    desc   : "Platform to oppose road widening soon"
  },
  {
    title  : "404 trees have fallen in five months",
    url    : "http://www.thehindu.com/2010/05/31/stories/2010053160350400.htm",
    source : "Hindu: Karnataka",
    date   : "31.5.2010",
    desc   : ""
  },
  {
    title  : "Trees now stumps !",
    url    : "http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/trees-now-stumps-158",
    source : "Deccan Chronicle: Bangalore",
    date   : "27.5.2010",
    desc   : "<p\>May 26: People may be crying themselves hoarse in protest and a traffic expert may have good reason to argue against it, but the authorities seem determined to go ahead with building yet another underpass and destroying more of the city’s green cover. On Wednesday, it was the turn of a 50-year-old tree, Pelto Forum, to be brought down to make way for the Tagore Circle underpass in Basavangudi, w</p\>\n<p\><a href=\"http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/trees-now-stumps-158\"\>read more</a\></p\>"
  },
  {
    title  : "Green groups welcome govt decision",
    url    : "http://expressbuzz.com/states/karnataka/Green-groups-welcome-govt-decision/175459.html",
    source : "NIE: Karnataka",
    date   : "23.5.2010",
    desc   : "BANGALORE: \"The government has responded positively to our demands and we welcome the decision,\" said Vinay Sreenivasa of Hasiru U.."
  },
  {
    title  : "ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಹೆಸರಲ್ಲಿ ಮರಗಳ ಹನನ: ನಾಗರಿಕರ ಆಕ್ಷೇಪ",
    url    : "http://uni.medhas.org/unicode.php5?file=http://kannadaprabha.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=KPD20100522014312",
    source : "ಕನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಭ",
    date   : "22.5.2010",
    desc   : "ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಹೆಸರಲ್ಲಿ ಮರಗಳ ಹನನ: ನಾಗರಿಕರ ಆಕ್ಷೇಪ"
  },
  {
    title  : "Green murder! More trees to go?",
    url    : "http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/green-murder-more-trees-go-830",
    source : "Deccan Chronicle: Bangalore",
    date   : "22.5.2010",
    desc   : "<p\>Bengaluru, May 21: Bengaluru’s tree cover has always been its crowning glory. But not only is it being shorn of it for infrastructure projects and widening of roads, the authorities now seem to be making way for more trees to be cut by bringing in an amendment to the Karnataka Tree Preservation Act which will remove a larger number of trees from the list of protected species and allow them to be</p\>\n<p\><a href=\"http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/green-murder-more-trees-go-830\"\>read more</a\></p\>"
  },
  {
    title  : "41 tree species saved, for now in Bangalore",
    url    : "http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_41-tree-species-saved-for-now-in-bangalore_1386158",
    source : "DNA: Top News",
    date   : "22.5.2010",
    desc   : "Protests by environmentalists on the eve of International Biodiversity Day force the government to shelve a proposal to drop these tree varieties, integral to the city\'s biodiversity from the purview of the Tree Act, which protects them from being felled."
  },
  {
    title  : "Proposal to amend Tree Preservation Act put on hold",
    url    : "http://www.thehindu.com/2010/05/22/stories/2010052255440800.htm",
    source : "Hindu: Karnataka",
    date   : "22.5.2010",
    desc   : ""
  },
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