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KSRTC bags award for ITS 17.5.2013 Bangalore News, Bangalore City News | Cities News - Times of India
KSRTC bags award for ITS
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Southern states surging ahead on better governance 7.5.2013 deccanherald.com
Southern states surging ahead on better governance
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World Bank projects 6.1% growth for India this fiscal 30.4.2013 Hindu: Home
The World Bank, on Tuesday, scaled down its projection on India’s GDP (gross domestic product) growth to 6.1 per cent for 2013-14 from 7 per cent estimated six months ago. Accordi...
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Indian economy to grow at 6.1 per cent FY’14: World Bank 30.4.2013 Hindu: Home
World Bank on Tuesday scaled down India’s growth forecast to 6.1 per cent for the current fiscal from 7 per cent projected six months ago. The decline in the growth forecast is largely d...
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Dry funds will drain more rains in Kozhikode 26.4.2013 The New Indian Express - Kerala - http://newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/
Even though the city receives ample rainfall, steps are not being taken to replenish groundwater levels
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Bengaluru rues rapid growth as India's IT hub | Mark Tran 17.4.2013 The Guardian -- World Latest
Technology boom has brought higher incomes but slums proliferate and services are squeezed in crowded 'garden city' • Urbanisation can be 'force for good' Bengaluru was a lovely city until the IT crowd ruined it, so goes the joke. "The reason the IT sector came to the city was its reputation as a great city to live in," a resident told me on a recent visit. "Of course, technology created jobs, but the city has grown so fast and become too crowded." With an estimated population of 8.5 million in 2011, Bengaluru is India's third most populous city. It was the fastest-growing Indian metropolis after Delhi between 1991 and 2001, with a growth rate of 38% during the decade. Bengaluru, known as the garden city for its public parks , is still growing. Luxury towers in mid-construction are sprouting, with billboards advertising helipads for aspirational – and wealthy – tenants. The traffic is hellish as three-wheeler auto-taxis, cars and buses compete for space amid a cacophony of ...
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Indian Universities: Who's the next Harvard in waiting? (Cached) 17.4.2013 Rediff: GetAhead
A perceptible shift is seen in the way the young breed of edupreneurs look at the universities they have inherited. Is it for the better?
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UVCE draws up makeover plans 17.4.2013 newindianexpress.com
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NGO representatives stop World Bank meeting 9.4.2013 newindianexpress.com
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How BWSSB is hoodwinking the people of Bengaluru (Cached) 22.3.2013 Citizen Matters
What the BWSSB is doing is tokenism, piece-meal, ad-hoc and on "pilot" basis, says former top bureaucrat.

"Don't worry for water, Bangalore," - a fortnight ago a news report ascribed the above assurance from the BWSSB and the Government. Nothing can be further from truth. Bangalore is facing a water calamity. The facts are given below.

GAP BETWEEN DEMAND AND SUPPLY WILL ONLY INCREASE

At the historical 4% population growth rate of Bangalore over the past fifty years, the population of Bangalore living in the 772 sq. km. of area under the present BBMP will increase from 85 lakhs in 2011 to one crore by 2016. With Hessarghatta gone and Tippegondahanally drying up, the only reliable water…

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BPL families to now get rice at Rs. 2 a kg 13.3.2013 Hindu: News
The State government on Tuesday announced that rice would be made available at Rs. 2 a kg to below poverty the line families through the public distribution system. The new subsidy will...
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Why the World Bank is wrong 9.3.2013 Hindu: Home
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” — Albert Einstein The World Bank has been pressing for the removal of restrictions on Floor Space Index (o...
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On the set!Lights, camera, action! 6.3.2013 Deccan Herald - Supplements
On the set!Lights, camera, action!
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FM CHANTS INFRA MANTRA (Cached) 6.3.2013 Projects Monitor
FM CHANTS INFRA MANTRA
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Bangalore water crisis, the big hoodwink (Cached) 5.3.2013 DNA: Opinion
'Don't worry for water, Bangalore,' the BWSSB has said, but the situation states that Bangalore should indeed worry.
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In-depth analysis of Union Budget (Cached) 1.3.2013 Rediff: Business
Fiscal deficit planned to reduce to 4.8 per cent in FY2014, subsidy bill remains elevated. Proposes to reduce fiscal deficit to 3%, the revenue deficit to 1.5 per cent and the effective revenue deficit to zero by FY2017.
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Key Features of Budget 2013-2014 (Cached) 1.3.2013 Outlook Wires

THE ECONOMY AND THE CHALLENGES 

  • Getting back to potential growth rate of 8 percent is the challenge facing the country.
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Big boost to infrastructure investment 28.2.2013 Hindu: National
New ports, industrial corridors, smart cities coming; tax-free bonds up to Rs. 50,000 crore allowed
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Major thrust for infrastructure sector in Budget 28.2.2013 Hindu: News
Seeking to give a major fillip to the investment climate in the country, especially in the infrastructure sector where $1trillion expenditure has been envisaged in the 12 th Plan, Union Finance Mi...
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Full text: P Chidambaram's Budget 2013-14 speech (Cached) 28.2.2013 CNN-IBN Top Stories
A word cloud generator crunched all the 12,292 words from the Budget speech and came up with the words that the Finance Minister repeated the most in his speech.Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented his 8th Union Budget and India's 82nd.
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