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Bengaluru Honours Those Often Overlooked - Street Cleaners
There are all kinds of award functions - for film stars, athletes, writers - people who are already successful and celebrated. Bengaluru, however, hosted an event that honoured those who are often overlooked, and deserve immense respect - the Pourakarmikas, those who clean the city's streets.
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'Commuting Time, Waste Management': Bengaluru's Biggest Civic Concerns
As part of a new Bengaluru Rising initiative, 10000 people have been questioned across the city to understand what their biggest civic concerns are - and to convey those priorities to the city's mayor and corporators.
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All for a better Bangalore: techies take to civic leadership programme
Young IT professionals usually wonder how to spend their weekends differently. A group of more than 60 individuals in Bangalore are showing the way.
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Karnataka Polls: Lakhs, left out of electoral list, robbed of right to vote
Braving the summer heat, voters across Karnataka headed to polling booths to exercise their franchise on Sunday - resulting in one of the highest turnouts in the state's electoral history at over 71 per cent. But that figure is of little comfort to the tens of thousands more who wanted to vote, but could not.
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Karnataka assembly elections: for clean politics, Kiran Shaw panel backs 14 candidates
The Bangalore Political Action Committee or BPAC, set up and headed by Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar Shaw to try for cleaner governance, today announced a list of 14 candidates in Bangalore that they are endorsing ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections, to be held on May 5. The candidates were selected based on criteria that included education and a c...
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Getting Bangalore to vote: a major new initiative
With its large floating population, Bangalore, India's tech hub, has the dubious distinction of a consistently poor turnout in elections. Now, a group of citizens have joined hands in an attempt to change that record.
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Bengaluru Honours Those Often Overlooked - Street Cleaners
There are all kinds of award functions - for film stars, athletes, writers - people who are already successful and celebrated. Bengaluru, however, hosted an event that honoured those who are often overlooked, and deserve immense respect - the Pourakarmikas, those who clean the city's streets.
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'Commuting Time, Waste Management': Bengaluru's Biggest Civic Concerns
As part of a new Bengaluru Rising initiative, 10000 people have been questioned across the city to understand what their biggest civic concerns are - and to convey those priorities to the city's mayor and corporators.
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All for a better Bangalore: techies take to civic leadership programme
Young IT professionals usually wonder how to spend their weekends differently. A group of more than 60 individuals in Bangalore are showing the way.
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Karnataka Polls: Lakhs, left out of electoral list, robbed of right to vote
Braving the summer heat, voters across Karnataka headed to polling booths to exercise their franchise on Sunday - resulting in one of the highest turnouts in the state's electoral history at over 71 per cent. But that figure is of little comfort to the tens of thousands more who wanted to vote, but could not.
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Karnataka assembly elections: for clean politics, Kiran Shaw panel backs 14 candidates
The Bangalore Political Action Committee or BPAC, set up and headed by Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar Shaw to try for cleaner governance, today announced a list of 14 candidates in Bangalore that they are endorsing ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections, to be held on May 5. The candidates were selected based on criteria that included education and a c...
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Getting Bangalore to vote: a major new initiative
With its large floating population, Bangalore, India's tech hub, has the dubious distinction of a consistently poor turnout in elections. Now, a group of citizens have joined hands in an attempt to change that record.
