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A Train To The Red River: Indians Feeling Unsafe In India

By Saurabh Thapa: It was quite an eventful day in the country’s third most populous state. In addition to the humdrum throng of hasty IT workers, ambling shoppers and chirpy students, the busy roads that entail the responsibility of directing people to their dreams (Bangalore:

Biz and Eco

America’s “Bring Jobs Back Home” Policy Might Shape India’s Future

By Shobhit Agarwal: What has been India’s greatest export to the USA in the past decade? It is not cotton yarn and fabrics; it is not drugs and pharmaceuticals and it, most certainly, isn’t gems and jewels. It is a vast mix of white-collar professionals,

Society

The Garden City To The Garbage City- Bangalore Gets A New Name

By Anila Kurian: We live in a metropolitan city where we have no time for anything at all. We wake up in the morning, go to work, come back home and repeat the same routine day after day. And on the weekends, we either prefer

Specials

Ancient Monuments Protection Act Flouted In Bangalore

By Moulishree Srivastava: A Central Government act for the protection of ancient monuments has failed to serve its purpose in Bangalore. The heritage law which regulates construction around any centrally protected monument has been violated by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) itself. An amendment

Society

Slum Dwellers Illegally Tap BWSSB Supply

By Moulishree Srivastava: Sushila, a middle aged woman, who lives with her five children, carries her water pots down the hill into the Nayandahalli slum, off the Mysore Road and fills them with the homemade taps. All these taps were not set up by Board

Biz and Eco

There’s Still Time For ‘India plus One’

By A M Radhika: Forrester Research in a report released in September this year that came up with a recommendation to apparently reduce the risk factor in companies by distributing their outsourcing operations to at least one other country than India. And that is apparently

Featured Youth Views

BPO: Baleful Prisoners Outsourcing, Reforming The Prisoners

By Pallavi Murthy: Cherlapally Central Jail has set up a first-of-its kind BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) centre in an attempt to help prisoners lead a worthy life. Bangalore-based Radiant Info Systems has set up the centre and has also taken the initiative to train the

Events

NSEF Confluence to Ignite Social Entrepreneurial Spirit across Indian Youth

National Social Entrepreneurship Forum (NSEF) will hold Confluence, an annual youth conference aimed to promote and support social entrepreneurship at academic universities throughout India. It is to be held on October 23rd, 2010 at Bangalore. Post confluence, NSEF will help student attendees interested in setting up NSEF

Shout Out

We — The Honky-Panky People!

By Rajiv S. Rubdi: The other day, when I was trying to make my way out of a busy street in Bangalore, amidst the deafening noise, I saw a rather obvious but thought provoking hoarding which read “Honking won’t make the traffic disappear!” But while many