Bangalore

Ever felt frustrated attempting to park your car, and wondered if you could find a device that you could ride to your destination and then fold up? Sounds like a wild dream? Perhaps not much longer ? mechanical engineers at the MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, who will hold an exhibition on May 14, have thought of solutions for some of those intractable mundane headaches. Students, ex-students and faculty will put in exhibition devices that could save you time and bother. LASRA-SZ2, …

So the frequent power cuts have become the bane of your life? Imagine how much worse it must be for someone whose livelihood depends on offering you a comfortable space. Shopkeepers complain that it was metro work that first affected sales; now, it’s the frequent power cuts. ?Power goes off nearly four times each day, and we’ve had a 25% drop in sales,? says Sireesh Babu, secretary of the Bangalore Trade Association.Running a generator costs at least Rs10,000 a month. ?And even if we do…

Film maker-contractor-corporator, Munirathna is all smiles as he steps out of his home in Malleshwaram to do a ward yatra with DNA on Thursday. He is excited because he is setting a record as the first city corporator to conduct a private survey and spend from his ‘own pocket’ to lay a parallel water pipeline to the BWSSB so that residents have a water source to fall back on. As he goes around, Muni seems to draw both awe and fear. He is the patriarch who will preside over his small fie…

The archaic DCRs (development control regulations) across different Indian cities need to go into a jumbo shredder.? Most of the world realised more than fifty years ago that horizontal development is very expensive.? So, even the richest nations have chosen the option of vertical development.? It is a real shame to see that Dubai (a nation-state almost virtually created with the knowledge and hard-work of Indians) can build a 828-meter tall tower (Burj Khalifa), while a majority of regulatio…

Evaluation of answer scripts of the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) 2010 examinations has been facing roadblocks since Day 1. The evaluation work started on April 15 with some teachers staging a protest demanding a hike in remuneration. When issues seemed to be settling down, officials of the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) realised there was a daily absenteeism of nearly 30% evaluators as they were deputed for census and gram panchayat election work.<br…