Bangalore
This year, the new year celebrations in Bangalore was subdued. Brigade road and M.G road are the usual places for celebrating New Year. But this time Brigade Road was completely closed for traffic by 10pm, and on MG Road the traffic continued till midnight. Initially police closed both the roads to control the traffic from [...] Continue Reading »
After KSRTC, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) buses are also allowing physically challenged people who have bought annual passes in 2012 to travel for free up to January 31, 2013. BMTC launched three additional K-series bus routes and 30 services from 6th of January on the peripheral areas of the Bangalore city. K-4 route buses [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has marked 600 acres of land near Togarighatta village in Koratagere taluk of Tumkur district in order to dump garbage. A private developer has proposed to build a garbage processing unit in Togarighatta for which both the State Pollution Control Board and BBMP have given the green signal. The [...] Continue Reading »
The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has decided to shift the operation of intra-State and inter-State express buses. The shifting is necessary for the construction of underground metro station at Majestic. From January 6, KSRTC bus-stand will be operational from the newly constructed shelter in front of the Shantala Silk House in Majestic. Buses [...] Continue Reading »
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to provide Rs. 192.38 crore under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) for improving roads and building bridges in Karnataka. The civic body is planning to beautify 189 roads and 42 bridges will be built across the State. The project for improving road work and construction [...] Continue Reading »
The BBMP has finally decided to withdraw the three percent garbage cess on the property tax collected from bulk generators in the Palike council meeting. The cess had become a argument between the bulk generators and the civic agency. The high court questioned Palike about the logic behind imposing garbage cess when the bulk generators [...] Continue Reading »
The year 2012 was tough for the Indian real estate sector because of the economic condition and higher construction costs. But 2013 is expected to see an improvement in economic climate and the real estate sector. Anuj Puri, Chairman & Country Head, Jones Lang LaSalle India, a real estate consultancy, said that the Indian real [...] Continue Reading »
The BMTC has decided to have two remote CCTV cameras in all the buses for the security of women and to assure them a safe travel. This will also help to keep an eye on troublemakers. First 1,000 Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses will be installed with the cameras and the rest 5,500 buses will [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of ‘O’ block in IBC Platinum City apartments claimed that they are not provided any facilities which were promised by the builders at the time of buying flats in Bangalore. The apartment is situated on HMT Link Road off Tumkur Road which has 616 flats with commercial complexes and a huge swimming pool. [...] Continue Reading »
According to a report by Karun Varma, managing director, Bangalore & Kochi, Jones Lang LaSalle India, stated that residential real estate in North Bangalore is going to boom in 2013. North and East Bangalore is close to international airport, the increasing number of IT projects will bring sharp focus in this area. Projects which are [...] Continue Reading »
