Bangalore Political Action Committee launches sixth Civic Leadership Incubator Program batchThe last five batches has trained 204 civic leaders who are spread across 115 wards of Bengaluru are actively working in their neighbourhoo...
As profit soars, BIAL under pressure to withdraw user feePressure groups, including the B.PAC, want the airport operator to source revenue for infrastructure projects from elsewhere instead of bur...
B.PAC asks Kumaraswamy to set up Direct Benefit Transfer Portal for Rs. 34,000 farm loan waiverThe nonprofit organisation that works to improve governance believes that DBT will bring transparency in transferring funds to distressed f...
How Bengaluru’s 28 MLAs spent their local area development fundsFirst introduced in 2001-02, the LAD fund permits MLAs to spend the money in their respective constituencies on selected activities such as...
Enough confusion for decades, Cauvery verdict in 4 weeks: Supreme CourtThe top court said that any forum could touch the matter relating to the Cauvery basin, only after it gave its verdict in four weeks.
Bengaluru has still a long way to go to deal with sanitary waste disposalImproper disposal of sanitary waste can lead to various environmental and health risks. "It is a huge problem across the country, said a me...
A hitchhiker's guide to Bengaluru's Budget this year“Half the tax collected in a ward should be spent for improvement in the same ward,“ B.PAC said while welcoming the proposed increase in th...
Need to harvest rainwater, plug leaks & recycle water: ReportB.PAC has cautioned Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of a looming water crisis in the absence of alternative arrangements to meet its water requ...
Rs 50,000 each for 50 B.PAC-backed candidates contesting Bengaluru civic pollsOf the candidates B.PAC endorsed, 27 are male. "We will pay each of them a token amount of Rs 50,000," said B.PAC president Kiran Mazumdar-...
Twitter survey: Garbage overtakes traffic as the most pressing problems in BengaluruThe survey being conducted on Twitter hopes to supplement a larger study that will capture the pulse of the city ahead of the civic electio...
- Illegal billboards sprout after BBMP stopped permission about 6-7 years ago
The BBMP standing committee on taxation and finance, too, has passed a resolution to remove all hoardings -authorized.
General elections 2014: Former Infy CFO Mohandas Pai ready with Nandan Nilekani, V Balakrishnan report cardThe B.PAC is in the process of generating "score cards" for all the Lok Sabha candidates contesting from the city's four constituencies.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw to offer Rs 10 lakh to Nandan Nilekani for funding his Bangalore South pitchMany believe this token of appreciation could make many of his friends come out and support the campaign and possibly mark the start of Nil...
Karnataka elections: Political parties pay special attention to BangaloreJD (S) and KJP brought separate manifestoes for Bangalore while rest of the parties talks of garbage recycling and treatment for the IT city
Narayana Murthy, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw form BPAC to improve quality of life in BangaloreThe Bangalore Political Action Committee was formed to improve governance and the quality of life of citizens in the technology capital of ...
Right time for action plan to fulfil dreams: Narayana MurthyInfosys Chairman Emeritus N R Narayana Murthy said this was the right moment to draw up an action plan for realising an "aspirational dream...
- Top corporate heads in Bangalore form an ad hoc team to work with government bodies
Top corporate heads in Bangalore have formed an ad hoc team to work with govt bodies and also identify candidates to contest municipal elec...