I was about to post the same news :) . The effects of climate change is right here right now. Hottest May and now wettest June :(

Finally relief from the heat. Knowing the competency of BBMP, I can safely say we are gonna have submerged roads instead of pothole ridden ones for a while.

And hopefully less accidents!!

One of the better things to do for children in Bangalore. The tickets are cheap and the production is quite high quality. Shows are both in English and Kannada .

Population reduction will cause a lot of interim pain but might be what we need to increase the sustainability of the planet. In next 70 years, we might see a drastic reduction in populations of china and India as well. The lower human population will hopefully allow the planet to recover from the last 100 years uncontrolled resource extraction.

From the article it seems there is a plan to increase the fleet size. Metro is probably eating into BMTC ridership for obvious reasons like being faster for one. BMTC might be in wait and watch mode. Hopefully any new buses inducted will be electric.

What are the things your are interested in? There is an aerospace museum near Marathahalli if you are interested in planes and such. If you are interested in Amusement parks Lulu mall has an indoor one. Nearby Bangalore there are many temples which are historical. Bhoga Nadhiswara, Rangasthala near devanahalli along with Nandi hills will be good. Nandhi hills is good for sunrise , sunset and can be underwhelming during other times. If you are willing to venture further our, there are treks like devarayana Durga. Hope you enjoy your stay

I believe the law allows for mobile street vendors but not while encroaching the public spaces. While I sympathize with the vendors who are probably just trying to eke out a living, public spaces being used for private uses must be curbed. Atleast monetized in the worst case.

I heard it died during the operation to capture it. Poor creature :(

We are desperate people but no one can force anyone to work more than legal limit. Enforcement of existing regulations alone will help. However for executive roles like IT, there is no max. But since it's knowledge work, hours can be flexible. That's what these guys are trying to exploit.

I don't think India is divided. Noone will work more than required if given an option. IT folks might end up spending more hours in office but do less work when forced to do more hours.For other non executive work, it is clearly against the law. If folks want longer hours then they should start paying per hour. This will allow folks who need the money to pick up extra hours. Even then 70 hours is impossible.

I use ACT but haven't faced such major outage. However when power goes off my router disconnects and rejoins which takes around 5 mins. May be raise an escalation with ACT to see if they can provide power backup to their switch?

Looks like the complaint itself was filed on Sep 30 while the loss was noticed on Aug 28. This means a month already passed. The police seem to say all the commercial establishments have CCTV recordings for a month. It looks very fishy. I wonder if the contractor itself replaced it elsewhere to recover his loss from multitudes of bribes he must have surely paid.

I used to bicycle. First office was 6KM from home and the next was 15 KM. Thanks to great weather,it was mostly manageable. But once the metro and bus lanes started in ring road, the service roads were occupied by cars more than before. However luckily found a WFH job. So no commute until the next job or my current company decides to call people back.

It is sort of overrated for what it is. May be for folks who like to cycle up hill, it offers a great challenge. There are good temples like Rangasthala and Bhoga nandeeshwara slightly far away from there. I would prefer that over driving up the hills anyday.

It's still stupid but less than what I originally thought

Ha ha. I am more surprised that people didnt go for a longer distance holiday since it was a long weekend including the bandh and schools having holidays since Thursday. Perhaps the traffic nightmare on Wednesday scared them away from such travel.

Based on the article, it seems to be targetted at apps. But I wont be surprised if enterprising policemen decide to check a bunch of cars with more than one person to get a quick bribe.

The best commute depends on point to point. While buses are good, they may not connect all points. There is metro to many places now. Uber ola and rapido accept cash but it may be difficult to book a ride during peak times. Best is to stay close to office. Hindi works for most part. Moreover in Brookfield locals will be a mix of Telugu Tamil and Malayalam along with Kannada folks. Shop keepers are mostly malayalis or marwaris. So Hindi should work. There are a bunch of new PG that have come up behind Bgamane Solariam city in the Ekya ITPL school road. You can check that out. However nearest bus stop from that point is around 750 Meters. Since the PG is newly constructed it might slightly be better.

Yes it is a bit noisy. Esp. the chopper. However we usually run it for 2 to 3 mins. Stop check and repeat. So it was fine for us. The vaccum cleaner I used ( AmazonBasics one ) used to make a louder noise but that ran for about 15 mins :). So I guess we just might have better noise tolerance 😂

I use this: https://www.amazon.in/Preethi-MG-227-750-Watt-Mixer-Grinder/dp/B07B4ZNMRC. The chopper and kneader helps. However we must cut hard vegetables like beetroot into smaller pieces prior. Kneader also makes the atta dough a bit soft. So it might be harder to roll chappathis without practise.

To be fair you just need to build a few of those things while toilets number in the millions. Plus local government agencies are more corrupt. See these toilets cost almost a million USD a piece 😭

From the article, it says it cannot apply to nationalized banks. I assume it must then apply only to the pvt banks. However not sure if it can be enforced or if enforced might lead to a discrimination in service to the native speakers.Pvt companies are highly unlikely to spend money on training just to comply with government rules. So most likely they will find some sort of loopholes. Instead, we can force provide an incentive via the employer to front desk/customer facing persons in bank if they clear a kannada exam modeled in the line of TOEFL.

Off grid needs batteries and uses power from the batteries in the night. Whereas in on-grid, excess power is given to bescom at a rate fixed by them. We draw from the grid during nights and in mornings we sell excess power to them. We will be charged for the use of ongrid infra on a per kw basis. Our power bill will be out consumption + fixed infra use charges - power supplied to bescom. But off grid has very high initial investment due to batter cost. Easily two to three lakhs more.

I think it is better to invest in solar panels and generate enough electricity on our own. But looks like for a grid connected solar we need to pay quite high charges per KW to Bescom. If too many people start using solar to escape high tariffs, these guys might increase those per KW charges to make up the shortfall. Hopefully off grid ones become cheaper in the next few years.

I think a Karnataka specific udaan would have been better. Governments should never be running businesses. But the socialist hangover still exists. The number of PSUs are way too many in India already.

I do not want to sound elitist here but doesn't having a basic qualification in the domain a requirement for posting. How was it never in the rules? Pipelines definitely needs a lot of maintenance and monitoring. How come in technical folks were allowed to be in charge of this.

Somehow the summer wasn't very bad this time. But there is definitely a massive shortfall in rains. Usually every June end it starts to rain esp. in the evenings. When I used to go to office, i often tried to leave before 4 PM during June end to Aug end as it was sure to rain at 5 30 PM.

Glad you had a memorable experience. Do share it when you get a chance.Unfortunately most bengalurians tend have a cynical view of their city. When folks like you share their experiences in the city, it might help them get a more positive outlook. There are certainly towering problems but it is not all gloom and doom like some make it to be.

It's gonna take some time. I believe it will happen organically. If we have a opinion on the news link, then by commenting on it we will encourage more interaction. As the interaction grows more folks will join the discussions. We can certainly have random discussion threads and such every month as a pinned thread. Right now there are less rhan 10 active users. But subscriber count is higher. If we make posts interactive, it might increase engagement.

I think the fundamental point they make is that we are curse the street vendors and other road occupiers more than the car parkers. I guess all of them is wrong but there is a sense that cars dont belong to streets but people do. It certainly doesnt align with needs of most people on the internet but definitely a different perspective to see the roads as lively chaotic places of people instead of cars.

Yes. This probably is a pilot if sorts to see if the tech can be adopted more widely. Perhaps construction of villas could be a nice sweet spot for this tech. Better marketing and cheaper prices.

Yes. Rayalseema restaurants would be bio terrorism in the west 😂. Even most Indians can't tolerate the piquency of that food.

I assume they are talking about portable toilets which can probably be moved around. Either they were stolen or never existed in the first place. In India both are equally probable 😂

I wonder if anyone's image has crashed from such highs to such pathetic lows. At the end of the day, it was all PR but he still had the admiration of many people just a few years back i.e before the Thai submarine fiasco. Now most people consider him a petulant child man with a massive fortune. The only good outcome of this fall has been a clear understanding that earning wealth is purely based on luck. It doesnt matter if it is millions or billions ,nothing comes due to our own genius. It is a combination of factors that result in wealth but it is mostly determined at your birth. May be this episode will humble others who might have taken a similar path due to their inexplicable wealth.

Heelalige is technically south bangalore 😀 , so there is that.

Yeah it is just addition of 20 more kms. Not sure about the rent in hosur. But if this has the potential to deflate the rental market a little bit, then I am all for it :)

I doubt these trucks can be driven around in European or Asian roads. They seem so humongous. Even cargo vehicles which transport goods across the city are much smaller than these in India. Why are trucks so popular in the US? Does everyone haul things often? Are cargo trucks not rentable?

Whats AIS/TIS? I file my taxes through a CA. I hope he is taking care of these :)

I have been to Chennai. They have even louder songs that are mostly cringe 😂. I think it's mandatory for garbage autos to play such songs 😄