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Kite is in the air

A piece of paper, a few broom-sticks [from the stick broom not the grass type.] and some string.  Put them together with a boy from Belgaum and you have avionics that rival NASA. You pasted the paper onto the stick …

A BIG THANK YOU from Belgaumblog.com

To all my readers “A BIG THANK YOU” for supporting me all over this previous year.   This blog started its journey on August 7, 2007 as http://belgaumblog.blogspot.com and now it is http://belgaumblog.com. It has been a learning experience for …

Cruel Humans: Calf pays for man’s superstition

Source The Hindu abandoned: The calf which was found with its ears and tail cut in Belgaum on Tuesday. The animal was found with its ears and tail cut On Tuesday morning, passers-by on Belgaum-Ganeshpur Road in front of Benon …

Four brothers may contest polls:4 different parties

Source: The New Indian Express Four brothers from a family in Gokak are set to contest the forthcoming Karnataka Assembly elections from different constituencies and different political parties. According to sources, while Balchandra Jarkiholi, a former minister, is contesting from …

Belgaum will vote on 22nd May

Voting for the General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, 2008 for Belgaum(Belgaum North, Belgaum South & Belgaum Rural) will be held on 22.05.2008 (Thursday). Date of Issue of Gazette Notification will be 26.04.08 (Saturday). Last Date for making …

Property of Telgi’s mother goes under the hammer:Crop loss in Belgaum district put at Rs. 26.52 cr

Source: The Hindu The auction of properties in the name of the late Sharifabi Ladsab Telgi, mother of kingpin in the multi-crore stamp paper racket, Abdul Kareem Telgi, conducted by officials of the Income Tax department, fetched about Rs. 12 lakh …

Travelguru introduces Cash-on-Delivery mode of payment for Belgaum

Travelguru – India’s largest hotel network and premier travel solutions provider in association with Express IT Logistics Worldwide Ltd. has launched a new value-add feature to provide more value to its customers by way of Cash-on-Delivery (COD). Travelguru started off …

MORE opens store

MORE  the AV Birla retail grocery outlet has started its operations at its first store situated at RPD Cross, next to ICICI bank.   This could now start a fresh organised retail war in the city. It has also made  some offers …

I feel I am in Maharashtra:Thanks to HESCOM

Since the past week or so, I and Belgaumites as well must be feeling as if they are in Maharashtra. Thanks to HESCOM (Hubli Electric Supply Company). In the past few days there has been un disclosed load shedding twice …

Road Humps for WHAT?

In the last week various road humps were put up all over Belgaum roads. Somewhere it was a necessity and somewhere I think the way they have been put is wrong. Take for instance the Khanapur Road, Globe theatre to …