Under the Then and Now series, in this particular story the time gap between Then and Now is hardly 4 days. For development trees are chopped and made way for a more widened road on which we can ply our vehicles and emit more CO2 and the trees which used to absorb them have been […]
Specials
Development at cost to Nature Do we need this
Belgaum in this past couple of months has been in the limelight for not so good reasons for the city as a whole. From controversies on 100 crore to its implementation. Still none of the projects under the 100 crore special grant have been completed but newer projects under said scheme are being launched. The […]
Railway police Cops taking bribes caught red handed by Patrika correspondent Prakash Bilgoji
Source: Rajasthna Patrika by Prakash Bilgoji In a sting operation undertaken by reporter of Patrika Mr.Prakash Bilgoji at the Belgaum railway station, a railway police cop was caught on camera accepting money. Numerous people go to the railway station to leave someone or otherwise and there are a few railway police cops who collect money […]
Who will blow the WHITSLE
By Gangadhar S Patil Twenty years ago when the Aruna Roy organized the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan to fight for poor peasants and rural labourers in a remote village of Rajsamand district in Rajasthan, demanding the right to know often came at a heavy price. Sadly not much has changed. The recent murder of Satish […]
85 year young Belgaumite Srikrishna Deshpande ran in Mumbai marathon
Many at the finish line were applauding and trying to shake hands with a winner in life, at the Mumbai Marathon 2010 held recently. The man at the finish line was none other than the young 85 year Srikrishna Deshpande from Belgaum. Mr. Deshpande retired as a postal department employee in 1981. Then started his […]