Christians demand old road to cemetery be re opened

Bp PETER MACHADO head of The Belgaum Diocese along with Protestant head Alexander Simon submitted a memorandum to the DC.
In the memorandum, they demanded that the earlier road towards the Cemetery next to the Golf course should be opened immediately. The said road has been blocked by the Army and now they have to take a kilometer long route to reach the burial ground.

Belgaum has the highest number of personnel serving armed forces

According to election commission statistics, of the total 40,098,823 voters in Karnataka, there are 32,342 defence personnel serving in the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Belgaum has the highest number of personnel serving in the three armed forces.
Of the 10,937 personnel there, 8,187 are men and 2,750 women.

Belgaum is followed by Bagalkot and Kodagu with 2298 and 2231 personnel, respectively

Source: ExpressBuzz

Indo-Chinese joint army exercise in Belgaum this December

India and China yesterday agreed to hold their next joint army exercise at Belgaum this December. The fortnight-long exercise, the first on Indian soil.

Army headquarters sources told PTI here that though the dates and venue for the exercise were agreed to "tentatively," at the bilateral meeting in progress in Beijing at present, a final confirmation from the Chinese was expected soon. Belgaum has been suggested as the exercise venue by India, as it is home for its Army's Commando School.

This is great news for Belgaumites, a few years back there was another such international army exercise held in Belgaum and now the Chinese will be coming here. Belgaum will come on the global map due to this. I guess one more good thing happening to Belgaum.

Source: http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20081107/1416/tnl-indo-chinese-joint-army-exercise-in.html