Belgaum Bandh

The Bandh call given by Sri Ram sena has received good response all over the city.

City Bus stand a desserted look

Maruti Galli

All the commercial establishments excluding banks and medical stores are closed in most parts of the city. Camp area shops were open but Main city; Shahpur & Tilakwadi majority shops were closed.

There were small incidents of stone pelting in Bhatkande Galli, Khade Bazar and some incidents of tyre burning. About four shops were gutted on PB road but the police said it was due to short circuit and nothing to do with the bandh. Glasses of a few busses were broken by unidentified people today as well as yesterday night. In all 14 buses were damaged.

You can play cricket in Raviwar peth, where its difficult on others days to even move

Wholesale Cantonment Vegetable market

Police have put up barricades in some places. The over condition is normal and no tension prevails as such. The movement of traffic is minimal and the city bus service withdrawn after stone pelting.

Photos: D B Patil &UkMaD

Belgaum Ganesh Darshan 2009

This slideshow will be updated automatically with new photos of various Ganesh Utsav Mandals. So keep coming back to this page.

Google Internet Bus Belgaum photos

Have a look at the Google Internet Bus at Belgaum.

Courtesy: http://picasaweb.google.com/internetbusindia/Belgaum#

The Traffic Cops took out time to understand the Internet, May be now they even have a facebook profile

People were very curious to know what the bus was about

People stood in line to get into the bus

The inside view full of people

Google guys explainingStudents in large numbers thronged the bus

Google Bus getting ready

People from all age groups waiting to get inside

The COP is paying complete attention, did anyone find him on orkut or Facebook

Blooming Time for Flowers

Photo taken by UkMaD on Congress Road, between first gate and second gate where you can see two trees full of Yellow flowers. It is a treat to see the bloom of flowers in the heart of the city.

A Subhash Photos Moment: Stars of Belgaum

Subhash Photos, a name synonymous with photography in Belgaum.

The beginning of this great photographic era began way back in 1934 with the start of Shambhu Appaji Photo Artists near fish market in Camp by Shri. Shambhu Appaji Oulkar. His foresightedness led his two sons Mahadev & Bahirji to go to Bombay & study about photography, its techniques and also the latest equipment and what is the future of this business.
Bhairji, Shambhu’s son who had got himself trained in photography did a commendable job during the Goa liberation movement and he won a National award for the same, this was the first feather in the crown.

Anand Oulkar nephew of Bahirji Oulkar under the able guidance of Bahirji developed himself to be master in black & white portrait photography. This confidence and recognition laid the strong foundation stone of ‘Subhash Photos’.

The Panchratnas of Laxmanrao Oulkar, namely Anand, Shashikant, Subhash, Shivaji & Dinesh started Subhash Photo Studio at Hutatma Chowk, Ramdev Galli in 1974. Innovative ideas prompt service and customer satisfaction meant Subhash Photos was on the right track and gained popularity in short time.

During that time the 120 mm film were being used mainly B & W, color photos came in early 1974 and demand grew for Color photos. In the same dark room colour photos were printed using enlarger and basket developing, but this process took a long time and mainly rolls were collected and sent to Bombay for printing.
1980 saw the coming of 35 mm rolls and color printing. At this moment, Subhash Oulkar said we need to go and see what the future of Color printing is and what the latest technology is. In 1983, Subhash Color Centre was started in Deshpande Galli, with a manually operated color developing machine. In 1985 imported a QSS 701 machine from Japan which was fully computerized. Business grew and 1987 saw one more import of the machine.

In 1990 the latest then, QSS 1201, was imported which gave print outs in 13 minutes, with this machine Subhash photos became the full fledged lab in North Karnataka and South Maharashtra.
Opportunities were seen not only in the Belgaum market but also in Kolhapur where a lab was opened in 1992 with affiliation with Kodak Express which was the 2nd Kodak Express lab in India only after Ahemdabad. The machine installed in Kolhapur was first in India and SAARC countries. Kodak Express store was opened in Belgaum in 1997 on college road, the first one in north Karnataka.
Beginning humbly with a Single branch at Hutatama chowk to the now 4 storied one stop shop in photography in Ramdev Galli and 11 branches in Kolhapur, Sangli, Miraj, Ratnagiri , Madgaon, Ponda and of course 3 branches in Belgaum.


A new branch is being opened at Deshmukh road to cater to the suburban markets.All the labs are equipped with Noritsu's latest technology machines. That ensures the best quality prints, at high speeds. The group entered into digital photography business with importing three Noritsu machines, at Belgaum, Kolhapur and Sangli. The group believes in providing the best service at a competitive price, at the best speed. Subhash Photos strongly believes in Customer Satisfaction and Quality Product and this has been the main objective of the group. Subhash photos is a leader in studio portraits and conventional imaging business. The strategy developed here is to be a leader in digital imaging business. Innovativeness and getting the best in technology for the consumers is the mission of Subhash Photos and they achieve it with many new ideas like installing a self operated Kiosk for taking orders. You just go to the kiosk put in your memory card or CD select the pictures, the size you want them to be printed and you place the order and your photos directly go for printing, an easy way to do.
Management:
They have a decentralized management system. Each branch takes it own decisions. Each member of the family is looking after different functions of each branch.Each individual Oulkar is given the authority on the decisions for the projects undertaken by him/her. Trustworthiness amongst the Oulkar’s & employees, Sense of Togetherness & Service to the Society is their management goal.
The second generation Oulkar’s have specialized themselves in different aspects of photography. It’s a family business but run professionally. The Oulkar Ladies are not behind either; they take active part in the day to day running of the studio and also look after the human relations part. All the 2nd generations Oulkar’s have been trained for specialized jobs. Amit (son of Anand) manages the lab and its process. Deepak (son of Anand) has studied family business management from Naseeer Munjee Institute of Management studies Mumbai. Prajakat (son of Sashikant) has made himself a master in Designer album making. Shambhu (son of Sashikant) has specialized himself in sales from NMIMS again.Dyansesh (son of Subhash) has sought training in photography from Girish Mistri of Shary Academy. Dyanesh won the third prize from the PIEA (Photo imaging education association) under students and teachers group.
Whether you're an occasional snap shooter or a seasoned professional, Subhash Photos is your one stop shop for all your photographic needs. From the latest digital technology to hand-processed black & white and everything in between, they do it all.

Belgaum in 1917-1918

Bramhanand just found this on the web and shared with me.
The images are not so clear and not big size also, but yet good to look at.
All the photos were taken by A T Scrivens.

Belgaum assembly photos

The photos of the assembly session.

BSY visited all the statues in the city.

Lele Ground Latest photos at 1115 am

Lele Ground Latest photos at 1115 am
The scene at Lele ground is similar to what it was in the morning.
No one is allowed to stop on the road next to the ground.
Photos courtesy RamRao A

India China Military Excercise Photos

At last Big Cinemas to open today

The wait for so many years is over; the Big cinemas in Nucleus Mall will be opened by Mr.Prabhakar Kore MP today evening at 6.30pm. It will be open to public from this Friday with Rab ne bana de Jodi with an inaugural offer of Rs.60/ticket.

This is just a formal opening of the mall and Big Cinemas.
Big cinemas have two screens in here named KAPEEL -1 and KAPEEL -2, after the earlier Kapeel theatre on which this whole mall is built. There is space for about 55 cars and about 250 two wheelers for parking, which is obviously paid.

The interiors are very similar to all those others in metros with anti fire mats, 4 way surround sound etc.

The mall is still not working, only big Cinemas will commence all others have to take up their space yet and mostly the ground floor is being taken up by leading foreign footwear brands and watch brands.

This first weekend for Big cinemas is going to be a great treat for all, them and as well as Belgaumites. Now we don’t have to go to Mumbai or Bangalore, ‘Apne he shaer mein hain na’.

The coloured Sky

This is a picture taken by UkMaD on Tuesday evening near TV Centre, The whole sky had a orange colour after sunset.