Ganpati Bappa Morya re!!!!
4:31 PM Posted by ukmad
All the roads leading to them have also choked up and thanks to our wonderful driving sense traffic jams are inevitable. But the atmosphere is worth looking at everybody is on a buying spree. Let him be a day laborer or a rich businessman all are there to take something or the other for his loved god.
Many people from nearby villages have also come in to buy and as today is the last day all is just getting hotter.
Many of those who have been working outside Belgaum might have come back to Belgaum for the festival and all those who could not make it due to so many reasons and still feel they should have also gone, don’t worry guys there is a next time.
Big Bazaar Banners have been put up all over Belgaum saying UP TO 60% OFF. Don’t really know how the response has been to it.
Autos off road: Lord Ganesha help us
4:43 PM Posted by ukmad
I don’t seem to understand the logic behind this at all. You guys go off the road to show sympathy towards a person by getting other people in trouble. It is bad that the auto driver was killed in the blast. The police prima facie have said it is a LPG cylinder blast. Then why all this? Today I saw many people have just landed in the city on the railway station with nothing to do but carry their own luggage and walk for the bus stand where if you are lucky you will get a bus. This is season time all the busses and trains are packed as all are coming to Belgaum for Ganapati. I saw school children after school is over walking together by the roadside as their auto is also off the road.
We should stop all this. There are more than 5000+ autos in the city and as all are off the road the roads are empty and less of traffic jams.
I pray to Ganpati, "Lord Ganesha give us strength to face all this menace."
They! Will be corporators?
1:03 PM Posted by ukmad
As the elections have been declared for the Belgaum municipal corporation for the 28th all aspirant corporators are there to get various certificates required at the time of filing their nominations. I have seen people paying their unpaid house taxes, which were due for 4-5 years, but they were paying it now as unless you have the no dues certificate you cant contest the election.
Also seen were previous members paying their water bills and other civic dues to get the no dues certificate.
So, friends if he elections were not taking place would these people have paid their taxes?
Now this question is eating me hard. We have to vote and elect someone amongst them only. I think we should have that one more thing in the ballot paper "no one is worth voting" other than the names of the people contesting.
Anyways many people are ready with their papers but aren't filing it and waiting for the last day to see who will contest and under whose banner. This election will basically be fought on the basis of language bias other than anything. The MES along with the Shiv sena might want to win the marathi votes. The congress will as usual keep a strong hold on the minorities. The BJP will only eat some votes from all the sections.
One more thing, which has happened in the past and is very possible these days in politics, is that many might stand as independents and after wining might take a stance which will earn them something. Just like national or state politics.
So friends, They! Will be corporators?
Big Bazaar opens on 14th
12:36 PM Posted by ukmad
Round about 15 huge containers full of goods have been downloaded and at the moment are being arranged.
There are some fantastic schemes that will be launched. You could see a FLAT 50% for 3 days.5 Pant pieces for Rs.275 and hence on. So big shopping this Ganapati.
Many other changes in Belgaum taking place and I will cover them all for you. Subhash photos will be starting a state of the art new studio on Deshmukh Road in a couple of months.
A new multiplex will come up next to Big bazaar still the thing is process.
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Auto driver murdered?
8:17 AM Posted by ukmad
But now the police are investigating another angle to the blast. The blast seems to be from the LPG but a few persons were seen with the auto before the blast took place, eyewitness told. For about 15 mins some discussion was going on of four people with the auto driver and after that the blast occurred.
The blast has happened in the MLIRC area when the chief of army staff is arriving in Belgaum on the 14th. Some say this might have been done with this visit in mind also.
It may be anything but Belgaum is no more peaceful. The Shintre world hampered Belgaum a few days ago and now this blast. The civic polls are to be held on 28th and Ganesh festival begins on the 15th. The police are already under huge pressure and when such a thing happens they will be under immense workload.
Auto blast one dead
7:57 AM Posted by ukmad
Bomb hoax at Prabhakar Kore Hospital
11:41 AM Posted by ukmad
Bomb hoax at Prabhakar Kore Hospital
Yesterday there was a telephone call, which said that there was bomb in the Prabhakar Kore hospital (earlier called the KLE Hospital). The full hospital premises were scanned thoroughly and at last the police declared the call as hoax.
LPG cylinder blasts
A LPG cylinder blasted off in a auto rikshaw at 3 am (9-9-2007) near hotel Green. Casualties are not yet known.
Bogus voters removed
6449 bogus voters have been removed from the voters list. All these were bogus names been included in the voters list. The MES (Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti) followed this complaint for 3 years and at last the Election commission asked to delete all these names from the voters list before the Municipal elections.
Ramesh Kudachi won over Vials Pawar by just 1,017 votes in 2004.
Ganapati at Big Bazaar or Muncipal corporation?
10:37 PM Posted by ukmad
The city of Belgaum is getting ready for many new things and occasions in a short time.
First among it will be the Local Civic body election with official declaration to be done on the 10th by the election commission. The voting is to be held on 28th of September. The various political parties have started their "MAGJ MARI" as usual and this time again the straight fight will not be amongst political parties but I guess on language bias.
Second thing that will rock Belgaum would be Ganesh festival. Already all the Sarvajanik mandals have started erecting pandals for the same and the idol makers are working over time to finish in time. This time also some of the mandals are gearing up to make some nice and viewable decorations.
Third thing that COULD happen is that Big Bazaar could commence its operations by the month end or early next month. The building is ready and the buildings lighting etc is done with some final finishing touches and the first mall in the city could kick off. The market is already full with COST-to-COST, COMPNY LANDING COST, SWATAM, and SABSE SASTA, BUY ONE GET 4 FREE sales all over the city.
I will keep updating as and when I get more information.
Pay AUTOS by Meter from this Gandhi Jayanti
11:20 AM Posted by ukmad
But a story, which caught my eye, was this story on Auto fares in the Sakal.
Minimum fare Rs.12, All autos will have digital meters.
Two Auto rikshaw associations have given their consent for the same. In a meeting held yesterday the Dist.commissioner the rikshaw associations and the Nagrik Hitrakshana Samiti the said was decided over.
Arrangements have been made for the implementation of the same the RTO officers said. The Association of the physically handicapped will manage the Pre paid booth at the Railway station and they will get a service charge of Rs.1. On the same grounds another pre paid booth will be operational on the city bus terminus also.
In my blog, earlier on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 with heading Auto: Kitna Lega I had mentioned about this auto fares and now here we have news. We hope this time at least this will be true and we could now travel by auto by seeing the meter.
Thanks for your support
1:54 PM Posted by ukmad
You have done it Belgaumites this site has seen its 1000 visitor @ 9.31 pm today.
This is a great day for me. It was exactly a month ago on August 7th 2007, I had started this blog and within 30 days I have had 957 visits till 6 pm today. The total page views have been a whopping 1885.
I have just made a humble beginning in this blogging space and I will make my best efforts to put up issues and events that happen in Belgaum without any chauvinism.
I hope you will all support me in this effort of getting the Belgaumites on a platform may be from where we all could make a difference for the society as a whole. The Blog is appearing in the GOOGLE search list in top 10 and that's all due to your support.
Thanks again and keep commenting on this blog and also the Forum section.
Yours UkMaD
Shintre encountered
9:07 AM Posted by ukmad
It is said that Shintre allegedly attacked the police and tried to flee when in an encounter he was killed in the bunglow it self.
Many rumors are in the city about why is was killed?
Journalist threatened
9:46 PM Posted by ukmad
4 –5 people of the alleged Shintre gang involved in the Sheetal murder case threatened the news correspondent of the New Indian Express Tushar Majukar yesterday at Govaves.
Sheetal so unlucky
8:41 PM Posted by ukmad
The recent Sheetal Chougule murder has been the talk of the town since the day it appeared in the papers.
Be it anybody, when they meet the first topic is about the murder. Infact I don't know how but some pictures are circulating in the city, which I don't know from where they have got it but they can't be seen, You need a tough heart to see it, that's what I was told.
Many people told me that those pictures were taken from the Rajdeep bunglow, the place where Sheetal was raped and murdered. The discussion I heard about those photos was so bad I just said its enough I can't hear anymore.
How could his husband do it? He had 3 kids from Sheetal and the news is that Sheetal was pregnant at the time she was murdered. How cruel can any person be? And he himself left her at the bunglow and went off and the gang did the rest. Some people say that she was tortured UN humanly, raped and then murdered.
All these things I have written here are all the things I have heard from people from her village Mannur and others who were close to her.
The bandh was a total success but will the Killers be caught is the question.
So in humane deeds I cant write anymore on this, I feel pity on the little children left behind. What was their fault? They don't have a mother nor will they go to their father?
praveen shintre picture
1:21 PM Posted by ukmad
Thanks to Tarun Bharat, the image has been found on Tarun Bharat Site. I found it through Google.
Where is the KILLER?
11:10 AM Posted by ukmad
This is the question being asked by majority of the Belgaumites these days. The Killer here refers to Pravin Shintre involved in at least 10 SUPARI killings.
All the local newspapers and also have highlighted the same issue. Where is Shintre?
The police have not been able to trace him since the Sheetal Chougule murder.
Shintre was earlier arrested for other crimes in 2003 & 2005 but he is on bail and he then took political refuge with the Samajwadi party, but after the recent involvements he has been removed from the party that's what rumors are saying in town.
Nobody knows where Shintre is and Belgaum is full of rumors about his being about. the police are trying their best they say but God only knows.
