Be a part of Rock revolution in Belgaum win free passes
4:27 PM Posted by ukmad
AllAboutBelgaum gives you an exclusive chance to win free passes to the Firepod rock show which will be held on Sunday 28th June 2009 at The Hind Sports and Social Club, Subhash Market, Hindwadi, Gates Open at 6:00 PM.
If you still haven’t tried your luck
and you could be the lucky one to win a free for the show.
Belgaum Bangalore flight cancelled due to operational reason
1:29 PM Posted by ukmad
I had mailed the Kingfisher airlines asking an explanation as to why the flights have been cancelled from Belgaum.
“Dear Uday,
With regards to your email, we would like to inform you that due to operational reason flight Bangalore to Belgaum is cancelled from 17th June 2009.
For more information you can visit our website
http://www.flykingfisher.com/plan-book/schedule.aspx .
We look forward to being of assistance to you.
Best Regards,
Guest Commitment
Kingfisher Airlines”
Related posts: http://allaboutbelgaum.com/lifestyle/travel/no-more-take-offs-from-belgaum-sambra-airport/
KHB selling flats at 1750 per sq ft
1:03 PM Posted by ukmad
Karnataka Housing board (KHB) is constructing huge towers near the railway over bridge and the construction is going on full swing. It was in trouble when an RTI unearthed that the building was illegal and did not have the requisite permissions from the corporation. What has happened after that is still unknown.
Now 190 flats of 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms are being put for sale by KHB. Forms are available at the Axis bank Congress road branch.
The price fixed is Rs.1750 per sq. feet. So for a 1 bedroom flat you need about 15 lakhs.
The said building is being constructed to provide housing at affordable rates but by no means these are affordable and also that the KHB said that the building was for accommodating government staff.
1750 seems to be very high price as nearby residential areas cost anywhere between 1000 to 1500 sq. feet and this building is in very close proximity to the railway track, this could be a cause of concern.
The KHB website still does not have any information about this and advertisement for the sale of flats has appeared in news papers but I haven’t got my hand on it yet.
Related posts:
http://allaboutbelgaum.com/infrastructure/khb-building-building-without-permission/
MLIRC contingent in France National day Parade
1:07 PM Posted by ukmad
When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heads for Paris next month for the French national day celebrations on July 14, to which he has been invited as the guest of honour, a delegation of 144 battle-hardened soldiers will accompany him. However, they will not be part of his security detail but will take part in the French national day parade.
Firepod on 28th June 2009 at Hind Sports and Social Club Hindwadi
10:39 AM Posted by ukmad
After an initial hick up the Firepod team is back and the prelude to Firepod, a rock show will be held at Sunday, 28th June 2009 Venue: The Hind Sports and Social Club, Subhash Market, Hindwadi. Gates Open at 6:00 PM The tickets priced at Rs 99. Tickets can be purchased with Mihir - 98867 97297, Sangram - 98454 53397 or Amit - 98862 32242. Here is your chance to win FREE passes to the event only from AllAboutBelgaum. Earlier entries will also qualify for the lucky winner selection. Terms & conditions: 1. Winners will be announced on 26th June 2009 and winners will be selected on random. The decision of FIRPOD organizers will be final and no arbitration would be entertained. No cash claim or exchange can be made in lieu of the prize. Prizes must be accepted as awarded and are non-assignable and non-transferable. 2. In all 5 winners will be chosen randomly whose all answers are correct. Each winner will get one pass on which only ONE person would be allowed inside the event hall. No other charges will be borne by the organizers. 3. Winners will have to get the code they get in their winning email and they will have to also give out their Secret code they entered while participating. If the Secret code does not tally the prizes will not be given. Secret code has to match with the one entered by the person while filling the form. 4. AllAboutBelgaum.com by no means can be held responsible for any matter concerned with the prizes or the event. AllAboutBelgaum.com does not have any pecuniary interest in the event or with the organizers. 5. AllAboutBelgaum.com is doing this online promotion only as an online media partner and has nothing to do with the event or the bands or the event on a whole. 6. The persons submitting their answers online will be assumed that they have read the terms and conditions. 7. AllAboutBelgaum.com shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever that may be suffered or any personal injury that may be suffered as a result of participating in the contest or using the prize. 8. Each participant who submits his entry, consents to the information being entered into the database and right to use by AllAboutBelgaum.com and its affiliates, in any media for future promotional, marketing and publicity purposes without any further reference or payment or compensation to the entrant. 9. These terms and conditions may be amended without prior notice.
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Belgaum to get new look by green city project
10:22 AM Posted by ukmad
The Belgaum City Corporation (BCC), Belgaum Urban Development Authority (BUDA) and the Forest Department have jointly come up with project “Green City” with a view to change the face of the city.
The project, which aims at planting 50,000 different species of plants at a cost of Rs. 1.12 crore, has been conceived with the support of MLAs Abhay Kumar Patil, Sanjay Patil and Feroz Sait representing Belgaum South, Belgaum Rural and Belgaum North assembly constituencies, respectively.
The project was poised to change the face of Belgaum city if implemented and maintained in an effective manner.
Source: The Hindu
All About Belgaum 1 lakh hits Thank you all
10:40 PM Posted by ukmad
This is where we stand today, with 1 lakh hits
To us it is not a milestone but just the beginning of new journey, the milestone you see in the image is just at the beginning of this journey, “We have a long way to go.”
Thank you all, without you it would have taken us much more long.
Keep glued here, you will never be disappointed.
Vega Auto from Belgaum made riding safer
10:24 AM Posted by ukmad
Vega rings a bell in every automobile enthusiast’s mind as one of the leading brands in the premium segment in the Helmet trade. As one among the very few in the organized sectors of the trade, Vega is based in Belgaum – Karnataka and under the able management of CHANDAK’s has seen growth at a very steady pace since it’s inception in 1981. The company with ideology of Safety & Fashion has become a pioneer in promoting Helmets as DESIGNER HEAD GEAR apart from being a means of safety with their vast range entirely approved by the Bureau of Indian standards (ISI) 4151. Standards and specification vide 9526-1980.
Vega from its very inception has committed itself to the moral responsibility of incorporating safety norms in every aspect of the Helmet. Quality and not Quantity has always been its motto in every stage of production. This has helped its position in the market as a brand to synonym Quality, which in turn has boosted sales to great heights in past two decades. The Quality features have now been reinforced by their association with Compact Composite, Italy (Master in fibber glass and carbon fibber technology).
Vega, with its network of over 320 dealers crisscrossing the country, has not only established itself nationwide but made its impressions in the overseas market also, like USA, GERMANY, ISRAEL, ITALY and many other countries. To cater to these markets, Vega products have passed the stringent test of the Department of Transports – U.S.A. (D.O.T), Israeli standards and E.C.E.
Vega has capacity of over 2000 Helmets per day. Various ways of Moulding like, FRP hand lay ups, RTM, Balloon Moulding, Plastic Injection Moulding etc exist. A Hi Tech Paint Shop with both Polyurethane & Ultra -violet (UV) coating systems so that the paint stays for long. They have a in house Vacuum Metalizing Machines & Deep Coating Plant gives Best finish of Chrome & Nickel on Helmets & various shades of Mercury Coatings on Visors. The Testing Lab is designed to test the toughest Safety Standards in the World like ISI, DOT and ECE etc. To add to this, Vega utilizes latest technology from A to Z, thus completing the cycle in Helmet manufacturing keeping all parameters and ultimately offering the buyer a wide range of options. The entire Development and Production is contrived in 50000 sq feet area of a beautiful Building with state of Art Technology.
Factory: Plot No. 12- B, Sy. No. 342, BEMCIEL Industrial Estate,
Udyambag, Belgaum - 590 008.
Posting Classifieds made easy by Belgaum guys uproot labs
1:03 PM Posted by ukmad
The most awaited stable release of the Indian Classifieds site is finally up.
Visit: http://uproot.in. The site offers users to post their advertisements absolutely FREE of cost. The site caters to almost all cities in India and there are numerous categories one can post an Ad into. The best part it’s made by two guys from Belgaum.
Please point your browsers to http://uproot.in
| AllAboutBelgaum.com partners with Uproot and all ads posted for Belgaum can be seen in one page, http://allaboutbelgaum.com/classifieds/ |
What is UpRoot.in ?
A simple website to post classifieds online for free, it has been exclusively created for Indian users, and covers all districts in the country (600+).
Everything about the site is geared towards simplicity, including:
· the look — very few graphics + dynamic interface
· The operational model — zero intervention between seller and buyer is our policy.
What is it not?
While making the site, one path we did not tread (nor intend to tread) is social networking. They will add more features in the future to facilitate collaboration between groups of users. But they don’t expect it to become a core feature of the site. The reason is — keeping things simple for everyone, in particular the average or internet newbie’s.
Uproot.in is the first baby from the Uproot Labs, Belgaum. Uproot labs are a gargantuan team of two Harshad Joglekar & Dr Ameet Patil who know each other from college days. After a “long time, no see” span of 10 years, they met over Orkut, and found that they both had an urge to start a company from our hometown, Belgaum. Dr.Ameet Patil also runs his own startup Spundhan which has already been featured on this blog.
Uproot has been designed by both as they have major experience in system software, particularly embedded system software. They are trying something new; web services. They shoulder equal responsibilities. They both design, code, make decisions with equal flair.
They chose Belgaum as it has its own set of advantages & disadvantages. But the advantages are now out marking the latter with the advent of internet.
They chose to develop their own web framework; a tailor made suit that fits needs, and is optimized for performance.
They also plan to have key partnerships with other sites for the content and AllAboutBelgaum was the first one to approach them in this regard and a feed only for Belgaum is here.
So all the ads you post under Belgaum will be coming up there automatically. (Collective growth of It & ITeS services in Belgaum)
In the longer term they aim to monetize from premium Ads on the website. The core functionality will always remain free.
Here are some of the features of UpRoot.in
Categories
While posting an Ad the user is required to select the most relevant category. This in turn helps people to quickly and easily find what they need. Care has been taken to include the most common categories the users will encounter in their daily life.
Ads that offer and Ads that want
Broadly speaking, every Ad has either something to offer to the viewer, or wants something from the viewer. It is specified during the creation of an Ad, and helps viewers to quickly find items that offer or want something from them.
Specifying the location
Viewers can choose to filter their Ads depending on the physical location. One can choose a specific city, a state or all locations in India.
Privacy
They are very concerned about your privacy and take it very seriously.
There is an in-built mechanism to contact users, without needing to divulge either the seller’s or buyer’s contact information until each party voluntarily chooses to do so.
Membership
Users/Visitors to the site can view/search all advertisements without requiring to login. However, to protect your privacy, you required you register as a member in order to post a new or respond to an Ad.
Membership on Uproot.in is absolutely FREE, and requires just a confirmation of your email address. You can choose your own profile-name aka avatar.
If readers are interested in working on exciting embedded and web technologies, they can send their profile description / resume to jobs@uproot.co.in
This is another paradigm of what two minds from a same city can do together professionally. Here it is not friendship but professional caliber and an urge to do something of your own. Both Harshad & Dr.Ameet have worked in different companies who paid them handsomely, but they always wanted to be their own BOSS.
All the best to the Duo.
Corporators party in BCC office
10:49 AM Posted by ukmad
The office of the Belgaum City Corporation (BCC) was a make shift bar cum restaurant on Sunday. All the elected and nominated corporators, including the Mayor were present and took pleasure in the party organized at the BCC premises.
A corporator, who attended the party, said that they had availed permission from the Mayor and BCC Commissioner for holding the party. He also said that no liquor was served in the party. However the scene was different. A class-IV employee, who attended the party, confirmed that liquor had been served to the invitees.
BCC Commissioner S G Patil, he said that the corporators had taken his permission for conducting an official meeting along with lunch at the office premises.
“The meeting was expected to continue till late evening,” he said. But Patil denied giving permission to any party to be organised at the BCC office premises.
What can we say to these corporators who we got elected? Nothing can happen as it was a official meeting with lunch. Town has seen many cases of Chiken Gunia and Dengue and the corporation is denying that there is any breakout of both diseases. But the truth is otherwise. Many have been affected by these and the corporation is still waiting for a couple of persons to die and then their eye may open.
There have been only 2 heavy rains so far, and water logging was seen in all parts of the city and also places like Chennamma circle there was water logging, so imagine the work done by BCC. All elected members should have a responsibility and if they don’t adhere to it there should be some mechanism to call them back.
God save Belgaum.
Join AllAboutBelgaum on facebook
4:33 PM Posted by ukmad
Join the AllAboutBelgaum page on facebook. Here is the link to it http://www.facebook.com/pages/All-About-Belgaumcom/107041333552
Corrigendum NH4 A to be 4 laned by IRB only in Goa state
4:42 PM Posted by ukmad
Belgaum Goa road to be 4 laned contract to IRB infra
In this post I had mentioned “The 81 kms stretch from Karnataka Goa border to Belgaum road NH 4A will be widened by IRB INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPERS LIMITED.”
This is correct and the 81 kms stretch is in Goa itself. That is from Panaji to Karnataka Border. For Belgaum to Goa border road the tender has been called for and u can get details on NHAI site here it is: “Design, Engineering,Finance,Construction, Operation And Maintenance Of Belgaum- Knt/Goa Border Section Of NH-4a From Km 0.000 To Km 84.000 In The State Of Karnataka Under NHDP Phase III On Design, Build,Finance,Operate And Transfer (DBFOT) ) Toll Basis. . RFQ, Invitation, Replies to Queries”
The photos in the old post were of the Belgaum to Goa stretch which is full of greenery. The said tender has not been granted yet as it is in litigation. Nature lovers have taken some objection over cutting the trees on the stretch.
AllAboutBelgaum is very apologetic for the error.
Longest blindfold limbo skating-world record set by Rohan Kokane of Belgaum
1:37 PM Posted by ukmad
Rohan Ajit Kokane, a Class IV student from St. Xavier’s High School of Belgaum, successfully cleared the Guinness World Record attempt in blindfold limbo skating by passing under a car blindfolded in Hubli on April 3, 2009. As the crowd applauded him with a standing ovation, tears of happiness rolled down the eyes of Anupama, Rohan’s mother, while the proud father Ajit stood speechless for a moment. When reporters asked Rohan how he felt, he said “Achcha lagta hai” (It feels good). And, he didn’t forget to thank his parents and coach for his achievement. The record attempt was organized as part of a national-level technical festival “Pleiades”. Rohan has been working very hard and he will be performing in front of the President of India in a short time. People like Rohan have to be supported financially by the government and other social groups as he needs money to get himself trained. Hope the government looks into this achievement of Rohan and grants him some scholarship which will encourage him to achieve more in life. Congrats Rohan, You have made us all proud.
Nine-year-old student Rohan Ajit Kokane passed under a car (clearing a height of 6.75 inches) blindfolded-setting the world record for the Longest blindfold limbo skating.
Unfazed by the failure of the first two attempts, Rohan passed under the car (clearing a height of 6.75 inches) with ease in his third and final attempt to create a new Guinness Record in a new category.
Then it was celebration time with students entering the basketball ring where the record attempt was made to greet the achiever.
Rohans father Ajit, thanked this blog for covering the event held in August (see here) that helped Rohan get the record certificate as the World Record Academy was verified with various websites on the authenticity of the event. 
Happy birthday Rahul Gandhi
8:19 PM Posted by ukmad
The Belgaum congress celebrated the birthday of their Yuvraj Rahul Gandhi here today.
MLA Firoz Sait cutting the cake at the Fulbag Galli Office of Congress.
Photos: PB
Military Mahadev Temple Belgaum
6:43 PM Posted by ukmad
In town like Belgaum there are not many places where one can unwind and also not many gardens where kids can play.
Since a long time, I have played there and most of you also must have gone there once to play and of course many a times to pray, I am speaking about Military Mahadev Temple, Congress road.
Not many photo graphs are there of the same and I have somehow managed to get these photos, from an unknown source who mailed me these pictures.
