Belgaumites worldwide meet in respective towns

A deliberation just came in as to why not all the Belgaumites away from Belgaum can congregate and meet, exchange ideas or even share some thoughts in their respective current cities and countries.

There are Belgaumites spread all over the world, the proof the reach of this very small site AAB, which is read in 113 countries/territories & 1167 cities worldwide.

1. India	2. United States	3. United Arab Emirates	4. United Kingdom	5. Qatar
6. Finland	7. Australia	8. Hong Kong	9. Saudi Arabia	10. Japan
11. Singapore	12. Canada	13 Norway	14 Italy	15 Kuwait
16 Germany	17 Malaysia	18 Czech Republic	19 France	20 Bahrain
21 Oman	22 Belgium	23 Netherlands	24 Pakistan	25 Ireland
26 South Korea	27 New Zealand	28 Philippines	29 Sweden	30 Nigeria
China	Kenya	Romania	Switzerland	Brazil
Indonesia	Spain	Thailand	Bangladesh	Russia
South Africa	Greece	Nepal	Denmark	Jamaica
Hungary	Bulgaria	Israel	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Poland
Egypt	Mexico	Colombia	Vietnam	Sri Lanka
Morocco	Fiji	Afghanistan	Serbia	Taiwan
Austria	Trinidad and Tobago	Turkey	Cayman Islands	Mauritius
Tanzania	Chile	Costa Rica	Portugal	Antigua and Barbuda
Iran	Ghana	Argentina	Peru	Côte d’Ivoire
Suriname	Cameroon	Mongolia	Estonia	Congo - Kinshasa
Yemen	Netherlands Antilles	Panama	Congo Brazzaville	Malta

There might be Indian groups or city based groups in various countries, but here you could connect to a person from your home town and person from a home town is always dear, isn’t it.

What one could do is come and meet on a holiday monthly or bi-monthly and come closer to your home town. If you plan a get-together it could be highlighted on this blog so that more people from the area could join you.

This is just a thought; let me know more from you.

I have found the following people who have volunteered to collect and coordinate from their respective cities/countries.

If you are interested in this and want to be a volunteer to coordinate please mail uday@allaboutbelgaum.com or comment here.

Country	City	Name	Email	Phone
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Waseem Ali	waseemtroubler_1@yahoo.com
UAE	Dubai	Satish Kumar	avsatishkumars@gmail.com	00971-50-4572004
Qatar	Doha	Sahir Kittur	Sahir.Kittur@dolphinenergy.com
India	Mumbai	Narendra Porwal	nsporwal@gmail.com

All are requested to see the forums page for the updates Worldwide Belgaumites Meet where all can post in their contacts or even discuss about a meet or so, if it works out.

[http://allaboutbelgaum.com/forum/ ]

This website is just promoting Belgaum and to do this people all over the world need to come close and so many of you could contribute for its development. The names of the people mentioned here are only of how have volunteered and many more will be added in due course.

Disclaimer: AllAboutBelgaum.com is only acting here as a medium and has nothing to gain financially from this. Also people contacting and coming together, please note this site has nothing to do with any sorts of financial or monetary undertakings done by anyone in this regard which you kindly make a note of.

No power on Tuesday

HESCOM in press release stated that due to maintenance work Belgaum city and also some adjoining rural areas will face a power cut from 9 am to 6pm on Tuesday 15 September 2009.

Belgaum Panthers win by 27 runs

Belgaum Panthers won their second match against Mysore Maharajs by 27 runs.

Mys: 153-all out (19.0 Ovs) B Rajashekhar * 2(2)

Bel: 181/6 (20.0 Ovs) Santosh Vadeyaraj * 4-0-39-1 Vinay Kumar 4-1-12-4

Match Information
Third Umpire:	P Jaypal (Ind)
Toss:	Belgaum Panthers (Elected to bat)
Match Status:	Belgaum Panthers won by 27 runs

Batting: Belgaum Panthers Innings

Batsmen	Belgaum Panthers (181/6 in 20 ovs)	Runs	Balls	4's	6's	SR
J Arun Kumar (c)	c B Rajashekhar b C Raghu	95	56	12	5	169.64
Shaum Pannappa	st N Bille b C Raghu	30	29	2	1	103.45
Manish Pandey	c KB Pawan b A Kazi	32	16	4	1	200.00
Vinay Kumar	run out (KB Pawan)	8	7	0	0	114.29
Vinayak Uthappa (wk)	c N Bille b C Raghu	4	4	0	0	100.00
Stalin Hoover	c S Rao b A Sagar	6	4	1	0	150.00
Zeeshan Ali Syed	not out	2	4	0	0	50.00
Kasturi Sesha Talpa Sai	not out	0	0	0	0	0.00
David Johnson
Prakash Yogesh
Santosh Vadeyaraj
Extras:	b - 0, w - 3, nb - 0, lb - 1	4
Total: (181 for 6 in 20 overs)		181	Run Rate: 9.05

Fall Of Wickets1/99 (Shaum Pannappa, 11.3 ov.), 2/151 (J Arun Kumar, 15.6 ov.), 3/161 (Manish Pandey, 16.6 ov.), 4/169 (Vinayak Uthappa, 18.1 ov.), 5/179 (Vinay Kumar, 19.1 ov.), 6/180 (Stalin Hoover, 19.4 ov.)Bowling: Mysore Maharajas

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd	ER
Adithya Sagar	4	0	27	1	0	0	6.8
KH Manoj	3	0	32	0	0	0	10.7
Shoaib Manager	1	0	14	0	0	1	14.0
B Rajashekhar	4	0	30	0	0	0	7.5
Abrar Kazi	4	0	42	1	0	0	10.5
Chandrashekar Raghu	4	0	35	3	0	2	8.8

Power Play: Belgaum Panthers innings

Mandatory: (0.1 - 6) overs - 63 Runs

Go to topBatting: Mysore Maharajas Innings

Batsmen	Mysore Maharajas (154/10 in 19 ovs)	Runs	Balls	4's	6's	SR
Nitin Bille (wk)	c P Yogesh b V Kumar	0	3	0	0	0.00
Sudhir Rao	c S Pannappa b D Johnson	55	47	5	2	117.02
KB Pawan	c V Uthappa b V Kumar	2	7	0	0	28.57
Shoaib Manager	c JA Kumar b V Kumar	0	3	0	0	0.00
Chandrashekar Raghu (c)	c KST Sai b D Johnson	0	2	0	0	0.00
Chethan William	c P Yogesh b S Vadeyaraj	8	11	1	0	72.73
Abrar Kazi	c V Kumar b D Johnson	34	23	3	2	147.83
SP Manjunath	c (sub)S Sampath b M Pandey	6	4	1	0	150.00
Adithya Sagar	c JA Kumar b V Kumar	35	12	4	2	291.67
B Rajashekhar	not out	2	2	0	0	100.00
KH Manoj	run out (V Kumar)	0	2	0	0	0.00
Extras:	b - 4, w - 6, nb - 0, lb - 2	12
Total: (154 for 10 in 19 overs)		154	Run Rate: 8.11

Fall Of Wickets1/0 (Nitin Bille, 0.3 ov.), 2/6 (KB Pawan, 2.3 ov.), 3/6 (Shoaib Manager, 2.6 ov.), 4/7 (Chandrashekar Raghu, 3.4 ov.), 5/39 (Chethan William, 7.2 ov.), 6/109 (Abrar Kazi, 15.3 ov.), 7/109 (Sudhir Rao, 15.4 ov.), 8/117 (SP Manjunath, 16.4 ov.), 9/152 (Adithya Sagar, 18.3 ov.), 10/154 (KH Manoj, 19 ov.)Bowling: Belgaum Panthers

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd	ER
Vinay Kumar	4	1	12	4	0	0	3.0
David Johnson	3	0	13	3	0	0	4.3
Santosh Vadeyaraj	4	0	40	1	0	0	10.0
Stalin Hoover	2	0	23	0	0	4	11.5
Prakash Yogesh	1	0	13	0	0	0	13.0
Shaum Pannappa	2	0	18	0	0	1	9.0
Manish Pandey	3	0	32	1	0	0	10.7

Power Play: Mysore Maharajas innings

Mandatory: (0.1 - 6) overs - 22 Runs

Source: http://live.cricbuzz.com/

Updated: 10.30 pm

Belgaum Trivia 2

STPI incubation centre in Belgaum

Software Technology Parks of India-Bangalore (STPI-Bangalore) is spearheading the mission to take IT to tier II cities.

The STPI-Bangalore, as part of its new initiatives, is planning incubation centres at Mysore, Shimoga and Belgaum besides enhancing its Hubli incubation centre space.

Each centres is expected to cost around Rs 8 crore to Rs 10 crore. Currently, sources said, STPI Hubli has also a point of presence (PoP) at Belgaum to service the datacom needs of IT/ITES industry in Belgaum city.

The idea of an incubation centre at Belgaum is to see it is proximity to Pune, it could attract potential entrepreneurs from there as well to provide for remote engineering as also IT-enabled services.

Source: Deccan Herald

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

The five-minute rush at the railway gate

Contributed by Hitesh Dharmadasani

People do not like to wait; all they want is instant. Take for example the situation when the railway gate is closed for a train to pass, even after the gate is closed you can see people trying to make way under the gate with their two wheelers. Why cant they wait for 5 minutes, after all the gate is closed for their safety.

The scene is similar on all railway gates. We need to think on this and ask ourselves are we waiting for something bad to happen and is it that only then we will realize this.