November, 2009 Citizen Matters, Bengaluru

Health

Health insurance for people living with HIV gets thumbs-up

November 30, 2009 Savita Hiremath

The first ever health insurance package for people living with HIV, Star Netplus, is gaining in popularity. On this World AIDS Day, Bengaluru’s beneficiaries and promoters of the package involved share their experiences.

Civic

How we started segregating our waste

November 29, 2009 Sandya Narayanan

A sea of plastic bags were sitting around, while all our children were playing in the driveway. An accidental wrong hit and and they would be scrambling amongst the garbage looking for their ball . Something had to be done. And fast.

Being eco-friendly does come easy

November 29, 2009 Savita Hiremath

A resident learns to segregate dry waste, wet waste, metal waste, e-waste, bio-waste, plastic waste.

Environment

Helping residents solve water woes

November 29, 2009 News Desk

Inviting you to a workshop that will look at water reality and solutions, including rain water harvesting, groundwater recharge and grey water reuse. On Sunday, December 6th at Redwood apartments off Sarjapura road.

Environment

Green conference for parents, schools

November 29, 2009 Vinita

The ‘Be the Change Conference’ to be held this Friday and Saturday will address a range of issues related to food, health and climate change – for parents, educators, children and all concerned citizens.

Bangalore’s good for women scientists

November 29, 2009 Padmalatha Ravi

Bangalore is lucky to have IISc. And Bangalore’s women of science are lucky to have the Women in Science panel headquartered there.

Widespread waste segregation a far cry, but citizen initiatives rising

November 29, 2009 Vaishnavi Vittal

A Citizen Matters check found out there is widespread interest amongst citizens in helping the city shake off the ‘garbage’ city tag, but there is much ground to be covered.

Education

The Bengaluru kids who went to TED

November 26, 2009 Poornima Dasharathi

In a remarkable and inspirational development, school children from low-income families in Bengaluru shone at the recent TEDIndia conference at Mysore.

Society

City martial art school now trains thousands of women

November 26, 2009 Sindhu Kashyap

Independent Shootfighters Inc, a growing martial arts school in Bengaluru is now behind a new trend: more than a lakh city women have been trained in self-defence.

Society

10 activities for kids this winter

November 25, 2009 Reshmi Chakraborty

Want to engage your child in some unusual activities this winter? Below are some interesting things to do in the city this December.

Society

Antiques, memories and more

November 24, 2009 Pushpa Achanta

Founder of The Qurio City Shop, S V Ramachandran goes down memory lane.

If you get hungry at midnight

November 24, 2009 Anit Kurian

There are not too many options to eat out late night…Why can’t eateries atleast be open?

Roadblocks to perfect marriages

November 24, 2009 Sreenivasan V P

Two roadblocks to perfect marriages in our society – horoscope matching and the practice of dowry.

Commute

Junctions where grade separators are to come up

November 24, 2009 Vaishnavi Vittal

Here’s a list of some of the junctions identified for grade separator projects, all approved by BBMP’s Technical Advisory Committee, along Bengaluru’s major traffic corridors.

Commute

Citizens question transport department’s policy draft

November 23, 2009 Vaishnavi Vittal

At a recent meet on sustainable transport, Bangaloreans and officials discussed the state transport department’s draft policy, a document not many are aware of.