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03.01.2006 Holding aloft the noble tradition of imparting medical education, the Bangalore Medical College has just turned 50. For five decades, the college has produced big names galore in the medical fraternity, built up a reputation for medical practice and achieved much more to add muscle and meaning to the glitter of the golden jubilee year celebrations.

02.01.2006 The Centre for Good Governance (CGG) in Andhra Pradesh has been selected by the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) and the Union government for implementing the “Capacity Building for Access to Information” project.The project cost is about Rs 7 crore.

02.01.2006 An ambitious pilot project to introduce rural mobile services has lived up to its hyped-up Christmas launch three years ago, thanks to help from unexpected quarters.

02.01.2006 M S Swaminathan Research Foundation and The Hindu Media Resource Centre organised the workshop “Managing Tsunami :
Lessons of 26 December 2004” on 26 December, 2005.

02.01.2006 The NDA Government enacted The Freedom of Information A ct in 2002. It was adopted in January 2003 but never went into force. The recent Right to Information Act was approved by the Parliament and signed by the President in June 2005 and went into effect in October 2005.

02.01.2006 The proposal to set up 24 new IT companies with a potential to create an additional 20,000 jobs, at a cost of Rs. 1,000 crores, may have brought Mysore to the threshold of a boom in the IT sector, but the cascading effect of an influx of employees and their families on the fragile infrastructure of the city has already raised concerns.

02.01.2006 Officers of the telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) have expressed angst at various proposals mooted in the new National Telecom Policy (NTP), which is likely to be announced soon.