Indian Info

BANGALORE: No pork, no liquor, no dance — Bangalore's big brand Windsor Manor Sheraton should be a sober version of itself, if the state government's solution becomes the compromise formula to the years-old impasse of the hotel lease. The lease will be renewed only if the tenets of Islam are accepted as part of it.

BANGALORE: The Rs 3700-crore high speed rail link (HSRL) has been put on the fast track by tourism and infrastructure minister G Janardhana Reddy. It however has a history of being buffeted by strong pro and anti lobbies.

The government's infrastructure vision group, which was until last week headed by Capt Gopinath, is all in favour of it. By cutting down the commute time to the airport from the city to less than half hour, it has the ability to be a game changer to the economic landscape of the entire Bangalore north region especially Devanahalli and Yelahanka and the airport corridor, it says. The argument being that every big city, be it Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kaula Lumpur, London have direct, fast speed links to the airport from the city centre which result in economic multipliers far outweighing the initial heavy cost of construction.