Category: Travel

Bangalore City Station becomes India’s First Train Station with WiFi for Passengers: October 2014

Bangalore City Railway Station

The Union Minister for Railyways D.V.Sadananda Gowda recently inaugrated the facility.

Bangalore City’s Railway Station has become the first railway station in the country to have WiFi facility that will provide high speed internet to passengers.

The facility has been created by RailTel with a gigabit ethernet network using optic fibre in a ring. RailTel has been mandated by Railyways to provide WiFi facility at major railway stations.

‘RailWire’ the retail broadband distribution of RailTel Corporation of India (a PSU of Ministry of Railways) is the powering engine for distribution internet bandwith through WiFi.

Free of Cost:

The WiFi facility will be available to the passengers on their mobile phones free of charge for the first 30 minutes.

Subsequently the user can purchase scratch cards for additional usage. The scratch cards are to be priced Rs 25 for 30 minutes and Rs 35 for one hour with a validity of 24 hours.

First Woman from Karnataka to Climb on Top – Mount Everest : October 2012

Captain Smitha Lakshmana, Bangalore

May 25th, 2012.  20-year old Smitha Lakshmana, a Captain in the Indian Army completed the rare feat of climbing Mount Everest, as a part of the ‘Indian Army Women’s Everest Expedition – 2012’

Smitha was one amongst 22 selected from 659 participants, and one of the 17 who were selected for the final climbing expedition. The trekking from Jari near Kathmandu started on May 25th.

From the base camp it took about 40 days to reach the summit and get back. Smitha Lakshmana and her team reached the peak around 4 am of May 25th, 2012

Smitha Lakshmana is from Bangalore. A Computer Engineer from Dayanand Sagar College. She did her schooling in Vijaya Junior School, Jayanagar. Her parents are from Devalapura hobli, Nagamangala Taluk, Mandya District. Her younger brother is an agriculturist.

India’s First Electric Bus launched in Bangalore : February 2014

Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), Bangalore

Banglore City’s BMTC has taken the initiative to launch the first electric bus on Indian roads, plying the busy route of the Majestic-Kadugodi road. The charging point for the bus is at the Volvo depot, Majestic.

This eco-friendly electric bus is on a free of cost, 3-month trial courtesy of the Chinese company ‘Build Your Dream’ (BYD) brought to India by Utopia Pvt. Ltd.

The vehicle has zero emission, operates on a battery lasting 5 hours and covers a distance of upto 250 Km.

 

India’s First Red Bull Flutag. September 2014.

1st Red Bull Flutag, Sankey Tank, Bangalore

September 28th, 2014, Sankey Tank in Sadashivnagar, Bangalore played a full-house host to over 10,000 fun lovers and Bangaloreans today.

36 human-powered flying machines took off from a high flight deck placed 22-feet above the lake. The Winner was ‘Visar-Jet’ from Mumbai. First Runner-Up ‘Talpade’ (Bangalore) and 2nd Runner-Up was ‘Majestic Beast’ (Nagpur).

Bangalore was the city of choice to launch the 1st ever Red Bull Flutag in India making it the 141st edition edition. With this India has joined the list of 47 countries worldwide.

Red Bull Flutag:

An international event where participants (teams of 4) are required to build a human-powered aircraft and fly it off an elevated ramp that extends into a water body. The 1st Red Bull Flutag took place in Vienna, Austria in 1992. A decade later in the U.S. Subsequently over 140 editions have been held across the world.

Sankey Tank, Bangalore:

1882. Created in the 18th century it is one of Bangalore’s leading land marks.

India’ s First DVD with Animated Visuals on ‘Daasara Padagalu’ : September 2014

India’s first DVD with animated visuals on  ‘Daasara Padagalu ‘ is  – Daasar, The Fables.

It was launched on September 01st at Bhavan’s Priyamvada Birla Institute of Management auditoriam, Bharitya Vidya Bhavan, Vijayanagara first stage, Mysore.