Raining Heavy In Bangalore

Date:- 18 August 2008

Its Raining Heavy in Bangalore since this evening.. Ever where traffic jam , For two wheelers it has become very hard to drive... from past two days rainy has been stopped in bangalore but Today Heavy Rain Clashes Bangalore Again

Karnataka Rakshana Vedike activists stop Tamil Nadu-bound buses

Karnataka Rakshana Vedike activists stop Tamil Nadu-bound buses

Venting ire: Activists of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike protesting atop a bus bound for Tamil Nadu at the Satellite Bus Terminus on Mysore Road in Bangalore on Sunday.

BANGALORE: Activists of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike’s T.A. Narayana Gowda faction continued their protest demanding classical status for Kannada language.

This comes in the wake of a Tamil Nadu advocate questioning in the Madras High Court giving classical status to Kannada.

On Sunday, the activists went to the Satellite Bus Terminus on Mysore Road and stopped some buses bound for various places in Tamil Nadu. The protestors accused the Union Government of deliberately delaying issue of notification giving classical status to Kannada despite proof of the language meriting the status.

The protestors climbed atop some buses and raised slogans against the Union Government, affecting the movement of buses for nearly two hours. The vedike members had stopped some Tamil Nadu-bound trains at the Bangalore City Railway Station on Saturday.

No arrests were made.

Jog Falls

og Falls are the highest waterfalls in Asia. Situated at around 113kms from Shimoga city, they are created by the river Sharavati, falling through a height of 292 m (958 ft).
The best time to visit the falls is July-August (monsoons in northern karnataka). The Hirebhaskar Dam has been built on the River Sharavati just before it takes the shape of Jog falls. Hence at the other times of the year, the falls are seen as narrow stream of water due to considerably less volume as the water is reserved for power generation purposes and not allowed to take the shape of such magnificient falls as seen here.
Also, in the picture 4 distinct streams can be seen viz. -
Raja (King): Named so because of its apparently
'dignified' and 'serene' fall (first from the left in the picture).
Rani (Queen), also called Lady: The stream has a winding, twisting trajectory, said to resemble the movements of a female dancer (third from the left in the picture).
Roarer: This stream appears out of a mass of rocks, making a tremendous amount of noise (hence the name) (second from left, starting from middle height).
Rocket: Consists of a large volume of water streaming out of a small opening at a very high speed (first from the right).

These streams take these shapes much more conspicuously during other seasons due to low volume of water.