National Green Tribunal urges for de-centralized management of waste as BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) drowns in city produced garbage. As BBMP runs out of places to dump waste and the waste disposal apocalypse looms large over the city, National Green Tribunal (NGT) singled out de-centralized waste management as the only plausible solution to the […]
Continue ReadingIllegal water bottle manufacturing units without any proper licensing from FSSAI have increased in Bangalore, and have no specified plant for manufacturing bottles. Government has issued notice to 24 companies which are involved in illegal water bottle manufacturing. These water bottles look like the branded ones, however there is no guarantee of the water quality. […]
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The city emerges as the hub of dowry-harassment in India, says a report by the National Crime Records Bureau. Bengaluru has gotten the unwanted distinction of being the metropolitan city with the most number of dowry-harassment cases. The data on crimes in 2018, released recently by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), shows that India’s […]
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Chetan B S, who is visually impaired, turns to friends, family or colleagues for withdrawing cash from ATMs. Sometimes he even avoids going to ATMs and goes to banks for the same. “It’s really difficult for people like us to manage with the ATMs which are not talking ATM. Next issue is with the keypad […]
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