Safe and locally-sourced clean energy eludes Siddapur taluk due to government apathy

The people of Siddapur taluk—while living in a region with an abundant supply of renewable resources like wood—continue to use old-fashioned chulhas putting their health on the line and inadvertently causing ambient air pollution thanks to to the administration’s failure in providing a clean energy solution using local resources. A smoky situation Indira was making […]

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TRAI under pressure to relax regulation in new telecom policy

The Industry says regulation in Internet-of-things (IoT) will kill innovation in the sector Internet and telecom industries are calling for relaxed regulation and licensing framework for the IoT (internet-of-things) sector in the National Telecom Policy 2018 due later this year. TRAI in its consultation paper that came out in February 2018 was bullish on licensing […]

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Siddaramaiah flags off Saviruchi mobile canteens

By Kaveri Gupta and Bharath Manjesh Hundred of 4000 planned scooters for the disabled given away. Saviruchi mobile cantees that will provide inexpensive food were kicked off and a hundred, of 4000 planned, retro-fitted scooters for the disabled were given away by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at the Vidhana Soudha on Tuesday. Saviruchi mobile canteens are […]

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Outsourcing meets Crowdsourcing

India’s IT Industry is warming up to a crowdsourced way of doing things. Bharath Manjesh Bangalore, January 18, 2018: Crowdsourcing of technical work is going mainstream in India with more and more IT companies tapping into the power of the crowd to get the work done while saving time and cost overheads. Topcoder—the world’s largest marketplace […]

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GST revision leaves electric vehicle manufacturers unimpressed

Bangalore, November 23, 2017: Electric car manufacturers are unhappy about the GST council’s decision to retain automotive car batteries in the highest tax slab. The revision of GST Tax rates in November has retained automotive batteries in the highest tax slab of 28 per cent. This is 18 to 23 per cent over the pre-GST state […]

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