ASHA workers who are supposed to work only for a couple of hours in the day, work far longer because they are given extra work. However, they are not paid for that extra work. By Taniva Singha Roy Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers complain about not getting any incentive for the extra work they […]
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Fine collection for violating Bangalore traffic guidelines are turning automated. This has reduced violations such as red light jumping and helmet-less driving. By Rhythm Sharma The traffic police have booked 96 lakh people online and collected Rs 180 crores in 2022.The percentage of online fine collection has gone up from 38 percent in 2018 to […]
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BBMP had asked IISc to preview the technology, but did not pay. By Riya Roy Chowdhury The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) said it did not receive the promised payment from Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) to review the ‘rapid road’ technology that was used on Old Madras Road. Associate professor at the Department of Civil […]
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Bengaluru, among all other Indian cities, has witnessed the fastest expansion of office spaces in 2022. By, Agnidev Bhattacharya India’s office market across seven of the country’s biggest cities: Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, and Pune, has hit a three-year high, recording a net absorption of 38.25 million sq. ft. in 2022, with […]
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Poor living and working conditions of migrant workers are often left without any social security net. By Vaishnavi Gopalraj Despite being entitled to free healthcare facilities for the informal sector under the Rastriya Bima Yojana, many migrant workers are unaware of how to avail the service of the health card schemes. Subhash, a migrant worker […]
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With funds touching crores, temple authorities have allegedly failed to meet auditors’ demand for compliance for the past three years. Right to Information (RTI) sourced audit reports of some of Bengaluru’s Class-A temples reveal that the amount of funds declared objectionable by auditors have been on a rise for the past three to four years. […]
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Liquidity crunch and lack of access to formal credit hamper the growth of MSMEs in Karnataka The smell of the fumes and whirring sound of machines can be constantly felt as one walks on the streets of Bengaluru’s industrial areas. Lines of buildings across the streets stand tall, housing, big machines, multiple metal bars, aluminium […]
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Ten years after the Nirbhaya gang-rape, lack of public safety is still affecting women’s freedom and job opportunities. Tanisha Kannan was an intern at India Today when it happened. It was Karnataka Rajyostav—Nov. 1, 2019. She had been called in to work on an assignment in the afternoon and was waiting for an auto to […]
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Rabies, a preventable yet fatal disease is still a problem, with dogs being the leading cause of human rabies deaths, accounting for up to 99 percent of all human rabies transmissions. For the first time in six months, Bengaluru Urban area resident Hanumanth Raya went for a morning walk, but what he found instead of […]
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Unregulated biomedical waste contributes to rising environmental hazards, say experts. Citizens demand biomedical waste management plants be relocated outside municipal borders. Gayatri finds herself in a state of confusion as she notices that the regulation of biomedical waste treatment is being violated at hospitals. “If we want to find out the real truth about biomedical […]
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