Crowd-funding the politicians’ dream

A Delhi-based start-up is leading the new trend for electoral candidates to get funds directly from the public. Niket Nishant In an attempt to make elections more transparent, crowd-funding is emerging as a new trend among political candidates. Besides finding favour among the masses, it is also viewed by experts as a way to cleanse […]

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A COLLECTIVE UNDERGROUND CHAOS

            The 2019 IIJNM Investigative Journalism Report           “Metro Mess” by the Watchdogs Team. By Anuradha Sriram, Ayanti Bera, Sahana Sanjeev, Samanth Lanka, Sharathkumar Nair, and Yajush Gupta.                A COLLECTIVE UNDERGROUND CHAOS How the miscommunication and ignorance of urban authorities are deliberately putting millions of lives in danger. Namma […]

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Theft of a precious resource

Illegal and unmetered connections on Bengaluru’s outskirts deal a crippling blow to BWSSB At a time when several areas of Greater Bengaluru are still without Cauvery water, theft of huge quantities of water is hampering the BWSSB’s effort to provide new connections. Complaints of water theft have been registered at the Thalaghattapura, Kodigehalli and Viveknagar police […]

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Unregulated sale of Schedule H drugs

All over Bengaluru, these medicines are sold over the counter —without doctor’s prescription Four years after the Indian Pharmaceutical Association recommended that the sale of Schedule H drugs without prescription be restricted, they are still sold like over-the-counter medicines. Most pharmacies that Insight, IIJNM’s investigative magazine, visited, handed Schedule H medicines without asking for a […]

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