Choose Your Masks

With new confirmed cases of the COVID-19 being detected in India, stocks of surgical masks, pollution masks and the basic N-95 masks are selling like hot cakes. By Savyata Mishra City chemists and druggists opened their shops today to a new surge in demand for masks, as Bengalureans brace themselves to the coronavirus epidemic, after a […]

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Paying Rs 14,999 for video message from Jannat Zubair? Not for long

Did you know it would cost you 15k for your favourite actor to give you a shoutout on video? And almost Rs 4,999 if the person were to DM you on social media? But experts and some celebrities are questioning the rationale behind the idea and the sustainability of the business model. By Savyata Mishra […]

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E-ticketing fails, BMTC services need mending

Despite the city’s attempts to make public transport smart by introducing Intelligent Transport system (ITS), passengers are issued paper tickets.  By Savyata Mishra Anil Kumar boards the bus from Majestic bus station to Uttarahalli every day after work by paying Rs 22. A few months ago, he was being issued one electronically generated ticket of […]

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Eight deaths every day on Bengaluru’s rail tracks

Citing unavailability of escalators, lifts and inconvenient foot over-bridges, Bengalureans take to crossing tracks illegally, resulting in high rates of death on tracks. By Savyata Mishra Accident numbers on Bengaluru’s railway tracks in 2019 have reached a record high of 1,246 till September, according to data by Railway Police Force. These accidents occur when people […]

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