Freedom Park’s multilevel car parking project continues to push its deadlines, way past its completion date. It’s either protesters, COVID-19 or rocky terrain under the ground, behind the delay for the Freedom Park parking project that was to be completed in 2017. Protestors continue to precariously park their vehicles on footpaths as the parking site […]
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Users demand a bug-free application with a better interface to locate electric vehicle charging stations in Bangalore. Electric vehicle (EV) users in the city face difficulty assessing locations of EV charging stations. Launched by Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM), the application has been receiving a lot of flak due to shoddy user experience. […]
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Disabled choose private institutions/NGOs as the government suspends employment training programmes and shuts special employment exchanges. Disabled people are not getting jobs from the employment training program provided by the Department for the Empowerment of Differently abled and Senior Citizens (DWDSC). It has been suspended since 2018. The last training session provided to the disabled […]
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Attendants are forced to sleep on the streets whilst their patients get treatment. Government hospitals fail to provide basic amenities to the attendants accompanying patients. Most attendants, usually family, live in deplorable conditions till the treatment is completed, which sometimes takes months. Most government hospitals follow the one-attendant-per-patient rule according to which only one member of […]
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Kempegowda International Airport(KIA)will add more testing machines, manpower and will request for more operational space. After Wednesday’s chaos at the KIA, testing centres are planning to ramp up their services at the airport. Tejasvini, a project manager at Auriga testing centre, KIA, said they will add about 100 more employees for hassle-free testing of international […]
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The number rose from 1385 in 2019 to 4583 in 2021. Missing children cases have gone up by 31 per cent from 2019 to 2021 in Karnataka. There is a significant increase in the number of untraced children from 550 in 2019 to 897 in 2021. National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) data suggests that 336 […]
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In an exclusive chat with the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Grand Slam champion Rohan Bopanna talks about sponsorship problems that tennis players in India grapple with. Tennis players in India continue to struggle due to costly worldwide travelling for tournaments, coaching, physiotherapy, and dietary needs. There is no sponsorship from the government […]
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In an exclusive chat with the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Priyansh Khushwani said that the Ministry of External Affairs hasn’t contacted them, yet. It might take longer than usual for the three badminton players stuck in Botswana to return to India. The players may have to travel to another country that is […]
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Absent Braille safety manuals and lavatories without Braille buttons add to the travel woes of the blind. Blind passengers complain that their safety on board is compromised as most airlines do not instruct them with safety and evacuation procedures. Apart from missing Braille safety manuals, lavatories prove to be equally inefficient due to missing Braille […]
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Amputees head towards NGOs due to shoddy prosthetics and orthotics in government hospitals. Amputees get artificial limbs from the NGOs working in the city due to the compromised quality and obsolescence of prosthetics in government hospitals. Neuro-myoelectric prosthesis covered under the Make in India campaign is still a pipe dream. Neuro-myoelectric prosthesis is the bionic […]
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