Month: March 2018

India State of forest Report 2017 (ISFR) showed an increase of 117 sq. km in the tree cover of Bengaluru urban area.   Bangalore, March 20, 2018: The ISFR 2017 may have given Karnataka a reason to cheer with the state recording the second highest growth in forest cover. However, urban Bangalore’s rising tree cover […]

Farzi Café gets conditional  permission from Cubbon Park police station to re-open The Cubbon Park police station have permitted  Farzi Café to resume business almost a month after Congress MLA’s son Mohammed Harris Nalapad was booked for assaulting a youth at the café. The Cubbon Park police officials said that they have given the permission […]

This is the steepest decline in a two-year period since 2010 The Indian agricultural sector is set to lose about 5.6 million jobs between 2018 and 2019 according to the International Labour Organization’s employment outlook report. This is the steepest decline over two consecutive years since 2010, after holding steady for five years between 2012 […]

The subcaste Madiga, who have been fighting for 21 years, demand special status or they will refrain from voting for the Congress in the upcoming elections After the state government granted a religious minority tag to the Lingayat community, the Madiga  community is now complaining of being sidelined by the Siddharamaiah government. M.C Srinivas president […]

Udaya TV Workers’ Union claim the network violated labour laws while laying off scores of employees. As many as 200 ex-Udaya News employees are set to go on a strike to protest against unpaid benefits and dues after Sun Network fired them last year, said G R Shivshankar, General Secretary, Trade Union Co-Ordination Centre 68 […]

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has failed to enforce regulations  on bottled water companies, a study has said. The study published in Current Science magazine found that many  firms manufacturing bottled water  prefer to operate without the BIS license. The study says that this happens because the BIS has inadequate facilities to monitor and […]

The third shop is to benefit 200 farmers and several families Bangalore, March 15, 2018: The new outlet of Grameen Angadi promoting organic and handcrafted products is to help 200 farmers and several families. “Two hundred farmers are dependent on this shop. They all come under the Gramina Karakushala Udyama: a trust formed by artisans […]