High demand but fewer wage forces workers to look for other jobs Bengaluru, Nov.20, 2018. Uneducated people often take up daily labor jobs which fetch them money on a daily basis. Most of them hardly meet their needs due to low pay. The beedi workers in the city are facing the same situation. As per […]
Continue ReadingBangalore also among the slowest cities after Kolkata. Bengaluru, Nov. 18, 2018: The report titled ‘Mobility and Congestion in Urban India 2018’ published by NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) was released in the start of November 2018. The report says, “We develop a methodology to estimate robust city level vehicular mobility indices, and apply […]
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With no perennial water resources and ever-growing population, Bangalore will collapse: Expert. Bengaluru, Nov.17, 2018. Groundwater rejuvenation is poor in Bangalore; overexploitation of the groundwater by the government and the citizens has led to a massive fall in the levels of groundwater in the city. The latest Niti Aayog report ranks Bangalore amongst the top […]
Continue Reading14 deaths due to rabies reported this year By Ayanti Bera Bengaluru, Nov. 17, 2018. According to the National Health Profile 2018, Karnataka ranks second in rabies death all over India, after West Bengal. In 2018 so far, 14 cases and subsequent deaths from rabies have been recorded at the Epidemic Hospital in Bangalore, the […]
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1300 villages in India, nearly 24% of teachers were absent during unannounced visits Bengaluru, Nov 19, 2018: The World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018) was published in February 2018 which is the 40th in the series , introduced a new agenda on ‘Learning to realize education’s promise’, which is the first ever promise that has […]
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Re-elections for the post of Deputy Mayor of the BBMP are yet to be announced. The post of Deputy Mayor of the Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) remains vacant a month after the previous appointee’s passing. The Janata Dal (Secular)’s Ramila Umashankar was elected as the Deputy Mayor on September 28th of this year. However, she […]
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Thousands of visually impaired children are left with outdated teachings Bangalore has several schools for the blind and disabled children, and most of those schools use teaching methodologies and techniques that are conventional and old. These schools, once built to rehabilitate or provide education to the blinds, are currently ‘small-scale institutes’ with student population between […]
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Fluctuations in the price of PM Modi’s ‘TOP’ cause problems to the citizens. Karnataka has been facing large fluctuations in the price of onions, potatoes, and tomatoes, for the past several months, items included in the landmark project of the Central government called ‘Operation Greens’. One of the main reasons for the fluctuations can be […]
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The dip in job placements for students across government and private engineering institutions in the country is a huge cause of concern for the education sector According to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), there has been a decline in the number of engineering institutes across the country. There were around 3,400 such […]
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Even though the statistics show a decline, women alone are still the targets of offensive men in their daily lives. There has been a decline in molestation cases from Jan. – July. 2017 (566 cases) compared to 2018 (463 cases), as per the data from the City Crime Record Bureau (CCRB.) Renee, a victim who […]
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