Public libraries continue to grow in the city as more funds are released by the government India’s Ministry of Culture has increased spending on public libraries over the last four years from Rs. 78.02 crore in 2015-16 to Rs. 95.75 crore in 2017-18. And the estimate for 2018-19 is Rs. 109.18 crore. There are 200 […]
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Globalization and internet to blame Most people seem to prefer international toy brands over domestic ones in Bangalore. “If you see board games, for example, people prefer to buy Monopoly, while there is a game exactly like Monopoly called Business, developed by an Indian company, which I used to play in my childhood. But people […]
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The Indian shooting contingent participating at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow have been in sparkling form, having won a handful of medals in almost all of the competing events One of the men behind the success of these shooters is Joydeep Karmakar, who has coached a few to success, especially the likes of Mehuli […]
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Youth For Employment’ threatened to not vote if their jobs demands are not met. A youth labor organization called ‘Youth For Employment’ has threatened to storm political rallies and ask tough questions on unemployment if political parties do not meet the labor demands they have set in a youth manifesto. Ravi, a member of the […]
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State government is under pressure to implement the Sadashiva Committee recommendations on SC reservation. The Karnataka Madiga Dandora has called on the state’s Madiga community to ditch the Congress party in the upcoming assembly elections slated to be held on May 12. This is because they are dissatisfied over the non-implementation of the Sadashiva Committee […]
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Bangalore is the country’s fourth largest construction and demolition waste producer in India. But, it is not able to manage and process waste effectively. The seven landfill sites identified by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for the management and processing of construction and demolition (CDW) waste exist only on paper. Following the directions of […]
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Despite several free schemes providing corrective cleft lip and palate surgeries, less than 50 per cent avail the services in the country. Cleft lip and palate is the most common congenital disorder in the facial region. Research has revealed that there at least thirty-five thousand new cleft lip patients are born in India every year. […]
Continue ReadingThe number of students appearing for Indian music exams has fallen considerably since last year. There has been a dip in the number of students appearing for the Karnataka Music and Talavady exam. Hemantha Nayak, Assistant Director of the of the Music and Talavadya Department said that from 15,697 students who appeared for the exam […]
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The commission tightens grip ahead of state assembly elections The Election Commission (EC) has seized nearly Rs. 5 crore of unaccounted cash ahead of the Karnataka assembly elections to be held in May. A total of 1,156 flying squads and 1,255 have been doing round around the states, and catching hold of any activity that […]
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Fifteen years on, Iraqis continue to address the tumultuous situation in Baghdad till this day despite the end of Hussein’s regime. : Back in 2003, on this day, Baghdad slipped into the hands of the Americans, as jubilant Iraqis and Americans took to the streets and celebrated the end of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The US […]
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