Chief Minister of Karnataka H D Kumaraswamy, in presence of Sudha Murthy, chairman of Infosys Foundation, inaugurated the Centre for Cybercrime Investigation Training & Research that has been set up at Criminal Investigation Department, in order to tackle the growing number of cybercrime cases in the city. The centre is set up as part of […]
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Filmmakers at the Bengaluru International Film Festival emphasized the struggles they face in the process of screening movies. By Hansy Sanctis and Saloni Arora The 11th edition of the Bangalore International Film Festival (BIFF) was held from the 21st February and came to an end today. It took place at the Orion Mall, and the […]
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Property papers handed over to ten thousands of beneficiaries Ten thousand residents of the five talukas in the district of Bangalore Urban received the deed paper for the land they have built their houses on. The beneficiaries under this scheme are the people who had built their houses on lands they did not possess. Under Sec […]
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Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy inaugurated ‘Jalamrutha'(Water Forever, for Everyone), a new programme today at Ambedkar Bhavan in Bangalore. Mahesh, the joint director of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), exclusively in an interview with Softcopy, said, “The project is up to the Gram Panchayat level which will be implemented for two years. […]
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The 19th National Science Day celebrated as the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience (NIMHANS) organizes a science exhibition. NIMHANS marked the special day in order to honor deceased Dr. C.V Raman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930, for inventing the Raman Effect, the study of light scattering. The theme of […]
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The police are looking into the case and will hold responsible the engineers and officials involved. The officials who were responsible for the maintenance work being done in Rajkumar Park without proper safety measures will have to pay compensation to the boy’s family if they are proven guilty. On February 24, Uday Kumar, a seven-year-old […]
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Not Paying Information Technology (IT) taxes and still aces the education game; PES University leaves a lot of questions unanswered. PES University has been in the engineering game for seven years, achieving the top position in the technical field in Karnataka from the state government. They documented that this year a total number of 5,038 students […]
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South India now has its first addiction-resolving services online The National Institute of Mental Health and Sciences (NIMHANS) launched a virtual network to render psychiatric help with regard to cases of tobacco addiction. Raghu, a psychiatric social worker in the Centre of addiction in NIMHANS highlighted the nature of the service. “National Tobacco Quitline Services […]
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Literacy rate goes as low as 19 percent in some villages in Karnataka. The literacy rate in Siruguppa taluk in the district of Bellary is as low as 44.14 percent, according to the census of 2011. While the male literacy rate is 57.58 percent, the female literacy rate stands at 30.83 per cent. K Devena […]
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Even though India has progressed to the 21st century, cases of honor killings are still prevalent. The nation has achieved milestones in various fields. But, certain social norms and rules have held the nation back. One such rule made by society is the disallowance of marriage between two people who belong to different caste and […]
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