Rights for the Landless

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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State Wakes up to Water Scarcity

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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National Science Day

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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Surprising Scholarships: PES University

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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Addicted? Get Online

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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