Although there is no law that determines what children can or cannot read, children’s authors in India find themselves playing it safe. Children’s authors in India sacrifice their freedom to express certain ideas so their books can be published, sold and accepted by parents, publishers and society. “My book ‘Behind the Lie’ is about domestic […]
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National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) report states that in 2019, 1,570 deaths were reported due to road crashes near educational institutions in India. Experts said no footpaths, broken and occupied footpaths, lack of road sign-boards, lack of pedestrian crossing and non-working traffic lights near schools are a threat to the life of school students. Poorvi, 12, […]
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Private players, policies, eat up market share. The farmer produce procured by Horticultural Producers’ Co-operative Marketing and Processing Society Ltd.(HOPCOMS) has declined from 60 tonnes a day to 40 tonnes a day in the last three to four years. Jayaprakash, Marketing Head of HOPCOMS said that out of 270 outlets in the city, only 100 […]
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Teachers have to repeat instructions multiple times to be understood. As schools are reopening, dyslexic children are having trouble in the learning process as the teachers have to wear masks which muffle their voices. According to a study,“While masks prevent the spread of COVID, they also make spoken language more difficult for children to understand, […]
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An increase in the number of vehicles and poor monitoring of scrap tires contributes to tire burning, leading to pollution in the city. Industry’s burning of tires for fuel and oil goes unchecked by the government posing serious dangers to the environment. Burning of tires is illegal and is nationally prohibited under the National Environmental […]
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Tele-law service was launched as a part of Digital India campaign in 2017. Tele-law services are still not available at Common Service Centres (CSC) across Bengaluru although it has been operational across the country since December 2019. There are 51,434 CSCs in the country and 753 of these centers are in Karnataka. Out of these, […]
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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) had planned to introduce pink autos in the city back in 2018. Bengaluru: Residents of the city have to wait longer for pink autos as the BBMP does not have any plans to launch them soon. Rajeshwari S, Assistant Commissioner of Welfare at BBMP said that they don’t have any […]
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Seventeen percent of school-going children in India suffer from myopia. It is one of the emerging public health concerns. Bengaluru: Lack of outdoor activities has led to a rise in the number of myopia cases in children between five to 15 years of age in India. Myopia instances increased about 60 percent between 2019 and2021 […]
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The illegal trade has increased by 300 percent after the pandemic; pushing the species to extinction, experts say. Bengaluru: The illegal trade of the highly elusive pangolin mammals shot up after the coronavirus pandemic, an Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) report states. There has been a 300 percent increase in the […]
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