Despite budget issues, independent filmmakers are gaining fame through international film festivals. New York Indian film festival (NYIFF) 2021 screened more than 60 Indian films. One year ago, Abhilash Shetty was knocking on producers’ doors, looking for someone to create his project. “For the third or fourth time in a year, I had been refused. […]
Continue Reading
No proper monitoring and software bugs remain the biggest hurdle for the scheme, alleged the AAP spokesperson. Aam Admi Party (AAP) held a press conference today at Press Club of Bangalore and alleged that Housing Minister V Somanna was “flirting with the lives of poor and middle class people who were not their own.” Jagdish […]
Continue Reading
Article 20 of the Pakistan’s constitution guarantees religious freedom to its citizens, but Ahmadiyyas and other communities continue to fear persecution and killing amid the ongoing political crisis. “Go, *Ali,” cried *Ayesha. “Those cold-blooded murderers killed your father—run my son, fly away to a distant land,” she said to her lanky son, who was in […]
Continue Reading
Wool production in Karnataka has reduced by 73.5 percent despite an increase in sheep population. Wool production in the state has been on a decline due to lack of demand, regulated market and awareness. Sheep farmers in the state said that there are no buyers in the market for the wool so they shear off […]
Continue Reading
A Supreme Court appointed committee is supposed to complete the regularization by December 31, 2022. The Supreme Court (SC) appointed Justice Chandrashekhar Committee (JCC) has managed to regularize the applications of only 20 percent of the house owners at Shivaram Karanth Layout in 15 months. The deadline for completion of regularization of all the buildings […]
Continue Reading
Victoria hospital gets Karnataka’s first hyperbaric oxygen therapy unit which will be free of cost for people below the poverty line (BPL). With Covid-19 cases falling in Bengaluru, cases of respiratory infections are rising. A popular treatment to cure complex respiratory infections and sick tissues is the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). It is a medical […]
Continue Reading
Importing poor quality cashew seeds has caused a decline in our exports. Vishwak started a cashew export business in January 2016. He runs Sree Krishna Prasad cashews in Udupi, Karnataka, which imports raw cashew seeds from Zimbabwe. The declining quality of the seeds has led to a decrease in the amount of cashew he used […]
Continue Reading
High Court of Karnataka restated that a customer in a brothel cannot be brought into criminal proceedings. After hearing the petition filed by a man who was charged in such a case, the single judge bench of Justice M Nagarpasanna said, “It is not in dispute that the petitioner was a customer in the brothel […]
Continue Reading
Nationalized banks fail to dispense bank cards to account holders amidst chip shortage. Lakhs of new bank account openers of nationalised banks wait for their cards from October 2021 due to heavy chip shortage in the country. Ashitha, a teenager who opened her account in November and waiting for the card said, “I am walking […]
Continue Reading
Dwindling supplies and soaring demand has pushed the prices of lemons high. Laxmi owns a lemon soda cart at Church Street. For the past few days, she has been incurring losses because her business is running slow. She pays a parking rent of Rs. 500 a day. After that, she is left with no savings. […]
Continue Reading