IIJNM-FactShala Zonal Hub for Media Literacy Newsletter for February 2024 Dear readers, February was a month filled with creative learning, as students took a deep dive into the realms of digital literacy. They used their learned knowledge into crafting insightful guides aimed at helping their peers navigate the complexities of information consumption. Crafting Digital Literacy […]
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School managements express challenges in introducing alcometers. It was a Sunday morning. Parvati, a middle-aged working parent sat down with her morning coffee and picked up the day’s newspaper. As she flipped through the pages, she nearly choked on her coffee when she read an article reporting the arrest of 16 school bus drivers for […]
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“A country’s greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice.”- Sarojini Naidu Sarojini Naidu achievement timeline Avantika Khajuria Five top states in terms of percentage share in total number of women owned establishments Varidhi Goyal Women in STEM Sumanta Sinha Number of women in lower house of parliament across the world Vishisht Dwivedi […]
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Better technology, offers and discounts on Visa and Mastercard are taking Bengaluru cardholders away from RuPay Rohit uses debit cards extensively. He has a Visa card, one from Mastercard and one issued by RuPay. Recently, he has stopped using the last one. He is not alone. The number of RuPay cards issued in Bangalore over […]
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BBMP inspection team had been checking these poles and closing the open boxes with plastic and sealing them with cellophane tape. Bangalore: Priyanka was in a hurry to get to her college. She was rushing towards the metro station, without paying attention to the wires coming out of the open junction. Suddenly she noticed the […]
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Shuchi scheme is a government scheme meant for supplying sanitary napkins to adolescent girls at school level. Schools are not being supplied with sanitary napkins under Shuchi Scheme in January as promised by Health and Family welfare department of Government of Karnataka. B.S. Suma, principal of Jyothy Kendra Vidhyala, Kanakpura Road said that none of […]
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Engineering graduates around the city and the country are finding campus placements hard to come by. If you are planning to do engineering in the hope that you will be assured placement, you might want to reconsider. You just might end up being unemployed. One in every two engineering graduates of recent years in India […]
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The problem of non-payment of issued traffic violation tickets is a big concern for the traffic department. Of the total challans issued in last six months, less than one percent have been paid so far. You pay for your food online. You pay for your medicines online. You go online for every big and small […]
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While they have not replaced conventional novels, graphic novels are steadily gaining ground in the city. They are full of colours, quirky drawings, designs and words written in various fonts. Fiction comes alive in them, characters move about and stories unfurl in most imaginative ways. You might see an over enthused child reading them on […]
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The Rs. 4-crore Kengeri lake rejuvenation programme started in 2023, but has now been paused. The lake is a swill of dirt and stink. Marshy land with algae covering the water body, open drains with continuous flow of sewage water, acres of land that are turned to dumping yards with a foul odour. This is […]
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