E-Mudra by SBI is supposed to help get loans for small businesses By Arghyadeep Dutta Banks and Non –Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) failed to create awareness about Mudra loans to small scale business owners and entrepreneurs. Four years after the launch of Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Loan or MUDRA Loan by Prime Minister Narendra […]
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Bengaluru Traffic Police is yet to install the promised 60 new pedestrian signals. By Arghyadeep Dutta Bangalore Traffic Police is yet to install 60 new PELICAN (Pedestrian Light Control Activation) signals, as promised almost two years ago. Meanwhile, the existing 52 pedestrian signals have also stopped working. In 2005, the Bangalore Traffic Police installed 52 […]
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Reconstruction of concrete roads at a standstill after GOK’s probe By Arghyadeep Dutta The reconstruction of the 1.8-kilometre long Subedhar Chatram Road has been halted by the Government of Karnataka following multiple complaints about the misuse of funds in Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the white-topping project. This has caused congestion on this road […]
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Traffic police fail to enforce the ban on tinted glasses after six years By Arghyadeep Dutta Despite the Supreme Court’s ban six years back, 13878 cases are been reported by Bengaluru Traffic Police against illegal black-tinted glasses in cars in 2019 till August. The Supreme Court of India in 2012 had said that use of […]
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Pedestrians risk their lives while illegally crossing the broken Gubbi Thotadappa Road divider. By Arghyadeep Dutta Chetan, a student, who travels from Ullal to Government Polytechnic College in Whitefield, has to cross the Gubbi ThotadappaRoad (GT Road) by jumping over the broken road divider. Risking his life daily, Chetan is fortunate that he has not […]
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Even after a ban of three years on single-use plastic, street food stalls near Kempegowda bus-stand still serve food on plastic sheets. By Arghyadeep Dutta Single-use plastic sheets are still being used by street food stalls to serve customers near Majestic Bus Stand and City Railway Station, even after the third anniversary of the plastic […]
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