Internet banking users of almost every nationalized and private banks are reducing. Banks are burdened with maintenance costs due to fewer users using internet banking facilities. Good effort, but not sure this is anything new. Rohit, is an internet banking or net banking user since 2013. He has a savings bank (SB) account in a […]
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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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Many engineering colleges in Bengaluru do not have enough professors. According to estimates by officials of Visvesvaraya Technological University a shortage of around 10 percent in teaching staff has been noticed after Covid-19 in almost every engineering college of the city. More than half the engineering colleges in Bengaluru do not have the required numbers […]
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Doctors recommend that patients with pulmonary ailments best stay indoors this winter. Winter season can take a toll on people’s health. Doctors suggest that rhinitis, bronchitis, asthma and other lungs related diseases could become severe in people during winters due to increase in dust and pollen particles in the air. According to the Jayanagar general hospital […]
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Bangalore Division of the Indian Railways has started installing train protection system in their WAP series engines. The system will also be installed in all series of train engines soon. The Bangalore Division of the South Western Railway Zone on Thursday evening conducted the first trial for the Kavach train protection system on freight train […]
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Dropout rates in Bangalore’s undergraduate engineering colleges in the current academic year have gone up to seven percent from two to three previously. About seven undergraduate students per year in every branch of engineering are leaving mid-way throught their four-year course. Dr Sudharsha Reddy, the regional director of Visvesvarya Technological Univesity (VTU) said that this […]
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Direct To Consumer is the future for the e-commerce market. Since the start of digital transactions, the e-commerce market has flourished by three times. India’s e-commerce industry has expanded three times since ‘Digital India’ was launched in 2015, but a mindset change is needed so that people in the industry can focus on the earning […]
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The Bengaluru regional office of the Reserve Bank of India, has seen an approximate 13 percent surge in currency circulation amounting to Rs. 2.5 lakh crore post the first quarter of the 2023-24 financial year. Cash still holds its ground in Bengaluru. The circulation of cash has surged despite the popularity of Unified Payment System […]
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Core engineering branches like electrical, civil and mechanical are losing their sheen. In the last decade engineering seats in core branches have reduced from 180 to 60 whereas in non-core branches seats have increased. This year in Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) rounds of counselling, seats in non-core branches have filled earlier than those in […]
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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in a consultation paper last year wrote about the implications of physical Subscriber Identity Module (sim) cards on the environment and suggested that the way forward would be with e-sims. Efforts to reduce pollution by using the E-sim features in new mobile phones go in vain because currently a […]
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