New business models in the gaming industry have pushed retailers and resellers of video games to closing down. After 15 years of being in the retail gaming business, Rehman has decided to leave the industry for good. His store, Rey Castle Games is hidden inside a commercial complex in Jayanagar. Only with a banner of […]
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India’s free legal aid services lack infrastructure for the disabled. The lack of trust among those living in rural areas has been making the work of legal aid in Karnataka harder. This can be seen in the case of legal aids like Bhaskar B S who have been trying to provide services under the National […]
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Despite an increase at the bank, the only skin bank in Bengaluru is unable to meet the existing demands of burn patients. Pragya Prasun who has been actively campaigning for skin banks for around a decade now recalls her own experience of needing skin donation at the time of her treatment. Being a burn victim, […]
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Opposition political parties attacking Gujarat Model of BJP for campaign. Parties such as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian National Congress (INC) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are focusing on the economic development of the state for the Gujarat elections. Anshul Avijit, national spokesperson of the INC said, “Our main agenda is economic development.” He added […]
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The job security of informal workers could decrease as industries would not need permission from the government to lay off workers. The new labour reforms allow factories with fewer than 300 workers to lay off their employees without permission from the government. Previously, factories with over 100 workers would need consent from the government before […]
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The ongoing Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute sees tightening of police security at the borders of the two states. The Marathi speaking community of Karnataka are not ready to merge with Maharashtra, yet, “My mother tongue is Marathi but I am loyal to Karnataka,” said chairperson of Karnataka Maratha Communities Development Corporation Ltd (KMCDC), Dr M G […]
Continue ReadingThe workers who roll beedis in Bengaluru’s beedi colony are leaving the Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme. Beedi workers would rather not have 10 percent of their salary deducted for the Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme (EPFO). They say that they get paid less than the minimum wage and a 10 percent cut would mean tightening their […]
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Trade unions are gearing up for nationwide protests against the new labour reforms of 2022 in the coming year. Trade Unions will find it harder to go on strikes due to the labour reforms which have led to changes in the original ‘Industrial Disputes Act, 1947’ passed in the parliament on September 22, 2020. “Instead […]
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K R Market underpass is not used by citizens because it is not practical. Police are creating steps from the footpath to the entrance of the pedestrian underpass at at Krishna Rajendra Market (KR Market) today so that people are can use the underpass. Madhusudhan, Traffic Police Constable of City Market Traffic Police Station said, […]
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Beedi workers in Karnataka are receiving less than the minimum wage fixed by the Labour department. The workers of the Beedi Colony in Bengaluru are being paid Rs.160 despite the minimum wage set at Rs. 281.77 by the Ministry of Labour and Employment on March 14, 2018. “I receive Rs. 160 for rolling 1000 beedis […]
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