It plans to build three large modern secondary transfer stations to process the city’s waste. Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planning to upgrade the secondary transfer of waste by introducing new technology in the process. Waste from auto-tippers will now be compacted using machinery and then sent to landfills. Currently, a large part of […]
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Data from layoff.fyi show Indian start-ups have laid off 7,743 people till September this year compared to 1,090 last year. In the last financial year, 71,073 employees have been laid off across the world by startups of which, over 10.89 percent of employees were laid off by Indian start-ups. Between April 1 and Sept 20, […]
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Smoke shops sell up to 20 boxes of vapes per month despite the government ban. E-cigarettes are being sold in Church Street, Bengaluru, despite a 2019 Act that bans their distribution, import, export and transportation. Vapes are linked to lung injuries and deaths. Yasin (name changed), the owner of a glossy red-themed smoke shop on […]
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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has reintroduced the Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP), an environment friendly system at the Tannery Road Slaughterhouse. Bengaluru, SEPT. 13: The Tannery Road Slaughterhouse now operates with a revamped Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) system. The new system was setup 45 days ago on the premises of the slaughterhouse to help with […]
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Buying domain address and advertising on online marketplaces remains a challenge The potters of Pottery Town have taken the first step to promote their businesses online. They have now started to advertise their shops on online marketplaces like Justdial, IndiaMART and Olx in order to get greater reach with customers. “Customers are able to reach […]
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The Bangalore Metro has been operating many stations with only one or two open entrances or exits. The Namma Metro has many stations which have one side of the station sealed off. Some of these stations are Kengeri, Krishna Rajendra Market, Srirampura, and Baiyappanahalli. This leaves the commuters with no other option than to stand […]
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In a hospital where children are often admitted for infectious diseases, washrooms are not properly maintained. The washrooms at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH) in Jayanagar stink and are dirty. Patients and their guardians hesitate to use them. A constant stench deters visitors from using the washrooms. One common washroom is shared […]
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A new payment method in Bengaluru Metro is likely, as an alternative to UPI payments. Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) plans to soon come up with a Quick Response(QR)-ticketing policy that could replace the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment system at the token counters. BMRCL Chief Public Relations Officer Yashwant Chavan said, “We are […]
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After a delay of five years, the exercise will begin at Mandur landfill. Urban Development Department (UDD) recently approved the proposal of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to biomine the disputed Mandur landfill. This came after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order was passed to biomine all the legacy waste in Bengaluru. “The process will […]
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The exam will be held on May 21, as announced previously. A Supreme Court (SC) division bench of Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Surya Kant dismissed a plea seeking postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) Post-graduate (PG) exam, 2022, by six to eight weeks. The SC, while dismissing the plea, observed, “It […]
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