The prevalence of blindness is at 1.99 per cent in India as against the target set by the National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment (NPCBVI) to reduce the per cent to 0.3 by the year 2020. Surbhi Shah It’s all blurry. You cannot see the buses coming near. You cannot see the […]
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By Team SoftCopy States like Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Assam are in the race to restore their legislative councils. Meanwhile, the Andhra Pradesh Assembly passed a resolution to abolish the state legislative council on January 27, 2020. 133 out of the 175 members of the assembly voted in favour of the resolution. This is the […]
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Out of the 300 articles retracted over three years, 16 from the state. By Niket Nishant You plan. You copy. You change a word or two here and there. But then you throw it away. Too obvious. You rewrite, this time replacing a few erudite words with more mundane ones. But then some of those […]
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Most passengers at Bengaluru Railway stationsare unaware of the Railways initiative of installing plastic bottle crusher machines in the railway stations to reduce the usage of plastic. By Vivek Madhu Passengers at major railway stations in Bengaluru end up littering instead of using bottle crushers leading to insanitary conditions around railway stations. “I didn’t know […]
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Even as selling petrol in bottles is not permitted by the law, many petrol pumps across the city continue to sell petroleum in bottles. By Kurian Joe M Many Petrol bunks across the city sell petroleum in plastic bottles and gallons. Section 8 of Petroleum Rules, 2002 prohibits the sale and carrying of petroleum in […]
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With 500 manned and 388 signalised among 44,000 intersections, Bangaloreans are spending the majority of their day stuck in traffic. By Arghyadeep Dutta If you have not taken a nap or completed a full chapter of your book while stuck in a traffic jam in Bangalore, then you are not living in Bangalore. The city […]
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The exploitation of children remains acute in India, National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data revealed. By Manasvi Gupta A counsellor for child rights narrated the story of a nine-year old boy who ran away from his home fearing separation of his parents. She told another about one who was bullied at school every day till […]
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Ward Committee meetings in Bengaluru have turned into grievance forums and these grievances are not even registered. Yamini Chincholi A noisy, crowded room, people talking over each other, stacks of papers and files, the ward corporator nodding along to fresh concerns, and committee members presenting their seventh draft of the same complaint. Such are the […]
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Though the number of organ donations in Karnataka has increased, the ratio of demand and supply of donations is quite low. Shubhangi Mathur If you are suffering from a disease and intend to go for an organ transplant, chances that you will find a donor have slightly increased but cannot be guaranteed. Swati Upadhyay, an […]
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Survey conducted by The Softcopy’ shows that nine out of ten consumers in Bengaluru are against paying a price for the eco-friendly carry bags that are provided by the retail marts. Neetu Saini After standing in a zigzag queue for hours at a retail mart in Vijayanagar, eagerly waiting for her turn, when Seema finally […]
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