Despite Karnataka’s ban on advertisement on vehicles, there are hordes of vehicles that run on the streets of the city sporting commercials of all kinds. Bibek Baidya On the streets of Bengaluru, in traffic jams and at parking lots, hordes of buses and cars bearing advertisements of all sorts are not hard to spot. These […]
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The National Family and Health Survey (NFHS-4) shows that the nutritional status of the children under five hasn’t much improved since the last survey conducted a decade ago. Labani Mahanandy Despite years of various government projects running to wipe out malnutrition from the state, the recently updated data of National Family and Health Survey (NFHS-4, […]
Continue ReadingDeployment of more RPFs in Karnataka railway stations prove beneficial as the crime rates drop down the ladder. Ritam Chatterjee The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has pulled the chain on train incidents of stone pelting, chain pulling, etc, by deploying additional forces at some stations in the state, bringing the registered cases down from 2017 […]
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If you have to ported your mobile number because of slow internet speed or network issues, then you are among the 42 million people to have done so in the last nine years. Vivek Kumar M Karnataka, among all other Indian states and Union Territories, leads in terms of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) requests. Telecom […]
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Most rental bike users prefer to go bare-headed in the absence of clean helmets by bike renting apps. Rhythima Agrawal Online bike renting apps provide used helmets to the commuters. This irks commuters as they suffer from skin and hair problems like dandruff, acne and hair fall. The stench of sweat forces the users to […]
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Bio-toilets in trains going from Bengaluru City Railway Station to the south are in pathetic condition as they are clogged halfway through the journey. By Vivek Madhu Bengaluru: The South-Western Railways have continuously received complaints about the bad condition of bio-toilets in trains that connect Bangalore City Railway Station and the southern parts of the […]
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Karnataka fails to guarantee resolution of citizens’ grievances By Niket Nishant Bengaluru: The dismal state of grievance redressal mechanism in the country is plainly evident through Karnataka. More than half of the complaints received in the state over three years have been left unresolved. Data recently released by the Centre shows that 54.4 per cent […]
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Situation dire for traffic cops as nine out of sixteen air quality monitoring stations across the city have unsafe recorded PM 2.5 particulate matter. By Arghyadeep Dutta The on-duty traffic police personnel are refusing to use anti-pollution masks provided by the Bengaluru Traffic Police Department because of the allegedly inferior quality of the mask. These […]
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Karnataka becomes one among 10 states across the country accounting for 82% of total estimated people living with HIV. By Apoorva GS Bengaluru: According to the 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS), only 1.3 per cent of the 6.41 crores people in Karnataka use condoms to prevent unintended pregnancies and sexual transmitted diseases (STDs). Kamal […]
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Vegetable merchants of KR Market have put a stop to the imported Turkish onions in the market from January 14, owing to the steep fall in the price and demand. Neetu Saini At Bengaluru’s K R Market, teary-eyed Razir Ahmed was counting the unsold Turkish onions left in his shop. Volatility in the prices of […]
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