The toilets in the taluk that were built less than a decade ago have mostly been closed for public use as a result of lack of maintenance. Foul smell and emetic visuals, locked doors with rats, cockroaches breeding in them. Some are open to use but only if you manage to hold your breath for […]
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The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Rule, 2017, mandates every organization with over 50 employees to have a crèche facility within 500 meters. The Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is planning to start a crèche facility at its Central Office in Shanthinagar. BMTC administration said that “the project is in its initial stages.” With the workforce shifting […]
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From Harry Styles and Ranveer Singh to ordinary men, men are embracing makeup, sarees, skirts, jewellery and painted nails. Bengaluru: Paati Purohit, a Gender Consultant at JSW Foundation, Vijaynagar said social media is helping men to normalize breaking gender stereotypes. She said that social media influencers and, feminist and LGBTQIA activists’ accounts have made it […]
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A World Resource Institute study suggested that 80 percent of charging points in the city should be installed at residential complexes to enhance electric vehicle (EV) mobility. EV owners fail to get the permission to install charging points in residential complexes in the city. Most of them have to go to Bangalore Electricity Supply Company […]
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Although there is no law that determines what children can or cannot read, children’s authors in India find themselves playing it safe. Children’s authors in India sacrifice their freedom to express certain ideas so their books can be published, sold and accepted by parents, publishers and society. “My book ‘Behind the Lie’ is about domestic […]
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Discrimination against gender nonconforming, non-binary, and transgender people prevails Taking into account how the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights Bill of 2018), and Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection, and Rehabilitation Bill of 2018) saw a huge backlash by the transgender/gender non-conforming community, it can very easily be deduced that no matter how many amendments are […]
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The scenario in Bangalore when it comes to different genres of activism. Bangalore, Sept. 18, 2018: Bangalore’s stage in activism being evolving in various ways, there are different forms of activism that take place depending on the issue that it revolves around. Protests taking place on different issues like the fundamental rights, agriculture, women empowerment, […]
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