Higher education the only field where profit is not the motive: Education Minister

Higher education the only field where profit is not the motive: Education Minister. Higher education is the only field where we need not work for profit. We need to make this clear, said Dr. Ashwath Narayan C.N., Minister for Higher Education for Karnataka, speaking at the National Conference on Implementation of NEP-2020 conference. Talking about […]

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Only poor neighborhoods of Bengaluru reek of garbage

By Arshreet Singh Only 3 km separate the neighborhoods of Chickpet and D’Souza Layout. The difference in the amount of garbage on the streets of these neighborhoods is astonishing. While the streets of D’Souza Layout resemble those in a European village,  Chickpet’s streets are lined with heaps of garbage. A huge pile of garbage covering […]

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Banned single-use plastic is still around, adding to city’s trash

Shopkeepers, vegetable vendors and small restaurants continue to use single-use plastic bags despite a ban on them, adding to Bengaluru’s garbage menace. Plastic bags less than 75 microns thick were banned by the Centre in September this year. Under the Prime Minister’s vision, single-use plastic is to be phased out completely by the end of […]

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Number of undertrials rises during the pandemic

Undertrial prisoners in Karnataka outnumber convicts 2-1.The number of undertrials has gone up in recent years. Most of them are migrant workers from backward classes coming from poor and downtrodden families.  According to the latest Prison Statistics Report, 2019,  published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), nearly 70 percent of the prison population in […]

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Few women willing to take the Metro after 8pm

Women in Bengaluru are wary of taking the Metro late at night due to security concerns. Many women commuters informed The Observer they are not comfortable riding on the Metro alone after 8 pm, despite the BMRCL providing separate women’s coaches and deploying surveillance cameras. Tenzing Lhamo, a student from Manipur, said: “I will never […]

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Food delivery agents accused on social media of duping people, restaurants

Multiple users on social media platforms have registered complaints against food delivery agents indulging in “unethical behaviour”. Food delivery agents contacted by The Observer, however, categorically denied the allegations. “I placed my order in McDonald’s and the initial guy who picked it up cancelled it. The next Swiggy guy went to the restaurant, only to […]

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