A water filter established around seven years ago in Jigeri, Gajendragad taluk, is in a dilapidated condition. Jigeri is a small village with a population of 600 people. The residents want filtered water as they say tap water is not good for their health. They want the water filter plant to start working again. Parshuram […]
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‘Reduce popcorn price, cinemas will be houseful’ Moviegoers feel the ban on outside food in the cinemas is a right step, but the prices of food items in theatre canteens should be brought down. Venkata Prasad, who came to watch the Telugu movie Veera Simha Reddy at Director’s Cut PVR, a multiplexon Brigade Road, informed […]
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Its extraction has increased by 5.08 per cent in the past two years By Suryash Kumar Groundwater in Kolar, Chikkaballapur, Bengaluru Rural and Bengaluru Urban districts is overexploited, says a study by the Central Ground Water Board. According to the National Compilation on Dynamic Groundwater Resources of India by the Central Ground Water Board, out […]
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Critics say it is a political gambit as polls approach The Karnataka government plans to allocate funds to schools in the Karnataka-Maharashtra border areas, and in neighboring states, to promote the state’s cultural identity. Addressing a press conference on completing two years as chairman of the Karnataka Border Area Development Authority, Dr. C. Somasekhara said: […]
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Growers incur a loss; 1.25Lakh acres of plantation hit Owing to heavy and uneven rain, Karnataka’s coffee plantations have been badly affected. Crop cultivation has dropped across varieties: 25 per cent in Arabica and 35 per cent in Robusta, said Ram Karrekolli, a coffee grower in Kodagu. Since Karnataka is the largest coffee producer in […]
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They work 12 hrs; pandemic has hit BMTC hard When you enter a state transport bus in Bengaluru, the first thing you see is a conductor trying to find his way through the crowd in the bus so he can sell tickets. He stumbles from one place to another while wiping his sweating face. This […]
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‘Govt has data, should show us proof we did it’ Christians in Karnataka have demanded a committee be set up to probe the allegations of illegal conversion made against them. Recently, Pramod Muthalik, chief of the Sri Ram Sene, accused Christians of vandalizing Hindu idols and converting people to Christianity forcibly. The Karnataka Christian Social Welfare […]
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Are forced to pay interest at 20% a month Sex workers in Bengaluru are struggling to repay loans they took during the pandemic. High interest rates and few clients have made it difficult for them, they say. Every business was adversely affected when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country in March 2020. Sex workers were the worst […]
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KPCC general secretary S. Manohar on April 25 accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of corruption and asked him to disclose the amount of bribe collected in the 30 per cent and 40 per cent scams under the BJP government. Participating in a protest against BJP at Congress Bhavan, he said: “The same government that got […]
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Say it is tough to lead normal life in India Indian students evacuated from Ukraine are worried for the safety of their Ukrainian friends in the war-torn country. Vavilthota Yuktesh, 18, a student at the Kharkiv National Medical University who was evacuated from Ukraine, informed The Observer: “I am back here safe, but I feel […]
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