By Qamar ZJ How does the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) asphalt a road in Bengaluru from the ground up? This video shows you a five-hour job in just over nine minutes. However, what you will see are the various procedures that go into making of an asphalted road. A long waiting game If a … Read more
By Anuksha Dey 2020 was a hard year for businesses across India. However, for 47-year-old Madhu Ahuja, the year provided her with an opportunity to follow her lifelong dream of working in the social sector. She is helping women become financially independent by teaching them new skills for free, and is even paying some of … Read more
By Gokulananda Nandan Being an IB educator and examiner, I request IB to cancel the May 2021 exam in India as the students will be the most impacted for no fault of theirs. In many schools, the pupils have suffered loss of learning due to the technological instability of online classes, which has resulted in … Read more
By Zahid H Javali After much hue and cry from activists and citizens, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) launched a website in 2017. Named Tarang Sanchar, it tells you the various mobile towers installed in your neighbourhood and whether the EMF radiation is within permissible limits. We checked the radiation levels of ten cell towers … Read more
By Qamar ZJ For the last one week, the residents living in Somasundrapalya near HSR Layout, protested the installation of illegal mobile towers in their neighbourhood. To make matters worse, the lawyer of Indus Towers insisted that they can carry out the work without permission from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). It took many … Read more
By Qamar ZJ Vani Vilasapura Dam, about 3-3.5 hours drive away from Bengaluru, is a veritable weekend getaway. You can go in the morning, have breakfast on the way, reach the dam, and be drawn to its expansive natural landscape of mountains and river Vedavathi. The scene is straight out of a picture postcard, and … Read more
By Anuksha Dey Illegal digging of roads in Kasavanahalli to lay optic fibre cables (OFC) by Tata Sky, Airtel and ACT Fibernet were stopped by the residents of KCC Layout and Tulasi Layout last Friday. However, the workers returned within a week to dig up the same roads. While the OFC agencies have received permission … Read more
By Zahid H Javali In the eighth year, the dream of Koramangala citizens to have a link road that directly connects Ejipura signal with Sarjapur Road, has still not come true. The residents have re-started their three-year-old online petition to push for the project. Over 1500 people have signed the request letter to Karnataka chief … Read more
By Qamar ZJ Today, citizens protested against the Rs 140-crore HSR Layout cricket stadium construction on a 7.18-acre open playground in Sector 2, HSR Layout. Despite opposition from the residents during public consultations, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to build a cricket stadium with 10,000 seating capacity. Besides, a four-storied pavilion building … Read more
Limits to lie 🤥. @HardeepSPuri @MoHUA_India Video courtesy: Santhosh KC By Qamar ZJ After Agara Lake, residents are now complaining about sewage entering lakes in Muthanallur and Chandapura. The Central Pollution Control Board has asked the state unit to submit an ATR (action taken report) after looking at this video complaint on Twitter. After exposing … Read more
Video courtesy: Whitefield Rising By Qamar ZJ While the very idea of a bus priority lane (BPL) has become a non-starter, post COVID-19, the BMTC drivers are adding to the sham. Yesterday, one BMTC driver was seen overtaking another bus on the bus priority lane by damaging the plastic bollards. Technically, the BMTC drivers are … Read more
By Anuksha Dey A group of citizens (Kamesh Rastogi, Venkatesh HS, Lalithamba BV) who recently visited the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) in Kudlu near HSR Layout are happy with the developments. They found the plant belonging to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to be better managed, and receiving much less garbage than before. … Read more