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SIR: Voters, BLOs unsure what follows after filling online form

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SIR: Voters, BLOs unsure what follows after filling online form

BLOs reveal that there was very little guidance on the online submission process during their training. They said the focus was largely on digitising documents and using the ECINet app. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J. With the enumeration phase gathering pace, many people filling the online form for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) are left wondering…

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‘Free Bird’: Bengaluru Central Prison launches apparel brand handcrafted by inmates

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‘Free Bird’: Bengaluru Central Prison launches apparel brand handcrafted by inmates

‘FREE BIRD-Tailored for Change’ shirts handcrafted by skilled inmate artisans under the Karnataka Prison Livelihood & Rehabilitation Initiative. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru has launched “Free Bird”, a new brand of premium ready-made linen shirts stitched by prison inmates as part of an ambitious rehabilitation and skill-development initiative….

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Why Bengaluru is India’s deadliest metropolitan city for deaths arising from civic negligence

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Why Bengaluru is India’s deadliest metropolitan city for deaths arising from civic negligence

It was around 8 p.m. on July 14, 2023, when tragedy struck 18-year-old Rajashekar K.V. He was walking on Cunningham Road in the heart of the city when a huge peepal tree fell on him, causing severe pelvic injuries that left his lower body immobilised. Rajashekar had come to Bengaluru from Chickballapur just 20 days…

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Boulder collapse near Bengaluru: Half-eaten meals remain where a routine workday at quarry turned fatal

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Boulder collapse near Bengaluru: Half-eaten meals remain where a routine workday at quarry turned fatal

Lunch boxes lying at a stone quarry in Hulukenahalli village in Tavarekere Hobli on Bengaluru’s outskirts on Thursday. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR Half-eaten meals packed from home lay scattered next to unopened plastic water bottles, while two earthmovers and six drilling machines standing silent were among the first signs that work had come to…

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Ultrasound can target oral cancer cells: Study

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Ultrasound can target oral cancer cells: Study

The team found that the ultrasound drastically reduces the cancer cells’ ability to migrate and invade surrounding tissue. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in collaboration with clinicians at MS Ramaiah Medical College and Hospitals have found that oral cancer cells are vulnerable to the moderate mechanical stimulations produced by ultrasound. The team…

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Bengaluru remains India’s GCC capital as maturing market cools rental growth

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Bengaluru remains India’s GCC capital as maturing market cools rental growth

Bengaluru, home to the largest number of GCCs in India, can expect a slow increase in GCC office rents in the days to come. | Photo Credit: File photo As Bengaluru continues to be India’s largest Global Capability Centre (GCC) market, a new ranking of cities based on the Commercial Property Rental Index (CPRI) for GCCs has shown that the city’s GCC index, as…

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Unions condemn platforms’ challenge to Karnataka Gig Workers Welfare Act

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Unions condemn platforms’ challenge to Karnataka Gig Workers Welfare Act

According to the petitioners, the State law is repugnant to the Centre’s Code on Social Security (COSS), 2020, which already establishes a uniform national framework for gig worker welfare.    | Photo Credit: File photo The Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT) and Karnataka App-Based Workers Union (KAWU) have strongly condemned the decision of platform companies, including Swiggy, Zepto,…

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SIR: Karnataka likely to have 11 ‘logical discrepancy’ categories

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SIR: Karnataka likely to have 11 ‘logical discrepancy’ categories

With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) now under way in the State, Karnataka is likely to have 11 types of “logical discrepancy”, if the same framework followed in other Phase III States is adopted. When the category was first introduced during the SIR in West Bengal, only four logical discrepancies were identified. While Karnataka Chief…

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