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Defying lockdown, the owner of a tractor, who tried to transport a load of bricks to a construction site has landed in trouble after one of his labourers got crushed to death under the tractor. The tractor they were travelling in toppled off the Bengaluru-Chikkaballapura Road on Wednesday around 3 pm. Apart from the laborer, S Narayanaswamy, a resident of Chintamani, four others including the driver were in the tractor at the time of the accident. One of them, 35-year-old Syed Ghayaz, was injured. The tractor driver was said to be speeding while they were going to the site to deliver the bricks. Apart from the tractor driver, the police are also initiating action against the tractor owner identified as Shivanna. … [Read more...] about Labourer killed in accident on Bengaluru-Chikkaballapura Road

Meenamma C, a grave-digger at Hebbal burial ground, said that the decision gave her immense satisfaction. Kutty, who works at Kalpally Electric Crematorium, told Bangalore Mirror that he is happy to be doing this and has absolutely no regrets about letting a month’s salary go. A Suresh, State General Secretary of Dr BR Ambedkar Dalitha Sangarsha Samithi said the gesture to contribute a month’s salary was commendable. “It will be difficult for them to make ends meet without wages for a month but they too want to do something to society. All these years, the BBMP did not consider them as human beings and used to pay them only Rs 1,000 per month,’’ said Suresh. This is not all. Association members are also making personal contributions to supply groceries to needy people and migrant labourers at a few locations. “We have supplied five kg rice, one kg toor dal, cooking oil and sugar to each of the needy people,” said Sowri Raj. Describing the … [Read more...] about Grave-diggers in Bengaluru donate a month’s salary to keep fight against Covid alive

Bengaluru NGO is donating high-quality masks to vulnerable categories If you’re safely cocooned at home during this lockdown, ordering or sending essentials across the city, know that the delivery staff making that possible are at risk themselves. Making life a little easier for them, and others who see high interactions every day, are the people at city-based NGO Jhatkaa.org. They’re donating their stock of 3M N95 masks to anyone in this ‘high risk, high interaction’ category. The first major beneficiary of this move was hyperlocal delivery service Dunzo, which received 1,500 masks in the past week. Avijit Michael, Executive Director, Jhatkaa.org, says they had been giving out masks as a precaution against air pollution since 2019 to high-risk categories such as pourakarmikas, senior citizens and traffic police. “One of our focus areas is climate and air quality. Because of that, we had a large inventory of masks. Given the pandemic situation, we … [Read more...] about If you’re at high risk and without a mask, here’s how you could get one in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: India's information technology sector is expected to post either flat or negative growth in 2020 due to the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic globally, an IT industry veteran said on Saturday. "Look at the economic activity (globally). Worse than what you have seen in 2008 (global financial crisis). So, clients (of Indian IT companies) are not going to increase spending (on IT) or even maintain the current spending," the former Chief Financial Officer of IT major, Infosys Ltd, V Balakrishnan told PTI. There will be cut in spending, and could be pressure on pricing because all the major industries including retail and financial services have been adversely impacted, he said, also noting surging unemployment rate in the US. "Economies are doing badly. Spending is not going to happen. I think this year is going to be tough for the IT industry," Balakrishnan said. The Coronavirus pandemic is like a force majeure, and no amount of business continuity planning will help in … [Read more...] about Flat or negative growth for Indian IT sector this year: Balakrishnan

Despite his accolades (and there are quite a few), Marat is most excited about the academy and the training being done there. as he believes it is their legacy. “This is something we started eight years ago and it will bear fruit. It’s a very long process, but in 15 to 20 years you will get a fully trained professional musician.” … [Read more...] about Marat Bisengaliev to perform at Rangashankara’s 15th anniversary celebrations this weekend