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Funding for child abuse protection initiative stalled

Thirsty Lalbagh Garden guzzling Bangalore’s ground water

Another ineffective diet plan for anganwadi

Illegal hawkers bribe shopkeepers to let them do business

Behenji has lost her bahubali*

The true face of democracy?



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IIJNM students interview Chandrahas Choudhury

Labor of love: NGOhelps poor find jobs

Eunuchs create havoc at traffic signal

Sewage-tainted water sickens 45 in Pottery Town

Car service stationsguilty of pollution

Cricket fans face tight squeezein renovated Chinnaswamy



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Cloud computing 'won't eliminate jobs in India'

BBMP denied control of veterinary hospitals

Where’s the ‘garden’ in the Garden City?

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop for free

The Midas touch gone kaput

Parallel confab held in protest against world water summit

Summiteers discuss financing water infrastructure

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Federer no longer No. 1, but still king

Lake fishermen's catch fetches pittance

Going green costs customers pretty penny

Is Iran’s ‘nuke’ another red herring?

Teaching Bhagavad Gita in schools a bad idea

Unraveling the truth about casteism in India

Alternative water summit aims to cause a splash

Bangalore needs a coherent policy to solve its water woes



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Bicycle lane project parked

BBMP to build 16 eco-friendly
wastewater treatment plants

Migrant workers still having trouble
opening bank accounts

Twitter comes to rescue
of frustrated cell phone users

Cash-strapped Kengeri veterinary hospital
unable to do much for injured animals

Young racing driver in a hurry
to make his mark on F1

Biomethanation to clean up, light up slum

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Automated garbage plant still on drawing board

‘Service charge’ for no service

Railways forbid sale
of private water bottles

Graft just another overhead cost
in Kalasipalayam

Indian kite string sellers losing business to cheaper Chinese product



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Bangalore 2nd most illiterate district in Karnataka

Blaming women’s clothing for rape is a threadbare argument

Sewage work creates
accident black spot

NCC cycle expedition aims
to save king cobras

Limb camp restores mobility
to thousands


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By the people, of the people and against the people?

Baldwin celebrates 134th annual sports day

Dropout rate among slum students rises
after mobile schools’ closure

Evicted street vendors neither compensated nor relocated

A tale of 2 statistics

Bangalore men still wary of sterilization


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Chief minister honors Ambedkar

Social reformer remembered

Dalits say school closures shutting them out of education

BBMP blames bad roads on Telangana dispute

Mudhols of Karnataka put their best paw forward

Lack of health camps leaves slum dwellers ailing


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Karnataka, central govts to set up nanoscience
institute in Bangalore

E-commerce clicks with Indian consumers

Upper Krishna Project will be speeded up, minister says

World Snooker Championship faces TV blackout

Online platform launched for National Youth Week

Anganwadi workers demand right to pass on jobs
to their kids

 

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Empowering women: The birth of
new-age rural entrepreneurs


Captive of the corporation

‘Big people will come and take our jobs’

Special kids have fun at Kanteerava sports meet

NASSCOM’s Mittal praises

Protest held over ‘demeaning’ religious ritual

Just 51% of Kannada-medium
students pass PU final exam

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Webcams broadcasting
Gowda’s every move

5,000 farmers protest against FDI

BJP protests against FDI
at town hall

Bellary elections hot topic
at YMCA model Lok Sabha

Why it’s ironic that India stages
the world’s biggest football derby

Police OK with bike riders flouting helmet rules

Traffic police’s gory trailers raise eyebrows

Art auction aims to aid cancer patients

RPI (A) stages protest
over Siddaiah transfer


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'Embassy of Junglistan' at Cubbon Park

Ranji match starts 3 hours late due to pitch glitch

Before ‘I do’!

Firecracker ban doesn’t stop Diwali going off with a bang

Volvo buses a big hit with Bangaloreans

Security website sees increase in registrations

Pro-Kannadiga party threatens to declare bandh

Authorities neglecting schools for children
with special needs

Man murdered on J.C. Road



 

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Namma Metro gets rolling

TRAI’s 100-SMS-a-day limitation being sidestepped

Test cricket faces the test of time

Realtor turns illegal profit from green-belt farmland

BMTC acquiring eco-friendly buses

SMSs being used to keep errant auto drivers in line

 

 

 

 


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Children manning private buses in Bangalore

Are we really GM-free?

Wall blocks access to schools

Common Bus System a breath of fresh air

After 20 years of earning Rs. 20 a day, Hindi teachers
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Issue 7

Legal gray area leaves live music venues in limbo

Land squabble leaves school mired in problems

LPG accidents double in 4 years

Looted from the house of God

Lake clean-up project sets shining example

Cancer care made affordable for poor people

The Indian summer and its snake oil revolution


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Issue 6

Rural tennis player forced to slog it out alone

State sitting on Rs. 58 million meant for programs
to help abandoned kids

School uses art to set kids free

2 major madrassas says no to modernization

Power crisis haunts small-scale industries in Karnataka





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Issue 5

Urvashi Theatre: A film buffs’ treasure

Discrimination blamed for keeping hundreds of children out of government schools

Bangalore strangled by dangling cables

Far from home, far from help

Bus drivers pocket money from hitchhikers

Bumpy going on Udaya Nagar’s dreadful roads





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Issue 4

Domestic Violence Act fulfilling its purpose

Karnataka sees rapid growth in foreign tourists

Slum dwellers rehoused in wasteland without water,
power, hospital

Social security office turns to Net to shrink pile
of pending claims

90% of end-stage renal patients don’t receive a kidney

Body of teenage girl killed in blast by marriage hall brought home

BBMP to put assessments of property tax online

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Issue 3

Central govt digs in heels on silk tariff cut

School playground by day, drunk yard by night

Residents of Purva Park apartments face huge water shortage

BBMP fails to fix problems of shortage of doctors at health centers

Vendors don't know their market is going to be turned into a mall


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A special package on World AIDS day SoftCopy's special page dedicated to the launch of Namma Metro
On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attack, The SoftCopy dedicates a page in memory of the victims and in the hope of ending the cycle of hatred.

A series on urban poverty
in Bangalore. This special edition highlits issues that
affect the urban poor.