Do you know how much money was “spent” in your ward? This website has the details

Bengaluru 4g scam

By Qamar ZJ The Bengaluru NavaNirmana Party (BNP) has taken pains to dig out all the data relevant to all the wards in Bengaluru. Did you know that 47% of the money has gone to one vendor without the necessary tendering in the city? Did you know the percentage of such funds in your ward? … Read more

Cycle Lane coming up on ORR Service Road, but doubts remain..

cycle lane

By Qamar ZJ The work on the pop-up bicycle lane project that began last month with road-milling work is now seeing some visible improvements, such as a actual lane coming up on the service road adjacent to the Outer Ring Road in KR Puram. While the cyclists are thrilled by this development, they have some … Read more

8 anti-litter night squads to penalise garbage dumpers and enforce masking and social distancing

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By Qamar ZJ The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has launched eight night patrol vehicles, each equipped with five marshals to patrol the nights across Bengaluru. Their job is to impose spot fines on people found dumping garbage in public spaces, and storm water drains. Besides, they will also make sure people are wearing masks … Read more

Bus Priority Lane on Outer Ring Road: Citizens raise several concerns

Bus Priority Lane

By Qamar ZJ The Bus Priority Lane (BPL) that was put on trial in November last year is being formally launched later this month from Lowry Memorial College to Central Silk Board. However, users on social media have pointed out several flaws in the scheme’s planning and implementation. Some residents call it an ill-thought, stop-gap … Read more

India’s first driverless concept car debut pushed to March 2021 due to COVID-19

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By Qamar ZJ If all had gone well, India’s first driverless concept car would have been ready by May this year. However, COVID-19 happened, and the debut is now postponed to March 2021. It is an ambitious project by Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science and Wipro as the Indian conditions are quite different from European … Read more

IISc scientists develop nano fiber based masks & portable electrosprays as more effective and environment-friendly alternatives

IISc scientists

By Zahid H Javali Prof. Sai Siva Gorthi, Dr Vikram S and Kumari Sonu have developed PPE masks coated with low-cost, biodegradable, nano compounds to repel microbes that can act as potential preventive material during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the readily-available nano technology, the three-member team at the Indian Institute of Science has achieved a … Read more

Want to set up a rooftop farm or buy veggies within minutes of harvest? This IISc startup shows the way…

woolly farms

By Zahid H Javali By 2023, Bangalore could well become a city of 1000 farms. The brainchild of Woolly Farms, a social enterprise incubated at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, it is headquartered in HSR Layout. The initiative that began as a Business to Business venture, moved to serving consumers from June 2020 due … Read more

How a content marketing agency can turbo charge your business

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What is content marketing? What does a content agency do? Know all about Write Wing Media, the firm that publishes Residents Watch. Just watch this short video presentation to understand everything there is to know about turbo charging your businesses, both online and offline.

COVID-19 affected veteran activist wants RTI cells to reopen at BDA & BBMP!

RTI Ravindra Nath Guru

By Zahid H Javali Ever since the Right to Information (RTI) cell shut down at the BBMP and BDA headquarters in 2017, RTI activists are rooting for its return. One such prominent person is COVID-19 affected Ravindra Nath Guru, a 76-year-old who is filing RTIs for the last 15 years. “COVID-19 has put a halt … Read more

Beware of ‘mobile tower’ scams

mobile tower scam

By Qamar ZJ Despite a public notice three years ago by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), the mobile tower scams are still quite common across India. Therefore, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has again begun an SMS campaign to educate people that either the DoT or the TRAI does not give a ‘no objection … Read more

Is your workplace ready for COVID-19? This IISc tool will help you!

workplace readiness tool

By Qamar ZJ While a number of white collar jobs are working with skeletal staff due to COVID-19, the manufacturing sector is using fewer employees to drive its business. It is here that this sector needs the ‘workplace readiness tool’ developed by the Centre for Networked Intelligence, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Karnataka … Read more