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Dharawad: Tree conservation plant protection in forest

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  Dharwad: To mark the significance of Plant Protection, the Dharawad Forest Department held an innovative program called Vriksha Bandhan on Monday.

  Thousands of trees were planted during World Environment Day, and later, the Dharwad Forest Department’s officials requested through Twitter, Facebook, and other media to observe the tree planting day in order to promote public involvement in…

Three Indian vaccines in different phases of clinical testing, says ICMR

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New Delhi: At present country has three Indian COVID-19 vaccines which are in different phases of clinical testing, said Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday.

“At the present moment, we have three Indian vaccines which are in different phases of clinical testing. The 2 vaccines- Bharat Biotech vaccine and DNA vaccine of Zydus Cadila have completed phase 1 and will begin phase…

After Covaxin another vaccine Remdesivir launched India for COVID-19 treatment

In India, Jubilant Generics Ltd. has announced vaccine remdesivir with the brand title ‘JUBI-R’ for COVID-19 care.

Jubilant Generics Ltd., a branch of Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd., an innovative multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences group, has said that the company wants to make this treatment available to more than 1,000 hospitals offering COVID-19 care in India.

The drug was marketed…

Four volunteers have taken the COVID vaccine in the first phase of trials

The first phase of Covaxin trials has started now, an Indian company-developed COVID-19 vaccine named Covaxin is started testing at Jeevan Rekha Hospital in Belagavi (Karnataka).

The vaccine has been developed by Hyderabad-based firm, Named Bharat Biotech, which has been given to the first group of four persons and they are under observation, hospital director Amit Bhate stated.

Two men…

Recovery rate may not give real pic: K Sudhakar Bengauru

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BENGALURU: Even as Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar has been tweeting about the substantial upswing in Karnataka’s Covid-19 recovery rate, at 42.81%, public health experts and epidemiologists have raised questions on the entire process of calculating the recovery rate, and said that focussing on this is not right during a pandemic. Instead, they say the focus should be on the level…

Nokia to set up robotics lab at Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru

   Nokia will set up a robotics lab at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, for research on socially-relevant use cases based on 5G and emerging technologies, the company said on Tuesday. Nokia Center of Excellence (CoE) for networked robotics will promote interdisciplinary research involving robotics, advanced communication technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop…

Does Bengaluru really have 13,000 hospital beds for COVID? |

The actual number of COVID beds in Bengaluru is only a fraction of what the government data indicates. Pic: pxfuel.com

Since COVID cases started surging in Bengaluru, we’ve heard of several reports of patients not finding hospital beds or being denied treatment. Most recently, even a COVID doctor at Chikkamudavadi PHC (Primary Health Centre) in Ramanagara district, Dr Manjunath S T, succumbedto…

Drone Pratap arrested again for violating home quarantine rule

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Highlights:

Arrested in Mysore in violation of Home Quarantine Rule

Home quarantine rule violation in Bangalore

FIR against Drone Pratap

Bangalore:   Accused of violating the rules of Home Quarantine An FIR has been lodged against Drone Pratap at Ashoka Nagar police station in Bangalore.

M. Pratap was subjected to corporate quarantine in Bangalore on July 20. His Quarantine was about to…

Make stand clear on Arogya Setu, HC tells Centre, State

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  BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Monday asked the Centre and State to make it clear whether or not services will be denied to people who have not downloaded the Arogya Setu app. A division bench of Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Ashok S Kinagi said during the hearing of a PIL filed by Anivar A Aravind, a resident of Cox Town in Bengaluru, that the respondent authorities —…

15kg silver brick sent from Devanagari for construction of Ayodhya Ram Temple

Davangere: Former BJP president Yashwantrao Jadhav has said that for the name of the 8 fighters who were killed during the Ramajyothi Rath Yatra was planned to be sent to Ayodhya by engraving 15 kg silver bricks.

Srirama Jyothi Yatra arrived in Davanagere on October 6, 1990, for the construction of Rama Temple. More than 72 Ramabhakts were injured in the Golibar at Venkateshwara Circle on…

6259 New Coronavirus Cases In Karnataka On Tuesday

  Bangalore In Karnataka, 6,777 patients beat Corona on Tuesday, while 6,359 new cases were also reported. There was a record increase in the number of patients discharged for the third consecutive day.

On Sunday, 4,077 people returned home beating Corona, while on Monday the number was 4,776. On Tuesday, the number of patients returning home recovered was 6,777. At the same time, 2035 new cases…

Police detain 20 Africans Nationals for overstaying

  As many as 120 policemen accompanied an exclusive drive in northeast Bengaluru on Tuesday morning against citizens from African countries who were allegedly living in the city even though their visas had lapsed. Twenty persons were detained for staying in the country without valid documents. The police also seized a cache of counterfeit currency from a house, which led to the arrest of three…

Guru Raghavendra Co-op Bank fraud: CID raids loan defaulters

Bengaluru: CID sleuths on Tuesday, August 4 conducted raids at 15 spots, including Halasur, Rajajinagar, and Sadashivanagar in connection with Rs 1400 crore fraud at Sri Guru Raghavendra Co-operative Bank.

Raids were conducted at houses of those who had defrauded the bank by defaulting on loan payments. Huge loans had been availed in connivance with bank officials against fake records.

It may be…

Plasma transport via Green corridor from Bengaluru to Chennai

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  Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Police officials tied skills to create an inter-state green corridor to transport patient plasma from Bengaluru to Chennai.

  A 60-year-old woman, she tested positive for COVID-19, is now being treated in a private hospital in Chennai with intensive care. Her family requested for plasma to HCG Cancer Hospital’s Plasma Bank. Doctors from HCG Hospital immediately…

Biometric-based boarding for Air Asia passengers from KIA to Bengaluru

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  AirAsia begins facial recognition as a passport at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA)

  In an attempt to additional improvement of contactless and safe travelers, AirAsia announced the adoption of Bangalore airport authorities biometric travel as part of the DigiYatra initiative at Bengaluru Airport for the passengers returning from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA). This…

Karnataka sees dip in cases, second day in a row

For the second day consecutively, active coronavirus cases saw a dip compared to the previous day’s bulletin. For example, the active cases in the state capital on Monday were 36,290 cases as against 37,513 on Sunday and 37,760 on Saturday.

Similarly, the state’s active cases (74,469) were lesser than Sunday (74,590).

This can be credited to a large number of discharges. While Bengaluru…

NITK adopts ‘virtual flipped classroom’ model as 2020-21 academic year begins

  The National Institute of Technology (NIT-K), Surathkal, has adopted a virtual flipped classroom model as its 2020-21 academic year began from July 27.

In this model, students are provided with recorded video lectures from the course instructors and are expected to participate in live interactions with other students and course instructors after watching the video lecture recordings. The…