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Bengaluru: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials on Saturday identified a cluster of COVID-19 cases in Sambhram College of Management Sciences in Attur where 15 cases were reported on Friday and three infections were recorded today. This came even as the examinations at Sambhram College of Management Sciences are underway. The students who have tested positive for coronavirus have been residing in paying guest (PGs) facilities. "New clusters have emerged. We are surrounded by Kerala and Maharashtra where cases are rising," said BBMP chief Manjunatha Prasad. He further added that most people coming from here are students and they have been tested and isolated. Karnataka on Friday reported 571 new COVID-19 cases, 642 recoveries, and 4 deaths. The total cases in the state reached 9,50,207 including 9,32,367 and 5,501 active cases. As many as 12,320 people have succumbed to the disease so far. ... » Learn More about New clusters have emerged in Bengaluru, surrounded by states with rising cases: BBMP chief

Three new COVID-19 clusters, all in the Yelahanka zone, with a total of 19 positive cases were detected in Bengaluru on Friday. This takes the overall number of such groups to six over the past two weeks. Two of the clusters were detected in educational institutions: five cases at Agragami College and nine students tested positive at Sambhram Academy of Management Studies. The third one, with five cases, is in a residential complex, Purva Venezia apartments. BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad said the detection of new cases was the result of elaborate testing taken up across educational institutions where students from neighbouring states, especially Kerala and Maharashtra, study. Testing has been intensified, especially in nursing colleges, where most of the students hail from Kerala. As per conservative estimates, there were nearly 18,000 nursing students in different colleges in the city. In the last three days, as many as 1,156 students were tested at Sambhram Academy of ... » Learn More about 3 new COVID-19 clusters with 19 cases detected in Bengaluru

Bengaluru is now beginning to see green shoots of revival in the overall retail sector with a U-shaped recovery. "While essential goods like food and grocery, followed by apparel, FMCD and electronics, furniture and home furnishings and QSR are seeing a V-shaped recovery, other segments like beauty, wellness and personal care and home essentials may take 2-3 more quarters for full recovery, ” said Anuj Kejriwal, CEO & MD Anarock Retail. Bengaluru has been one of the most active retail markets in the country and is a major hub for retail fashion with most international and national brands making their way here. In terms of organized retail, Karnataka presently has close to 50 operational malls across the top cities and Tier 2 and 3 cities, as per ANAROCK Research. Bengaluru alone has nearly 36 operational malls – the same number as that in entire MMR. Interestingly, tier 2 and 3 cities including Mysore and Hubli have also seen decent retail growth. Both cities currently have ... » Learn More about Bengaluru begins to see revival in the retail sector; five new malls set to come up in city

A team of Bengaluru-based scientists led by T Govindaraju a Professor of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research has discovered a possible cure for Alzheimer 's disease, the leading cause of dementia worldwide. The breakthrough is a small molecule , named TGR 63 that has shown the ability to disrupt the mechanism through which neurons become dysfunctional in Alzheimer's disease. Govindaraju and scientists from JNCASR and an Indian-origin scientist at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the molecule, called TGR63, has been shown in animal studies to to not only halt the progress of the disease but even reverse it. "After identifying the molecule we started with a test tube experiment, then tested the molecules in cellular models. We treated an Alzheimer's affected animal model and a healthy mouse with the same drug . We detected that the molecule is significantly reducing amyloid aggregates which resulted in a reversal of the ... » Learn More about Bengaluru scientists discovers possible cure for Alzheimer’s, now seeking funding for clinical trials

A class VIII cadet of the Rashtriya Military School Bangalore made best use of the holidays during the pandemic to train and break a world record. His hard work has paid off and 13-year-old Ujjwal Sharma now is the “fastest to recite the periodic table without reading”, a feat that has entered the International Book of Records. Ujjwal sequentially named all the 118 elements of the periodic table in just 33 seconds. The earlier record stood at 35.23 seconds. His trainer Gopal Singh, an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and now working in the U.S., taught Ujjwal to overcome the difficulties in remembering the names of elements. “All names have more than six letters and several names are tongue-twisters such as dysprosium, tantalum, oganesson, darmstadtium, meitnerium, and gadolinium. I learnt the whole periodic table and recited it several times in a day,” Ujjwal said. After he was confident that he would be able to break the world record, Ujjwal uploaded his attempt on IBR website a week ago. ... » Learn More about Bengaluru boy is fastest to recite periodic table without reading

NEW DELHI: Institutional investments in Indian real estate will grow by 14.6% to Rs 396 billion from Rs 346 billion in 2020, according to a recent report by Colliers International India . Institutional investments in 2020 had witnessed a drop of 23% from 2019. "The investment climate in India is very buoyant with global investors’ interest in real assets getting stronger. With global interest rates at historic lows and positive net yields in India, the country has emerged among the preferred destinations for investments in real estate," said Piyush Gupta, managing director, Capital Markets & Investment Services (India) of the company. Commercial office assets accounted for over 55% of total Indian real estate inflows between 2018 and 2020, showing the higher appetite of investors. Between 2018 and 2020, an average annual supply of over 35 million sq ft entered the top six Indian cities ie. Bengaluru , Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune, with the majority ... » Learn More about Institutional investments in Indian real estate to increase by 14.6% in 2021: Report

BENGALURU : Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwath Narayan on Monday said regulatory measures would be taken to make mandatory electric vehicle-charging infrastructure in high-rise buildings, metro stations, malls, IT parks, and apartments. With a view to encouraging e-mobility , he said the government aims to replace 50 per cent of all its vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs) in the coming 2-3 years. The Deputy Chief Minister was speaking on the topic 'Future of Sustainable Mobility' at the Harvard-India conference, according to an official statement. He said Karnataka was looking forward to partnerships and concrete strategies with the USA in the e-mobility sector, the statement said. According to Narayan, the goal is also to set up fast chargers along few important highways in the state such as the Bengaluru-Chennai highway and the Bengaluru- Mysuru one in order to establish world-class Karnataka Electric Mobility Research and Innovation Centre. "Lack of ... » Learn More about Rules to make EV-chargers must in malls, flats will be laid: Karnataka deputy CM

M umbai, Delhi, now Bengaluru. No city is safe for women in India any more. What can a woman possibly do when a bunch of men -- or even a couple -- attack and molest her even as eyewitnesses offer no help? The latest Bengaluru incident, captured on CCTV, reveals that clothes are not the culprit. The girl, covered from top to toe in jeans, a top and a wrap against the Bengaluru cold, was doing what most of us do almost every day -- getting down from an auto and walking the short distance to her home. The two men rode in on a scooter and blocked her path -- you can actually see her move to one side, hoping to avoid a confrontation, when they sped in. One man hopped off and grabbed and groped her before dragging her to the scooter so that the rider could do the same. Then, they brutally shoved her to the ground before driving away. The horrific Nirbhaya rape in Delhi and the shocking Mumbai rape case both show that a male companion may not be able to keep you ... » Learn More about Your say: How can women be safe?

A year after BBMP officials and engineers were accused of misappropriating funds for 48 projects , no action or probe in case Over a year after Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) engineers were called out for misappropriation of over Rs 34 crore, no action has been initiated against them. In May 2019, the Technical Vigilance Cell under Commissioner (TVCC) of the BBMP had submitted a report on the misappropriation of funds meant for 48 developmental projects at wards such as Chandra Layout , Moodalapalya, Nagarabhavi and Nayandahalli . Assistant Executive Engineer of Chandra Layout ward, T Srinivasa Raju, assistant engineer of Chandra Layout and Moodalaplaya wards, Veeresh Aladakatti, assistant engineer, KS Rame Gowda, assistant engineer of Nayandahalli ward, Ranganath TS, accountant of Govindarajanagar subdivision, Susheela, first division clerk at Govindarajanagar subdivision and HN Srikante Gowda, executive engineer (retired), as being responsible ... » Learn More about They siphoned off Rs 34 cr meant for their wards, but no harm done

Pulmonology consultant Dr Sheethal Chaurasia explains that the vaccine may not necessarily prevent the transmission of the virus to another person A s part of an initiative to promote the efficacy and necessity of the vaccine, Bangalore Mirror is publishing a series of interviews with some of the doctors in the city. These doctors not only dispel fake news, but they also separate the fact from the fiction. Dr Sheethal Chaurasia, Consultant - Pulmonology, Manipal Hospital , Whitefield, says that the vaccine is the surest chance of beating covid-19, but that does not mean that one can flout basic covid protocols. People should come forward to take the vaccine because it protects the recipient by lowering their chance of contracting covid-19 if they are exposed to the virus. Widespread vaccination means that the virus will not infect as many people therefore limiting the spread through the community. Even if a vaccinated person gets infected, the disease’s severity is ... » Learn More about ‘Don’t ditch the mask after getting the jab’