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These COVID relief initiatives in Bengaluru need your support

May 10, 2021 News Desk

Here’s a list of organisations providing COVID relief, for those who wish to help with donations.

“Bigotry feeds on our anti-Muslim bias”

May 10, 2021 Padmalatha Ravi

Tejasvi Surya did not invent bigotry. He merely opened the gates. The root of it isn’t in 2014 or 2002 or even 1992. It is has been passed on from generation to generation.

Bengaluru Buzz: Bed scam ‘communalised’ | Medical students to COVID frontline | SC upholds State’s Oxygen requirement… and more

May 8, 2021 News Desk

Catch up on news from the city this week, in our roundup

“BSY must act against communalisation of COVID” demand Bengaluru activists

May 7, 2021 News Desk

Condemning the attempt to communalise relief effort and demoralise frontline workers, activists demand inquiry and compensation.

COVID Advisory: Ensuring children are cared for, in our absence

May 6, 2021 Zibi Jamal

Even though it is hard to think of one’s own mortality, times are such that it is better to leave one’s child/children prepared for such an emergency.

Do Bengaluru’s COVID helplines help?

May 6, 2021 Navya P K

Bengaluru has a multitude of helplines for COVID patients. How do these helplines allot beds or follow up with patients? And do they actually help?

Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa in discussion with managements of private hospitals to expand availability of beds.

Open Letter to CM on COVID management in Bengaluru

May 5, 2021 News Desk

Bengalureans write to Karnataka Chief Minister, highlighting major issues in COVID management, with suggestions and demand for immediate action.

The day it rained ash

May 5, 2021 Jaissy John

“We are not activists, we are just common people, asking for our basic right to a clean environment and we refuse to breathe this poison every night.”

domestic worker; victim of domestic violence from alcoholic husband, during lockdown

“Manage without domestic help, break COVID chain”: BNP Secretary

May 4, 2021 Srikanth Narasimhan

This personal appeal beseeches residents of apartment complexes to respect restrictions on the entry of domestic help, cooks, drivers and visitors.

Why are Bengaluru lakes green in colour?

May 4, 2021 Priyanka Jamwal, Sanjana Alex, Shashank Palur, Suma Rao, Shubha Ramachandran and Laurence Carvalho

One of the characteristic features of a lake is its colour. You may have noticed that the water in many lakes in Bengaluru is green, and not blue, as you might have imagined it to

How many COVID beds does Bangalore really have?

Nodal officers appointed for COVID orphans, ICU beds, corporate aid

May 3, 2021 News Desk

Govt modifies guidelines, appoints nodal officers to tackle surge of COVID cases in Bengaluru

Coping with COVID, a challenge for Bengaluru’s seniors

May 3, 2021 Juhi Jotwani

While retired professionals spoke of loneliness and anxiety, those who are still working to earn a living highlighted their livelihood challenges, vaccine hesitancy, and problems in receiving pension.

Bengaluru school kids breathe polluted air, shows study

May 2, 2021 News Desk

The study used data from an independent monitoring network set up in 27 major locations in 18 districts of Bengaluru by the Healthy Air Coalition.

Bengaluru Buzz: No to cremations at landfill | Vaccine wait longer for 18+ | Search for beds, oxygen … and more

May 1, 2021 News Desk

Catch up on news from the city this week, in our roundup.

A mathematical decoding of urban traffic

April 30, 2021 Vishal Keerthi

Footpaths should be fixed and made widely available, continuous, and uninterrupted. Maybe then those who create traffic jams might try to walk and reduce the jams?