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Trend of SARS-Cov-2 viral load across Bengaluru Urban
Health

What wastewater surveillance in Bengaluru reveals about COVID-19 trend

January 3, 2022 Vaidya R

A wastewater surveillance project shows the trend in COVID cases in Bengaluru; data indicates a possible rise in the coming weeks!

rainy day
Environment

Annual rainfall increasing in Bengaluru, data shows

December 6, 2021 Vaidya R

Bengaluru saw unprecedented rains this November. Larger trends indeed show changes in the city’s annual and monthly rainfall patterns.

narrow footpath
Commute

Bengaluru’s deadly footpaths: Children, elderly at high risk

October 22, 2021 Ruchi Agarwal

Bengalureans face great obstacles to simply walk in their neighbourhoods. And data shows, among pedestrians, children and senior citizens are at high risk.

Church Street during Pedestrianization
Environment

Church Street pedestrianisation reduced air pollution, improved quality of life: IISc study

October 14, 2021 Ashish Verma

An impact study of pedestrianisation of Church Street shows high acceptance among citizens, and a remarkable improvement of overall quality of life.

A helpline for funerals
Health

Bengaluru’s COVID deaths: With June numbers still worse than April’s, has the second wave really subsided?

June 28, 2021 Vaidya R

We analyse COVID death rate data from BBMP bulletins. Even accounting for the back-counting of cases, the results are far from comforting.

Governance

Filing a consumer case? Be prepared to wait two years

November 18, 2020 Prachi Pinglay-Plumber

There is a one in two chance of winning a consumer case, data from Consumer Dispute Redressal Commissions in Bengaluru shows. Most cases are to do with housing, insurance and banking disputes.

A collapsed drain after rains in October 2020
Environment

Did Bengaluru really get excess rains in 2020?

November 4, 2020 Vaidya R

This year, some parts of Bengaluru got extremely high rainfall while some others didn’t even get the usual amounts. This also means floods and damages were disproportionate across the city.

Mobile Fever Clinic parked at JJ Nagar where all residents of the containment areas are being tested for #COVID19 by collecting throat and nasal swabs. BBMP Commissioner/Facebook
Health

COVID cases: How’s Bengaluru really doing?

October 25, 2020 Vaidya R

Are COVID cases likely to reduce further in Bengaluru? Are death rates really coming down? Here’s what the data suggests.

KRDCL road widening tree felling
Environment

5,000 trees to go for widening roads around Bengaluru, says Forest Dept. But is that all?

August 20, 2020 Siddhant Kalra

Though the Forest Department says 5000-odd trees have to axed for the ‘Bangalore Surrounding Roads Project’, data discrepancies makes this number suspect. Secrecy around the project has made citizen engagement nearly impossible too.

Hospital beds
Health

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

August 4, 2020 Siddhant Kalra

Government data shows that over 13,200 hospital beds in Bengaluru are reserved for COVID patients. But the actual number is likely around 3,500.

Health

Taking stock: Bengaluru’s four months saw 22000+ COVID cases

July 16, 2020 Pragathi Ravi

Bengaluru, once hailed for its COVID response, is grappling with rapid spread now. What transpired between one case reported on March 9 to over 22,000 cases now? Here’s a timeline.

Data from 2017a and 2018 indicates that nearly a third of the pedestrian crash victims are at least 60 years old. Pic: The Footpath Initiative
Infrastructure

Pedestrian crashes in Bengaluru: Who are the most at risk, and when?

January 30, 2020 Anusha Chitturi

In the last three years, Bengaluru has been the metro with the third highest number of pedestrian crash fatalities. Where do these crashes occur the most, when, and who are the most at risk?

Environment

Is it African Tulip or Akasha Mallige? Here’s a guide to tree-spotting in Jayanagar

January 2, 2020 Nityananda S

Flaming orange, bright yellow, pale purple – flowers of all these hues appear on Jayanagar’s streets. Here’s a guide on spotting the native and exotic trees in the area

Infrastructure

Polluting and unviable: Five reasons Bengaluru’s upcoming Waste-to-Energy plants can fail

December 31, 2019 Deepu Chandran

A resident of Electronic City, where one of the Waste-to-Energy plants is slated to come up, analyses why BBMP’s push for the plants is misguided

Governance

Yeshvanthapura by-election: Info on candidates, constituency and more

December 2, 2019 Revathi Siva Kumar

S T Somashekar, who had become the Congress MLA from Yeshvanthapura in 2018, is now back as the BJP candidate. His rivals here are T N Javarayi Gowda of the JD(S) and P Nagaraj of the Congress

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