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Civic

Bengaluru Buzz: Partial lockdown | Prep for third wave | Power tariff up … and more

June 12, 2021 News Desk

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

BBMP marshals enforcing COVID norms
Governance

COVID restrictions return in Bengaluru

April 3, 2021 News Desk

In view of rising COVID cases in Bengaluru and other districts, Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority imposes restrictions to contain the virus.

Society

Post-COVID working conditions could be more exploitative for informal workers

July 18, 2020 Pragathi Ravi

Predicting that informal workers in urban centres could take longer to bounce back from the effects of the lockdown, experts suggest a slew of measures that can mitigate their difficulties.

Travelling to Karnataka and Bangalore and Quarantine rules
Health

Explained: Updated quarantine rules for travel to Bengaluru

May 28, 2020 Siddhant Kalra

Updated rules for inter-district, inter-state and international travellers, as on May 26.

Governance

Lockdown Challenge: How many hungry people are there in Bengaluru?

May 7, 2020 Mohit M Rao

The State had no plan to combat hunger. Authorities capable of verifying voter identity cards in every slum and ghetto in the City, failed to even gauge the scale of food insecurity triggered by the lockdown. The BBMP gave out only 68,000 ration kits whereas NGOs took up a bulk of the task of feeding the hungry. Nobody knows how many went hungry.

Commute

Police to issue passes to essential services staff, delivery personnel, media

March 25, 2020 News Desk

Amid some complaints that the police are not allowing movement of staff involved in essential services during the lockdown, Bengaluru city police commissioner Bhaskar Rao issued a memo that specified who would be allowed to travel in the city. The police would be giving passes to them, his memo says.

construction workers on the site
Health

COVID-19 lockdown: Informal workers most affected, survey recommends Rs 21,000 cr relief

March 24, 2020 Bhanutej N

The objective of the survey, conducted through 65 telephonic interviews on March 21 and 22, was to ensure that the adverse impact of the lockdown on marginal communities in the city is mitigated.


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