Health & Environment
Choose Your Masks
With new confirmed cases of the COVID-19 being detected in India, stocks of surgical masks, pollution masks and the basic N-95 masks are selling like hot cakes. By Savyata Mishra City chemists and druggists opened their shops today to a new surge in demand for masks, as Bengalureans brace themselves to the coronavirus epidemic, after a […]
K’taka coughs its way up on the TB list
Karnataka records the highest number of deaths due to tuberculosis, as per the India Tuberculosis Report 2019. By Labani Mahanandy Karnataka tops the list of tuberculosis death rate in India by recording 6.2 percent which is higher than the national death rate of 4 percent. The total number of deaths in India due to TB […]
City lacks planned dumping of animal waste
City suffers from ‘unplanned’ dumping of animal waste. After two years of witnessing the disgusting sight of scattered animal waste by the employees of GiftAbled NGO, the area became clean within a day after they lodged an FIR against Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) staff for dumping animal waste outside their workplace. By Ritam […]
