City dancer makes it to ‘Rongoprobesh’

Bangladesh sees dance recital with live music for the first time. Bangalore, March 13, 2018: Bharatanatyam dancer Kirti Ramgopal along with young dancers from Bangladesh participated in the Bangladesh Dance Festival, ‘Rongoprobesh’. The event was held in Dhaka as part of a cultural exchange programme between the two countries and attended by the Indian High […]

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Form 27: A tale of patents lost in vagueness

Bangalore 13th March 2018: A large number of companies and individuals filing for patents and licenses don’t provide critical information about their inventions, stated by law. This removes the transparency in the patent filing process and acts as a hindrance in assessing whether a patent has benefitted the general public at large. Prof (Dr) Shamnad […]

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MIT scientists inch closer to eradicating malaria

By growing an anti-malarial drug resistant parasite, Plasmodium Vivax, scientists feel new drugs can be created to counter malaria. Bangalore, March 6, 2018: In an advance that might lead to eradication of malaria, a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been able to grow and study a dormant form of  malaria […]

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Ambiguity over Karnataka’s health index rank

Experts from Karnataka say that the fall in the rank of the state in the Health Index Report 2015-2016 is attributed to the over estimation of other states with respect to their performance in the Health sector. Bangalore, March 13, 2018: The Society for Community Health Awareness Research and Action (SOCHARA) disagree with the Health […]

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Air commute disrupted in India post US-Bangla air crash

US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu yesterday has impacted the airline and its customers.  Bangalore, March 13, 2018: Direct flights from Bangladesh to Kathmandu have been cancelled following the US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu, Nepal which killed 49 people. Masud, executive of central reservation of US-Bangla Airlines, said that all flights to Kathmandu from Bangladesh have been […]

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