As the colleges in the city commenced with the offline classes, the civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) initiated the Covid-19 testing of around 15 per cent of the students, teaching and non-teaching staff from the 360 colleges in the city. As many as 222 testing teams were deployed who tested 11,574 individuals among…
Today, November 17, marks exactly one year of the first person being infected with COVID-19. A 55-year old individual, based in the Hubei Province in China, was the first one, when a month later, it was suspected that the novel virus originated from the wet markets. China, concealed the intricate details about the virus for…
Indian Ambassador to Japan, Sanjay Kumar Verma, on November 11 had a review discussion over the much evolving bilateral relations with Japan’s Upper House President, Santo Akiko in Japan’s National Diet as revealed by the Embassy of India in Japan on Tuesday. In a series of tweets, Sanjay Kumar Verma stated about attending the Japanese…
The Chief Minister of Karnataka, BS Yediyurappa has passed an order on Tuesday directing for the formulation of a ‘Karnataka Veerashaiva-Lingayat Development Board’ post a lot of pressure by the legislators triggered him to pass the move. As much as 16% of the state’s population accounts to the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community and can be deliberated as…
The Congress party is scheduled to have a special meeting organized by the special committee for assisting the party chief Sonia Gandhi with respect to execution on operational matters relative to the rumbling over its dismal show in Bihar elections. Sonia Gandhi had created the six-member panel and appointed the members in August considering the…
The 12th edition of BRICS Summit conducted and hosted by Russia with the organized theme “Global stability, Shared Security and Innovative Growth” to be held in the video conferencing mode on Tuesday. The summit will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the invitation request by Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Ministry of External…
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) investigators arrested ex-Mayor R Sampath Raj, an accused involved in the August 11 riots incident in DJ Halli and KG Halli riots on Monday late night. Sampath Raj was fleeing away for over a month, to escape arrests. A CCB team headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ATC), Venugopal, arrested…
For the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2020 which is scheduled for November 20, French officials and companies will be taking part, as revealed by Ambassador of France to India, Emmanuel Lenain. Emmanuel Lenain took the news to Twitter, “France will participate in force BengaluruTechSummit 2020. Karnataka is home to 150 plus companies and French Tech Community-Bangalore….
Four trustees which include Chairman of Manipal Global Education, Mohandas Pai, have given their resignation to the Akshay Patra Foundation (TAPF). The other three trustees who dropped out are ex-Chief Financial Officer, Infosys, V Balakrishnan, co-founder of ChrysCapital Raj Kondur and adviser to Manipal Education and Medical Group, Abhay Jain. Presently, two additional members have…
Johnson and Johnson has commenced a recent late-stage trial in Britain on Monday for evaluating and assessing the testing of a two-dose regimen of its potential Covid-19 vaccine candidate in thousands of participating volunteers, as the U.S. based pharmaceutical company makes a move to launch the drug and conduct its trials in other countries as…
