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Coronavirus: Dispose off gloves, masks in sealed covers, Indira canteens to give free food to poor, BBMP’s additional helpline numbers…

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COVID-19 helpline

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has set up a command and control centre ‘war room’ to tackle the coronavirus epidemic in the city. In the first such directive from the cell, the residents are requested to dispose off masks and gloves in a sealed cover separately. In addition, cashless transactions are encouraged to reduce transmission … Read more

Spotted a person in public place with home quarantine stamp? Call 100

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contact tracing

The Bangalore police is hunting down people violating the home quarantine rules to combat COVID-19. Such persons can be put behind bars for six months or pay a hefty fine or both. While some residents feel that the stamp could be hidden by gloves, the others recommend the Singapore model of contact tracing using GPS … Read more

Coronavirus news: Half the IT workforce is working from home in Bangalore; residents conduct awareness campaigns & more

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coronavirus awareness campaigns

In an informal survey by the Whitefield Rising group, 570 people voted and the result was that as of March 14, 2020, 52.5% people were working from home. While the state government had requested the IT/BT companies to exercise the ‘work from home’ (WFH) option, the reality is that only a few sectors are able … Read more

Water tanker carrying hazardous chemicals seized due to alert marshalls

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water tanker

Alert marshalls did a fabulous job of getting a water tanker seized for carrying hazardous chemicals and preparing to dump it in unauthorised areas. The exercise required them to follow the water tanker on their vehicles from Kottegepalya to Yelahanka. After establishing the facts, they coordinated with the RTO officials and traffic police to nail … Read more

Coronavirus: What You Should Do Now!

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COVID-19

Take it seriously. Don’t bother with people who say that you are simply panicking as there are no deaths in India so far, and only about 74 people are infected. The reasons the counts are less could be because it takes 14 days for the virus to show up through symptoms, and by then imagine … Read more

Coronavirus: Everything you need to know

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coronavirus

With information overload, fear mongering, and much misinformation spreading across the social media channels, it is important to know about the most reliable sources of information. For example, there was news that China had approved a vaccine for coronavirus, when the truth is that there was no such news by any official source of the … Read more

101 pillars of elevated road to airport being beautified by citizens!

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101 pillars of elevated road to airport being beautified by citizens! 3

The BBMP has teamed up with the ever-famous The Ugly Indian, an anonymous group of citizens hellbent on cleaning up the city, and Embassy Builders to beautify the 101 pillars of the elevated road between Hebbal flyover and the Bangalore Airport. It’s truly a joy to see colours on a drab, cemented structure. Here are … Read more

Watch the demolition of a Rs 21 crore flyover in Bangalore!

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jayadeva flyover

The demolition of the Rs 21-crore Jayadeva flyover that began on January 20 is slowly being erased from Bangalore’s landscape. One resident documents it before it goes away completely. For more on traffic diversions due to this activity, you can click here. MA Ravinder says that the dismantling of the flyover appeared to be “too … Read more