** NIMHANS study finds 34 lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in Bengaluru

The study, posted on medRxiv, the pre-print server, has been authored by a team of doctors from the Department of Neurovirology at NIMHANS led by Chitra Pattabhiraman. V. Ravi, nodal officer for genomic confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, and Anita Desai from the department are the senior authors.

** INTACH hands over renovated Fort High School building

The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) has handed over the fully renovated Fort High School building at Chamarajpet to the Department of Public Instruction on Saturday.

INTACH began work on the dilapidated building three  years ago, in April 2018.

Built by the Mysore Wodeyar royal family in 1903, the building is 115 years old and was the first high school in the princely state of Mysore.

** Paying it forward

They are now the Humankind Global, and have launched a mega campaign of documenting over 1 billion stories of kindness, assistance and humanity.

On March 18 last year, when the pandemic was setting in, a group of volunteers,
coordinated by Mahita Nagaraj in Bengaluru, started networking and helping people in need.

Initially known as Caremongerers India, Nagaraj’s team with more than 55,000 online volunteers, took over the mission to reach out to those in need during the Covid-19 crisis. A year later, the team is celebrating its first anniversary with a new name and new agenda.

** A portal for film archives

It is a passion project of film journalist Shashidhar Chitradurga.
To this day, there is a gap in documenting and archiving the history of Kannada cinema in an accessible way, which a new online portal — chitrapatha.com — aims to fill.

The portal, designed with fonts from yesteryear film posters, is drenched in nostalgia for old films, songs, their history, trivia, and rare-to-find photographs.