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.
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** 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.
** Freedom garden of Shivamogga
Cement sculptures depicting Esuru freedom struggle and farm activities, main attraction at Anjanapura Garden
** 100 metres in just 8.96 seconds: Srinivas Gowda sets new record in Kambala racing
He achieved the feat in ‘Soorya Chandra Jodukere’ Kambala organised at Venoor-Permuda in Belthangady taluk on Saturday.
** World’s longest railway platform in Hubballi in its final stage of construction
After completion of the works, Hubballi railway station, which has presently five platforms, will be upgraded to eight platforms that will ease the movement of trains.
** 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.
** Wild Karnataka wins national award in non-feature category
Stunt director Vikram Mor wins award; Akshi is best film
Wild Karnataka, a natural history documentary on the State’s wildlife, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, has won big at the 67th National Film Awards announced on Monday.
** Prashant Manakar elected new HKCCI president
Prashant Manakar led his panel to a stupendous victory in the elections to the Hyderabad Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industries (HKCCI) on Sunday, dealing a body blow to the outgoing president Amarnath Patil’s panel by completely decimating it.
** 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.
** PM talks to water warrior from Bidar
Srinivas Jonnakeri, president of Dhupadamahagaon Gram Panchayat in Aurad taluk of Bidar district, was one among five persons who interacted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video-conferencing on World Water Day