Category: Business & Economy

** Oxygen plant that can generate 7.2 lakh litres per day launched at Bengaluru Railway Hospital

 In a major step towards self-sufficiency by the Bengaluru Railway Division, an oxygen plant that can generate up to 7.2 lakh litres of medical oxygen per day was launched on Thursday inside the premises of the Divisional Railway Hospital. It may be recalled that due to huge numbers of railway employees getting affected during the peak of the COVID outbreak, the 50-bed hospital had an acute shortage of medical oxygen and struggled to meet its daily requirement.

** The queen of oven fresh

Passion fermented to perfection—that is Bengaluru-based chef Aditi Handa’s story in a nutshell.

From falling in love with sourdough to selling over a million loaves since the inception of The Baker’s Dozen (TBD) in 2013, she helmed the ethnic sourdough explosion. 

Handa’s first dalliance with the culinary world came when she began training in a Lebanese kitchen in the US (to perfect the hummus), and then baking bread in Bengaluru— “Where all my friends said they loved the kinds of bread I baked, but everything tasted the same! I realised that since bread wasn’t birthed here, I had to learn from the best hands to get that expertise home.”

She soon left to pursue a Diploma in International Bread Baking from International Culinary Institute (New York), followed by a Diploma in Patisserie from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, to power her own.

** Mangaluru: MUDA initiative – Half dozen ponds developed, six more underway

Mangaluru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) has been striving to rejuvenate ponds within its limits with a view to conserve them and thus enrich underground water table. Six ponds have already been developed and ready for inauguration while six more ponds are in different stages of rejuvenation.

** Bengaluru tops in country in office space transaction

Bengaluru has registered the highest office space transactions in the country and has stood second in residential spaces in the third quarter of 2021 (July-September), reveals a report by a leading global property consultancy firm. 

The report by Knight Frank India, ‘India Real Estate Update – Q3 2021’, made public on Monday, stated that the city reported transactions running to 0.4 million square metres, while its new completions stood at 0.38 million square metres. “The cumulative office transactions for the first nine months of 2021 were reported to be at 0.73 million sqm,” it said.  

** Bengaluru’s ‘biggest water tower’ faces threat of losing tree cover

With the State Government deciding to develop the heritage structure, Balabrooie Guest House, into a Constitution Club for legislators, experts have raised concerns over axing of century-old trees.

Assembly Speaker Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri said the proposed structure will be similar to the Constitution Club of India, in New Delhi, and will be taken up without making major changes to the heritage building.

Environmentalists and heritage enthusiasts, however, said even if no major changes are made to the building, the authorities will end up cutting trees to provide parking and other facilities on the campus.

** Karnataka’s vet ambulance service moo-ves 14 states to action

Karnataka’s ambulance service for the livestock — Pashu Sanjeevini — is being emulated by other states across the country, said Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chauhan here on Wednesday.

Followed by the success of the service, the government is now planning to launch mobile veterinary operation theatres soon.

** India’s first security-boosting wall from Belgium debuts at Bengaluru’s KSR railway station

A state-of-the-art video wall imported from Belgium has recently been installed inside the premises of Cyber Cell of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and offers an enhanced layer of security at Bengaluru’s Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna (KSR) railway station.

This is the first such installation in the country.

** UK, Singapore pros to design KIA retail village

Bangalore Airport City Limited (BACL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), has appointed DP Architects Singapore, and Portland Design, UK, as its architectural consultants for its integrated Retail-Dining-Entertainment (RDE) village.

The RDE Village was built with a vision to create a retail and lifestyle destination for those with a millennial mindset. It would be strategically located adjacent to the Concert Arena and Convention and Exhibition Centre, the release said. The project will be developed on 23 acres, over a built-up area of 1.1 million sqft.