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BENGALURU: What type of mask should one wear if he or she is coughing? Researchers at IISc suggest wearing multilayered masks to prevent aerosol generation as these do not allow escape of droplet volume when the person coughs. The study carried out by IISc in association with scientists from UC San Diego and University of Toronto Engineering has been published in Science Advances.
According to IISc, when a person coughs, large droplets (>200 microns) hit the inner surface of a mask at a high speed, penetrate the mask fabric and break up or atomise into smaller droplets, which have a greater chance of aerosolisation and thereby carry viruses like SARS-CoV2 with them.
Mangaluru City Corporation
MANGALURU: A woman worker, serving in the water supply section of the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC), has alleged that a senior officer in the city corporation has been harassing her in the office.
The woman, who is an outsourced staff, has filed a complaint with the department of women and child development, alleging the officer has been putting pressure on her to work for more hours than regular work hours.
Since the complaint is related to work hours, the officials of the women and child development department have forwarded the complaint to the administrative section of the MCC.
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MYSURU: An auto driver, who was being chased by an arm-wielding gang that had brutally murdered two youths late on Sunday, had a narrow escape when beat police doing night rounds arrived in the nick of time.
The four-member gang would have killed auto driver Madhusudhan if police had not arrived on the spot. Madhusudhan’s friends, Kiran and Deepak Kisan, both 29, were brutally murdered by the gang around 11.15 pm on Sunday. Their throats were slit, said police.
Police have detained Dileep and Madhu while Swamy, the prime accused, and Raghu, are on the run.
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MYSURU: Assistant professor Basappa, HoD, organic chemistry department of the University of Mysore (UoM) has discovered a new drug-seed in lab conditions for breast cancer.
The new drug-seed named AMTA has been developed after five years of research, which Basappa claims is effective in breast cancer treatment. “The breast cancer cells are now developing resistance to a few treatments. This drug-seed has been found effective against breast cancer in lab conditions. In the next phase, trials will be conducted on animals and later the clinical trials will be taken up,” he explained.
According to Basappa, AMTA has been found to be better when compared to Tamoxifen which is one of the drugs approved for the breast cancer treatment.
About 60,000 tonnes of waste has been kept unprocessed at Agile dump yard since 2005
HASSAN: After several unsuccessful attempts to make waste segregation mandatory in the city, Hassan City Municipal Council has decided to penalise those failing to separate dry and waste before the garbage collectors pick it up.
Even as the decision is laudable, around 60,000 ton of waste continues to be left unprocessed at Agile dump yard, the designated place to dump waste generated under the CMC limits.
The dump yard is about 12 km from city and is spread on 22 acres of land. The yard receives close to 70 ton waste every day, but since 2005, when the local body started dumping waste in the yard, no processing has been taken up to generate manure or to clear the stock.