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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.
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MYSURU: Mandakalli Airport in Mysuru is emerging as a vital node connecting southern India with domestic air passenger traffic spiralling upward since November.
Monthly passenger traffic at the airport has gone up by 160% in December and the first half of January. Traffic soared high with single day 600-mark on January 17. Number of inbound passengers stood higher than outbound passengers. In the last eight months since May 2020, about 20,202 people have travelled from Mysuru to Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Belagavi, Goa, Cochin and Mangaluru. The inbound traffic figure is just over 19,000. In all, 39,000 passengers have travelled via Mysuru Airport.
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MANGALURU: The city police has directed the management of temples, daivasthanas and other places of the worship to take necessary measures to prevent untoward incidents. At least four incidents targeting religious places have been reported in the city in January.
Police said mischievous elements appeared to be at work to disturb communal harmony in the coastal district would be dealt with strictly.
N Shashi Kumar, city police commissioner told reporters on Wednesday that instructions have been given to managements of places of worship to be equipped with CCTVs.
Currently, money in hundis (donation boxes) are counted once in three months or six months or whenever they are full. “We have asked them to count money in the donation boxes once a week compulsorily. We have noticed a lack of surveillance in places where such incidents have been reported. In such a scenario, it is a challenge to track offenders who commit such crimes,”