The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and eight other municipal corporations in Karnataka have won various awards instituted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for keeping their respective cities clean.
Category: Records, Bengaluru (Bangalore)
* Three Bengaluru-based groups make it to Facebook’s community accelerator programme
A group that guides women on travel; a community that advocates new-age parenting; and a section that connects city women with entrepreneurs. Bangalore Women Power, Adventure Women India and Moms of India — were recently recognised by Facebook at the first edition of the Community Accelerator Programme
Guinness World Record – 222 Uterine Fibroids Removed from 34-year-old Patient : November 2021
Doctors at Sakra World Hospital removed 222 fibroids from the uterus of a 34-year-old woman.
This was done while preserving the patient’s uterus completely, stated the hospital in a press release. Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous growths made up of muscle and fibrous tissue and can vary in size and shape.
This rare procedure was conducted by Dr. Shanthala Thuppanna, senior consultant and head-Obstetrics & Gynaecology,
Three Bengaluru Scientists get Swarnajayanti Fellowships : November 2021
Sridharan Devarajan and Mayank Shrivastava from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Subhro Bhattacharjee from TIFR – International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, are among the 17 scientists chosen for the award.
Church Street Pedestrianisation Project (Bengaluru) Bags MoHUA Awards
The “Clean Air Street – Church Street First” was been conferred with the “Commendation Award in Urban Transport” under the category “Running trophy for the state/UT, which has Implemented Best Urban Transport Projects during the previous year”.