Malnutrition has come back to Hosanagara in a severe acute form

  Let’s know about Hosanagara firs Hosanagara is a Taluk of Shimoga (Shivamogga) district in Karnataka. According to the 2011 census, it has a population of 118148 within which 58503 are male and 59645 are female. It comes under the hilly zone (Shimoga has been divided into two agro climatic zone according to their situation) […]

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Blame our lifestyle too for disappearance of the sparrow

Blame our lifestyle too for sparrow’s disappearance   Plastic, paint smell, lack of ventilation driving them away Bangalore, April 12, 2018: The house sparrow, the bird that was part of people’s lives, is disappearing. While environmental degradation, and electromagnetic radiation from industries and telecommunications networks, are widely blamed, another reason for the bird’s disappearance is people’s […]

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Govt’s plan for pregnant, lactating women flops

Nobody wants to travel to faraway anganwadis The Karnataka government’s Mathru Poorna scheme to provide nutritious food to pregnant and lactating women in rural areas seems to have no takers in Hosanagara taluk of Shivamogga district. None of the 1,800 registered beneficiaries goes to anganwadis to eat meals provided under the scheme. They say they […]

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Bengaluru is stuck in traffic, gasps for breath

An alarming rise in air pollution, contributed largely by an increasing number of vehicles, has caused Bengaluru to gasp. Data for 2017 released by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) says Bengaluru’s poor Air Quality index causes “breathing discomfort to the people with lung, heart disease, children and older adults”. Bengaluru’s PM2.5, recorded at […]

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Areca farmers shift to other professions

Bangalore, March 1 , 2018: A scarcity of water has affected the cultivation of arecanut in Hosanagara taluk, Shivamogga district, forcing farmers to become construction workers. Umesha M started working as a daily-wages labourer after he could not earn money from agriculture. Similar is the situation of Vishwanath K, another arecanut farmer who said he […]

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Translocation hurts trees, say experts

Bangalore, February 01, 2018: Translocation of trees seems better than chopping them down, but it has an adverse effect on them, environmentalists say. The process also has a negative impact on the environment. To make way for a Gottigere-Nagawara line, BMRCL recently translocated 185 trees to the IIM-B campus with help from private agencies. Sheshadri Ramaswami, […]

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Bridge to link Majestic Metro and bus station in the offing

3 bodies will share the cost, finish work in 45 days. Pracheta Panja Bangalore, January 18, 2018: A steel bridge will soon connect the Kempegowda Majestic Metro station and the adjacent bus station, making it easy for the people to walk between these places easier for commuters. U A Vasanth Rao, Chief Public Relations officer of […]

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