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BU syndicate member requests COVID-19 Care Centre
The Hindu
This is for teaching and non-teaching staff
A member of the Bangalore University syndicate has sought establishment of a COVID-19 Care Centre (CCC) at the varsity. Prem S., syndicate member, Bangalore University has written to the Vice Chancellor to start an emergency CCC for the varsity’s teaching and non-teaching staff. In his letter, he cited instances of teaching and non-teaching staff and their families contracting COVID-19.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.