Mysore/Mysuru: The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent nation-wide lockdown has stalled domestic and commercial flights. Still the skies are buzzing with regular cargo flights to transport critical medical equipment and supplies. Several small airports in India including the Mysore Airport at Mandakalli have been earmarked as Lifeline UDAN Airports that will facilitate transport…
Mysore/Mysuru: Amidst the dark clouds cast by the killer Coronavirus, here is a silver lining. The first patient to test positive in Mysuru has been cured and is likely to be discharged today evening. This positive news comes a day after lakhs of diyas and mobile phone lights lit Mysuru’s landscape following Prime Minister Narendra…
New Delhi: Crores of Indians across the country including Mysuru, Karnataka’s cultural capital, switched off lights at their homes and lit candles and diyas or turned on mobile phone torches last night, responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to show the nation’s “collective resolve and solidarity” in its fight against Coronavirus with this symbolic…
Bengaluru: In Karnataka, Governor Vajubhai Vala, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, his Cabinet Ministers and lakhs of the ruling BJP’s cadres joined the people in lighting the lamps. “Vala lit the lamp at 9 pm on the roof terrace of Raj Bhavan,” said a communiqué from the Governor’s office. “It is again resolved that we are…
Students express joy of learning from home even during lockdown Mysore/Mysuru: Seshadripuram Degree College, Mysuru, has started online classes for students, by making use of the technology, to enable students to reap the fruits of it during the lockdown period, while joining the nation to fight the covid-19, by staying at home. This novel initiative…
Mandya: With five Moulvis, who visited Nagamangala and Malavalli in the district after returning from Delhi’s Nizamuddin Tablighi Jamaat testing positive for COVID-19, the Mandya District Administration has declared the two taluks as Containment Zones (Red Alert Zones). The Moulvis are said to have toured Nagamangala and Malavalli taluks for religious campaign after returning from…
Mysuru/Madikeri: Rain brought some relief from sweltering heat and several parts of State including Mysuru and Kodagu received light to moderate rainfall coupled with thunderstorms and hailstorms last midnight. It began raining at around 12.20 am and the intermittent showers lasted for over an hour. Police, Home Guards and other enforcement forces that were on…
Mysore/Mysuru: Engineers, technicians, workers and supervisors of South Western Railway (SWR), Mysuru Division, are working overtime to convert train coaches into Isolation Wards, providing an ingenuous, clean, sanitised and hygienic surroundings for COVID-19 patients to comfortably recover. A team of 60 to 75 persons are working in two shifts every day to convert coaches into…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru-based CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) is joining hands with the District Administration in combating the spread of COVID-19 by making available equipment needed for testing of samples. COVID-19 infection is at present detected by a very sophisticated and precise technique called Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method which requires extraction…
Madikeri: Following the Novel Coronavirus and imposition of lockdown in the country and departure of the migrant labour force to their hometowns, the harvest of pepper and post-harvest process of coffee have taken a hit in Kodagu. In the coffee land of Kodagu, most of the workers at these estates are primarily from north Karnataka…
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