Mysore/Mysuru: As per directions from the Central Government, the Mysuru District Administration, jointly with Health and Family Welfare Department, has launched a drive to conduct Thermal Screening of all those living in hotspot areas across the district since Apr.24. A total of 28 areas, including 13 in city, have been declared as hotspots within the…
43 of 89 COVID-19 positive patients recover in Mysuru
April 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In a remarkable achievement, 43 Coronavirus positive patients have been discharged so far from the designated COVID-19 Hospital on KRS Road after they have fully recovered from the disease. This is an indication to the fact that Mysuru District is slowly returning to normalcy from the killer epidemic. In all, 89 positive cases were…
Mysuru’s veteran RSS leader gets phone call from Modi
April 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making a special effort to check on the health of his senior colleagues in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in keeping with his reminder to people on Apr. 14 to take special care of senior citizens in their homes. The PM is calling on several…
Lockdown will stay in Red Zones, says PM
April 27, 2020States asked to demarcate districts as Red, Green and Orange Zones based on level of infection New Delhi: As India enters the final week of nationwide lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video conference with the Chief Ministers this morning to discuss the road ahead. This was the fourth such meeting between Narendra Modi and State Chief…
M.G. Road Market vendors stay put
April 27, 2020Refuse to move to Dasara Expo venue; no veggie sales today Mysore/Mysuru: In a curious turn of events this morning, vegetable vendors of the M.G. Road Market who were asked to either move to Dasara Exhibition venue or the Lalitha Mahal Grounds Market refused to budge from their places and squatted on their designated places….
Mysuru Railway Hospital too contributes its mite to battle COVID-19
April 27, 2020Ground-level works led by Chief Medical Superintendent Dr. Meera Patil Mysore/Mysuru: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail,” a quote attributed to Philosopher-Statesman Benjamin Franklin, could not have been more appropriate than now as the world is grappling with the scourge of Coronavirus. The Indian Railways has massively contributed to the battle against…
Love will have to wait: Kerala quintuplets’ wedding delayed
April 27, 2020Thiruvananthapuram: If there was no lockdown, the quintuplets (five children in one birth) of ‘Pancharatnam’ House at Nannattukavu in Pothencode in Kerala would have entered a new phase of life as four of them were to enter wedlock the same day and at the same venue on Sunday, Apr. 26. The four girls of the…
Death of two forest staff: Forest Minister Anand Singh visits Kabini
April 27, 2020H.D. Kote: Forest Minister Anand Singh yesterday evening visited Kabini backwaters in Bandipur Tiger Reserve area where two Forest personnel, who were conducting an operation against illegal fishing drowned. The Minister later visited Brahmagiri tribal hamlet and spoke to the parents of deceased Forest Watcher Shivakumar. Minister Anand Singh, accompanied with MLAs Anil Chikkamadu and…
Lockdown downs cardiac cases in Mysuru: Dr. Sadananda
April 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: COVID-19 lockdown has given room for healthy habits among people due to which incidents of heart attack and heart-related ailments have come down drastically, said Dr. K.S. Sadananda, Medical Superintendent of Jayadeva Hospital, Mysuru. Speaking to ‘Star of Mysore,’ Dr. Sadananda said that many people were suffering from heart attack due to stress, consumption…
KPCC Mysuru Task Force urges Government to save farmers and poor
April 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Mysuru Revenue Division COVID-19 Task Force Committee has urged the Government to come to the rescue of distressed farmers and the poor who are facing a lot of hardship following the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown. The Committee submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar at his office…
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