Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and his 32 Cabinet Ministers will donate their one year salary to Covid-19 relief fund. The Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR) has issued this order based on Yediyurappa’s direction. The donation is with effect from May 1. The salary money will be used for relief measures and…
Mysore/Mysuru: Without mincing words, Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri has issued directions to District Health Department Officers to use the available vaccine to administer second dose to people above 45 years of age. Holding a video-conference meeting with Tahsildars and Taluk Panchayat Executive Officers yesterday, she said they need to give second dose of vaccine to…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru District Government Employees Association has urged the Government to prioritise vaccination of teachers considering them as Corona Warriors. In a press release, Association Vice-President Malangi Suresh, who is also the Honorary President of South Zone Primary School Teachers Association, said that teachers are engaged in COVID duty, working along with Doctors, ASHA…
Mysore/Mysuru: Taking a step forward in post-COVID care of patients, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) will soon be setting up Step Down Clinics or Post-COVID Care Centres across the city to take further care of patients who are discharged from Hospitals after 80 percent recovery from critical illness. A preliminary meeting in this regard was…
New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), the national regulator, after careful examination, has accepted the recommendation of Subject Expert Committee (SEC) and accorded permission to conduct the Phase II/III clinical trial of Covaxin (COVID vaccine) in the age group of 2 to 18 years, to its manufacturer Bharat Biotech Ltd. The Hyderabad-…
Mysore/Mysuru: As COVID death rate graph is heading north, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has formed a special team to oversee cremations and last rites of the patients. This is to ensure that patient relatives are not put into trouble while cremating their loved ones and also to ensure that the dead get a dignified…
Bengaluru: Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers D.V. Sadananda Gowda (DVS) on Thursday said that a proposal to suspend protection under the Patents Act for Covaxin, the home-made COVID-19 vaccine by Bharat Biotech, is under ‘serious consideration.’ Speaking to newsmen here, he said a Committee had been set up to look at the patent waiver…
Mysore/Mysuru: Pushcart fruit vendors in city are facing a bleak future following lockdown in city. Only a few are now seen at various parts across the city while 70 percent of pushcart vendors seem to have stopped selling fruits. Pushcart vendors selling fruits were a common scene in the heart of the city as well…
Begur: With film and television-related production coming to a standstill amidst nearly a month-long lockdown this year, a film personality who had been working in the Kannada movie industry for many years has now returned to his native village and working as a blacksmith. A native of Bettadamadahalli village in Gundlupet taluk, Bhadra B.M. Halli…
Aurangabad/Mumbai: Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President Nana Patole on Wednesday demanded that the Central Government should announce a National Policy on Corona vaccination as there is no coherence in vaccination across the country. Speaking to press-persons at his residence in Mumbai, Patole said there are long queues of people outside vaccination centres across the…
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