Mysore/Mysuru: With steady decline in Corona positive cases, the attendance of students for offline courses has seen a drastic improvement. The students, who were hesitant to go to colleges during initial days, were now making a beeline. The numbers have increased especially after vaccine drive started on Jan 16. Since last 10-15 days, PU, Degree,…
Aadhaar Seva Kendras begin offline and online services
January 23, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru’s two Aadhaar Seva Kendras (ASK), operated by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) at Vijayanagar First Stage and at Saraswathipuram have been offering both online and offline services. These services were hampered in the last few months owing to COVID-19 pandemic. Now the services have resumed in full scale and per day…
PM, CMs to get vaccinated in second round
January 21, 2021New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Ministers of all the States and Union Territories are likely to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in the second round, according to sources. With this, Modi wants to silence the voices of a few Congress leaders who had doubted safety and efficacy of the vaccines and had challenged…
COVID isolation train coaches to be modified to haul freight traffic
January 21, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Over 128 isolation coaches which the South Western Railway (SWR) readied to treat COVID-19 patients soon after the contagion struck would be modified as New Modified Goods (NMG) rakes to transport freight. The coaches were lying idle till now at eight stations across the Mysuru Division — Mysuru, Shivamogga, Hassan, Arasikere, Nanjangud, Birur, and…
Vaccination drive: Kodagu highest, Dakshina Kannada clocks lowest percentage
January 17, 2021Tepid response in Mysuru district on inaugural day Mysuru/Bengaluru: While the hilly district of Kodagu registered the highest vaccination percentage of 84 per cent, Dakshina Kannada has clocked the lowest percentage of 34 per cent on the first day of nationwide vaccine drive launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. As against 21,658 persons…
Bio-medical waste management gets priority in ongoing vaccination drive
January 17, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Utmost care has been taken for the safe disposal of bio-medical waste collected at all Taluk Hospitals and Health and Wellness Centres during COVID-19 vaccination drive which commenced yesterday. Every vaccination booth has been provided with four coloured plastic bins for disposing bio-medical waste as per specifications given by the Union Health Ministry. Every…
Vaccination Drive: Countdown begins
January 15, 202120,500 Covishield vials arrive in city on Jan. 13 night Mysore/Mysuru: India is all set to write a new script in the history with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a nationwide vaccination drive online tomorrow for the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic which snuffed out lakhs of lives besides ruining the economy of all countries in the…
Packed with a prayer
January 15, 2021Sarve Santu Niramayah Mysore/Mysuru: The first consignment of Covishield vaccine that came to Mysuru in temperature-controlled trucks from Pune-based Serum Institute of India sported a Sanskrit shloka ‘Sarve Santu Niramayah’. The sticker was pasted on the boxes of the vaccine on the top right corner. Each box contains 50 vials of the vaccine and six…
Number of foreign students dwindles at Mysore Varsity
January 13, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: COVID-19 has come as an unprecedented challenge to international education. Just as much as it is a concern for students aspiring for the experience of studying abroad, host Universities like the University of Mysore are in distress over how to manage the deficits in budgets. The number of foreign students in the University has…
DC gives conditional permission to use election thermal scanners at schools
January 13, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: With Gram Panchayat elections over, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rohini Sindhuri has given conditional permission for dispatch of thermal scanners provided by the Election Commission for Gram Panchayat polls, to Government Schools across the district. With the Government giving nod for re-opening of schools after a 10-month break following the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19…
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