2,272 vehicles seized from May 7 till 22 in city Bengaluru/Mysuru: Chief Secretary Ravikumar, following suggestion from Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, has instructed City Corporation Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and senior Police officials to act tough on those violating COVID Lockdown regulations issued by the State Government and seize vehicles moving around unnecessarily after purchase hours…
Women Loco Pilots steer Oxygen Express to Bengaluru
May 23, 2021They cover 120 km in one-and-a-half hours; clock an average speed of 80 kmph Bengaluru: An Oxygen Express train carrying 120 metric tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) from Jharkhand and piloted by an ”All Female Crew” from Jolarpettai in neighbouring Tamil Nadu arrived in Bengaluru yesterday. The pilots covered the last 120 km stretch…
MP Simha urges DC, DHO and ZP CEO to visit rural areas
May 23, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has opined that non-visiting of senior district officers like Deputy Commissioner (DC), District Health Officer (DHO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zilla Panchayat (ZP) to rural areas to take stock of the situation has been the root cause for the surge in Corona positive cases and deaths in villages….
‘DC, DHO must visit villages to understand people’s problems’
May 23, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Co- operation and District in-Charge Minister S.T. Somashekar has said senior officers including Deputy Commissioner (DC) must visit villages to understand the prevailing problems. When reporters brought to his notice about Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha’s statement that the DC, DHO and other officers must also visit villages as holding video-conference will not help, he…
COVID phobia keeps heart patients away from Hospitals
May 23, 2021Trend worrying, say Cardiologists; more worrisome is many people are dying due to fear of Coronavirus Mysore/Mysuru: Fearing Coronavirus spread at Hospitals, regular patients with heart problems or strokes are staying away from visiting Hospitals for their regular check-ups. This is risky, say doctors. Even the data shows that the number of severe heart attacks…
Karnataka Govt. lying about COVID-19 cases dropping: Siddu
May 23, 2021Bengaluru: Digging on the ruling BJP Government on hiding Covid-19 cases, Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Siddharamaiah on Saturday alleged that Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa administration was “lying” to the people about cases coming down in the State, underlining the drop in the number of tests being done. In a series…
Hungry tribes forced to eat less
May 23, 2021They enter forests in search of roots, tubers as food grains from Government is hard to come by H.D. Kote: At a time people from villages who had migrated to cities for earning a livelihood are now returning to their native villages due to the deadly COVID pandemic, the story of tribals in H.D. Kote…
1,270 additional vials of Amphotericin-B allocated to Karnataka
May 23, 2021Bengaluru: Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers D.V. Sadananda Gowda on Saturday said that ensuring adequate allocations to Karnataka in view of rising cases of Mucormycosis, a total of 1,270 additional vials of Amphotericin-B have been allocated to the State. In a series of tweets, he said that it is in addition to 1,660 vials…
‘No Govt. Hospitals in district must face oxygen, medicine scarcity’
May 23, 2021T. Narasipur: Co-operation and Mysuru District-in-Charge Minister S.T. Somashekar has said that no Government Hospital in the district must face shortage of medicines to treat COVID positive patients in the wake of extension of lockdown till June 7. He was speaking after visiting various Primary Health Centres in T. Narasipur Assembly Constituency yesterday. He wanted…
Two villages in Nanjangud taluk reports zero Corona cases; Minister to visit soon
May 23, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Two villages in Nanjangud Taluks including Katanur have not reported a single COVID positive case. Since these two villages are model for the whole State, he would visit those villages next week to seek how they have been able to do it so that it can be replicated in other villages, said Co-operation and District-in-Charge…
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