Belagavi: The COVID-19 and Omicron variant cases have spiked in the country in the last week, especially in neighbouring Maharashtra and its capital Mumbai. People living in the border areas of Karnataka and Maharashtra have business links. Therefore, officials have been told to keep a strict vigil at Belagavi, Vijayapura, Mysuru, Mangaluru and other districts…
Lockdown in Bengaluru or semi-lockdown in State ?
January 3, 2022CM convenes meeting with experts tomorrow Bengaluru: The number of active COVID-19 cases in Karnataka, which had been consistently declining since September 2021, has breached the 10,000-mark again, for the first time since Oct. 10. Yesterday, the State reported 10 more cases of Omicron variant, taking the State’s Omicron tally to 76. The number of…
Be people-friendly, forgo ego: Chief Minister’s pep talk to DCs
January 1, 2022‘Reserve at least one day in a month for encroachment clearance drive’ Bengaluru: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai yesterday urged Deputy Commissioners of districts to bring in change, instead of just thinking about it. He asked Deputy Commissioners to work with team spirit and face the challenges unitedly to make the district administrations dynamic. “Promptly implement…
Night curfew to stay as COVID cases spike
December 30, 2021Karnataka reports 566 cases on Dec. 29; Bengaluru reports 400 Central team assessing situation, suggesting remedial action Bengaluru/Mysuru: The State authorities have clarified that Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is not in favour of lifting the night curfew, especially on Dec. 31, the New Year’s eve. Reason: Spike in COVID cases where the State yesterday recorded…
CM virtually opens gorilla houses at Zoo
December 29, 2021International standard enclosures built by Infosys Foundation with Rs. 2.70 crore Mysore/Mysuru: Two gorillas that were brought from Germany were put on display at Mysuru Zoo yesterday and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai virtually inaugurated the enclosures that have been built at a cost of Rs. 2.70 crore with funding from Infosys Foundation. The gorillas are…
CM Bommai inaugurates oxygen plant at JSS Hospital
December 28, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Along with many hospitals in Mysuru that have their own oxygen generation plants, the JSS Hospital too has one such plant, thereby increasing the city’s self-sustaining oxygen capacity. The facility was inaugurated by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in the city on Dec. 26. The plant has been installed in anticipation of the third wave…
There is no question of relaxing curbs: CM
December 27, 2021Mysuru/Bengaluru: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said in Mysuru yesterday that the night curfew for 10 days from 10 pm to 5 am was a precautionary measure against a possible outbreak of third wave and surge in COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. “These steps have been necessitated in the wake of a surge of COVID-19 and…
Govt. to establish exclusive Directorate for farmer income enhancement: CM
December 27, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that the Government was mulling on forming an exclusive Directorate for enhancement of farmer income. He was speaking at the State-level Farmers Convention organised by Federation of State Farmer Associations and Karnataka Sugarcane Growers Association, marking World Farmers Day at Kalamandira on Hunsur Road here yesterday. Asserting that the…
CM in Mysuru tomorrow
December 25, 2021To inaugurate State-level Farmers’ Convention at Kalamandira; Oxygen Plant at JSS Hospital Mysore/Mysuru: As part of World Farmers Day celebration, the State Federation of Farmer Associations and Karnataka Sugarcane Growers Association will be holding a State-level Farmers’ Convention in city on Dec.26 from 11 am onwards. Announcing this at a press meet at Jaladarshini Guest…
Karnataka Assembly passes Anti-Conversion Bill amid protest by Opposition Congress
December 24, 2021Belagavi: The Anti-Conversion Bill was passed in Karnataka Assembly on Thursday amidst protests by the Opposition Congress. Pandemonium erupted after BJP claimed that the Anti-Conversion Bill was an improvement on the draft prepared during Siddharamaiah’s tenure as the Chief Minister in 2016. Both members of the ruling and Opposition members cast aspersions on each other…
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