Mysore/Mysuru: Corona Warriors of 3rd batch that included eight Staff Nurses and four Doctors, who have done 10 days frontline duty at COVID Hospital in city and completed 14 days of Quarantine on Tuesday, were sent back home for a day. In this send-off ceremony held at Rajalakshmi Comforts in city where Corona Warriors were…
Dr. N. Chandrashekar donates Rs. 1 crore for PM CARES, Rs. 1 lakh for CM’s Relief Fund
May 7, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In a noble gesture, Dr. N. Chandrashekar of Aadithya Adhikari Hospital, Gokulam, donated Rs. 1 crore to PM CARES Fund to mark his daughter Dr. Archana C. Rao’s birthday today. He also donated Rs. 1 lakh to Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. The cheques were handed over to Mysuru Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar at…
Exhibit responsible behaviour, DC tells Mysureans
May 7, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The number of COVID-19 positive cases is rising every day, and so is the death toll. Fortunately, Mysuru is slowly and steadily coming out of the Red Zone with only a handful positive patients admitted at the designated hospital. Scientists seem to believe that this pandemic will wreak more havoc. This is why Governments…
Corona steals colour, costume from these Bahuroopis
May 7, 2020Itinerant performers or ‘sadhus of the cemetery’, these Budaga Jangama artistes struggle to make ends meet Mysore/Mysuru: How many days since you last stepped out of the house? Got stuck in a traffic signal, saw a movie in a multiplex, went to a restaurant or went shopping on Devaraj Urs Road or at a Mall?…
Garbage issues surface following lockdown relaxation
May 7, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru city, which was clean and tidy following lockdown, is now facing garbage issues following relaxation of lockdown rules. The garbage generation in the city had dropped following the lockdown to tame the spread of Coronavirus. Though Mysuru City is still in the Red Zone, the District Administration has partially relaxed the lockdown rules…
Tight vehicle screening at 5 Mysuru District borders
May 6, 2020COVID stickers pasted on vehicles; indelible seal stamped on symptomatic travellers Mandatory 14-day quarantine for outside State visitors; asymptomatic persons let off Mysore/Mysuru: Determined to take stringent measures against spread of Coronavirus infection even after the State Government decided to allow one-time, two-way inter-district passes to facilitate people stranded in other cities to return home,…
CM’s Rs. 1,610 crore booster to revive sagging State economy
May 6, 2020Excise duty on all brands of liquor hiked by 17 percent Bengaluru: In an attempt to revive the sagging economy of the State which was in distress due to onset of the COVID-19 lockdown, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa announced a relief package worth over Rs. 1,610 crore. He was addressing a press conference from…
COVID-19 casts dark shadow over Dasara-2020
May 6, 2020By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: An estimated 10 lakh people visit Mysuru every year during the 10-day State-sponsored Dasara extravaganza. However, this year, dark clouds of COVID-19 have cast over the celebrations. With strict norms of social distancing here to stay at least till the pandemic is brought under complete control, stakeholders are wondering how to…
Rajasthanis housed at Shelter Camps in city return to their residences in outskirts
May 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: A total of 170 people, native of Rajasthan, were housed at Shelter Camps in city following nationwide lockdown. Though they were not able to return to their native places, a time has come for these people to return to their residences in the district. A total of 170 people including 23 women and 22…
DC, SP inspect Mysuru-Kodagu check-post in Kushalnagar
May 5, 2020Only one inter-district entry and exit point with health screening and vehicle checking kiosks Anechowkur Gate closed for movement of people but open for essential goods Kerala COVID-19 positive truck driver’s contacts in K.R. Nagar, H.D. Kote test negative Kushalnagar: Mysuru Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar and Superintendent of Police C.B. Ryshyanth inspected the Mysuru-Kodagu…
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