Mysore/Mysuru: District Minister S.T. Somashekar yesterday launched installation of a new Plasma Machine donated to K.R. Hospital in city by ICATT Atkins and SNC-Lavalin Company. With this, plasma donors need not travel to Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences which they used to do as the machine at K.R. Hospital had become non-functional since Aug. 17. …
Mysore/Mysuru: Lauding the efforts of Anganwadi and ASHA workers for their role in preventing the spread of COVID-19, MLA G.T. Devegowda stated that these workers are playing an important role at the grassroots level to deal with Corona crisis. He was speaking at a programme organised by Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled, Department of Women…
Mysore/Mysuru: “India stands third in the world in finding vaccine for COVID-19,” said S. Selvakumar, Secretary to the Chief Minister and Secretary, Department of Skill Development. Speaking after inaugurating a function online to felicitate doctors and pharmacists at Sarada Vilas College of Pharmacy here recently, he said the role of pharmacists and scientists was very…
Mysore/Mysuru: The physical hearing of cases in Law Courts, which were suspended following the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 contagion in March, will resume in full scale from Oct.12. Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court A.S. Oka and other Judges of the HC held a video- conference with office-bearers of Mysuru Bar Association recently, during…
Mysore/Mysuru: Directing the officials to intensify COVID-19 testing in the wake of rapid spread of the deadly virus in the district, DC Rohini Sindhuri said that it is also mandatory to conduct tests on all primary contacts of the infected persons. She was speaking at a meeting of COVID-19 Nodal Officers at the ZP Hall…
Mysore/Mysuru: In a first initiative of its kind in the State, Minister for Co-operation and Mysuru District Minister S.T. Somashekar distributed loans to COVID-19 distressed beneficiaries of various schemes of Co-operation Department at Mysuru Revenue Division ‘Arthika Spandana’ programme organised at Kalamandira on Hunsur road this morning, marking the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Somashekar…
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation has arranged COVID-19 test for all Corporators, officials and media persons on Oct. 5 from 8 am to 12 noon in view of the Council meeting to be held on Oct. 6. According to MCC Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde, the test will be done in MCC premises on Oct. 5 by a…
By Dr. Shalini Rajneesh, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka Corona cases have seen an increasing trend creating a sense of fear and despair among all. The only way to control this pandemic is to create widespread awareness and ensure early testing and preventive measures with active co-operation of civil society and grassroot-level local bodies….
By Shyam Sundar Vattam Mysore/Mysuru: Health experts, Task Force members and senior officials have advised the State Government not to relax any rules for the upcoming Dasara festival keeping in view the spike in COVID-19 cases. “There is every possibility of Mysuru city and district going Kerala way where the Coronavirus cases exploded due to…
New Delhi: After nearly seven months of lockdown owing to COVID-19, the Union Home Ministry has allowed re-opening of cinemas, theatres and multiplexes outside the Containment Zones with up to 50 per cent of their seating capacity from Oct. 15. In a letter to Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories, Ajay Bhalla, Home…
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