Mysore/Mysuru: Even as Mysuru district is preparing to receive the Chief Minister, who will be arriving to offer Bagina to Kabini Dam tomorrow (Aug. 21), top officers of the district — Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar, MCC Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde, City Police Commissioner Dr. Chandragupta and SP C.B. Ryshyanth — have gone into home quarantine,…
Loan burden forcing taxi drivers to sell vehicles
August 20, 2020COVID financial help by Govt. not reached even 10% of drivers Mysore/Mysuru: Drivers-cum-owners of taxis in city, who have already suffered huge loss following COVID lockdown, are yet to earn their normal livelihood and now, with banks asking them to repay their loans, they are forced to sell their vehicles. Also the Rs. 5,000 financial…
Tourist bus owners, drivers stage protest
August 20, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: More than 30 tourist bus owners, drivers and owners-cum-drivers, under the banner of Mysuru District Tourist Bus Owners’ Association, staged a protest near Deputy Commissioner’s Office this morning urging for fulfilment of their various demands. They said that COVID-19 pandemic had caused severe financial crisis due to lack of business causing a lot of…
Liquid oxygen units to be established at all Government Hospitals: Minister
August 20, 2020Bengaluru: “Liquid oxygen units would be established at all Government Hospitals and Medical College Hospitals and would be supplied as per the demand,” said Medical Education Minister Dr. Sudhakar. He was speaking after visiting KIMS Hospital, where he took stock of the availability of oxygen and facilities available for the patients on Tuesday. Continuing, he…
Gold chain robbed from the dead
August 20, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: An incident of miscreants allegedly robbing a gold chain of a woman, who died of COVID at the COVID Hospital, has come to light lately. A 56-year-old woman, who was admitted to the COVID Hospital on KRS Road after she tested positive, succumbed to the disease at the Hospital on Aug. 12. But when…
COVID-19 restrictions dampen spirits of traditional idol-makers
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Following the State Government’s guidelines restricting the Ganesha Chaturthi Festival celebrations in order to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most affected people are traditional Gowri-Ganesha idol-makers in the region. In Kumbarageri alone, which is located near Gandhi Chowk in city, there are over 20 families, who have been depending on…
KSOU Academic Bhavan COVID Care Centre’s novel initiative
August 18, 2020Huge compost pit to recycle food waste Centre’s Nodal Officer Lt. Col. Dr. S.U. Ashok shows the way Mysore/Mysuru: The COVID Care Centre (CCC) established at the Academic Bhavan of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) at Mandakalli, which has 526 in-patients as of today, has now got a huge compost pit to convert food and…
Trauma Centre as COVID Hospital: Works going on in full swing
August 18, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Works on the new and ultra-modern Mysuru Trauma Care Centre in PKTB premises on KRS Road to be utilised as another COVID-19 Hospital in the wake of rising Coronavirus cases is going on in full swing. At present, the works on Central Oxygen Supply System, false ceiling, screen partitions have been completed and the…
Open COVID Centre at Sathagalli Bus Stand Complex: MLA
August 18, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Narasimharaja MLA Tanveer Sait has suggested the district administration for a COVID Care Centre (CCC) at Sathagalli Bus Stand Complex in city. Speaking to Star of Mysore, Sait said that as COVID test is being conducted across the city daily, the number of positive cases too was increasing and it is necessary to establish…
Rapid Antigen Test continues
August 18, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) being conducted on a mass scale by the district administration, entered the second day today, with the test conducted at five centres across the city. At Town Hall, one of the centres that is located in the heart of the city, more than 60 people were seen voluntarily…
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