Mysore/Mysuru: With the number of COVID-19 positive cases rising exponentially by the day in the district, Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) teams have started visiting hotspot areas of the city carrying out tests on the people near their doorstep. There are 8 RAT teams in the city and 10 in each taluk of the district. Rapid…
Free oxygen for COVID patients with respiratory problems
August 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: United Vision Welfare and Charitable Trust has come forward to supply free oxygen to COVID patients with severe respiratory infection. The free service was inaugurated by District Vector-Borne Diseases Control Officer Dr. Chidambara by watering a sapling at a simple function organised at MESCO ITI College premises in Subashnagar yesterday. Speaking on the occasion,…
Mysuru district reports 11 COVID deaths, 261 new cases on Aug. 5
August 6, 2020Mandya reports 123 new COVID positive cases, Kodagu sees 13 and Chamarajanagar reports 38 new cases Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru district yesterday reported 261 new COVID positive cases bringing the total number of positives in the district to 6,115, according to the media bulletin received last evening. As many as 2,342 patients have been discharged so far…
COVID-19: Provident Fund Office closed for public
August 6, 2020Drop Box kept at office gate for people to drop applications; public asked to opt for online transactions Mysore/Mysuru: The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Regional Office at Gayathripuram in city has been closed to public due to COVID-19 pandemic. As hundreds of people visit the office daily, notices have been pasted outside the gate…
Canara Bank donates Rs. 5 lakh for COVID care
August 6, 2020Canara Bank, Mysuru, Regional Office-I Head I.P. Mithanthaya handed over a cheque for Rs. 5 lakh to Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Prashanth Kumar Mishra towards treatment of COVID patients at Mysuru District Covid Hospital under the Bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme. T.E. Nagappa, Assistant General Manager, Lead Bank, A.V. Yashavanth, Divisional Manager, Canara…
India’s first solar-powered Telemedicine Van inaugurated by Mysuru DC
August 5, 2020This Telemedicine Unit is sponsored by Bank Note Paper Mill, Mysuru under its CSR Initiative at a cost of Rs. 1.25 crore Mysore/Mysuru: India’s first solar-powered Telemedicine Van was inaugurated by Mysuru Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar at an event that took place at Amritakripa Hospital in Roopanagar here on Aug. 3. This Telemedicine Unit…
Mysuru district reports 662 new COVID cases, nine deaths on Aug. 4
August 5, 2020Mandya sees 126 new cases, Kodagu reports 31 and Chamarajanagar district sees 57 new COVID positive cases Mysore/Mysuru: There seems to be an explosion of COVID-19 infections in Mysuru district as 662 new COVID positive were reported yesterday, according to the media bulletin received last evening. Meanwhile, Mysuru DC Abhiram G. Sankar has clarified that…
Congress to register criminal case against BJP for sending legal notice
August 5, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Even as the slugfest between Congress and BJP leaders continue over alleged scam in the purchase of COVID-19 medical equipment by the BJP Government, KPCC Spokesperson M.Lakshmana said that the Congress will register a criminal case against the BJP for issuing a legal notice to Opposition leader Siddharamaiah and KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar who…
COVID-19: SC directs States to provide essentials to elderly people
August 5, 2020New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ordered all the States to ensure all elderly people, eligible for the pension, should be regularly paid the amount, along with necessary medicines, masks, sanitisers and other essential goods during the Covid-19 pandemic. A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and R. Subhash Reddy directed that when any…
With work for just four months a year, Home Guards ponder over full-time employment
August 5, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Home Guards who work with the Police on normal days are in a dilemma as they get work only for four months a year, with the COVID-19 pandemic throwing almost everything out of gear. There are a total of 1,300 Home Guards serving in the district, including 528 in the city and in normal…















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