Holds meeting with Task Force team Mysore/Mysuru: K.R. MLA S.A. Ramdas has taken a resolve to make KR Constituency free of Covid deaths. After holding meeting here on Tuesday with COVID-19 Task Force at his recently reopened office, MLA Ramdas, who heads the K.R. Constituency Task Force, said, “In an effort to control the spread…
General Branch at City Police Commissioner’s new Office sealed as Cop tests positive
July 23, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The General Branch at the City Police Commissioner’s new Office in Nazarbad has been sealed down and is being sanitised after a staff has tested positive for COVID. The staff, attached to City Armed Reserve Police, was working at the General Branch on deputation. As he had developed COVID symptoms, he had refrained from…
City Law Courts closed again for two days
July 23, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Just a few days after the City Law Courts resumed functioning following a recent shutdown (July 8 and 9) after a practicing advocate tested positive for COVID-19, both the City Courts — District Law Courts Complex and Malalawadi Court Complex (behind Apollo Hospital) — have been closed for two days (July 22 and 23)…
Bubonic Plague and birth of a composer
July 23, 2020By Gouri Satya, Sr.Journalist Killer plague had attacked Mysuru when ‘Saraswathi Vilasa Karnataka Nataka Sabha’ Drama Company was at its height My previous article on the plague of 1896 published in these columns on April 1 ‘When Bubonic Plague hit Mysore State in 1896’ received an overwhelming response and was shared by many on the…
Total COVID positive cases crosses 2,000 in Mysuru district
July 23, 2020Mysuru reports 145 fresh COVID cases and five deaths; Mandya sees 37 new cases; Kodagu reports seven and Chamarajanagar reports 31 fresh COVID cases and one death on Wednesday Mysore/Mysuru: With 145 fresh COVID cases reported yesterday, Mysuru district has recorded a total of 2,053 positive cases with a total of 693 patients being discharged…
Sale of N-95 mask with valves to be restricted
July 22, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Following a letter to the Principal Secretaries of Health and Medical Education of States by Director-General of Health Services (DGHS) asking public not to use N-95 masks with valved respirators, the State Government is preparing to issue an order asking all medical stores not to sell such masks. This order will apply to Mysuru…
135 fresh COVID cases, five deaths reported in Mysuru district on Tuesday
July 22, 2020Mandya sees 13 new cases, Kodagu reports one, Chamarajanagar sees 34 fresh cases and a death Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru district, which had reported 149 new cases on Monday saw 135 fresh COVID positive cases yesterday (Tuesday) bringing the total number of positive cases to 1,908, according to the media bulletin last evening. A total of 674…
COVID Care facility at Bangalore Intl. Exhibition Centre incomplete, says Siddharamaiah
July 22, 2020Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddharamaiah yesterday alleged that the newly-built 10,100 bed COVID Care Centre at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) on Tumakuru Road did not have adequate number of staff and facilities like water supply, drainage and toilets. “BIEC Centre is too little, too late. The delay in setting up of the COVID-19…
State Govt. hikes salaries of doctors and nurses
July 22, 2020Slashes cost of COVID-19 testing in Private Labs MBBS doctors working on contract basis to get Rs. 80,000 per month Government releases Rs. 500 crore for COVID-19 management Rs. 2,000 for Government referred cases and Rs. 3,000 for self-reporting cases in Private Labs Bengaluru: Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar has stated that the Government…
MCC continues sanitisation drive
July 22, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In the wake of rising number of COVID-19 cases and as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of infection, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has taken up sanitisation drive across city. Civic workers will be fumigating and spraying sodium hypochlorite solution in Vijayanagar 3rd and 4th Stages, Shanthaveri Gopalagowdanagar, Lal Bahaddur Shastrinagar, Lalithadrinagar,…















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