Mysore/Mysuru: Demanding total waiver of rent till December on account of severe loss of business due to COVID-19 pandemic, Hotels, Restaurants, Bakeries and other eateries functioning from KSRTC Bus Stands across the State, have shut down indefinitely with effect from today. Following a call from Bengaluru-based Federation of KSRTC (including BMTC, NWKRTC & NEKRTC) Bus…
CM to decide on complete weekends lockdown tomorrow
July 9, 2020Bengaluru: With Corona positive cases rising alarmingly across the State, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa has convened a meeting of Union Ministers representing the State and MPs at the Palace Grounds in the State Capital tomorrow morning (July 10), to discuss on extending Sunday total lockdown to Saturday as well. Presiding over a Cabinet meeting here…
Dead body shifted from one village to another for last rites
July 9, 2020Suspected COVID death: Cremation refused as villagers insist on lab report One village finally agrees to cremate outside its boundaries Mandya: Fear is robbing the dead of dignity. While there are many reports of many COVID Hospitals in cities and care homes abandoning and even leaving the dead on beds amid the Coronavirus pandemic, such…
Covid-recovered patient says… Stay positive and be patient
July 9, 2020Virus-infected-and-cured senior citizen says one must be physically, mentally and emotionally strong to beat the disease Mysore/Mysuru: The outbreak of Coronavirus has diagnosed more than a crore patients worldwide. Soon, the number of cases is going to exceed in the coming days. It is estimated that the Coronavirus is going to affect 60 percent to…
At COVID-19 awareness programme: Ramdas calls for making Mysuru Coronavirus free
July 9, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: KR Constituency MLA S.A. Ramdas, who has launched an awareness programme in his assembly segment about the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, has called upon the people to make Mysuru free of the virus. On the second day of his awareness programme on Wednesday, Ramdas met several residents in J.P. Nagar and educated them about the…
COVID-19 effect: Farmers’ Assn. demands ban on marriage and other events
July 9, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Farmer leader and Karnataka State Federation of Farmer Associations President Kurubur Shantakumar has urged the State Government to order a blanket ban on marriage and such other functions in order to contain the rapid spread of COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter addressed to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, Shantakumar said that Positive COVID-19 cases are…
Webinar on ‘Post COVID-19 World’
July 9, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: COVID-19 has created havoc in the world. Society at large and professionals around the world are equipping themselves for a post-COVID world. Keeping this in view, a Webinar on ‘Post COVID-19 World’ has been arranged by Centre for Workplace Safety and Health (CWSH), autonomous unit of National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysuru, on July…
Election Commission set to hold GP elections in October
July 9, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Hinting at conducting the Gram Panchayat (GP) elections in October, the State Election Commission has directed all the district administrations in the State to revise the electoral rolls. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown that ensued, the Election Commission in March had ordered postponement of GP elections and stalling…
Time to balance news in trying COVID times
July 9, 2020By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Kevin Carter, a South African photo-journalist, was awarded the “Pulitzer Prize” for the visual “The Vulture and the Little Girl.” In the picture, a vulture is patiently waiting for the death of a hungry little girl. Carter captured the moment in the great 1993 famine in Sudan. …
Hunsur General Hospital partially sealed
July 9, 2020As a pregnant woman, who delivered a baby at Hunsur General Hospital on Sunday, has tested positive for COVID-19, the hospital has been partially sealed and only emergency treatment and dialysis facilities are permitted. The medical staff, who attended the woman, have been quarantined.
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