By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Mysore/Mysuru: Mutton stall owners in city, who have refused to sell the meat as per the rate fixed by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), have begun an indefinite stir. Following the ban on fairs due to lockdown and as the MCC had banned the sale of chicken meat due to bird…
Hotelier among three booked in Mysuru for lockdown violation
April 18, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In what could be termed as measures at strict enforcement of lockdown, the city Police have booked three persons including a hotelier for allegedly violating lockdown rules. Though there are rules permitting only parcel service from hotels and a ban on table service, this hotelier reportedly flouted rules, said a press release from the…
Old-age home residents donate Rs. 27,000 towards COVID-19 Fund
April 18, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Around 40 residents (24 women and 16 men) reside at an old-age home, ‘Pejawar Dhama’, run by Pejawar Trust at J.P. Nagar in city. Most of them are from Mysuru, Bengaluru and Chennai and aged above 65 years. The Trust conducts cultural programmes, discourses, Sahasranama, bhajans and meditation for the residents of the home…
Lockdown: KarnatakaOne branches closed
April 18, 2020Citizens can pay electricity, water, phone bills online at www.karnatakaone.gov.in. Mysore/Mysuru: All ‘KarnatakaOne‘ branches in Mysuru have been closed following the COVID-19 lockdown. But for the convenience of customers, online services such as Water Bill Payment, Electricity Bill (Urban), Telephone Bill Payment, BSNL Bill Payment, Collection of Traffic Police Violation Fine and many more are…
Second SARI case reported in Mysuru
April 18, 202065-year-old male patient from Mosambayanahalli village tests positive Mysore/Mysuru: After recording 12 COVID-19 positive cases in Mysuru yesterday, the highest positive cases in a single day, the district reported three more positive cases this morning. With this the cumulative tally of positive cases has jumped to 76 and active cases at 63. 13 persons have…
10 Fever Clinics in Mysuru to screen COVID-19 suspect cases
April 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In its attempt to curtail the spread of COVID-19, the Mysuru District Administration and Health and Family Welfare Department have set up 10 fever clinics in Mysuru and one in Nanjangud. The clinics have been established based on the directive from the State Government and till now, only Bengaluru had this facility. In a…
Source of virus at Jubilant Generics still a mystery
April 17, 2020Nanjangud MLA Harshavardhan says high-level pressure to reopen Pharma co. PIL filed in Karnataka High Court on grounds of negligence Mysore/Mysuru: While the authorities of Mysuru District Administration are grappling to discover the origin of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) at Nanjangud’s Jubilant Generics, the epicentre of the disease in the district, a report sent by Pune-based…
Frontline heroes: MCC’s Abhaya teams battle against Coronavirus
April 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: As Mysuru fights the spread of the COVID-19 virus, it is increasingly clear that the worst is not over yet. Once again, the prolonged period of crisis will shine the light on our capacity to resist the spread of the killer epidemic. Apart from the elite administrative and law enforcement bureaucracy of IAS and IPS, Mysuru is uniquely…
Wedding in the times of social distancing
April 17, 2020Former CM Kumaraswamy’s son marries Congress leader’s daughter at Ramanagara farmhouse Bengaluru: While many weddings and funerals have been be cancelled across the country due to the lockdown, political heavyweights of Karnataka, the Gowda family headed by former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, still managed to get their grandson married this morning at a farm…
State identifies 14 essential departments for employees to attend work
April 17, 2020Bengaluru: Karnataka government has identified 14 departments as essential and asked all its employees to report to work during the extended period of lockdown to check Coronavirus spread in the State. According to a circular issued by Chief Secretary T.M. Vijay Bhaskar, all Officials/employees in these departments must attend to their work. The essential departments…
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