Mysore/Mysuru: With Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who also holds Finance portfolio, likely to present the State budget in the first week of March, Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra met the CM at Bengaluru on Thursday and appealed him to make a budgetary allocation of a total of Rs.135 crore for re-construction of dilapidated Lansdowne and Devaraja…
CM to hold meeting with DCs of 18 districts with high test positivity rate at 4 pm today Bengaluru: Amidst growing opposition from the hospitality industry and a majority of businessmen over the imposition of weekend curfew till Jan. 31, the State Government is likely to lift the restrictions. A final decision will be announced…
Bengaluru: Karnataka’s COVID-19 War Room was awarded the Centre’s e-governance ‘jury’ award for the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the management of the pandemic. IAS officer Munish Moudgil, who was the Special Officer in-charge of the State COVID-19 War Room, received the award from Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh during the two-day…
Bengaluru: While advocating a “duck and fight” strategy, Health Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar yesterday said the Government does not have any intentions of enforcing a lockdown despite increasing number of Covid cases. “The Government does not have any intention to clamp a lockdown. Lockdown was imposed in the State when there were no vaccines and…
Bengaluru: With COVID-19 cases seeing a rise again, restrictions have been imposed across the State. At a press briefing here yesterday, Revenue Minister R. Ashoka announced that night curfew would be extended while weekend curfew would be imposed from Friday 10 pm to Monday 5 am across the State. During the curfew, essential services and…
Bengaluru: Meanwhile, 34 of the total 224 oxygen generation plants are yet to be commissioned in the State. Health Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar’s office, in a statement, said, “Out of the 262 allocated plants, we have received 224 plants, 190 are commissioned with total plants’ capacity of 1,08,077 LPM (litres per minute) and production of…
Mysore/Mysuru: Along with many hospitals in Mysuru that have their own oxygen generation plants, the JSS Hospital too has one such plant, thereby increasing the city’s self-sustaining oxygen capacity. The facility was inaugurated by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in the city on Dec. 26. The plant has been installed in anticipation of the third wave…
Bengaluru: Karnataka’s vaccination drive is inching closer to 100 percent, Health Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar said. First dose coverage in the State has reached 96.26 percent, making Karnataka No. 1 State in the country, he tweeted. As much as 73 percent of the State population has received double vaccination, which has made Karnataka No.3 State…
Quarantine App, telemedicine facilities monitoring patient care to be reintroduced Bengaluru: Gearing up to handle a possible outbreak of Omicron, the State’s COVID-19 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) met Health Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar in Bengaluru yesterday and submitted several recommendations including mandatory vaccination, screening of international passengers, compulsory RT-PCR test on arrival at the airports,…
Mysore/Mysuru: The special story published in Star of Mysore regarding Mysuru producing over 500 electric vehicles way back in 1980s even before the concept gained popularity across the world has been tweeted by Karnataka Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. K. Sudhakar. The story was published in SOM dated Nov. 21 under the title…
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