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HC cautions against trend of making reckless allegations of negligence against doctors

Quashes 12-year-old case and lauds doctors and paramedics for serving the society, particularly during COVID-19

Temples continue to hold festivals despite COVID-19 restrictions in Karnataka

In an apparent violation of COVID-19 guidelines, several temples and mutts, most of them in northern Karnataka, have organised annual car festivals and other events this fortnight

NCB uncovers drug ring operating in South India

Three dealers from Tamil Nadu, foreign national arrested

Drive against hookah bars in Mysuru

Officials said Mysuru police was in receipt of a letter from their counterparts in Bengaluru that referred not only to ill-effects of using hookah, but also the possibility of use of hookah causing spread of COVID-19

Opposition to night curfew grows in Mysuru amidst rise in COVID-19 cases

Business and trade organisations have argued that despite the outbreak, the severity of Covid-19 infection is less due to high rate of vaccination and, hence, does not warrant a lockdown

Decision on relaxing COVID-19 curbs in Karnataka after meeting with experts on January 21: CM

Besides opposition Congress, some BJP leaders, including Ministers, have been opposing the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka Government

Bajrang Dal leader among four held in Nargund over murder of youth

Bajrang Dal leader Sanju Nalvade had addressed a crowd in front of the police station in Nargund where he had called upon the gathering to beat up Muslim youth and dared the police to file a case against him

Writer Channaveer Kanavi battling COVID-19 complications in Hubballi hospital

Condition deteriorates, 93-year-old is on oxygen support

Penalty on unauthorised tobacco reduced

The Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry has decided to reduce the penalty on unauthorised tobacco for the season 2021-22, providing relief to

Collection centres get an influx of used disposable and cloth masks with dry waste

Lack of segregation of masks as bio medical waste poses a health hazard

Violation of curbs: ‘Book case against BJP leaders’

Congress petitions Chief Secretary

Mekedatu project | Government urged to step up efforts for NoC from Central Water Commission

‘T.N. has opposed the project but it benefits the neighbouring State the most’

HC notice to Centre on plea against disinvestment in BEML

Petitioners question decision to privatise the public sector undertaking

Steep reduction in salary leaves State’s dialysis workers upset

After forming trade union, they have approached Labour Dept. for redressal

B.S. Muddappa passes away

The founder-Managing Director of the erstwhile Karnataka State Dairy Development Corporation (now Karnataka Milk Federation) B.S. Muddappa, 98, passed

41,457 new COVID-19cases in Karnataka; positivity rate shoots up to 22.3%

New cases per day could reach 1.2 lakh, says Health Minister

Shivamogga reports 260 new COVID-19 cases

Shivamogga district reported 260 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, increasing the total active cases to 1,611. One person died, increasing the total

Rise in Mysuru’s TPR

Mysuru’s test positivity rate is soaring alarmingly as it is inching close to 30 percent with steep spike in daily cases. For the first time since the

Holiday for classes in Hassan, Alur taluks

Hassan records highest TPR in State

Seer arrested

The Srirangapatna police arrested Rishi Kumar Swami of Kali Mutt at Devanur in Kadur taluk of Chikkamagaluru district in connection with his statement

Two held in cheating case

The Anavatti police in Soraba taluk of Shivamogga district on Monday arrested two people on charges of cheating a resident of Gundlupet in

COVID-19 | 3.22 lakh precaution vaccine doses administered so far

Govt dissatisfied with 39% coverage, urges frontline workers to get jabbed

COVID-19 | Karnataka’s Deputy Commissioners told to speed up vaccination coverage

Health Department officials have been told to undertake a booster vaccination drive for frontline workers and health workers.

HDK blames Congress for rising COVID-19 numbers in State

Suggesting closure of schools and colleges in the light of COVID-19 surge in the State, the former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Tuesday blamed

Govt. hopes to conduct II PU exam from April 16 to May 4

The Department of Pre-University Education, on Tuesday, issued a tentative timetable for the II PU annual examinations for the 2021-2022 academic

Guest lecturers planning to continue protest outside Chief Minister’s residence in Hubballi

Guest lecturers who have been on agitation in their respective districts for more than a month demanding job security are planning to shift the agitation site to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s residence in Hubballi

68 nursing students test positive for COVID-19 in Ballari

As many as 68 of around 400 nursing students who had arrived from outside the State for writing examinations tested positive for COVID-19 in Ballari

Union Minister Pralhad Joshi seeks relaxation of weekend curfew rules in Karnataka

‘This is my personal opinion. I have shared them with Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’

IEI to hold discussion on Mekedatu project, invite Medha Patkar and Chethan Ahimsa

Social activist Medha Patkar argues that the project will have an adverse impact on the environment and has urged the Karnataka Government to drop the project

Karnataka warns medical practitioners against spreading misinformation about COVID-19

Any misinformation or non factual data on COVID-19 shared on social media platforms would attract action as per Section 54 of Karnataka Epidemic Disease Act

Hostels in Shivamogga can be closed if more than five students are infected with Covid-19

However, students should not be sent home, Shivamogga DC said after a meeting on COVID-19 cases in educational institutes

AAP seeks redressal of problems in Maharani’s College hostel in Mysuru

The toilets are in a horrible condition and students also have to put up with rats, alleges party

Three-day holiday for classes 1 to 9 in Shivamogga

As many as 208 children in over 45 schools had been tested positive for COVID-19

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