Bengaluru: Sixty COVID-19 positive students were among the 1.47 lakh who appeared for the Karnataka Common Entrance Test for engineering and other courses which began on Thursday with precautionary measures such as social distancing, Deputy Chief Minister Dr. C N Ashwath Narayan said.
Bengaluru: Karnataka Government on Thursday ordered the cancellation of Sunday lockdowns across the state starting August 2. Earlier, the government had imposed lockdowns on every Sunday as a part of unlocking from COVID-19 lockdown in the state.
Bengaluru: Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar on Thursday warned that strict action would be taken against private hospitals that are not joining hands with the government in the fight against Covid-19, as he cited complaints on the excess amount being charged and refusing treatment among others.
Bengaluru: A notorious international gang of robbers from Columbia allegedly burgled 31 houses, including that of former Karnataka chief secretary Kaushik Mukherjee, here over the past few years, police said on Thursday.
Bengaluru: Karnataka on Thursday reported the biggest single-day spike of 6,128 new cases of COVID-19 and 83 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 1,18,632 and the death toll to 2,230, the health department said.
Shivamogga: A group of four people who were trying to sell a 15-day-old male child was arrested by the Tunga Nagar Police and Child Welfare Helpline staff.
Bengaluru: Minister of Health and Family Welfare, B Sriramulu on Thursday asserted that the government has fixed prices for COVID-19 treatment at private hospitals and that they shall not charge more than what is fixed by the government.
Islamabad: The US on Thursday provided Pakistan 100 ventilators to help it fight the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly 6,000 lives and infected over 277,000 people in the country.
New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Thursday wrote to Yogi Adityanath over the detention of Dr Kafeel Khan, booked under the National Security Act over alleged hate speech, and said she expects the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister to do his best to secure justice for him.
Washington: The US has recorded over 150,000 Covid-19 deaths, another grim milestone that comes amidst warning from a top Indian-American physician that the country has failed to arrest the spread of the deadly pandemic.
