Advaita Shetty, 32, a resident of Maroli in the city, committed suicide by hanging at his home on Wednesday.
Nine RPT nine private hospitals here have been slapped with a show-cause notice after a 52- year old patient with influenza-like illness symptoms died here on being allegedly denied admission by them citing "non- availability" of beds.
The government on Wednesday asked Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to vacate her bungalow in Lutyens' Delhi within a month, saying she is not entitled to the facility following withdrawal of her SPG protection.
Karnataka on Wednesday recorded the biggest single day spike of 1,272 new COVID-19 cases and seven related deaths, taking the total number of infections to 16,514 and the death toll to 253, the health department said.
Experts have suggested that treating asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients in home isolation would be appropriate as it would lessen the burden on hospitals, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said on Wednesday.
The District Medical Officer has said that a third case of Covid-19 was found among the students who appeared for the SSLC examination recently.
An assistant commissioner of police in the Mangaluru Police Commissionerate has tested positive for COVID-19, a health department official said.
A wedding ceremony in rural Patna a fortnight ago where the groom was running high fever, two days before he died and his body cremated without being tested for COVID 19, appears to have set off the biggest infection chain in Bihar so far, health department officials said on Tuesday.
Two men who had been in the custody of the Bajpe police tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, the station officer has said.
Top star Rajinikanth on Wednesday described as "brutal killing" the death of a Tutcorin father- son duo, alleged victims of police torture, and expressed shock over the 'inappropriate behaviour' of some policemen with a Judicial Magistrate probing the matter.
