Bengaluru: Karnataka on Friday reported 271 fresh cases of Coronavirus across the state taking the total state tally of infected patients to 6516. The state also recorded seven deaths due to the virus taking the total number of casualties in the state to 79 so far.

Dehradun: A 19-year-old youth was found hanging in his room at a quarantine center here in Balawala area on Friday, SP (City) Shweta Choubey said.

Mangaluru: A pregnant woman who returned from Maharashtra and tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, gave birth to a child at the Wenlock COVID-19 hospital here.

Mangaluru: Local social organization ‘Team B-Human’ paid off bank loan of a patient who underwent dismember of limbs. The patient had reportedly availed the loan for his treatment.

 Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar on Friday said experts have indicated a surge in coronavirus cases in the state after August 15 and the government was taking all precautionary measures in that direction.

A local was killed and two others injured in alleged firing by Nepal police personnel along the India-Nepal border in Bihar's Sitamarhi district on Friday, officials said.

Mangaluru: The Ocean Pearl Group of Hotels has resumed its hospitality services after a three-month hiatus due to the nation-wide lockdown to cap the spread of Coronavirus. According to a press release issued by the hotel, the group has reopened all its entities with all the safety and precautionary measures as directed by the WHO and other authorities.

 Eminent Indian-American soil scientist Dr Rattan Lal, who won the prestigious World Food Prize 2020, has called for the immediate stopping of burning of crop residue in India, saying taking everything away from the land is not good as there is a law of return.