Kalaburagi: More than 170 people have been booked by local police in Kalaburgi District for violating the lockdown norms on April 16 and attending chariot festival (Jathra) here in Ravur village in the District.
A 47-year-old Indian worker has allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the third floor of a building here, according to a media report.
To maintain social distancing and to cap the spread of COVID-19, Mangaluru jail authority has shifted 80 inmates of the jail to different jails of the state temporarily.
Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Saturday said the government's economic relief was like "peanuts" when compared with the economic devastation in the country and asserted that it should have offered packages amounting to at least 9 per cent of the GDP to help the people amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two sanitation workers were allegedly attacked with an axe at Khategaon town in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district and the police have arrested four persons in this regard, an official said on Saturday.
A 35-year-old woman who fell sick while standing in a queue at a shop in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district to collect free ration being distributed during lockdown died at a hospital, officials said on Saturday.
The Congress on Saturday constituted a consultative group with former prime minister Manmohan Singh as its chairman to deliberate on "current concerns" and formulate views and policy of the party on important issues.
Twelve more coronavirus positive cases were confirmed in Karnataka on Saturday taking the number of affected people to 371, the health department said.
An 85-year-old coronavirus patient, who was declared cured and was under treatment for kidney and heart-related ailments died early Saturday at a hospital here.
Three labourers died of suffocation while cleaning the septic tank of a bungalow in Virar town of Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Saturday.
