Mysuru: Police have arrested 12 perons, including a BJP Municipal Councilor, who were gambling despite the lockdown being implemented to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Mangaluru: Rasheed Vitla's report about a heartbreaking incident in which two Puttur youths who were returning from Gujarat's Rajkot were stranded on the Gujarat-Maharashtra border due to the lockdown and were living in a car was published on Varthabharati.in. The Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner responded immediately and requested Gujarat's Valsad Deputy Commissioner to make a proper arrangement.
Over 1,000 migrant workers who earn daily gathered here on Tuesday demanding transport arrangements to go back to their native places, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced extension of the coronavirus-enforced lockdown till May 3.
The death toll due to novel coronavirus rose to 353 with 29 fatalities reported since Monday evening, while the number of cases saw a record jump of 1,463 to go up to 10,815 cases on Tuesday, according to the Union Health Ministry.
Karnataka reported its second COVID-19 related fatality on Tuesday, with the death of a 76- year-old man in the city, taking the death toll in the state to 10.
A special court here on Tuesday remanded Dalit scholar and activist Anand Teltumbde in the custody of the National Investigation Agency till April 18 in Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case.
Karwar: Five COVID-19 patients who were admitted to the INS Patanjali Hospital in Naval Base have been released on Tuesday. The district administration has decided to keep them at a quarantine center in Bhatkal, said Deputy Commissioner Harish Kumar K.
Around 117 million children worldwide risk contracting measles because dozens of countries are curtailing their vaccination programmes as they battle COVID-19, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
The novel coronavirus has killed more than 120,000 people worldwide, nearly 70 percent of them in Europe, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT Tuesday from official sources.
Activist and scholar Anand Teltumbde was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday after he surrendered before it in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
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