Karnataka reports zero dengue deaths in 2025, despite over 6,700 cases
Mangaluru: Karnataka has recorded zero dengue deaths in 2025 up to November, even though the state reported 6,759 dengue cases during the same period. The information was shared by the Family Welfare and Health Ministry in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
According to a report published by The New Indian Express, Karnataka has reported nearly 80% decline in dengue cases compared to 2024. The drop is significant when viewed against the dengue trends of the past six years. In 2019, the state recorded 16,986 cases and 13 deaths. Cases dropped sharply in 2020 to 3,823 with no deaths, but dengue returned in the following years 7,393 cases and seven deaths in 2021, and 9,889 cases with nine deaths in 2022.
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The situation worsened in 2023, when dengue cases climbed to 19,300 with 11 deaths, and escalated further in 2024, marking the worst year in the period with 32,886 cases and 27 deaths.
At the national level, India has reported 1,13,440 dengue cases and 94 deaths in 2025 so far. Karnataka ranks sixth among states in terms of dengue infection, but stands out for having no fatalities, even as states such as Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Kerala have reported 12, 13 and 49 deaths, respectively.
The Centre attributes the improvement to stronger surveillance, early diagnosis, better mosquito-control measures, widespread awareness drives and free dengue testing across government hospitals. As per the report, Nationally, dengue cases have fallen by nearly 49% and deaths by more than 64% compared to the same period last year, bringing the case fatality rate down to just 0.08% in 2025.
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Karnataka Assembly passes Social Boycott Prevention Bill
Belagavi (Karnataka) (PTI): The Karnataka Assembly on Thursday passed the Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill unanimously.
The bill was introduced in the House by the Social Welfare Minister H C Mahadevappa on December 12.
The bill defines social boycott as a gesture or an act, whether oral or written, of any social discrimination between the members of the community.
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The bill proposes three years of imprisonment and a fine extending up to Rs 1 lakh. It also prohibits people from gathering, assembling, or congregating at any time and at any place with the view or intention to deliberate on the issue of imposing social boycott on any member of the community. It prohibits gathering to impose social boycott.
The bill also says that if the accused is convicted, the court should hear the victim on the quantum of sentence and then only pass the sentence.
During the discussion, Mahadevappa termed the bill historic and said the aim of the bill is to bring equality in society and to protect backward people from further getting marginalised through social boycott.
The BJP and the JD(S) MLAs welcomed the bill.
