Kyasanur Forest Disease: Woman from Sagar died in Manipal hospital
Udupi, Jan 20: A woman from Sagar taluk in Shivamogga district who was admitted to Manipal KMC hospital after afflicted with Kyasanur Forest Disease, died in the hospital on January 18.
The deceased has been identified as Lakshmidevi, wife of Subbarao of Aralagodu village in the taluk. Lakshmidevi who was suffering from the disease was admitted to the hospital on January 15 and due to KFD, her heart problem was aggravated. As a result, she died in the hospital as she did not respond to the treatment, said district surveillance officer Dr Vasudeva Upadhyaya.
Around 100 persons in Sagar and other surrounding parts of the taluk have so far admitted to the Manipal hospital for treatment and among them, 40 persons were tested positive and 59 persons were tested negative. Total 76 patients have already discharged from the hospital after getting the treatment and 23 patients are undergoing treatment. Out of 40 positive patients, this is the first death case in the hospital, hospital sources said.
Earlier, another woman Savitha who was admitted to the Manipal hospital after suspecting to be afflicted with KFD virus, died on January 14. But it was not due to KFD, sources said.
Carcass of monkey found in Hebri
One carcass of a monkey was found near Hebri in the district on Sunday. After conducting the postmortem, samples were sent to Shivamogga and KMC hospital labs for testing, district nodal officer Dr Prashanth Bhat said.
Since the reports of laboratory tests of organs of monkeys sent to Shivamogga are delayed, the samples were also being sent to Manipal after January 14 and they were getting reports from Manipal very fast, he said.
So far, postmortem was conducted on 22 carcasses of monkeys in the district and sent to laboratory.The Shivamogga laboratory has confirmed KFD virus in eight monkeys and the reports of remaining 12 monkeys are waiting. But there was no virus found in the samples of four monkeys sent to Manipal lab, he said.
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Will not accept 'Veer Savarkar Award' nor attend the ceremony: Shashi Tharoor
Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi (PTI): Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday categorically stated that he would not accept an award named after VD Savarkar, nor attend a related event, even as a senior party colleague wanted the Congress MP to not accept any honour named after the ideologue whom he claimed "bowed before the British."
Tharoor said that he will not accept the "Veer Savarkar Award" and also won't attend the event where it will be presented in the absence of clarifications about its nature or the organisation presenting it.
Tharoor, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram, also said that "it was irresponsible on the part of the organisers to announce my name without my having agreed to receive it".
Earlier in the day, Congress leader K Muraleedharan told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram that no party member, including Tharoor, should accept any award in the name of Veer Savarkar "as he had bowed before the British."
Muraleedharan said that he does not believe that Tharoor will accept the award as doing so would insult and embarrass the Congress party.
Tharoor later told reporters in the national capital that he heard about the award on Tuesday and that he was not going for the ceremony.
"I heard about it yesterday only. I am not going. I am not here," he said in response to a question on Wednesday on his participation in the award ceremony.
Subsequently, in a post on social media platform 'X', the Congress MP said, "In the absence of clarifications about the nature of the award, the organisation presenting it or any other contextual details, the question of my attending the event today or accepting the award does not arise."
He further said that he learned from media reports that he was named as a recipient of the award when he went to Kerala to vote in the local body polls on Tuesday.
He said he had clarified then that he was neither aware of, nor had accepted, such an award.
"Despite that, today in Delhi, some media outlets continue to ask the same question. Therefore, I am issuing this statement to clarify the matter unequivocally," Tharoor added.
Following Tharoor's statement, Aji Krishnan, the secretary of the Highrange Rural Development Society (HRDS) India which is presenting the award, told a TV channel that the Congress MP was informed about the matter well in advance.
He said that representatives of HRDS India and the chairman of the award jury had met Tharoor at his residence to invite him and the MP had asked for a list of the other recipients of the award.
"We gave him the list. He has not yet informed us that he will not come for the event. Perhaps he is scared as the Congress has made it an issue," Krishnan claimed.
Kerala Law Minister P Rajeev said it was Tharoor's decision whether to accept the award or not.
Tharoor was chosen as one of the recipients of the inaugural Veer Savarkar International Impact Award 2025, instituted by HRDS India, on Wednesday in New Delhi.
On Tuesday, he had said that he heard about the award through the media and that he was not aware who was giving it.
"I am not aware of anything related to the award. Let me find out what it is," he had said.
