Karnataka extends COVID lockdown till June 7; details here
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday announced that the lockdown in the state will be extended till June 7. The ongoing lockdown was supposed to be in force till May 24 and now has been extended for another 14 days.
The CM after meeting his cabinet ministers was speaking to reporters when he made the announcement. He added the guidelines for the extended lockdown will remain the same and there will be no changes in the existing rules.
People will be allowed to buy essential items between 6 am to 10 am.
The CM also announced the state government will provide free treatment for black fungus patients at the government hospitals.
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Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.
The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.
"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.
The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.
