Mar 10: 217 COVID-19 cases, 7 deaths in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Mar 10: Karnataka on Thursday logged 217 fresh COVID-19 cases and seven deaths taking the aggregate and toll to 39,43,325 and 40,013 respectively.
In its daily COVID-19 bulletin, the department said 301 people were discharged, taking the total number of recoveries to 39,00,428. Active cases stood at 2,846.
Bengaluru urban district reported 158 infections and three deaths. Other districts too saw new cases including nine in Chitradurga and Mysuru, seven in Ramanagara and five in Chikkaballapura.
Kalaburagi reported one death while, 29 districts reported zero fatalities on Sunday.
One death each occurred in Dakshina Kannada, Dharwad, Mandya and Raichur.
The positivity rate for the day was 0.44 per cent and the case fatality rate was 3.22 per cent.
As many as 48,392 tests were conducted including 38,527 RT-PCR tests taking the total number of tests so far to 6.49 crore.
There were 64,900 inoculations done taking the total vaccinations so far to 10.17 crore, the department added.
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Affront to non-Hindi speaking people: Chidambaram slams use of Hindi words in bills' names
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.
Chidambaram said the non-Hindi-speaking people cannot identify a Bill/Act with titles that are in Hindi words written in English letters, and they cannot pronounce them.
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"I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament," the former Union minister said late Monday night.
Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill in English words in the English version and in Hindi words in the Hindi version of the Bill, Chidambaram said.
"When no one pointed out any difficulty in the 75 year practice, why should government make a change?" he said.
"This change is an affront to non-Hindi speaking people and to States that have an official language other than Hindi," the Congress leader said.
Successive governments have reiterated the promise that English will remain an Associate Official Language, Chidambaram said.
"I fear that promise is in danger of being broken," the Congress MP said.
