Mar 11: 181 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Mar 11: Karnataka on Friday registered 181 fresh coronavirus cases and 3 fatalities thereby taking the total till date to 39,43,506 and 40,016 respectively.
There were 260 patients who got discharged pushing the total number of recoveries to 39,00,688, said a bulletin.
Of the new cases, 122 were from Bengaluru Urban, while there were 164 discharges in the city, 2 deaths, the bulletin said.
The total number of active cases across the State was 2,764.
While the positivity rate for the day was 0.41 per cent, the case fatality rate was 1.65 per cent.
Of the 3 deaths reported today, two are from Bengaluru Urban, and Raichur (1).
After Bengaluru Urban, Mysuru, and Shivamogga recorded the second highest number of cases with 11, followed by Chitradurga (7) and the others.
Bengaluru Urban district now has 17,80,137 cases, Mysuru 2,29,392 and Tumakuru 1,59,801.
Cumulatively, 6,49,88,689 crore samples were tested, of which 43,925 were examined today.
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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.
