Mar 9: 181 COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Mar 9: Karnataka on Wednesday logged 181 fresh COVID-19 cases and two deaths. These took the fresh infections and fatalities to 39,43,108 and 40,006 respectively, said the Department of Health.
In its bulletin, the department said 222 people were discharged. The total number of recoveries was 39,43,108. Active cases stood at 2,937.
Bengaluru urban district reported 122 infections and zero fatalities.
Other districts saw fresh cases: six in Mysuru and five each in Belagavi, Chikkamagaluru and Chitradurga.
The two deaths were reported from Mandya and Dharwad.
The positivity rate was 0.32 per cent while the case fatality rate was 1.10 per cent.
A total of 55,829 tests were conducted and they include 44,932 RT-PCR tests. Hitherto, the tests done were 6.49 crore.
There were 1,06,988 people inoculated and that took the total vaccinated to 10.17 crore so far, the department said.
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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.
