Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:25:14
Karnataka on Friday added 1,301 cases to its COVID-19 tally, which rose to 29.45 lakh. The toll mounted to 37,248 with 17 additional fatalities.
The day also saw 1,614 people being discharged, taking the total number of recoveries to 28,88,520. Active cases stood at 18,970, a medical bulletin said.
Bengaluru Urban accounted for the maximum number of 386 cases and two fatalities, it said. Dak
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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:22:57
The Tamil Nadu government has moved the Supreme Court seeking to restrain Karnataka from proceeding with any activity regarding the proposed construction of a reservoir at Mekedatu across the Inter-State Cauvery river.
The Tamil Nadu government in its plea stated that the planning of the Mekedatu project by Karnataka with a capacity of 67.16 TMC ft. and generation of 400 MW power at a cost of a
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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:16:02
JDS leader H D Kumaraswamy on Friday appeared to suggest to deal with alleged rapists of a college student near Mysuru, on the lines of police action in Telangana nearly two years ago when perpetrators of such a crime were shot dead.
Speaking to reporters in Chennapatna, Kumaraswamy said, "I appreciate the Hyderabad police in dealing with a rape case. What did they do finally? Unless stringent
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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:09:09
The Union government is expecting Zydus Cadila's needle-free COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D to be available from the first week of October.
Further, a decision on whether all children or only those with co-morbidities will be administered the COVID-19 vaccine on priority has not yet been taken, the government said on Thursday.
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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:00:52
Farmers in Nashik and Aurangabad on Friday dumped truckloads of tomatoes on the road after prices crashed to Rs 2-3 per kg in the wholesale market.
"The price that has been received today is Rs 3 per kg, while the farmer is not able to get even his cost, the farmer says that at least Rs 10 kg should not be sold," said Ilyas Bagh a Farmer.
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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:58:32
At least 15 labourers were killed after a massive fire broke out in a chemical factory in Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi on Friday, police said.
The factory, located in the populated Korangi industrial area, caught fire when around 26 workers were present in the building, Korangi SSP Shah Jehan said, adding that rescue operations were on to find the other workers.
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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:54:30
India reported 44,658 fresh cases and 496 fatalities due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. Kerala logged more than 30,000 cases of new infections during the period, informed the Union Health Ministry on Friday.
Kerala yesterday reported 30,007 new COVID-19 cases, 18,997 recoveries and 162 deaths, as per the state health department. With this, the test positivity rate in the state is at 18.03 per
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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:52:08
Amid the ongoing farmers' protest, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday termed the new farm laws as "anti-agriculture laws" and accused the Centre of promoting capitalism, demanding the withdrawal of the laws.
"Will not let the fields become sand, will not let them gift it to their friends. Withdraw the anti-agriculture laws! #FarmersProtest," said the Congress MP in a tweet today.
Earlier, th
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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:44:47
It has been planned to develop software to get exact information about the flood in advance in order to save people from its impact, said Deputy Commissioner Mullai Muhilan.
Speaking to media persons here on Thursday, he said, people in Uttara Kannada district face trouble often due to floods during the rainy season. Hence, it has been decided to develop software to give prior instructions and
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