The Covid-19 case fatality rate in Bengaluru accounts to only 1.1 per cent and has become the lowest among all the key cities in the country, said Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar on Wednesday. Sudhakar tweeted, “Bengaluru’s Covid-19 case fatality rate (1.1%) among all major cities in India. With 3,36,880 recoveries and 17,707 active cases…
As the colleges in the city commenced with the offline classes, the civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) initiated the Covid-19 testing of around 15 per cent of the students, teaching and non-teaching staff from the 360 colleges in the city. As many as 222 testing teams were deployed who tested 11,574 individuals among…
The Chief Minister of Karnataka, BS Yediyurappa has passed an order on Tuesday directing for the formulation of a ‘Karnataka Veerashaiva-Lingayat Development Board’ post a lot of pressure by the legislators triggered him to pass the move. As much as 16% of the state’s population accounts to the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community and can be deliberated as…
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) investigators arrested ex-Mayor R Sampath Raj, an accused involved in the August 11 riots incident in DJ Halli and KG Halli riots on Monday late night. Sampath Raj was fleeing away for over a month, to escape arrests. A CCB team headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ATC), Venugopal, arrested…
As the degree colleges in the state of Karnataka will be resuming on Tuesday, the students, teachers, other teaching and non-teaching staff are hustling for a negative test report against Covid-19, tested within a span of 72 hours prior to the joining date. However, managing the testing has been a very ardent task. The Health…
The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) will be investigating and examining the extension of the metro line between Anjanapura and Yelachenahalli scheduled for November 18 and 19, thereby gearing up for setting the stage for the launch of the Reach 4B of the Phase 2 of Namma Metro. According to the sources that informed Deccan…
Karnataka government has directed an order to broach more clarity on the concept of green crackers after the State High Court pulled the government for not putting forth any definition or clarity regarding the green crackers. The issued order revealed that the green crackers are prepared without incorporating any harmful chemicals and can be easily…
For the capital city of Karnataka, Bengaluru, had severe shortage of beds for Covid-19 hospitals, observes a turn round with thousands of beds lying unoccupied for Covid-19 treatment. According to the officials, this update is an indication of the sharp declining trend of Covid-19 cases in the city, which is the most impacted district in…
The state of Karnataka has developed a private online, contactless portal for the business approvals based in rural regions. This is a great move to curb corruption, which would otherwise disrupt the state’s ‘ease of doing business’ ecosystem. A bunch of services which are under the trade license regime are switched online via a portal…
With the government colleges gearing up to resume the academic year with physical classes from November 17, the colleges are having inadequate guest faculty, which is an issue could have been fixed earlier. Nearly, 14,500 guest lectures are not paid their monthly salaries from the time the lockdown commenced in March. Alongside, over as many…
