One day before BJP national general secretary in charge of Karnataka Arun Singh is scheduled to visit the state, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa Tuesday said there was no confusion in the state BJP on the leadership issue and the party was united.
READ | Day before BJP state in-charge visit, Yediyurappa says no leadership confusion in Karnataka unit
The post-mortem report of 50-year-old Roy D’Souza, a resident of Virajpet in Karnataka’s Kodagu district who died after he was allegedly assaulted by the police, has been submitted to the Karnataka Crime Investigation Department (CID). Following guidelines from the National Human Rights Commission, the Taluk Magistrate handed over the case to the CID that has commenced its investigation.
READ | Karnataka: Post-mortem report of 50-year-old ‘police assault’ victim submitted to CID
Here are a few contacts that might come in handy for you in emergency situations:
COVID-19 related queries / emergencies / clarifications: 104 (toll free); +91-80-4684-8600/6669-2000 | Home Quarantine-related queries: Telegram messenger/WhatsApp - +91 97777 77684, Voice call - 080 45451111 | BBMP control room: 080-22221188 | In case of power disruptions, contact BESCOM: 1912. If the water supply is hit in your area, contact BWSSB: 1916
The Karnataka Health and Family Welfare department in a circular said that the second dose of Covishield vaccines can be provided after 28 days to people who are travelling abroad.
The people who will be allowed to get vaccinated under this include students travelling abroad, those travelling abroad for work and athletes who are taking part in the Tokyo Olympics.
“According to the direction of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the following groups of people can be vaccinated 28 days after (the first dose of vaccination),” the statement said.
The statement said that the Deputy Commissioners will act as Competent Authority for this vaccination in all districts. Within the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) limits, however, the eight zonal commissioners will act as competent authority.
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday hinted that there will be further relaxations in the lockdown restrictions in the state after June 21.
“After analysing the situation today and tomorrow, we will look into – what is to be done, with the situation improving, and what all to be relaxed further- and we will do it,” Yediyurappa said in response to a question about the next phase of unlocking in the state.
The government had last week issued fresh guidelines that extended the lockdown measures in 11 districts, which have a high positivity rate, till June 21, while some relaxations were announced in the rest of the state from June 14. It had also said that Covid night curfew will be imposed from 7 pm to 5 am (daily) and weekend curfew will be imposed from 7 pm on Friday to 5 am on Monday, after June 14.
The eleven districts where strict lockdown measures continued are Chikmagalur, Shivamogga, Davangere, Mysuru, Chamarajanagar, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Bengaluru Rural, Mandya, Belagavi and Kodagu.
Read more
Petrol and diesel price today: Prices of petrol and diesel were hiked on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, after a gap of one day, touching fresh record highs across the country. In the national capital, the petrol price rose 25 paise while that of diesel inched up 13 paise.
Following the latest price revision, petrol in Delhi is now retailing at Rs 96.66 a litre while diesel is selling at Rs 87.41. In the financial capital Mumbai, petrol price now stands at Rs 102.82 while diesel costs Rs 94.84, data available on Indian Oil Corporation’s website showed.
This marks the ninth price rise in the auto fuel prices so far in the month of June that follows 16 hikes in May. Prices have been on the rise since the past month (May 4) after oil marketing companies (OMCs) resumed their price revisions ending an 18-day hiatus that coincided with the assembly elections in key states.
Read more
Karnataka, in preparation of an anticipated third wave, is upgrading its infrastructure, including oxygen generation units and plants and is also increasing the number of covid beds, says Covid task force in charge and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Ashwath Narayan C.N.
Karnataka has been one of the worst affected states by the pandemic in the country, with the second-highest caseload, of over 25 lakh cases, as well as the second-highest death toll, of nearly 33,000 deaths, since the beginning of the pandemic.
“The virus spread very fast in this second wave, so much so that we just did not have adequate time to respond – most states did not. There was tremendous pressure on ICUs and the health infrastructure. In preparation for a possible third wave, we are already ramping up infrastructure so such a situation does not recur,” says Ashwath Narayan.
Read more
For the first time in two months, Bengaluru reported less than 1,000 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Karnataka reported 5,041 fresh infections and 115 deaths, taking the tally to 27.77 lakh and the toll to 33,148.
Out of the 5,041 new cases, 985 were from Bengaluru Urban, as the city saw 2,818 discharges and 16 deaths, the health department said in a bulletin.
The day also saw 14,785 discharges, with recoveries continuing to outnumber the fresh cases. The total number of recoveries in the state so far touched 25,81,559.
Read more
Many parts of Bengaluru will face an 18-hour water disruption from 6 am to midnight on June 16 (Wednesday) due to infrastructure works to be carried out by the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB).
According to BWSSB, areas in West, South and North Bengaluru will face the disruption.
Areas that will be affected are KP Agrahara, New Binny Layout, Chamarajpet, Padarayanapura, Vidyapeeta, Kathriguppe, Thyagarajanagar, Basavanagudi, Mount Joy Extension, Ashoknagar, Banashankari, Srinagara, Kumaraswamy Layout, ISRO Layout, Austin Town, Ejipura, Richmond Town, MG Road, Domlur, HAL, Kodihalli, Hanumanthappa Layout, Halasuru, Adugodi, Jayanagar, Tilak Nagar, Bhovi Colony, Koramangala, Madivala, Telecom Layout, Byatarayanapura, VV Puram, JJR Nagar, Janata Colony, Jayanagar, Yediyur, Teacher’s Colony, Lingarajapura, Indiranagar, Gandhinagar, Devagiri, Maruti Sevanagar Janakiram Layout, Frazer Town, Cottonpet, New Guddadahalli, Seshadripuram Siddaramappa Garden and surrounding areas.
Deputy Chief Minister and Higher Education Minister C.N. Ashwath Narayan directed universities to conduct semester examinations soon.
The Minister, after a meeting with Vice Chancellors, on Tuesday said they were in the process of planning how the examinations would be conducted.
He also said that colleges and Vice Chancellors have a social responsibility to ensure that all students above the age of 18 are vaccinated. “This would help start the next academic year normally. Academic work has to go on, and we have to find solutions,” he added
The post-mortem report of 50-year-old Roy D’Souza, a resident of Virajpet in Karnataka’s Kodagu district who died after he was allegedly assaulted by the police, has been submitted to the Karnataka Crime Investigation Department (CID).
Following guidelines from the National Human Rights Commission, the Taluk Magistrate handed over the case to the CID that has commenced its investigation.
The post-mortem was conducted on Saturday by two doctors in the presence of Madikeri tehshildar Mahesh. Speaking to indianexpress.com, Mahesh said, “We have submitted the post-mortem report and also the statement of three witnesses and family members to the CID officials.”
Read more
BJP general secretary and the leader in-charge of the state of Karnataka Arun Singh will begin a two day visit of Karnataka on Tuesday to discuss the performance of the party amid unhappiness in a section of the BJP over the leadership of chief minister B S Yediyurappa – especially the alleged interference of his family in administration.
The visit to Karnataka by Arun Singh to take stock of the mood in the BJP on the performance of the government led by Yediyurappa has piqued political curiosity on account of the BJP state in-charge making a recent statement that “Yediyurappa is doing a good job” and the CM himself sending out mixed signals on speculation of the BJP wanting a change in leadership.
Read more
One of the many stories 37-year-old doctors Dhruv Joshi and Dileep Raman like to recount is how their ‘smart ICU’ technology picked up early signs of oxygen levels plummeting in the ICU of a district hospital in Karnataka.
Cloudphysician, the start-up firm founded by the two doctors in 2017, uses IT to relay visuals and data from the ICU to a manned command centre, where intensivists and other specialists make swift decisions on treatment protocol.
Talking of the oxygen crisis in the hospital ICU in April, during the second wave of Covid-19, Joshi says, “Oxygen pressure at the ICU had fallen to a critical level, which our command centre team picked up by monitoring the ventilators. The oxygen being delivered to the patient was much below the level that had been set.” The sounding of an early alarm by Cloudphysician “averted a possible mass fatality event”.
Read more
Good morning!
Welcome to the live blog from Bengaluru where we bring to you the latest updates on COVID-19 vaccination drive, COVID-19, lockdown, BBMP and more across Bengaluru and Karnataka. Follow the blog to stay up to date with the state in real time.