Chikkamagaluru, Jan 23: Seven friends, who rushed to Tumakuru to pay their respects to Shivakumara Swami, met with an accident near Mattighatta while on their way back home on Tuesday. Parameshwarappa, 34, died on the spot.
Six others were admitted to McGaan hospital in Shivamogga. The seven from Malleshwara in Kaduru were returning when their Bolero rammed into a tree. Kaduru police said that the driver must have been tired and sleepy and lost control over the vehicle.
Mangaluru, Mar 29: Mosques across Karnataka are now turning into centers to create awareness against deadly coronavirus that cause Covid-19.
The state government's board of auqaf has issued a notification to the administrations of all mosques to use their loud speakers to create awareness against the virus.
All the mosques in the state have already suspended congregational prayers to prevent the spread of the virus.
As per the decision of the state board of auqaf, now all mosques have to play the audio clips that creates awareness against the virus in three languages.
The clips will be played at 10 a.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. everyday.
Also need to make call on all prayer places temples and churches to live with humanity without violence.
Bengaluru, June 23: A head constable from Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) committed suicide on board a bus after testing positive for COVID-19 in the city.
As per sources, the 50-year-old head constable had tested positive for coronavirus last evening and today he was being taken to a hospital in KSRP bus.
It is learned that he hanged himself to death inside the bus as there was no one else.
Kasaragod, Mar 28: A pregnant Bihari migrant woman in labour gave birth in an ambulance after the Karnataka police allegedly refused to allow the ambulance carrying her to cross the border road to Mangaluru to reach her hospital.
The border road was shut due to the lockdown. The woman used to consult a doctor in Mangaluru across the border.
As Karnataka police stopped the vehicle at the border in Talapady, saying no vehicle, including ambulances from Kerala, could be permitted to their state, the drivers decided to take the woman was taken to the general hospital here, but she went into labour and delivered a baby girl in the vehicle
Both the mother and baby are doing fine, authorities said.
Hailing from Patna in Bihar, 25-year-old Gowri Devi and her husband were working in a local plywood factory in this north Kerala district, from where the maximum number of coronavirus cases have been reported so far in the state.
Those living in the border towns and villages of Kasaragod are dependent on the hospitals in Mangaluru as it is nearer, local people said.
The ambulance drivers- Aslam and Musthafa- said they stopped the vehicle by the wayside, making it safe for the woman. The baby girl and the mother were soon shifted to the government general hospital here and both of them are safe and healthy, they said.
Local people complained that not only pregnant women, but even patients requiring daily dialysis and emergency cardiac and cancer treatment were being sent back by Karnataka.
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