Madikeri, Apr 30: The Kodagu district authorities have sounded high alert following the Sri Lanka serial blasts and NIA raiding several parts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
The alert was necessary since, the Kodagu district falls on the Kerala-Karnataka border.
The security personnel have been deployed in the tourist spots and public and religious places across the district. Bomb disposal and dog squads have been pressed into the service.
Udupi, May 31: As many as 10 people have been tested positive for coronavirus in Udupi district today.
The district has registered a total of 187 positive cases so far. Majority of the positive cases in Udupi district have inter-state travel history to Maharashtra.
Meanwhile, 14 people including three children who recovered from COVID -19 discharged from Government Hospital in Kundapura, in Udupi district.
Kundapura AC Raju, DHO Dr Sudhirchandra Sooda, taluk medical officer Dr Nagabhushan Udupa handed over a rose to all the discharged. With this, a total of 64 persons have been recovered and discharged in the district.
Mangaluru, Feb 21: Police officials including the Mangaluru city Commissioner of Police P S Harsha would be summoned to appear before the panel conducting a magisterial probe into December 19, 2019 firing on anti-CAA protesters in the city which left two people dead.
Notices would be served on 176 police officers and staff to appear for hearing, Udupi deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha, conducting the magisterial probe into the incident said here on Thursday.
He told reporters that officials, including the city police commissioner Harsha, would be summoned to depose on the violence which led to police firing that killed two people.
Mangaluru (North) Assistant Commissioner K U Belliappa, who is the nodal officer for the police department, has given a list of 176 policemen who are ready to adduce evidence in the hearing.
The police officers would be summoned in phases.
The next hearing is on February 25.
He said so far, 203 members of the public have deposed before him on the incident.
Former city Mayor K Ashraf, who is under treatment in hospital, has also provided a written statement.
The remaining members of the public can provide evidence during next hearings, he said.
On December 19, two people were killed in police firing as protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) turned violent here.
The protesters had attempted to besiege the Mangaluru north police station and tried to attack police personnel, following which force was used to disperse them, police had said.
Two people received bullet injuries in the firing and they later succumbed at a hospital, the police had said.
Bengaluru, Aug 5: Touted as a first of its kind in the nation, a mobile Covid-19 lab was inaugurated on Wednesday by the Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar.
The lab, approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) can do 9,000 RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) tests per month, an official press release said here. "This is a unique lab having all safety features and capable of producing 100% accurate results within four hours," Dr Sudhakar was quoted as saying in the press release.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) had developed the lab and handed it over to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS).
The mobile lab can also be used for molecular diagnostic-testing and can be deployed in coronavirus hot spots quickly, the release said adding, apart from Covid-19, the lab can be utilised for testing H1N1, HCV, TB, HPV and HIV among others.
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