Hassan, May 8: A newly married couple accidentally fell into the Hemavathi river and drowned while clicking selfies near Henneli village in the district, police said on Friday.
The deceased were identified as Kritika (23) of the same village and Artheesh (27) of Belur taluk in the district.
They got married on March 20. Both were working in Bengaluru and were in the village due to the lockdown.
Bengaluru, May 15: The novel coronavirus infection tally in Karnataka state on Friday crossed the 1,000-mark with 45 new positive cases.
The tally has risen to 1032 with 35 deaths.
At present, there are 520 active cases, while 476 have been discharged following recovery
A maximum of 16 new cases are from Dakshina Kannada, followed by 13 in Bengaluru Urban.
Five cases are from Udupi, three each from Hassan and Bidar, two from Chitradurga and one each from Bagalakote, Shivamoga and Kolara, respectively.
A three-year-old is among the six minor infected by the virus.
Among the new cases, nearly 20 have a travel history to Dubai, four to Mumbai, and three to Chennai.
The rest of the patients are contacts in the Containment zone and those who tested positive earlier.
Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar said that there is no community transmission as yet.
New cases reported: 45
Total active cases: 520
Total discharges: 476
Total covid deaths: 35
Death of covid +ve patient due to Non-Covid cause: 1
Total positive cases: 1032
Bengaluru, Jan 10: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST), which met with officials of the Social Welfare Department Thursday, has urged the state government to increase the reservation provided to the ST community.
The Commission's suggestion comes even as a committee headed by Justice Nagamohan Das is currently studying a demand for increase of reservation for the community from the existing 3% to 7.5%.
Addressing mediapersons on Thursday, Commission Chairperson Nand Kumar Sai, said the Commission had discussed the issue with the Social Welfare Department, Karnataka, asking officials to expedite the process.
In response to this suggestion, Social Welfare Department Principal Secretary G Kumar Naik said the government would take a call based on the Nagamohan Das Committee's report.
A meeting was held between members of the National ST Commission and the Social Welfare Department Thursday with regard to various projects taken up by the department.
In June last year, the then Kumaraswamy-led coalition government constituted the Justice Nagamohan Das Committee, after protests from members of the Valmiki community for an increase in reservation to 7.5%. At present, Karnataka provides 15% reservation for SCs, 3% for STs and 32% for other backward classes (OBC).
The national commission also urged the state government to ensure permanent faculty in all the 824 residential institutions run by the department. At present, as much as 50% of the faculty in these institutions have been hired on a contractual basis. "We have assured that the recruitment will be done in a short time," Naik told mediapersons.
Mangaluru, June 1: The private bus services resumed services in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts today with 15 per cent hike in the fares. For 70 days these buses were stayed off the roads as lockdown was imposed in the region on March 22 in the wake of covid-19 outbreak.
Buses were sanitised in the morning. The bus operators have decided to operate only a few of the buses initially.
Of the about 2,000 service buses (inter-district buses and long-route buses within the district) of private operators in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, only 25% resumed services. Only 135 out of 320 city buses in Mangaluru resumed services.
The number of passengers on board the buses were also very less in the morning. A few buses had arranged sanitisers for passengers, drivers and conductors.
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