Mangalore, April 8: The bodies of a 14-year-old girl and his 20-year-old boy friend were retrieved from a well in Kundapur in Udupi district on Saturday.
The lovers are believed to have committed suicide after their parents allegedly opposed their relationship.
According to the Kundapur police, Swati (14), daughter of Shekhar, resident of Vaderhobli, was in love with her neighbour Vinay (20) for the last seven months. But the families of the two were opposed to their affair.
Bengaluru, Jun 19: COVID-19 cases in Karnataka has breached the 8,000 mark, as the state on Friday reported 337 new cases and ten related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 8,281 and death toll to 124.
Also, total discharges in the state breached 5,000 mark, with 230 patients getting discharged in a day after recovery.
As of June 19 evening, cumulatively 8,281 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 124 deaths and 5,210 discharges, the health department said in its bulletin.
It said out of 2,943 active cases, 2,865 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and are stable, while 78 are in ICU.
The ten dead include- seven from Bengaluru urban, two from Bidar and one from Vijayapura.
Out of the 337 new cases, 93 are returnees from other states, majority of them from neighboring Maharashtra,while 11 are those who returned from other countries.
The remaining cases include contacts of patients earlier tested positive, those with history of SARI and ILI, among others.
Among the districts where the new cases were reported, Bengaluru accounted for 138 cases, followed by Kalaburagi 52, Ballari 37, Hassan 18, Dakshina Kannada 13, Davangere 12, Udupi 11; Bidar 10, six each from Mysuru and Koppal, four each from Yadgir, Kolar and Bengaluru rural, three each from Mandya, Dharwad, Chikkaballapura, Bagalkote and Ramanagara, two each from Tumakuru and Chikkamagaluru, and one each from Belagavi, Uttara Kannada and Shivamogga.
Kalaburagi district tops the list of positive cases, with 1,126 infections, followed by Udupi 1,050 and Bengaluru urban 982.
Among discharges Udupi tops the list with 944 discharges, followed by Kalaburagi 646 and Yadgir 477.
A total of 4,84,060 samples were tested so far, out of which 10,553 were tested on Thursday alone.
According to the bulletin,4,64,338 samples have been reported as negative, and out of them 9,862 were reported negative today.
Mysuru, Jan 20: Fears over CAA and proposed NRC have affected the ongoing 7th economic census. Following complaints of violence against enumerators and registration of FIR with people declining to give information, the state government has asked deputy commissioners and superintendents of police to hold awareness programmes about it.
The planning, programme monitoring & statistics department has requested the home department to provide cooperation at the police station level while additional chief secretary P Ravi Kumar, in his letter to all DCs, has asked them to create awareness. According to sources, enumerators in T Narasipura town of Mysuru district faced resistance as some residents misunderstood the reason for this census.
A senior officer of the directorate of economics and statistics said that additional chief secretary (ACS- Planning, Programme Monitoring & Statistics Department) Shalini Rajneesh has written to the home department and superintendents of police of all districts seeking their help to create awareness about the economic census.
According to sources in the directorate, in many places, people are refusing to share information under the misconception that it is related to CAA/ NRC. “Many are mistaken about the economic census. As a precaution, police help has been sought,” an officer said.
Authorities in Mysuru said the 7th economic census began on December 20 and will conclude on March 30.
“In Mysuru city alone, we need to cover a population of 11 lakh. In T Narasipura, we faced problems due to misconceptions about Census and CAA. We reported the incident which happened in an area where minorities reside in large numbers,” he explained. Mysuru SP CB Rishyanth said his office has not received any direction in this matter.
Bengaluru, Jan 24: Karnataka High Court on Friday ordered notice to the state government and self-styled godman Swami Nithyananda while hearing a petition seeking cancellation of bail granted to him.
A petition was filed in the Karnataka High Court on Friday seeking cancellation of bail granted to Nithyananda for skipping the trial and fleeing the country.
Justice John Michael Cunha, after hearing the complainant, ordered issuance of notice to the state government and Nithyananda and posted the matter for hearing next week.
The petition, filed by K Lenin, alleged that Nithyananda has been skipping trial and has fled the country on an expired passport.
The plea further said that Nithyananda was making false representations in his "exemption petitions to the trial court as if he is still in India".
Interpol has also issued a 'blue corner notice' to locate the self-styled godman, who is facing trial in a criminal case, on the request of Gujarat Police.
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