Kasaragod, Feb 27: About a dozen of two wheelers confiscated by Bekal police in various cases, were gutted in fire on Wednesday early morning.
The two wheelers were dumped near the police station premises as mainour in criminal cases.
Despite efforts by police personnel and locals, the fire could not be contained before all the vehicles were destroyed, police sources said.
The reason for the fire is still unknown.
Chitradurga, Aug 2: Said to be 110-years-old, a grand old woman Siddamma was discharged on Saturday from a COVID Hospital in Chitradurga after recovering from the novel coronavirus.
According to Dr Basavaraj, District Surgeon, Chitradurga, the woman had tested positive for the disease on July 27.
After her recovery, the frail woman dressed in a sari was seen being wheeled out from the hospital.
As many as 5,172 new COVID-19 cases and 98 deaths were reported in Karnataka on Saturday, taking the state's count of coronavirus cases to 1,29,287.
The active cases in the state now stand at 73,219 while 53,648 people have been discharged.
"5,172 new COVID-19 cases and 98 deaths reported in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, taking total cases to 1,29,287 including 53,648 discharges and 2,412 deaths.
The number of active cases stands at 73,219," said State Health Department.
So far, a total of 2,412 people have succumbed to the virus in the State.
Bengaluru, Apr 18: The Karnataka government has managed to get the contact details of nine out of 10 foreign nationals who had visited Jubilant Life Sciences, a pharmaceutical company in Mysuru district's Nanjangud which has been declared a coronavirus hotspot, State minister S Suresh Kumar said on Saturday.
As many as 66 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nanjangud.
While investigating the source of virus in what is now known as 'Nanjangud cluster', the Mysuru administration could get information that 10 foreign nationals had visited this town, Kumar told reporters.
Soon the External Affairs Ministry's help was sought which managed to track nine of them, Kumar said, adding that the MEA contacted its embassies in China, Germany, Japan and the USA to track these persons.
"Out of 10, they could contact nine and got details. All of them have said that they were all healthy and they did not have any symptoms.
Hence, they did not feel the need to undergo COVID-19 tests," the minister said.
He opined that many people do not show the symptoms but they could be carriers of the virus.
Coronavirus India update: State-wise total number of confirmed cases, deaths on April 18
"It all depends on the person's immunity," Kumar explained.
A foreign national from Germany who had visited Nanjangud could not be reached as her contact details were not available.
Bengaluru, Feb 6: A 33 -year-old techie who was on the run after allegedly bludgeoning her mother to death and attempting to murder her brother at their house near KR Puram early on Sunday was arrested along with her friend from a hotel in Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on Wednesday morning.
C Amruta and Sridhar Rao were produced before a court in Port Blair to get a transit warrant, deputy commissioner of police (Whitefield) MN Anuchet said. Police initially thought she had committed the crime as she was unable to repay a loan of Rs 15 lakh and feared being humiliated by the lenders.
"But now we strongly suspect that Amruta and Rao were in a relationship, which was opposed by her mother and brother. We don't see any other reason for her to attack her family members. We can get more details only after questioning the duo," another police officer said, adding, "The most important question is: Did Rao know Amruta was going to kill her mother? Or he got to know about it only later? He'd booked their air tickets to Port Blair on January 31 itself."
Rao and Amruta worked together in a software company in Whitefield till 2017. "Then they joined different firms and were in constant touch," police said.
Preliminary probe revealed the duo flew to Port Blair by catching a flight from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) at 6.30am on Sunday. CCTV footage had shown Rao - wearing a full-face helmet and carrying a backpack - waiting near Amruta's house on a gearless scooter on Sunday morning. After she arrived, they chatted for a while before riding away. They arrived at KIA on the same bike, police said.
"We checked the passengers' list at KIA for that day and found Amruta's name. With the help of Port Blair police, we traced the duo to a hotel," an investigating officer said.
On Sunday morning, Amruta hit her 54-year-old mother C Nirmala on the head with a digging bar. She later stabbed her younger brother C Harish in the neck. Harish collapsed and thinking that he was dead, she left the house.
In his statement to police, Harish stated, "Around 4.30am, Amruta entered my room and stabbed me. I asked her what was wrong. She said she had a debt of Rs 15 lakh and didn't want the debtors to harass me and our mother."
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