Mandya, May 28: A gram panchayat president in Mandur taluk has been arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a Group D' employee in his office.
The incident, which occurred on Thursday evening and came to light on Friday, was recorded by the CCTV cameras installed in the office.
The accused has been identified as Chandrahas (33) of Basavalingana Doddi, president of Kestur Gram Panchayat.
The Karnataka State Commission for Women has registered a suo motu case of the incident.
Karanataka, Apr 20: Chief Minister of Karnataka BS Yediyurappa launched an online crash course programme 'GetCETGo', here on Monday.
GetCETGo is the state government's free online crash course programme to help all students of Karnataka prepare for Common Entrance Test (CET) and National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET).
The programme was launched by the state government amid the disruption in education sector caused due to the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.
Students can access the content through the web portal and the Android Application that has been developed by Sinchu Infotech and Deeksha Online.
They can also avail comprehensive study material with practice questions, chapter-wise tests, revision videos and mock tests.
According to the state government, this programme will benefit around 1,94,000 students.
Bengaluru, Jun 26: A 60-year-old woman, who tested positive for COVID-19 positive and was undergoing treatment, allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself in the restroom of KC General hospital last night.
According to the police, the 60-year-old female COVID-19 patient hung herself in the restroom of KC general hospital in Bengaluru. She was admitted to the hospital on June 18 along with her daughter-in-law and grandson.
"Around 2 am, she went to the washroom. When she did not return back, her daughter-in-law went to check where she found her hanging dead," confirmed Bengaluru police.
An investigation into the matter is underway, police said.
New Delhi, May 3: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has crossed over one million RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 on Saturday evening marking a big landmark, ICMR officials said.
"We have tested about 10,40000 tests till Saturday evening. In a few days, we have increased our testing capacity. ICMR has been doing more than 70,000 tests in the last two consecutive days," he said.
On Saturday, ICMR released that a total of 976363 samples have been tested till date. From May 1 till evening on Saturday, 1,37,346 tests were done.
The top three states which are doing vigorous testing includes--Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan. As on date, these three states have conducted more than one lakh test respectively.
However, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Delhi still need to ramp up their testing capacity.
ICMR has always emphasised that the confirmatory test for diagnosis of COVID-19 infection is RT-PCR test of the throat and/or nasal swab, which detects virus at an early stage. Recently, Dr GS Toteja, Additional Director General of ICMR had said that to contain coronavirus infection, RT-PCR tests must be continued vigorously as the principal diagnostic tests.
RT-PCR tests are now available in 310 government laboratories and 111 private set up across the country.
On Friday, the Centre informed that ICMR has ordered 21.35 lakh diagnostic kits. As on date, India has reported about 37,776 confirmed coronavirus cases and 1223 deaths.
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