Gurugram, Jul 24: Private airline SpiceJet on Wednesday announced the launch of a new daily flight connecting Mangaluru, the port hub of Karnataka, with Delhi.
The airline will be operating the new flights effective August 4, 2019. To celebrate the launch of the new sector, the airline is offering tickets at an all-inclusive introductory fare of Rs 5599 on Mangaluru-Delhi route and Rs 5499 on the Delhi-Mangaluru route.
Chitradurga, Apr 11: Akhila Bharata Hindu Mahasabha district president M Kumaraswamy has been arrested by Police on charges of posting provocative posts on Facebook.
Police said on Saturday that Syed Sadath who is the Popular Front of India District Secretary, in Chitradurga filed a complaint stating that Mr Kumaraswamy had posted ''Godhra riots will be repeated by Karsevaks'' on his Facebook page on April 7.
Mr Sadath said that Kumaraswamy was spreading communal hatred and targeting one community, at a time when the world was struggling to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
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, Jul 6: As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Karnataka, more than 20 police stations were sealed in Bengaluru after many policemen tested positive for novel coronavirus.
"Since the last few weeks, the number of COVID-19 cases in the police department has increased as many of the policemen have tested positive, so that's the reason why the police have taken a decision to close police stations," Bengaluru Commissioner of police Bhaskar Rao said.
He added, "However, people can lodge their complaints and other issues can be solved in help desks launched outside premises of the police station. Most of the areas where positive cases found in the police station are been sealed down for the safety of the people and sanitised them."
However, some of the police stations would be functional from outside the premises.
Commercial Street, Cottonpete, Chickepete, KG Halli traffic police station are among the few stations closed due to scare of the coronavirus spread after some policemen tested positive in particular stations.
Rao further said that the traffic police, civil police along with home guards have been given safety gloves, face masks, and sanitizers along with face covers by the department of police.
According to the Union Health Ministry, 23,474 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the state, as of Monday.
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