Madikeri, Jan 4: Two girls were seriously injured after a wild elephant attacked them on their way back to home near Injilagere here, Forest officials said on Saturday.
The officials said that Nityashree of class four, along with her younger sister Yuvashree of class two, were on their way back home from Government Primary School. The students are the daughters of Mani, resident of School estate line house in Puliyeri village.
Mangaluru, May 10: A special train carrying 1,140 migrant workers stranded here in the lockdown has left Mangaluru railway station for Jharkhand.
Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel and Vedavyas Kamath, MLA, were present at the railway station on Saturday night when the train left.
Kamath said the workers who had registered on the state governments Seva Sindhu portal were brought to the railway station in Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation buses.
A health check-up was carried out before they boarded the train.
The district administration also provided food packets and water to the migrants at the station.
Three more trains will leave from Mangaluru for Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand soon, he said.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Sindhu P Rupesh said train services are being arranged for migrant workers who have registered their names on the Seva Sindhu portal.
The workers will be informed when trains are arranged to their destinations and they need not throng the railway station unnecessarily, she said.
Around 20,000 workers have so far registered themselves online, including 5,000 from Jharkhand, 3,000 from Uttar Pradesh and 4,000 from Bihar.
Hundreds of migrant workers had on Friday staged a protest at the central railway station here, demanding that they be sent back home.
The workers went back to their camps only after district authorities and police gave them assurance that trains will be arranged in three days.
Bengaluru, Apr 16: The Karnataka government on Wednesday identified 14 departments as essential and asked all its employees to attend work during the extended period of lockdown to check coronavirus spread in the state.
According to a circular issued by Chief Secretary TM Vijay Bhaskar, all classes of officials/employees in these departments must attend to their work.
The departments are: Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education, Home, Revenue, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Urban Development, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Information and Public Relations, Transport, Energy, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (e-Governance), Finance (including treasuries), Animal Husbandry and Fisheries and Forest, Ecology and Environment.
In all other departments, only Group-A officers have been directed to report for duty.
However, those visually-impaired or physically-
handicapped are exempt from work, the circular said, adding that this norms will be valid till April 19.
Shivamogga, May 21: A quarantine facility at Bapuji Nagar in Shivamogga on Wednesday evening was vandalised, by a group of people. leading to chaos.
The police had to resort to baton-charge to control the situation.
Locals were opposing the facility, which is being used to isolate travellers from different states in the view of coronavirus.
Deputy Commissioner KB Sivakumar said that the police department will investigate and book a case against the protesters.
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