Spike in COVID-19 cases: Karnataka CM to hold meeting with officials, health experts
India
Published: Sunday, March 14, 2021, 14:55 [IST]
Bengaluru, Mar 14: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has convened a meeting of officials and health experts on Monday in the wake of a spike in COVID-19 cases in the state in recent days, his office said.
The meeting would be held at 5 PM in the Vidhana Soudha, the seat of state legislature and secretariat, the Chief Minister s Office said in a statement on Sunday. For the first time since January 22, the daily COVID-19 cases in the state crossed the 900 mark.
It reported 921 cases with 630 of them from Bengaluru Urban district alone. Since Monday last, over 4,300 new cases have been detected in the state, whose cumulative COVID-19 tally stood at 9,59,338 including 12,387 deaths and 9,38,890 discharges.
UNHRC meet: Sri Lanka dials New Delhi
India
Updated: Sunday, March 14, 2021, 8:24 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 14: Sri Lanka has sought India s support and dialled Prime Minister, Narendra Modi ahead of the crucial vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Sri Lanka is facing the heat at the UNHRC over human rights violations during the civil war with the LTTE. The session of the UNHRC is underway and will continue until March 23.
During the session, the Sri Lanka issue has cropped up several times.
On Saturday, PM Modi spoke on phone today with H.E. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the President of Sri Lanka.
The ruling AIADMK s rival Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam on Sunday concluded a seat sharing arrangement with actor-turned politician Vijayakanth-led DMDK and alloted it 60 Assembly constituencies for the April 6 Assembly polls.
Published: Sunday, March 14, 2021, 18:47 [IST]
Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 14: In an embarrassment to the Congress in Kerala, Mahila Congress President Lathika Subhash on Sunday resigned from the post following denial of Ettumannur seat to her, shortly after the candidate list for the April 6 Assembly polls was released in New Delhi.
Lathika Subhash
The senior leader also shaved her head sitting at the front courtyard of the party office as a mark of protest for denying ticket.
Subahsh, who met reporters at the party headquarters Indira Bhavan here, soon after the party chief Mullappally Ramachandran announced the candidates list at New Delhi said it was short of women candidates.
Weeks before assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, DMK legislator P Saravanan joined the BJP here on Sunday, protesting what he called the dominance and silent torture by the district-level officer-bearers of the Dravidian party.