Bengaluru, Aug 27: A fully equipped COVID-19 hospital has been developed as a result of four months of hard work and without any financial burden on the government, according to Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar.

New Delhi, Aug 27: Manifestations of the SARS-Cov-2 virus go beyond the pulmonary complications that previous studies suggested, experts at the AIIMS asserted on Thursday. What started out as viral pneumonia has turned into multi-systemic disease that ranges from simple Anosmia to life-threatening Encephalopathy or sudden cardiac arrest.

They also suggested that the classification of COVID-19 into mild, moderate, and severe cases based only on respiratory symptoms should be relooked into.

Bengaluru, Aug 27: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Wednesday said India and Japan are natural partners and urged Japan to strengthen their partnership in the state.

Mangaluru, Aug 26:  Yakshagana presenter and a researcher of Kannada prosody Dr N Shimanturu Narayana Shetty died on Wednessdat here at a private hospital on Wednesday.

He was 86.

He is survived by wife, two sons and three daughters.

Shetty had composed four works related to Yakshagana prosody--Yakshagana Chandobudhi, Kannadada Anarghya Ratnagalu, V-Chitra Tripadi and Desi Chandhobandhagala Puduvattu.

He was fondly called 'Chandobrahma' (The Brahma of Prosody) and was bestowed with an honorary Doctorate by Yakshagana Chandobudhi.

Pune, Aug 26: The second phase trial of COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University, which would be manufactured by Serum Institute of India, began here with the vaccine candidate administered to two volunteers at Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College.

Bengaluru, Aug 26: Veteran politician and BJP MLC A H Vishwanath today openly praised legendary Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan as “the son of this soil”.

London, Aug 26: Hollywood star Tom Cruise attended a screening of Christopher Nolan's tentpole Tenet in London and shared a clip of his visit to the cinema hall with his fans on social media.

Bengaluru, Aug 26: Distributing Covid-19 vaccine around the world fairly without letting the rich countries corner the limited doses is going to be a big challenge, the World Health Organization's Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Wednesday.

New Delhi, Aug 26: IT major Accenture is all set to fire 5% of its workforce globally, which means that around 10,000 employees in India will lose their jobs due to the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Accenture is likely to ask several thousands of employees to go after the conclusion of the appraisal cycle that is underway, TOI reported.

Bengaluru, Aug 26: The Karnataka government is ready to restart interstate bus services to four states and Puducherry and is awaiting their nod, a minister said.