Bengaluru Nov 20 PTI Karnataka on Saturday crossed the seven crore vaccination mark even as the state reported 213 fresh COVID-19 cases and five deaths taking the caseload and cumulative fatalities to 2993352 and 38174 The figure of over seven crore comprised 436 crore first dose and 264 crore second dose and included the 236784 jabs given today a health department bulletin said Sharing the information on his Twitter handle Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said Karnataka crosses 7 crore doses today Would like thank the entire family of health workers and district administration for achieving this feat Thanks to PM narendramodi ji mansukhmandviya ji and CMofKarnataka for all the support The health department said 370 people were discharged taking the total number of recoveries to 2948053 Active cases stood at 7096 Bengaluru Urban remained the major contributor of COVID cases with 134 fresh infections and two deaths Other districts too reported fresh cases including 17 in Mysuru and and 10 in Dakshina Kannada There were zero fatalities in 28 districts While eight districts reported zero infections and zero fatalities 19 had cases in single digits The positivity rate for the day was 026 per cent and the Case Fatality Rate was 234 per cent the bulletin said A total of 80090 samples were tested in the state today taking the cumulative number of specimens examined so far to 526 crore PTI GMS APR APR

Bengaluru Sep 20 PTI H K Meghan a student from Mysuru created a record by bagging the top rank in all the five streams including engineer in the Karnataka Common Entrance Test-2021 the Minister for Higher Education Dr C N Ashwath Narayan said on Monday The results of KCET-2021 the gateway for entry into professional courses was held held from August 28 to 30 and the results were announced today Narayan said in a statement that 183231 candidates out of 193447 who appeared for the examination have become eligible for admission into engineering and technology courses based on merit He clarified that there was no cut-off marks set as announced earlier for seeking entry to engineering courses For other streams 152518 candidates for agriculture 152760 candidates for veterinary 155910 candidates for naturopathy and Yoga and 186638 for B Pharma Pharm-D courses have become eligible the minister said All the 12 COVID-19 positive students who were facilitated to write exams in separate COVID care centres have secured ranks he stated PTI GMS APR APR

Bengaluru Sep 17 PTI The Karnataka Minister for Higher Education and IT-BT Dr C N Ashwath Narayan on Friday distributed 1000 tabs and 350 laptops to students of government and municipal schools in his assembly constituency Malleswaram here to mark the 71st birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi The tabs were given to the high school students and laptops to the primary school students The Minister told the gathering that the gadgets were contributed by various organizations and institutions to strengthen digital education in line with the new National Education Policy NEP-2020 We are fortunate to have a leader like Narendra Modi who is leading the country by giving suitable prominence to all the sectors including education and technology The Prime Minister has brought in the National Education Policy with the aim of making India Vishwaguru in the coming years he said The Minister expressed his gratitude to the organisations and institutions which contributed the equipment PTI GMS APR APR