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Durga Sumithra, 40, and Muniraju, in his 50s, died on July 2 last year, as per documents from the ESI Hospital at Rajajinagar in Bengaluru. Nearly a year and a half after they lost their loved ones to Covid, two families in Bengaluru have received news that’s as painful as their loss — the bodies have been rotting for over a year in the hospital’s mortuary. Durga Sumithra, 40, and Muniraju, in his 50s, died on July 2 last year, as per documents from Employees’ State Insurance Corporation and Model…

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Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said the samples have been sent for genome sequencing for further examination, he said. A passenger back from South Africa has tested positive for a Covid strain “different than Delta”, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said today and added that the state government is closely looking at the new ‘Omicron’ strain that has set off alarm bells across the country. The test samples, he said, have been sent for genome sequencing for further examination, he said. This comes after two South African nationals…

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The Delhi Assembly on Friday suspended BJP MLA Jitender Mahajan from its one-day special session and also marshalled out BJP legislators Anil Bajpai and Mohan Singh Bisht for allegedly disrupting the proceedings of the House. Other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs walked out of the House to boycott the proceedings in support of their suspended and marshalled out colleagues. As soon as the proceedings of the special session began, the BJP MLAs demanded to be heard on various issues such as the new liquor policy, rising air pollution in the…

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