
10 students of nursing college test positive
The Hindu
All of them are from Kerala
In all, 10 students have tested positive for COVID-19 at a nursing college in Valachil, on the outskirts of the city, in two days.
Of these, two cases were reported on Thursday and eight students tested positive on Friday, according to Dakshina Kannada District COVID-19 Nodal Officer H. Ashok.
The college has been declared as a containment zone and classes have been suspended for a week, he said and added that all those who tested positive are from Kerala. Swab samples of 374 students from the college have been collected for testing and two nursing officers have been deputed for monitoring the process.

In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












