Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (DV)
Mangaluru, Aug 13: The weekend curfew which came into place last week will continue this weekend too.
The exams scheduled for degree and postgraduate students on August 14 have been postponed due to the weekend curfew.
The general public are allowed to purchase essential commodities till from 5 am to 2 pm.
KSRTC and private buses will ply as usual.
It may be recalled, weekend curfew was ordered by the state government on districts bordering Kerala and Maharashtra namely Dakshina Kannada, Kodagu, Chamarajanagar, Belagavi, Bidar and Kalaburgi due to rising cases of Covid. Also, the duration of night curfew was advanced by an hour from 9 pm to 5 am instead of 10 pm to 5 am throughout the state.