Live Updates: Telangana, Hyderabad and Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka Coronavirus, Today 12 October 2020

India's #COVID19 tally crosses 71-lakh mark with a spike of 66,732 new cases & 816 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.

Total case tally stands at 71,20,539 including 8,61,853 active cases, 61,49,536 cured/discharged/migrated cases & 1,09,150 deaths: Union Health Ministry

Telangana News: A person was dead on the spot and three other people suffered injuries after a lorry rammed into a bike and an auto-rickshaw here at Katryala village of Wardhannapet mandal on Warangal-Khammam road. Read Full Story

Telangana News: Telangana state witnessed a drop in coronavirus positive cases in the latest bulletin issued on Monday. The state registered 1,021 cases until 8 pm on Sunday taking the total number of confirmed cases to 2,13,084 while the death toll went up to 1,228 with six new cases in a day. Read Full Story

Kavitha wins Nizamabad council seat

Hyderabad: TRS leader Kalvakuntla Kavitha wins the Council seat under the Local Authorities Constituency with a huge majority.

Kavitha achieved required number of votes for winning the seat in the first round itself. In the first round, Kavithas got 531 votes while BJP candidate got 39 and Congress candidate got 22 votes. In the second round Kavitha got 197 votes. Altogether Kavitha secured 728 votes, BJPs P Lakshminarayana got 56 votes and B Subhash Reddy of Congress got only 29 votes. About 10 votes were invalid.

Kavitha had left for Nizamabad with party leaders. She visited the counting center along with the district leaders.