Bengaluru; A Lokayukta Special Court yesterday rejected an anticipatory bail application filed by former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in an illegal mining case. Lokayukta Special Court Judge Gopal observed that anticipatory bail cannot be granted as the allegations against the accused amount to economical offence, considering the verdicts of the Supreme Court in similar cases….
Columns, Pet Talk
Pet talk
June 14, 2017By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains how puppies can be taught to sit? What to do if my pet has a broken toenail? A broken toenail on your pet’s foot can easily be attributed to vigorous backyard digging, but a broken nail may sometimes signal something more serious and should always…
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Will Geetha Shivrajkumar contest from Congress?
June 14, 2017Bengaluru: Will Geetha Shivrajkumar, the wife of actor Shivrajkumar and also the daughter of former Chief Minister of Karnataka, S. Bangarappa, contest the next Lok Sabha elections from Congress? Yes, say political pundits after Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi visited Shivrajkumar’s house on Monday when he came to Bengaluru to relaunch National Herald newspaper. Rahul, accompanied…
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Prof. Rangappa takes a plunge into politics, finally
June 14, 2017Mysuru: It is now confirmed that former Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University Prof. K.S. Rangappa will take a plunge into politics. According to JD(S) sources, his name has been finalised to contest as an MLA from Chamaraja Assembly Constituency for the elections to be held next year and JD(S) Supremo H.D. Deve Gowda has cleared his…
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State claiming credit for Centre’s largesse: MP
June 14, 2017Mysuru: MP Pratap Simha, taking potshots indirectly at the Siddharamaiah Government, said that it was claiming credit for all the programmes of the Central Government by just changing stickers. He was speaking at the ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas,’ programme, organised by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), Mysuru, at Kalamandira, here yesterday and said the Centre…
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Mysuru Literary Fest on June 18
June 14, 2017Countdown begins The countdown has begun for the first Mysuru Literary Fest organised by the Mysore Literary Association on Sunday, June 18. The venue —Senate Bhavan — in the sprawling, beautiful Manasagangothri campus is getting spruced up as the literati and cognoscenti will descend in large numbers to listen and interact with some of the…
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Rehearsing for the D-day…
June 14, 2017When hundreds of yoga enthusiasts are rehearsing for the International Yoga Day on June 21, this tiger at Dhamankatte in Nagarahole seems to be showing SOM photographer M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav that even he is practicing yoga for better health.
Editorial
Finance Minister falsified, framed
June 14, 2017The Union Finance Minister is relentlessly in hot pursuit of the land’s people, irrespective of their socio-economic status, to mop up funds to fill the government’s kitty through the already familiar tools such as commercial tax, excise duty, sales tax, income tax, valued added tax and whatever, even as he is spearheading the move into…
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Man caught trying to sell his daughter
June 14, 2017Srirangapatna: Child trafficking is one of the most heinous crimes. It is all the more reprehensible when the man himself indulges in it, trying to sell his three-year-old daughter. The Police and Women & Child Protection Officers have been able to nab the person, while he was in the act of selling the child yesterday….
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Green toilet facility in Palace too by December
June 14, 2017Mysuru: Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep performed ground-breaking ceremony on Sunday last (June 11) to build a toilet facility at Mysore Palace premises. It is an initiative of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Automotive Axles Ltd., in partnership with District Administration. They had jointly built India’s first green building for public convenience (Toilet ) at…
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