The Department of Tourism, Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation (KSTDC) and the District Administration had organised a cycle jatha from Mysuru to Srirangapatna via KRS Road yesterday. The jatha was organised as part of Year of the Wildlife to spread awareness on saving the flora and fauna of the land. The rally, with theme Save…
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New subway, lifts, free Wi-Fi at City Railway Station
March 26, 2017Inaugurated in Bengaluru via video link A host of railway projects and services were commissioned at the City Railway Station this morning. The facilities were jointly launched from Yesvantpur Railway Station in Bengaluru and Mysuru Station by former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and Chief Minister Siddharamaiah. Union Minister H.N….
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Forest Dept. to take over three Palace elephants
March 26, 2017Three out of the six female elephants in the Mysore Palace will soon be taken over by the Forest Department following a request by the Mysore royal family. The elephants were rescued from Gemini Circus about 20 years ago following a Court order. Animal rights activists had petitioned the Court where they claimed that the…
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Aspiring doctors can take up NEET in Mysuru too
March 26, 2017Davanagere, Hubballi and Udupi districts are now among the places in Karnataka where aspiring doctors can take the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test. The Central Board of Secondary Education announced yesterday it was increasing the number of exam centres in Karnataka and other States. Only Bengaluru, Belagavi, Kalaburagi, and Mangaluru districts had earlier been chosen to conduct…
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CM forms teams for by-polls
March 26, 2017With prestige at stake for the Congress in the Nanjangud and Gundlupet by-poll, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has formed separate teams comprising of his Cabinet Ministers, to ensure the victory of Congress candidates in both the seats. While PWD Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa has been entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring Congress candidate Kalale Keshavamurthy’s win…
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Vishwanath flays abrupt removal of Mysuru City Congress Chief
March 26, 2017Stating that the sudden replacement of Mysuru City Congress President T.S. Ravishankar with R. Murthy, a former KEA Chairman, was unfortunate, former MP and senior Congress leader A.H. Vishwanath has maintained that the change was effected at the insistence of Chief Minister Siddharamaiah. Addressing a press meet at Pathrakarthara Bhavan here yesterday, Vishwanath said that…
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People are fed up with Congress Government’s misrule: BJP leader
March 26, 2017Accusing the Congress Government of rampant corruption and misrule, State BJP Backward Classes Morcha President B.J. Puttaswamy has said that most of the programmes that CM Siddharamaiah boasts of, have remained only on paper. Addressing a press meet at Pathrakartara Bhavan yesterday, Puttaswamy said that the Congress Government had pushed the State to a debt…
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Engineering student displays honesty
March 26, 2017An honest engineering student has handed over a 20 gm gold bracelet worth Rs. 50,000, which she found lying in a KSRTC bus, to the supervisors at the bus stand here yesterday. M.A. Meghana, a student of PES College of Engineering, Mandya, was said to have boarded a KSRTC bus to go to college and…
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Four from Bengaluru killed in road accident near Hunsur
March 26, 2017Four persons from Bengaluru were killed on the spot, while four others sustained injuries, when the SUV they were travelling in toppled near Nellur Pala on Hunsur-Nagarahole road yesterday. The deceased have been identified as Ranjan Salanke (35), M.S. Ghorpade (33), Kaushik Chavan (32) and Kishore Yadav (25), residents of different localities in Bengaluru. Two…
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Separate assault cases: Complaints registered against six persons
March 26, 2017In two separate assault cases, complaints have been registered against six persons in Ashokapuram and Jayalakshmipuram Police Stations in this regard. Ashokapuram Police Station: Complaint has been registered against three persons for assaulting a woman over a petty issue, which took place in Ashokapuram on Mar. 24. The assaulted woman has been identified as the…
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