The Karnataka High Court has granted bail to six persons who have been accused of murdering two persons at a farmhouse in Hunsur nine years back. The Court, however, did not grant bail to former Corporator C. Mahadesh alias Avva Madesha and his brother C. Manjunath who were also among the accused. In all, eight…
MP Pratap Simha finds solution for Automen’s problem
March 23, 2017The confusion over the setting up of a Ola cab counter at the City Railway Station has ended with the intervention of Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha. Simha, who visited the city Railway Station yesterday, met the auto drivers and heard their grievances. The auto drivers complained that a Ola cab counter has been set up…
Posting of morphed photos of UP CM: MP files complaint against RTI activist
March 23, 2017Mysuru-Kodagu MP and State Yuva Morcha President Pratap Simha yesterday filed a complaint with Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Praveen Sood seeking action against RTI activist Prabha N. Belavangala for allegedly posting morphed objectionable photograph of UP CM Yogi Adityanath on her Facebook wall. The MP arrived at the Bengaluru City Police Commissioner’s office and submitted…
Code of conduct : Proverbs, idioms
March 23, 2017The age of a society in which its members not only firmly believed in but also assiduously adhered to the practice of pleasant conduct in both word and deed. The code of conduct, crystallising in the form of proverbs and idioms, apart from lyrical lines attributed to the wise such as Sarvajna of the 16th…
Mother’s Day Out
March 23, 2017By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take out another “woman” out to dinner and a movie. The other woman that my wife wanted me to take out was my mother who had been a widow for 19 years. The demands of my work and…
Former Minister Ramdas hits campaign trail at Nanjangud
March 23, 2017Even as the poll campaign for the prestigious Nanjangud by-poll is getting hotter with each passing day, former Minister S.A. Ramdas hit the campaign trail early this morning by extensively touring various localities in the town, seeking votes for BJP candidate V. Sreenivasa Prasad. Speaking to press persons during the campaign, Ramdas said he saw…
What is the opposite of intellectual?
March 23, 2017By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Globally, we are seeing a wave against intellectuals, those whose rationality overthrew the priests of yore, who saw the world through a mathematical prism, and sought to create a fair and just society by redistribution of wealth and power, using logic. In Vedic theory, one can…
By-polls: 2 nominations rejected in N’gud; all 9 accepted in Gundlupet
March 23, 2017Returning Officer G. Jagadeesha has rejected the nomination papers of R. Renuka and Shivappa, the two independent candidates, who had filed their nominations for the Nanjangud by-elections. With this the Election Commission has accepted nominations papers of 12 candidates. Among the candidates whose nominations papers have been accepted include: M. Pradeep Kumar (Karunadu Party –…
Dr. B. Satishchandra Nayak
March 23, 2017Dr. B. Satishchandra Nayak (71), Founder of Sri Maha Maya Nursing Home near Ballal Circle (now defunct) and partner of B. Nirmala Devi & Company (a 47-year-old Mangalore Ganesh Beedies distribution firm in Mysuru), passed away yesterday. A resident of Saraswathipuram in city, Satishchandra leaves behind his wife Geeta S. Nayak, son Industrialist Sandheep Nayak,…
Monkey menace continues
March 23, 2017Sir, It was very nice to hear the news about putting an end to the monkey menace around the Kukkarahalli Lake by the Forest Department staff and MCC officials. But is this really an end to this menace ? We could still spot certain stray monkeys around the Saraswathipuram Swimming Pool road area entering the…
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