Mysuru – Three youths including a city college student lost their lives in separate accidents on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway late last night. While one accident occurred near Srirangapatna where a 20-year-old girl was killed, the other accident took place near Maddur where two youths, aged 26 and 27, were killed. The first accident occurred at…
Ambedkar Jayanti celebrated in city
April 14, 2017Mysuru – District Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa and a host of other people’s representatives and officials garlanded the statue of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at Town Hall to mark the 126th birth anniversary celebrations of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, jointly organised by the District Administration, Zilla Panchayat and Mysuru City Corporation in city this morning. Speaking on…
POINT BLANK: Fall of BJP – Will it Rise in 2018?
April 14, 2017Congress-JD(S) alliance in the horizon The whole world loves the winner, declared Indira Gandhi after winning a landslide victory in 1971 Lok Sabha elections, held a year before the normal 5-year term. She got 362 seats out of 520, a two-third majority. A similar feat was delivered by BJP under Narendra Modi in the 2014…
H.V. Rajeev Balaga’s 150th cleanliness drive launched at Ambedkar Park
April 14, 2017Mysuru – More than 500 people joined H.V. Rajeev Sneha Balaga in its 150th cleanliness drive as part of the 156th birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Park in Ashokapuram here this morning. The volunteers of the Balaga, who assembled at the park at about 7.30 am, were soon joined by…
Freedom Fighters remember Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
April 14, 2017Mysuru – The Mysuru City & District Freedom Fighters’ Association celebrated Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Jayanti at the Freedom Fighters Park in Subbarayanakere in city this morning. Freedom Fighter T. Venkatachalaiah, speaking on the occasion, said that Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was one of the ‘Ratnas’ given birth by Bharath Mata. He pointed out that Dr. Ambedkar,…
Coffee planter arrested for firing at Diddalli camp
April 14, 2017Siddapura (Kodagu) – Even as Chief Minister Siddharamaiah was holding a meeting at Bengaluru to find a solution for relocation of Diddalli tribals, a coffee planter was arrested by the Police on Monday night for firing at Diddalli camp, as some of the camp residents had failed to report for work after taking advance money….
Mystery shrouds death of ‘Prince’ in Bandipur
April 14, 2017Bandipur – Mystery shrouds the death of ‘Prince’ (14), the favourite tiger of tourists in Bandipur as the photos of the carcass of Prince shows his disfigured face due to explosion of a country-made bomb which is usually placed to hunt wild boars. Prince, who ruled Bandipur for about 12 years, was the favourite among…
3 electrocuted while erecting 30-ft cutout at Kyathamaranahalli
April 14, 2017District Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa visits mortuary; announces Rs. 2 lakh compensation Mysuru – Three persons including two youths were electrocuted yesterday when they were erecting a huge cutout of Architect of Indian Constitution Dr. B.R. Ambedkar for his 126th birth anniversary celebrations. The incident occurred at Kyathamaranahalli at around 10 pm when the iron…
EVM tampering case: SC issues notice to Centre
April 14, 2017New Delhi – The Supreme Court yesterday sought responses from the Centre and the Election Commission (EC) to a plea filed by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on alleged tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). The Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, Trinamool Congress and the Samajwadi Party sought to implead themselves in the case along with…
Goodbye indelible ink vials…
April 14, 2017Mysuru – The Nanjangud and Gundlupet by-elections — the results of which were announced yesterday — are the last elections in the country to use vials of indelible ink. Henceforth, trendy marker pens manufactured by Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited (MPVL), also called MyLAC, will be used to mark on the fingers, across nails, of…
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