Here are some of the pictures from the Independence Day celebrations at Torchlight Parade Ground in Bannimantap.
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Long Weekend Holiday
August 14, 2017Mysuru: India is a country of festivals and holidays. If the holidays fall at the end of the week, then everyone plans on long weekend holidays. Luckily, August has two long weekends and Mysuru being a tourist city, there is a rush of visitors that began two days ago. It was second Saturday (a holiday on…
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70 Years of Democracy: Saluting the Majority and Minorities of India
August 14, 2017“Indians may have a vote but they are not represented.” —David Selbourne, Journalist A diplomat is one who remembers the birthday of a woman but forgets the year of her birth. So goes a joke on diplomats. Our immediate past Vice-President Hamid Ansari seems to have forgotten this diplomat’s credo, himself having been an…
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Actor Jaggesh’s son stabbed in road rage
August 14, 2017Bengaluru: Gururaj, the elder son of cine actor Jaggesh, was reportedly stabbed on his leg by miscreants at R.T. Nagar in Bengaluru this morning. It is said, Gururaj had gone to drop his son to school in a car, when he entered into an altercation with a group of persons over parking of vehicles. Even…
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Amit Shah visits Adichunchanagiri Mutt
August 14, 2017Mandya: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President Amit Shah, who is on a three-day visit to the State to strengthen the party unit’s organisational structure, yesterday visited the Adichunchanagiri Mutt at Bellur in Nagamangala taluk of Mandya district, a major religious centre for the Vokkaliga community. Shah was given a rousing welcome by Mutt students,…
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A moving train to Pakistan: “Idea of India would be good if it is Akhand Bharat”
August 14, 2017This is the 70th year of India’s Independence. Every time we recall the ‘Tryst With Destiny’ speech by the first Prime Minister of the country Jawaharlal Nehru in India’s Constituent Assembly, we also recall that outside the well-guarded enclaves of New Delhi the horror of Partition was well underway. Twenty years ago when the…
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Modi-Shah poll strategies will not affect Congress: CM
August 14, 2017Kalaburagi: Maintaining that no matter whatever strategies Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP National Chief Amit Shah devise in Bengaluru ahead of the ensuring Assembly elections, the Congress will not be affected by them, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah claimed that the BJP was opposed to social justice. The Chief Minister was speaking at Aland town in…
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Mystery shrouds woman Congress leader’s death in Kodagu
August 14, 2017Virajpet: A prominent woman Congress leader was found dead under suspicious circumstances at her home in Virajpet town yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Mukkatira Anita Machaiah (52). Anita Machaiah, who had deserted her husband, was living alone at her residence in Gandhinagar of the town. As Anita did not come out of her…
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Shivapura Satyagraha Soudha cries for ‘freedom’ from anti-social elements
August 14, 2017By Nagaiah Lalanakere An inspiring monument of India’s freedom struggle located adjacent to the Mysuru-Bengaluru highway at Shivapura of Maddur taluk in Mandya District, stands testimony to the don’t-care approach of the officialdom. Built to commemorate the Shivapura Flag Satyagraha of 1938, the Satyagraha Soudha was declared open on Sept. 26, 1979 and now it…
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Meti episode: Woman attempts suicide after being threatened
August 14, 2017Bagalkot: The woman, who was in a sleaze video clip with former Minister H.Y. Meti, aired by a TV channel in Dec. 2016, attempted suicide by consuming sleeping tablets here yesterday after being allegedly threatened by Meti’s supporters. Vijayalakshmi, the woman, was taken to the District Hospital and is now out of danger, according to…
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