Mysuru: An In-House Conservation Laboratory to protect and maintain various artefacts in the historic Mysore Palace will be set up soon. This decision was taken at an Experts Committee meeting headed by former Additional Chief Secretary Chiranjiv Singh here yesterday at the Mysore Palace Board premises. It was decided to set up the In-House Conservation…
Maharani’s College has a new address on Valmiki Road
January 23, 2018Mysuru: The city has another landmark off the Hunsur Road amidst Paduvarahalli, Kukkarahalli Lake and CFTRI — Maharani’s Commerce and Management College and Hostel. Eye-catching structures have come up on Valmiki Road, opposite the CFTRI Gate where the new college is located. The buildings have been constructed at a cost of Rs. 174.4 crore and…
Tirupati model checking for plastic ban atop Chamundi Hill
January 23, 2018Mysuru: Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep, in an effort to make Chamundi Hill plastic-free zone, has come up with the idea of a Tirupati model to effectively implement the ban on usage of plastic. He was chairing a review meeting of various development works organised by the Temple Management Committee at the Dasoha Bhavan atop the…
New Kerala Model? No Harm Hoping
January 23, 2018By TJS George Something extraordinary happened in Kerala last week. It is a State that was taken over quite some time ago by time-servers in public life, corruption kings and one-man parties with names that incorporate the leader’s own name (Kerala Congress-M, for K.M.Mani, Kerala Congress-B, for Balakrishna Pillai). As for Communism, Kerala remains the…
Six tamed elephants from Kodagu shifted to Chhattisgarh
January 23, 2018To capture and tame rogue elephants Kushalanagar: Three tamed elephants from Dubare Elephant Camp and three from Mattigodu Camp have been shifted to Chhattisgarh yesterday to capture and tame rogue elephants which are creating havoc there. Eighteen-year-old Parashuram, 27-year-old Ajay and 25-year-old Theertharam from Dubare Elephant Camp and the other three from Mattigodu Camp were…
Ahead of Assembly polls: Govt. staff to get bonanza
January 23, 2018Bengaluru: The forthcoming Assembly polls seems to have brought bonanza for Government employees, with the State Govt. planning to hike salaries from a minimum of Rs.2,500 to a maximum of Rs. 10,000 per month. Chief Minister Siddharamaiah in a deft move to keep the employees happy with polls round the corner, is also hopeful that…
Echo of wild elephant trampling coffee planter: Coffee growers mob Siddapur Police Station, demand action
January 23, 2018Siddapur: Hundreds of coffee planters and farmers staged a protest at Siddapur this morning demanding immediate action by the Forest Department to prevent wild elephant menace. They mobbed the Siddapur Police Station demanding a case be registered against the Department officials for preventing elephant menace. The protest was staged after a coffee planter was trampled…
BSY demands probe into assault on BJP leader
January 23, 2018Mysuru: Strongly condemning the Police assault on BJP leader and advocate Gokul Govardhan at Nazarbad Police Station on Sunday, State BJP President and former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa has demanded immediate suspension of all Police personnel involved in the incident. Addressing a press meet at a private hotel here this morning, Yeddyurappa alleged that there was…
‘Bharatvani’ project to digitise UoM Kannada works
January 23, 2018Mysuru: In the digitalised era where everything is available online, the University of Mysore (UoM) is also planning to digitise about 300 Kannada works in association with Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) and upload it. Many of the works of Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies produced by Prasaranga, the publication division of UoM, Oriental…
KPME Act into force from Feb.10
January 23, 2018Kolar: The Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) Act would come into effect from Feb.10, said Health Minister Ramesh Kumar. He was speaking after inaugurating a Primary Health Centre at Muduvadi village in the taluk on Sunday and said that including CM, everybody should go to Government Hospitals for treatment. “Everyone in the Government including the…
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