Mysuru: Rains accompanied by thunder cooled down the temperatures somewhat last night in the city and with it the election canvassing heat also reduced considerably and there are more rains likely today and tomorrow. Called the summer blossom showers, it began drizzling around 9.30 last night and the rainfall was about 20 mm. Such rain…
IPS Officers from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh appointed as Police Observers in Mysuru
April 17, 2018Mysuru: The Election Commission has appointed two IPS officers from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to keep tab on the security arrangements for the ensuing Assembly polls in the district for which the polling will take place on May 12. While Yogesh Deshmukh, a 1995-batch IPS Officer from Madhya Pradesh has been given the task…
MCDCC Bank President Chandrashekar returns to Congress from BJP
April 17, 2018Mysuru: MCDCC (Mysore & Chamarajanagar District Co-operative Central) Bank President S. Chandrashekar, who had quit the Congress party just last month (had joined on Mar.9) to join BJP, has returned to the party fold. He rejoined the party in the presence of City Congress President R. Murthy and other leaders at his residence in Dattagalli…
Gold appraiser arrested for cheating banks, customers
April 17, 2018Periyapatna: The Bylakuppe Police have arrested a gold appraiser on charges of cheating banks and customers by authenticating counterfeit gold as real one. The accused has been identified as Shivaram of Mangaluru. Commercial banks that grant loans against security of gold jewellery appoint jewel appraisers to find out the exact gold contents in the jewellery….
‘Encourage genuine folk artistes, not fake ones’
April 17, 2018Birth Centenary of Kamasale Mahadevaiah held Mysuru: The Department of Kannada and Culture along with Karnataka Janapada Academy had organised a function at Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha on JLB Road here on Apr.15 to mark the birth centenary of renowned folk artiste Kamsale Mahadevaiah. Speaking on the occasion, Folk Scholar Dr. P.K. Rajashekar opined that genuine…
Tipper thieves arrested
April 17, 2018Vehicle worth Rs.3 lakh recovered Mysuru: Vijayanagar Police on Apr. 12, have arrested two persons on charges of stealing a tipper vehicle from Hinkal village near here on Apr.12 and have recovered the tipper worth about Rs.3 lakh from them. The arrested have been identified as 40-year-old Manjunath of Vinayaka Nagar at Thithimathi, Virajpet taluk…
Extortionists held: Police recover mobile phones, cash
April 17, 2018Mysuru: Mandi Police on Apr.14, have arrested two extortionists on charges of assaulting a person on Apr.8 and making away with Rs.1,400 cash and mobile phone besides making him withdraw cash from an ATM and fleeing with the ATM card. The arrested have been identified as 21-year-old Praveen Kumar, a native of Chikka Kavalande in…
Hindustani flute recital at Ganabharathi on Apr. 20
April 17, 2018Mysuru: Ganabharathi has organised a Hindustani flute recital by Sameer Rao at Veene Seshanna Bhavana, Kuvempunagar here on April 20 at 6 pm. He will be accompanied by Milind on tabla. Profile: Sameer started learning Hindustani classical music and playing the Bansuri under the tutelage of Pt. Veerabhadraiah Hiremath in Mysuru. In the year…
Promoting bad governance is bad
April 17, 2018By T.J.S. George So it’s the mixture as before — Arun Jaitley is wise, Ministers of Southern States are dumb. The south objected to the centre taking the 2011 population figures as the yardstick for the devolution of tax revenues to the States. Jaitley dismissed the objections in convoluted phraseology. To wit: “Population proxies very well…
House burgled: Cash, valuables worth lakhs of rupees looted
April 17, 2018Mysuru: House burglars, who gained entry into a locked house in Bogadi here on Apr.14, by breaking open the door of the house, have decamped with gold jewellery, silver articles and cash worth lakhs of rupees from the house. The burglary took place at the house of Thibbegowda, a resident of Bank Colony in Bogadi….
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