Says Chief Information Commissioner Dr. Suchetana Swaroop Mysuru: Citizens who want to obtain information under RTI (Right To Information) Act 2005, with the tag of ‘RTI Activist’ entering the government offices, have no right to do so, stated Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Dr. Suchetana Swaroop. He was interacting with the officials of the various Departments…
Mysuru: Wearing elephant masks, chains and shackles and holding out the palms of their hands — painted blood-red — the members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India will gather near Kote Anjaneyaswamy Temple, outside Mysore Palace, tomorrow (Aug. 9) at 12 noon to call for an end to the use of…
Mysuru: Amidst high drama at the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) meeting on Aug.6, the JD(S) and Congress, which are coalition partners in the State Government, reached an understanding in the ZP on sharing panels, with Tourism and Sericulture Minister S.R. Mahesh brokering a truce between warring Congress and JD(S) members. Even the BJP, which is the…
Bengaluru: Kannada writer and poet Sumatheendra Nadig (86), one of the proponents of the Navya (modernist) literature movement, passed away in Bengaluru yesterday. Nadig was ailing and was admitted to a hospital late last week. His body was kept for public viewing at his Puttenahalli home. The poet was born in Chikkamagaluru to Raghavendra and…
Bengaluru: The State Government will build over a lakh houses across the State under the Chief Minister’s Scheme. Announcing this at a press meet on Aug. 6, Housing Minister U.T. Khader said that 60,000 houses will be built in City Municipal Council (CMC) and Town Municipal Council (TMC) jurisdiction, while over 45,000 houses will be…
Mysuru: The nearly 350-year-old historical Gopura on Mysuru-Nanjangud Road is under threat of collapsing following the road-widening work. The work on the four-laning of Mysuru-Nanjangud Road by the Public Works Department (PWD) is underway. A problem has cropped up, as the park near the Lorry stand on the road which houses a 16th century historical…
Mysuru: Upset over the posting of officials from other Central Department, mainly Telecom sector, to key posts in All India Radio (AIR), the Programming Staff serving at AIR attached to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, staged a lunch-hour protest in front of Akashvani in Yadavagiri here yesterday. Dubbing the move as an effort to…
Mysuru: Senior IPS Officer K.V. Sharath Chandra took charge as the new IGP of Southern Range at the IGP Office in Nazarbad here this morning. Speaking to press persons on the occasion, Sharath Chandra said that with increasing crimes being reported on Highways, an exclusive squad will be formed to deal with robberies and other…
Mysuru: Traffic was disrupted for more than an hour on Chamaraja Double Road as a KSRTC bus broke down on the road. The KSRTC bus was on its way from Mysuru to Hunsur when it broke down near Shantala Talkies signal. Since the bus was blocking half the road, the traffic coming from the Patashala…
Mysuru: “Posts of lecturers have been lying vacant for the last ten years and 5,000 lecturers will be recruited in the next one year,” assured G.T. Devegowda (GTD), Minister for Higher Education. He was speaking after inaugurating the Student Parliament and Talent Forum at Mahajana First Grade College in Jayalakshmipuram here yesterday. GTD contended that…
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