Mysuru: Though the date for Gajapayana is yet to be announced, construction of sheds to house Dasara elephants and to provide shelter for mahouts and kavadis are going on at Mysore Palace premises. In the first batch, six elephants led by Arjuna will arrive and another six elephants will arrive in the second batch. In…
Last month’s mild quake in Kodagu could have caused landslides: MP
August 22, 2018Suntikoppa: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has opined that the mild earthquake that occurred a month back in Madikeri and Somwarpet taluks could have been the reason for the present landslides in Kodagu district. Exchanging his views with villagers in the flood-ravaged regions of Madapura in Somwarpet, the MP said that the tremors would have weakened…
Outflow to river from KRS stopped after 40 days
August 22, 2018Mandya: With the intensity of rain coming down in Kodagu district, the outflow from KRS Dam in Srirangapatna taluk of Mandya district to the river has been stopped from today morning after a gap of 40 days. However, water is being released from the dam to canals. With heavy rains in Cauvery River catchment areas…
Man who set up fake flood relief account arrested
August 22, 2018Mysuru/ Bengaluru: The Bengaluru Central Crime Branch and the Cubbon Park Police have arrested a man from Mandya who set up a fake flood relief bank account in the name of Kodava Samaja, Bengaluru, to collect money from people for flood relief and rehabilitation. The accused has been identified as Vijay Sharma alias Vijay Babu,…
Apollo BGS Hospitals performs first Live Liver Transplant
August 22, 2018Mysuru: Most couples marry, vowing to be with each other at all times in sickness and happinness. And here is proof of a wife donating her liver to her ailing husband. The case: Things were good for the couple from Kanakapura until the 36-year-old husband was first diagnosed with chronic liver disease after various initial…
Heavy rains wreak havoc in grower’s life
August 22, 2018Madikeri: A farmer who was living an uncluttered life since the past 40 years growing coffee, pepper in his two acres of land, today is without a home or land and is taking shelter empty handed, in the city’s Lakshminarismha Kalyan Mantap Relief Centre. The helpless victim is Shivaram who had worked hard all his…
Natural calamities will continue, predicts Kodi Mutt Seer
August 22, 2018Hassan: Kodi Mutt Seer Sri Shivananda Shivayogi Rajendra Swamiji has predicted that natural calamities in Karnataka will continue for another three months. Speaking to reporters in Hassan yesterday, the Seer said that rain and its related devastation will continue to torment Karnataka for the next three months. Rain will continue till the Karthika month (November-December)…
Suttur Seer visits flood-hit village in Kodagu
August 22, 2018Kushalnagar: Even as there is a let up in rains across Kodagu district and relief-cum-rescue operations going on at a brisk pace, Suttur Mutt Seer Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji visited Megathalu village near Mukkodlu in Somwarpet taluk this morning, where over a dozen families from Veerashaiva-Lingayat community had lost homes and properties due to floods…
Echo of Kodagu’s flood disaster: City Ex-Servicemen Assn. urges Addl. Controller General of Defence Accounts to hold one more Pension Adalat in December
August 22, 2018Mysuru: The Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) of Mysuru-based ‘Kodagu Ex-Servicemen Welfare Association, Mysore East’ was held at Chamundeshwari Convention Hall, Bannur Road, here recently. Even though there were many agenda points to be discussed at the AGM, the members were found discussing about the problems being faced by the people of Kodagu due to…
Milkman injured in jumbo attack
August 22, 2018Madikeri: A milkman, who was on his way to deliver milk was injured seriously when an elephant attacked him this morning. The seriously injured milkman is Pattada Mani, a resident of Doddalli village in Alur Siddapur Gram Panchayat limits in Somwarpet taluk. Mani was proceeding on his TVS moped to deliver milk this morning when…
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