Kushalnagar: Water level at Harangi Dam in Kodagu is slowly depleting. From its maximum capacity of 8.5 tmcft (thousand million cubic feet), the Dam level presently stands at 3.3 tmcft. The alarming depletion of water in Harangi has caused concern among residents of Kushalnagar, Koodige and surrounding areas who fear that they will face severe…
Pandavapura bus accident: Bus conductor arrested, driver still absconding
November 27, 2018Pandavapura: Pandavapura Police, who are investigating the private bus accident at Kanaganamaradi in Pandavapura taluk after it fell into Visvesvaraya Canal on Saturday resulting in the death of 30 people including women and children, have arrested the conductor of the bus and are yet to arrest the driver of the bus who is still absconding….
Centre fixes weight of school bags based on class
November 27, 2018No homework for Class I & II students New Delhi: Children’s school bags are set to get lighter as several States and Union Territories (UTs) are acting on a recent communication from the Centre to formulate guidelines that set the maximum weight in accordance to the class in which students are enrolled. The HRD Ministry,…
Road widening along Govt. House from Abba Road to B.N. Road begins
November 27, 2018Mysuru: The nearly Rs.3.5 crore road widening and development work under the Chief Minister’s Rs.100 crore special grant has begun from the SP Office Circle, Nazarbad to Five Lights Circle, Lashkar Mohalla, on the Abba Road and B.N. Road stretch. The road development work is going on in this 450-metre stretch widening it by 30…
Social Media is not meant only for fun, info: There is scope to shape life too
November 27, 2018Mysuru: These days, the major topic of discussion is how social media platforms like WhatApp, Facebook and others are creating problems in our day-to-day life. However, a person here is showing us how WhatsApp benefits the people. He is Mysuru’s T.K. Layout resident S. Achyutananda and presently Business Head of Bengaluru’s Insign Equipment Private Limited…
Lovers commit suicide after writing death note
November 27, 2018Periyapatna: A boy and a girl, who were reportedly in love, allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves to a tree near Veerabhadra Temple atop Sidilu Mallikarjuna Hill at Bettadapura in Periyapatna taluk yesterday. They have left a death note behind. The deceased are D.L. Veena, a PUC student and K.N. Swamy, who was working with…
Awareness rally, street play mark World Toilet Day
November 27, 2018Mysuru: As many as 15 persons of various Gram Panchayats who played a crucial role in convincing people to build toilets in rural areas of the district were felicitated at a programme organised jointly by Zilla Panchayat and Swachh Bharat Mission at Kalamandira in city on Nov.19. Those who were felicitated are Beluvegowda of H.D. Kote…
CM to inaugurate Vidya Vikas Silver Jubilee celebration tomorrow
November 27, 2018Mysuru: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy will inaugurate the Silver Jubilee Celebration of ‘Vidya Vikas Educational Trust’ (VVET) at the institution’s camps sports ground on Mysuru-Bannur Road, at 10 am tomorrow (Nov.28). Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, former MLA Vasu, who is the Chairman of Vidya Vikas Educational Trust, said that Suttur Seer…
Traffic Cop prevents lamp post from falling on road
November 27, 2018Mysuru: A City Traffic Police personnel, using his presence of mind has prevented an ornamental electric lamp post from falling on the road near K.R. Circle here yesterday. The Cop, who noticed the lamp post leaning dangerously towards the road, informed the matter to the MCC personnel. MCC’s Abhaya team, which rushed to the spot,…
Sunil Arora appointed new Chief Election Commissioner
November 27, 2018New Delhi: Sunil Arora has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) by President Ram Nath Kovind yesterday. He will succeed O.P. Rawat and will take charge on Dec. 2. Arora has been inducted to the Chief Election Commissioner’s post a year after he was appointed to the Election Commission in Sept. 2017….
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