Mysuru: Sending out a strong message to land sharks and encroachers in and around the city, the District Administration conducted a demolition drive this morning and recovered Government property worth crores of rupees. The drive was conducted in the presence of a large number of Policemen. The demolition drive was conducted at 9 am at…
Two women in early 40s enter Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple
January 2, 2019Protests across Kerala; Temple reopens after ‘purification’ Thiruvananthapuram: Two women under the age of 50, Bindhu and Kanaga Durgha, visited the Sabarimala Ayyappa Swamy Temple and got the darshan of the Lord before daybreak today, becoming the first to do so since the SC ordered the end of age-old ban on women of menstrual age…
Cold weather hits Mysuru
January 2, 2019District records 14 Degree Celsius on Tuesday To be between 14-16 degrees Celsius in next four days Mysuru: City woke up to a chilly New Year morning as temperature plummeted due to cold conditions in many parts of India. The minimum temperature was recorded at 14 degree Celsius in Mysuru district as on Tuesday,…
Increase in property guidance value: Confusion over new rates holds back people from property deals
January 2, 2019Mysuru: With the State Government hiking guidance value of properties by five to 25 percent and the revised rates coming into effect on Jan.1, 2019, the Sub-Registrar offices in the city witnessed only a few registration on the first day of the new year. The Sub-Registrar office (West) witnessed only three property registrations on Tuesday,…
Drinking water dues in Mysuru hit Rs. 162 crore
January 2, 2019KPTCL, CESC, Railways, PWD, Police, MUDA, owe lakhs of rupees to MCC Mysuru: Drinking water dues have touched a whopping Rs. 162 crore in Mysuru city, and government departments and corporations are among the top defaulters, together owing Rs. 27.17 crore to Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), which has resolved to step up the drive to…
Youth injured, car damaged in separate accidents
January 2, 2019Mysuru: In separate accidents that took place on Monday night, a youth was seriously injured when he rammed his scooter into a stationary vehicle and a car was damaged when it hit a roadside tree in the taluk. In the first incident, a youth was seriously injured when he rammed his scooter into a stationary…
Cooker burst in school: Minister visits K.R. Hospital
January 2, 2019Mysuru: Mandya District In-charge Minister C.S. Puttaraju visited K.R. Hospital here this morning and enquired about the condition of the 9-year-old girl Sinchana, a 4th standard student of Sanghapura Government School in Pandavapura taluk who was injured when a pressure cooker reportedly burst at the school kitchen yesterday while the midday meal was getting readied….
Hanging solar fence to prevent jumbo menace
January 2, 2019Mysuru: Installation of hanging solar fence by Forest Department to prevent wild elephant menace in the fringe villages of Saragur Forest Range in the district has been yielding good results and proving successful. The Department has taken up the installation of stainless hanging solar fencing in a big scale in the forest areas that borders…
Family struggles to survive as breadwinner goes missing
January 2, 2019Periyapatna: Deeply disappointed over the attitude of the Police the family of a man who has gone missing since six months, is living in constant fear and in search of a livelihood. Sukhlal aka Suresh lived with his wife Sunitha and four children at Ravandur village in the taluk. A person in the village entered…
An achiever forgotten down the history of Mysore
January 2, 2019Mysuru: A person, who had taken active part in freedom struggle and held prominent positions post-Independence and hailing from Mysuru, seems to have been forgotten by the Government and the local body with not even a road or Circle in city named after him. The person in question is late B. Narayanaswamy who was a…
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