Mysuru: Mahashivaratri or the ‘great night of Shiva’ comes once in a year, either in February or March, depending on the lunar calendar and this year, it is celebrated on Mar. 4 (tomorrow). It is a major Hindu festival in honour of Lord Shiva. Every lunar month, there is a Shivaratri (12 per year). The…
Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha this morning inspected the works on widening the existing four-lane 118-kilometre Highway between Mysuru and Bengaluru to a ten-lane (including 2 service roads) National Highway (NH). He took stock of the works at Gananguru village in Srirangapatna taluk in Mandya district. Speaking to reporters, the MP said that National Highway…
Mysuru: The Forest Department officials have taken two more persons into custody in connection with the wildfire in Bandipur Tiger Reserve, on Friday. With the arrests, the number of accused is now three. The arrested have been identified as 70-year-old Hanumantaiah and 60-year-old Gopaiah, of Chowdahalli in Gundlupet taluk. The officials had arrested Arun…
Suttur: Maintaining that journalism is getting commercialised these days, former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah observed that journalism should retain its service identity. He was speaking at the valedictory of the two-day State-level Journalists Conference hosted by Mysuru District Journalists Association (MDJA) at Suttur in Nanjangud taluk on Saturday. Pointing out that the press is a service…
Suttur: “Journalists should come out with unbiased reports on the government’s performance and schemes to reach the common man” opined Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. He was speaking at the two-day 34th Journalists State Conference on Friday. Kumaraswamy said that the media should function with responsibility with due recognition for truthful substance of news. He opined…
Mandya: Kalavathi, wife of martyred Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldier H. Guru, who died during the Pulwama terror attack, claimed that there is no dissent among the family members in connection with the sharing of the compensation money. Speaking to media persons here yesterday, she denied any rift in the family and asserted they’re…
Maddur: A couple from Maddur taluk have lodged a complaint with the Kesthur Police accusing a resident of Bengaluru of cheating them Rs. 5 lakh on the promise of allotment of a BDA site at Bengaluru. T.L. Nanjundaswamy, an employee of Kesthur Primary Agricultural Credit Co-operative (PACC) Bank and his wife T.M. Girija are the…
Mysuru: A total of 17,512 candidates of the 2012-13 batch of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) will be conferred degrees at the 16th Convocation on Mar.5 at 11 am at the Convocation Hall in the Muktagangothri campus, said KSOU Vice-Chancellor Prof. D. Shivalingaiah. He was addressing a press conference at the KSOU premises yesterday and…
Mysuru: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) has assured to solve the problems of residents of Vijayashreepura and K.R. Mills Colony and Falcon Tyres Limited employees. Speaking after being felicitated by his supporters and residents of the city at the programme held at Maharaja’s College Grounds in city on Friday, he said that he would keep…
Mysuru: Hotels, sweet shops, chat corners and bakeries in city have a unique problem – miscreants masquerading as customers blackmailing them to cough up money as the food at their outlets contain cooked cockroaches, hair strands and even dead lizards. The Mysuru Hotel Owners’ Association has released an advisory to hotels and restaurants, bakeries and…
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