Mysuru: The Forest Department has warned the public against illegal felling of roadside trees in their residential layouts. In a press release, Mysuru City Zonal Forest Officer Devaraj said that recently a house owner had felled a Gulmohar tree grown near a bakery on 5th Main Road, 12th Cross, Saraswathipuram, under the pretext that dried…
MUDA presents Rs. 2.66 crore surplus budget for 2019-2020
March 2, 2019Mysuru: The Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) has presented a surplus budget of Rs. 2.66 crore for the financial year 2019-2020. The Budget was presented at MUDA office this morning by Commissioner P.S. Kantharaju under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar who is also the MUDA Chairman as the State Government has not…
Swachh Survekshan: Will our city regain top slot?
March 2, 2019Mysuru to compete under ‘Cleanest City’ and ‘Garbage-Free City’ categories Mysuru: Mysuru city has been nominated for ‘Cleanest City’ in the ‘Swachh Survekshan’ and ‘Garbage-Free City’ categories. In a communication to Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), the Union Urban Development Ministry that conducts the annual Swachh Survekshan has stated that Mysuru has been included in the…
ITC creating awareness about waste segregation
March 2, 2019Mysuru: ITC Ltd. has entered into a tie-up with Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to tackle Solid Waste management issues in city called ‘WoW’ or ‘Well-being Out of Waste and its representatives are visiting door-to-door to create awareness about segregation of waste. MCC has already chalked out several programmes regarding segregation of dry waste from plastic…
Kacheguda-Bengaluru Express extended
March 2, 2019Mysuru: The Ministry of Railways has approved the extension of the Kacheguda-Bengaluru Express train up to Mysuru. Thus one more effort of Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha to get one of the fastest train services extended to Mysuru has borne fruit. Thousands of tourists, workers, students and those with business interests commute every day between Mysuru,…
Focus on paid news, journalism ethics
March 2, 2019Mysuru: Issues related to threat to journalistic ethics by paid news, increasing readership when social media is gaining momentum, journalists from particular community dominating newspaper and media organisations, biased reporting and regional disparity dominated at the ‘Meet on Editors and Interaction’ session organised on the second day of 34th State Journalists conference at Suttur Srikeshtra…
Pakistan has been taught a befitting lesson: Writer
March 2, 2019Mysuru: Maintaining that there was nothing wrong in India’s air-strikes on Pakistan soil as terror outfits operated from that country, writer Prof. H.S. Ramachandregowda has said that Tuesday’s early morning air-strikes on Pak terror camps was a befitting lesson to that country, which posed a threat to India’s security. He was speaking at the valedictory…
‘Soldiers guard nation’s borders, Pourakarmikas guard nation’s health
March 2, 2019Safai Karmachari Member Jagadish Hiremani at awareness camp in city Mysuru: “Just like soldiers who guard the nation’s borders to protect us from enemies, the Pourakarmikas, who clean the gutters in the nation’s sewage system guard people’s health and they are also in a way doing the duty of soldiers,” said National Safai Karmachari Commission…
Apex Court orders stay on tribals’ eviction from forests
March 2, 2019New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed its Feb. 13 order directing the eviction of lakhs of the Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest-dwellers, whose claims for forest land rights have been rejected under the Forest Rights Act, 2006. The earlier order had created a possibility of eviction of 11.8 lakh tribals from forests…
SC/ST promotions: SC stays State’s Feb. 27 order
March 2, 2019New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday poured water over a Karnataka government attempt to restore cadre and pay scales to thousands of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe employees in public services who were affected by an Apex Court judgment. A Bench of Justices U.U. Lalit and D.Y. Chandrachud stayed a Feb. 27 order of the State government…
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