Mandya: A group of mourners ran for their life keeping the body on the ground when the bees suddenly attacked them. The incident occurred at Peehalli in Srirangapatna taluk yesterday while the villagers were performing the last rites of Unturamma Devi’s Guddappa Boraiah alias Dollaiah. Dollaiah died on Thursday night in the village. Yesterday, at…
‘Romeo’ teacher arrested for saying ‘I Love You’ to failed SSLC student
May 4, 2019Mandya: Teachers are supposed to be role models who not only guide the students to achieve greatness but also come to their aid in times of distress. However, here is a teacher who instead of comforting a student who had failed in her SSLC exam tried to misuse the situation by proclaiming his love for…
Banter Babu’s two-day Cartoon Expo begins
May 4, 2019Mysuru: Mysuru District Brahmana Sangha President D.T. Prakash inaugurated the cartoon exhibition of city’s well-known cartoonist M.V. Nagendra Babu (Banter Babu) at the Mysuru Art Gallery, Ramanuja Road, here this morning. There are 34 cartoons on display that includes political and social cartoons and caricatures. Speaking to Star of Mysore here this morning Babu said…
Akka Mahadevi & Basava Jayanti programmes
May 4, 2019Mysuru: Marking Akka Mahadevi Jayanti and Basava Jayanti, functions have been organised by Jayanti and Utsava Samithi of Sri Hosmutt, Mysuru, at Nataraja Sabha Bhavana in Agrahara on May 5 and May 6 respectively. The programme commences tomorrow at 7 am with 24th Punyaradhane of Sri Gurushanta Swamiji followed by Linga Deeksha to Lingayat girls…
Veteran singer S. Janaki hospitalised
May 4, 2019Mysuru: Veteran singer S. Janaki is undergoing treatment at a city hospital for back injury after she had a fall. Janaki, who lives in Chennai, had come to the city on a private visit earlier this week and was staying at a relative’s house when she slipped and fell down injuring her back. She was…
Elephants destroy crops in taluk
May 4, 2019Mysuru: Even as the Forest Officials are making relentless efforts to tackle elephant menaces, a herd of wild elephants, which have been roaming about in the outskirts of several villages in the taluk, has destroyed standing crops near Chikkanahalli in the taluk recently. The elephants from Chikkanahalli Reserved Forest area in Jayapura hobli of the…
Bannanje Raja brought to city for medical check
May 4, 2019Mysuru: Bannanje Raja, who was arrested in Casablanca, Morocco, on Feb.10, 2015 by a special investigative team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), was brought to Mysuru for medical check-up at K.R. Hospital this morning. Sources in the Police Department said that Raja, who is wanted in more than 44 cases, was brought to…
Tusker gores man to death in H.D. Kote
May 4, 2019H.D. Kote: Just a day after coffee planter Chokira Sudha Kuttappa was trampled to death by an elephant at Srimangala in Kodagu district on Friday, a 50-year-old man was gored to death by a wild tusker near Madapura in H.D. Kote taluk of Mysuru district this morning. Hanumanthappa, a native of Kakkera in Raichur district…
Youth power to curb chain-snatching
May 4, 2019Mysuru: Chain-snatchers are back in action creating panic and shock among the citizens of the city. Karnataka Rakshana Vedike Mysuru District President K. Madesh decided to create awareness about this dangerous trend of targeting women by bike-borne chain-snatchers by roping in the youth to participate in the awareness drive. The youth took out a jatha…
Major gold seizure at KIA: Chamarajanagar man among 2 held for smuggling 4 kg yellow metal
May 4, 2019Bengaluru: In a major gold seizure at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), Bengaluru, the Customs sleuths busted two passengers attempting to innovatively smuggle in over 4 kg of the yellow metal worth about Rs.1.3 crore last Thursday. Sources with the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Bengaluru Customs said their team intercepted a passenger who disembarked from…
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