Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry Management Committee President C. Krishnappa’s suggestion to District Administration, Police Mysore: The vexed issue of vehicle parking on the commercial hub of D. Devaraja Urs Road in the Central Business District of Mysuru City could soon be a thing of the past if the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and the City Police…
Are City parking facilities JINXED?
June 27, 2019Town Hall parking still not open due to incomplete works, bureaucratic delay Zoo parking fails to take off due to revenue sharing standoff between MCC and Zoo authorities Mysore: Following the suggestion of opening Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry for a multi-level parking facility, Star of Mysore did a reality check on the other parking facilities in…
Devastating Bandipur Inferno: Disciplinary action recommended against Senior Forest officials
June 27, 2019Mysore: The Karnataka Forest Department has written to the State Government to take disciplinary action against senior and junior Forest officials for the devastating forest fire that occurred in Bandipur National Park during February this year. The inferno had destroyed more than 3,000 hectares of fully grown forest in the ecologically sensitive Tiger Reserve that…
‘Nagarahole Tiger Reserve will not be expanded to include villages’
June 27, 2019Wildlife First clarifies on reports that say Ponnampet, Hunsur and Periyapatna will be included in forest expansion Mysore: Wildlife First, a conservation advocacy organisation that has been intensively campaigning for nearly two decades in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot in South India, has stated that a buffer zone to support tiger populations cannot include private…
Government Schools to be developed on the lines of model schools in Delhi and Kerala
June 27, 2019Bengaluru: Primary and Secondary Education Minister S.R. Srinivas has said that government schools in the State would be developed on the lines of model schools in Delhi and Kerala. He was speaking to the media here yesterday after having a meeting with officials of the Department. Srinivas said that he, along with officials, would visit…
Grand procession marks Nada Prabhu Kempegowda Jayanti celebrations
June 27, 2019Mysuru: A grand procession marked the Nada Prabhu Kempegowda Jayanti celebrations in city this morning. The procession began from Kote Anjaneyaswamy Temple in front of the Mysore Palace with District Minister G.T. Devegowda inaugurating the programme by beating the drums. He also broke into a dance to the beating of the tamate as the colourful…
Fear grips Bittangala Government School as wild tusker attacks boy
June 27, 2019Virajpet: Yesterday, a school boy was injured when a wild elephant attacked him while he was on his way to school. Today, only 10 students out of 24 in the school attended their classes out of fear. Like the innocent students, people of Virajpet taluk are living in perpetual fear of wild elephants attacking them,…
Echo of Elephant Drona’s death: HC seeks details on medical facilities at Elephant Camps
June 27, 2019Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court yesterday asked the State to file an affidavit regarding the number of elephant camps run by the State and facilities provided at these camps. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice H.T. Narendra Prasad issued this direction after hearing the Public Interest Litigation filed by city-based…
Elephant calf drowns in lake
June 27, 2019Kushalnagar: A male elephant calf, which had come along with its mother to quench its thirst at a lake in Hatur Reserve Forest area coming under Guddehosur Gram Panchayat limits near Kushalnagar, died after getting drowned in the lake on Tuesday. On Tuesday night, a herd of elephants including a mother and a one-month-old baby…
Mandya farmers stir enters seventh day
June 27, 2019Mandya: With the authorities finding no solution to their plea seeking release of water into canals from KRS and Hemavathi reservoirs for saving standing crops and cattle, the indefinite stir launched by the farmers in front of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Ltd., (CNNL) office at Mandya, entered the seventh day today. The farmers are angry that…
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