New Delhi: India’s first female Finance Minister in almost five decades, Nirmala Sitharaman, who has held a wide range of jobs including Defence Minister, will present India’s full-year budget for the next fiscal (2019-20) in Parliament tomorrow morning at a time when she is under pressure to spend more to reinvigorate the economy. Fifty-nine-year-old Sitharaman…
Mysuru: With the first Ashada Friday puja set to take place at Chamundi Temple atop Chamundi Hill tomorrow, the District Administration has made all arrangements for the devotees to have hassle-free darshan of the deity. Thousands of devotees from the city and elsewhere are expected to take part in tomorrow’s first Ashada Friday of the…
Bengaluru: Eleven districts that harbour forests of the Western Ghats from Chamarajanagar to Belagavi including Kodagu, Hassan, Shivamogga and Dharwad should get special status on the lines of Article 371(J) for Hyderabad-Karnataka. This recommendation has been made by Western Ghats Task Force in its final report submitted to the State government yesterday. The report was…
Stinking toilets welcome Minister; Metagalli residents have a mortuary problem Mysuru: District In-Charge Minister G.T. Devegowda (GTD) said that all development works will get over much ahead of the Dasara festivities. Reviewing the progress of the ongoing works, including the widening of Irwin Road yesterday, he directed the authorities to ensure that the work was…
Bengaluru: Close on the heels of erstwhile royal family of Mysore announcing that year-long celebrations will be organised to mark the Birth Centenary of the last ruler of Mysore, Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar on July 18 at the Mysore Palace and at Bangalore Palace on July 20, the State Government has announced that the Centenary will…
Mysuru: Stating that India has special and rare species of spiders, said Prof. Wayne Maddison, Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Department of Zoology and Botany, University of British Columbia. He stressed on the need for taking measures to conserve them as they were unique. He was delivering a talk on ‘The music of…
Minister G.T. Devegowda to inaugurate 10-day Expo tomorrow Mysuru: The Indext-C (Industrial Extension Cottage), a Government of Gujarat Organisation, is hosting “Gujarat Handicrafts Utsav-2019” for the fourth time in Karnataka, from July 4 to 14 at JSS Mysore Urban Haat, Hebbal Industrial Area, Mysuru. More than 80 master artisans of Gujarat will be participating in…
Mysuru: Carrying on with the tradition, Chamundeshwari Seva Samithi is almost through with the preparation of 35,000 ladoos at Nityananda Kalyana Mantapa in J.P. Nagar here, which will be distributed to the devotees on the first Ashada Friday tomorrow at Dasoha Bhavan atop Chamundi Hill. The Samithi has been taking up the special floral decoration…
Bengaluru: Mahseer, the freshwater fish predominantly found in southern parts of India and now facing extinction, may soon get the ‘State Fish’ tag, if the government accepts the recommendation of the Western Ghats Task Force. The Task Force said such a step would help in conserving the endangered species. The fish, belonging to the carp…
Mysuru: Railway employees under the banner of South Western Railway Mazdoor Union (Hubballi), launched a 4-day Black Day protest, opposing Railway privatisation moves in front of the City Railway Station here on Wednesday. The protest is part of the week-long nationwide demonstration called by the Railway Union. Alleging that the Union Government is privatising the…
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