Googling Mysuru Heritage Streets indicates long stretches of roads connecting main roads and thoroughfares with many small and lesser-known streets with its sections still referred to by old names. This dichotomy and historical ecosphere is sprinkled across the map of Mysuru and there is a mix of the archaic and avant-garde names, where British officials…
Rail Road Heritage Gallery opens at City Railway Station’s Platform No.1
July 27, 2019Mysuru: Want to trace the evolution of Railways in Mysuru region through rare photographs? Here is a golden opportunity for you to do so, on Platform Number 1 of the City Railway Station. Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha inaugurated the new Rail-Road Heritage Gallery at the Railway Station this morning. The gallery traces the evolution of…
‘D’ Out, ‘I’ In: Yediyurappa, not Yeddyurappa, sworn-in as CM
July 27, 2019Bengaluru: Just days after he dropped a ‘d’ and added ‘i’ to his name going back to his earlier spelling of ‘Yediyurappa’ on the advice of numerologists, BJP State President B.S. Yeddyurappa (now with his new spelling Yediyurappa) was sworn-in for the fourth time as the Chief Minister of Karnataka by Governor Vajubhai R. Vala….
MP Pratap Simha flags off six-day week MEMU service
July 27, 2019Mysuru: Meeting the demand of thousands of Railway commuters, the South Western Railway (SWR) has increased the frequency of MEMU (Mainline Electric Multiple Unit) Train (no. 06576/06575) between Mysuru and KSR Bengaluru, to six days a week. Flagging off the Mysuru-Bengaluru MEMU train (increased frequency) at the City Railway Station this morning, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap…
Can’t probe my senior, says City Top Cop
July 27, 2019Mysuru: Can a junior Police officer investigate a criminal case against his senior? No, says the rule book. There is a written rule in this regard in the Police Manual and as per the set tradition, the junior officer will not subject his superior officer to any investigation. Following the set standard, Mysuru City Police…
Three poachers arrested inside Nagarahole National Park
July 27, 2019Hunsur: In an effort to curb the entry of poachers, illegal miners, timber smugglers and encroachers while protecting forests, frontline Forest Department employees at Nagarahole National Park have arrested three poachers with arms and ammunition. Department staff cornered the three persons on the night of July 25 while they were trying to make an entry…
BSY’s fortunes come a full topsy-turvy circle
July 27, 2019Bengaluru: Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa (BSY) completed a full circle in his political career yesterday when he was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Karnataka for the fourth time. Yediyurappa, credited with establishing BJP as a force in South India, will prove his majority by July 29 in the 225-Member State Legislative Assembly. The new Council of…
‘BJP regime will be stable’
July 27, 2019New Delhi: Ending speculation that the party high command had differences over backing B.S. Yediyurappa to make another shot at running a coalition regime in Karnataka, the BJP Central leaders backed the new dispensation and hoped it will herald a ‘new dawn’ for the State. “Congrats to B.S. Yediyurappa, newly sworn in CM of Karnataka….
Mysuru’s contribution to Chandrayaan-2 Mission
July 27, 2019Mysuru: Mysore Polymers and Rubber Products Ltd. (MYPOL), a Mysuru-based company started in 1982 under the leadership of C.D. Nagarajan, Executive Chairman, has added one more feather to its cap of achievements. MYPOL has supplied ‘Linear Rubber Bellow’ a very critical part used for ‘Heat-Shield separation’ in the recent ‘Chandrayaan-2’ mission. This critical part was…
Yaduveer to inaugurate Zoo Youth Club on July 28
July 27, 2019Mysuru: Youth Club is a unique educational programme for the young people of the Mysuru city, which has been providing conservation education in a genuinely integrated way for the last twenty-six years and growing stronger every year. Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens (Mysuru Zoo) is often the first contact with nature and so it has been…
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