Mysuru: University of Mysore (UoM) will start a new Centre for Higher Studies to be named after Jayachamaraja (JC) Wadiyar, said UoM Vice-Chancellor Prof. G. Hemantha Kumar, here this morning. He was speaking during the inauguration of the three-day National Seminar and Special Lectures on ‘Mysore under Jayachamaraja Wadiyar: Political, Social and Economic Transition,’ jointly…
Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has written a letter to Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar highlighting the discrimination in allocation of MCC funds under various schemes to the City Corporation Wards and unscientific utilisation of grants. In the letter, Pratap Simha said that only 13 percent of the 14th Finance Commission grants was reserved for…
Mysuru: Mysuru City Police created a Green Corridor (traffic-free-corridor) to facilitate the transport of a live heart and lungs from Apollo BGS Hospital in Kuvempunagar here to Chennai last evening. The heart and lungs harvested from a brain-dead patient, who hailed from Mandya, was transported in an ambulance along with a medical team to the…
Madikeri: The Karnataka High Court will on Aug.20, hear the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Petition against the proposed Railway lines that cuts through Kodagu and the expansion of Highways inside the district. The PIL (WP 17990/2018) was filed on 24.4.2018 by the then President of Coorg Wildlife Society Col. (retd.) C.P. Muthanna, who is also…
Mysuru: The staff at all Aadhaar card registration centres in city had a hard time today as all the centres witnessed unusual huge crowds this morning. The Food & Civil Supplies Department has made it mandatory for all the beneficiaries mentioned in every BPL card to get their Aadhaar number linked with the Department for…
Madikeri: Coorg Wildlife Society President K.C. Biddappa has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi and Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar urging them to shelve the proposed Railway project from Kushalnagar to Madikeri through the ecologically fragile hilly…
Mandya: The students of A. Hulkere Government High School, who had consumed pesticide-laced drinking water from the School’s overhead water tank and admitted to the hospital, are recovering and the doctors are continuing with the treatment. As the miscreants had mixed organophosphorus, a pesticide, the doctors, suspecting that the pesticide may react at later stages,…
DC orders formation of Expert Panel Mysuru: Following complaints that Bannari Amman Sugar Factory at Alagunchi in Nanjangud Taluk of the District was cheating sugarcane growers, Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar has directed the authorities to form a Committee of experts to look into the matter. Chairing a meeting of farmers at the ZP Hall…
Madikeri/ Mysuru: A Madikeri youth, who left his house on July 5 saying that he was going to the college to see his 2nd PUC preparatory exam results and went missing, has been traced in Mysuru. The missing youth, who has been found, is Tej Kumar. Following Tej Kumar going missing, his parents had lodged…
Chennai: P. Rajagopal, the owner of the Saravana Bhavan chain of restaurants, died this morning at a hospital here, a week after he surrendered to serve a life sentence for the 2001 kidnapping and murder of an employee. He was 72. Rajagopal, also known as the Dosa King, was put on a ventilator on Saturday…
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