Mysuru: The State Government yesterday appointed Senior Police Officer B.T. Kavitha as the new DCP (Crime & Traffic) of the city. She was serving as SP, State Intelligence at Mysuru. It may be mentioned here that B.T. Kavitha, who was earlier too appointed as city DCP in September last, was transferred just a day after…
His first day of work was his last day too
July 18, 2019Mysuru: In a tragic incident, a 25-year-old youth reportedly died of a heart attack on the day he had joined duty at a milk agency in city. R. Parashuram, son of N. Raju, a retired KSRTC employee and a resident of second cross, Annammakeri, Gandhinagar, is the deceased. Parashuram had joined for work at Nimishamba…
Rs.2 lakh pickpocketed from man sipping coffee: Accused arrested within 24 hours
July 18, 2019Mysuru: Lashkar Police have arrested two persons on charges of pickpocketing Rs.2 lakh from a person, who was sipping coffee at a coffee shop and have recovered Rs.1.20 lakh from them. The Police arrested the accused within 24 hours of lodging the complaint. The arrested are 42-year-old Akram Khan of Ghousianagar and 40-year-old Asgar Ahmed…
Autorickshaw lifter held
July 18, 2019Mysuru: Mandi Police have arrested a person on charges of stealing autorickshaws and have recovered two stolen autos worth about Rs.30,000 from him. The arrested is Md. Haneef, 19, a resident of Kurimandi in Kesare here. The Police, who saw the accused pushing an auto near the Muslim Burial Grounds, took him into custody and…
Mentally challenged woman goes missing
July 18, 2019Mysuru: A 40-year-old mentally challenged woman, who was undergoing treatment at Manasa Karuna Trust at K.C. Nagar, has gone missing since July 10. According to the complaint lodged by the Trust with Nazarbad Police, the mentally challenged woman, identified as Kavitha, stole the key of the back gate lock and fled from the Trust premises…
Two nabbed for illegal cattle transportation
July 18, 2019Mysuru: Cracking the whip on illegal cattle transportation, the CCB Police have arrested two persons on charges of clandestinely transporting 34 cows to a slaughter house in city. The arrested have been identified as Farooq, 30, a resident of Md. Sait block in Lashkar Mohalla and Mohsin, 35, a resident of Amrut Layout near Kamanakerehundi…
So many different Indras
July 18, 2019By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist When we speak of Indra, we must keep in mind that the scriptures refer to six different types of Indra, belonging to different periods of history. The first is the Vedic Indra. He is the primary God of the Rig Veda, described as riding a chariot,…
Maria’s new Hat!
July 18, 2019By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Maria lived with her mother at a small apartment in New York City. She wasn’t too young or too old. Not too short or too tall. Not particularly beautiful nor ugly. She was just an average woman. No one at the work paid any attention to her. Those…
Personality perspective
July 18, 2019The idiom The child is the father of man, originating from a poem scripted by the English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) in 1802, exclaiming the role of man behind the birth of a child has been interpreted in various ways. Its implication that the behaviour and manners of a person during childhood have a bearing…
Need to restore cleanliness in temple town
July 18, 2019Sir, Though the Swachh Bharat concept is gaining ground everywhere now, there is still a place in the heart of the holy town Nanjangud where cleanliness is least cared about. Come evening, people as in other places, rush to the many non-veg mobile food joints and chaat stalls, unhesitatingly occupying public footpaths on the main…
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