Families come calling on River Cauvery at Srirangapatna for ‘Pitru Paksha’ Srirangapatna: Thousands of families are converging at the historic town of Srirangapatna to pay respects to their elders in the form of offerings during this season of Pitru Paksha. Every year, the river banks in and around Srirangapatna including Paschimavahini, Sopana Katte, Snana Ghatta,…
Mysuru: When most of Mysuru is fast asleep, a group of men and women set out on a gold hunt on city streets that are dominated by jewellery shops like the Ashoka Road. Along the narrow alleys, they scrape a living scouring the dust and even the drains for specks of the yellow metal. Armed…
Bengaluru: Raising his voice against the moves to shift the proposed Film City out of Mysuru, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has warned the Government of launching a severe agitation if the Government went ahead with its plans. Responding to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa’s statement that the Film City will…
New Delhi: The by-polls in 63 Assembly seats in 18 States including Karnataka and one Lok Sabha seat in Bihar will be held along with the State elections in Haryana and Maharashtra on Oct. 21, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said this morning. The results will be announced on Oct. 24. The by-elections will be…
Mysuru: The 69th birth anniversary of actor late Dr. Vishnuvardhan was celebrated by various organisation in city on Sept.18. Vishnu Abhimani Balaga had organised a function at Palace premises here where actor Bharathi Vishnuvardhan cut a cake and distributed among the children of mahouts and kavadis. She also distributed books and stationery to the kids….
Accused hailed from Saraswathipuram in Mysuru Bengaluru: This 45-year-old conman has studied till SSLC but managed to marry four women without the others knowing about it. Finally his third wife, a software engineer, found out about his fraudulent activities and approached the Police. The RMC Yard Police in Bengaluru arrested N.R. Ganesh alias Vikram alias…
Mysuru: The Mysuru District Administration and the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) have decided to advance holidays for Dasara by three days. Consequently, instead of holidays commencing from Oct. 6, as was initially scheduled, all school children will have Dasara vacation from Oct. 3. However, there is unlikely to be any change in the holiday schedule for…
Bengaluru: The winter session of the Karnataka Legislature will be held in Bengaluru from Oct. 14 to 26. Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa’s Cabinet yesterday took the decision to hold the session in Bengaluru and not at the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belagavi as the district is yet to recover from the damage caused by the…
Mysuru: Every year during Dasara, awards are given to several artistes including musicians, dancers and others. But right from the time of the days of the Maharajas, one category of artistes who have consistently been ignored are the painters and sculptors. Regretting this attitude of ignoring these two types of artistes, that is there for…
Tearful farewell to pregnant pachyderm at Mysore Palace Mysuru: Elephant ‘Varalakshmi’ which had joined the first batch of Dasara elephants to participate in the Jumboo Savari returned to the forest camp reluctantly yesterday. While it was moving around in the Mysore Palace premises where the elephants, mahouts and kavadis are camping, it was found that…
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