220 ponds brimming with crystal clear water Mysuru: After a long spell of drought for four consecutive years, ponds and lakes inside Nagarahole National Park and Tiger Reserve are filled with water, thanks to over 2,000 mm (78.74 inches) rainfall this year. This has come as a boon to the parched land and wild animals…
Bountiful rains smile on Bandipur denizens
December 26, 2019Mysuru: Heavy rains that lashed Chamarajanagar district since the arrival of South-West and North-East monsoon has brought relief to the denizens of Bandipur National Park. Almost all the lakes inside the Park have been filled up. The Bandipur Tiger Reserve is spread across 1,02,700 hectares (1,027 sq kms) and the forest area covers a total…
KR BJP holds awareness programme on Citizenship Act
December 26, 2019Mysuru: Even as protests continue to rage across the country opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the KR Unit of the BJP held ‘Janajagrutigagi Vichara Vinimaya,’ an awareness programme on CAA, marking the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at Vidyashankara Kalyana Mantapa in Agrahara here yesterday. The programme in which many…
BSNL Asst. General Manager booked for cheating MUDA
December 26, 2019Through false affidavits, he managed to get three sites in Dattagalli, Vijayanagar and Devanoor Mysuru: The Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) has finally filed a case against a Central Government officer who managed to get MUDA to sanction three house sites. Now after 25 years, the MUDA has acted and filed a case against the…
Malgudi Express engine derails near Bengaluru
December 26, 2019Mysuru: Call it a Grahana Effect (Solar eclipse) or anything else, passengers travelling in the Mysuru-Bengaluru-Yelahanka Malgudi Express train were put into a lot of inconvenience this morning as the engine of the train reportedly got derailed near Nayandahalli, close to Bengaluru City. The train left Mysuru City Railway Station at its scheduled time of…
Who will be MCC Brand Ambassador for Swachh Survekshan-2020?
December 26, 2019City Corporation proposes names of Pramoda Devi Wadiyar and Prof. M. Krishnegowda Mysuru: What’s in store for Mysuru, the two-time winner of Cleanest City Tag this year? The question will be answered during the announcement of Swachh Survekshan-2020. In a few days, the field work for the Survekshan will begin and the process will be…
Drunken man spends night in a garbage dumpster, rescued
December 26, 2019Mysuru: A man was found trapped in a heap of stinking garbage on Tuesday morning by the Pourakarmikas of Mysuru City Corporation. The Pourakarmikas, meandering around the city collecting the garbage dumpsters and emptying them into tippers, spotted the man amidst the rubbish. If he was not spotted on time, the garbage truck’s hydraulic compactor,…
ASI injured as Police vehicle hits electric pole in Hunsur
December 26, 2019Hunsur: Assistant Police Sub-Inspector Rudregowda of Hunsur Town Police Station was injured when the Police vehicle he was travelling in and driven by Constable Shekar allegedly hit an electric pole near Kalpatharu Circle here today. The pole got uprooted due to the impact damaging the vehicle badly. Shekar, however, escaped unhurt. The public have urged…
Abetment to suicide: Woman, paramour sentenced to 5 years imprisonment
December 26, 2019Mysuru: A District Court has sentenced a woman and her paramour to five years imprisonment for abetting the suicide of the woman’s husband. The Court also imposed a penalty of Rs.5,000 on the woman and Rs.15,000 on her paramour. Devamani, 35, of Dadadalli village in H.D.Kote taluk and Gopalaiah, 40, are the ones who are…
Workshop on Life Skills held
December 26, 2019Mysuru: A one-day workshop on Life Skills, jointly organised by city based ‘WE Shwasa,’ Bengaluru-based Nimhans and city-based Yuva Spandana Kendra, was held recently in city. Swathi Shahani, Co-ordinator of the Life Skills programme, Nimhans Hospital, Bengaluru, inaugurated the programme by watering a plant. Speaking on the occasion, she said that youths were destroying their…
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