Bengaluru: Even as the issue of Cabinet expansion is haunting him, with all newly elected MLAs as well as defeated MLAs pressing for Cabinet berths, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa (BSY) is all set to leave for Davos in Switzerland for attending a global economic summit. With the political coup of Congress and JD(S) Legislators quitting…
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Students showcase ‘Sahasa’ First-of-its-kind adventure sports contest held
January 14, 2020Mysuru: Purna Chetana Public School in city had organised an adventure sports competition, ‘Sahasa 2020’ for the students of various schools of Mysuru district recently. The competition aimed at making children understand the importance of physical health and making them creative through adventure sports. The inter-school adventure sports competition ‘Sahasa’ was conducted at the adventure…
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Woman’s gold chain snatched at R.K. Nagar
January 14, 2020Mysuru: A bike-borne miscreant has snatched a gold mangalya chain from a woman at Ramakrishna (R.K.) Nagar on Friday. The victim is Parvathi, a resident of E&F Block in R.K. Nagar. On Jan. 10 at about 4 pm, Parvathi, who had gone to a shop, was returning home and when she was walking on the…
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Girl goes missing
January 14, 2020Mysuru: A 22-year-old girl, who left her house on Jan. 9 at about 6.45 pm, saying that she was going to get her mobile phone from a repair shop, has since gone missing. The missing girl is Nisarga. She is 5 ft. tall, wheatish complexioned, round faced, normal built, has the word ‘NISHA’ tattooed on…
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Pakistan High Court annuls Gen. Musharraf’s death sentence
January 14, 2020Says Special Court formation ‘unconstitutional’ Islamabad: Pakistan’s Lahore High Court on Monday termed the formation of a Special Court that issued death sentence to former President Gen. Pervez Musharraf “unconstitutional.” Musharraf appealed in the Court in December 2019, against the death sentence verdict, seeking the Court to dismiss the Special Court’s judgement against him for…
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Unidentified man falls to death
January 14, 2020Mysuru: An unidentified person has fallen to his death from a tree in the early hours of today. It is learnt that the deceased, in a bid to commit suicide, had climbed the roadside tree between All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) and Regional Institute of Education (RIE) from where he slipped and…
Abracadabra By K. B. Ganapathy, Columns
Musings on Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa’s defence of CAA — 2
January 14, 2020[Continued from yesterday] The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore.”— Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (1480-1521) As I mentioned yesterday in this column, Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa, as if inspired by the philosophy of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan quoted above, refused to…
Columns, Point of View
Warning: A New Generation Rises
January 14, 2020By T.J.S. George What is happening to our country? Suddenly, it is a ship drifting in a storm, rudderless and captainless. The brutality that was unleashed in JNU last week was unprecedented, more in-your-face than the violence that recently rocked Jamia Milia and Aligarh. The goons, who beat up students and teachers at JNU, were…
Feature Articles
‘Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was made President of India as a reward for building Muslim vote-bank of illegal immigrants for Congress’
January 14, 2020Thus spake Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa Acclaimed Novelist and Saraswathi Samman awardee Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa has said that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was made the President of India in return for his efforts to consolidate the Muslim vote-bank in favour of Congress party. Replying to questions by scribes at a press conference called at his residence in…
Editorial
Reality of Realty
January 14, 2020Having immovable property as one’s asset, first in the form of a residential site and then a dwelling to live in comfort without any hassles, including the burden of rent steadily soaring, is an important agenda of every urban resident, triggering the buzz in real estate business in cities of all classes, including many towns…
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