Month: January, 2020

Govt. preparing law to link Aadhaar to Voter ID
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Govt. preparing law to link Aadhaar to Voter ID

January 25, 2020

New Delhi: The Union Law Ministry has been working on a Cabinet note to prepare a new law after considering the Election Commission’s proposal to give it statutory backing to collect the Aadhaar numbers of new applicants and existing voters to check multiple entries in the electoral rolls. The Ministry is working to amend the…

Voter Awareness Jatha held
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Voter Awareness Jatha held

January 25, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: As part of National Voters’ Day today, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), District Administration, in association with Zilla Panchayat, had organised a Voter Awareness Jatha from Kote Anjaneyaswamy Temple to Town Hall this morning. Speaking after inaugurating the event at Town Hall, Principal District and Sessions Judge S.K. Vontigodi highlighted the importance of voting and…

Bus runs over scooter rider
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Bus runs over scooter rider

January 25, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: A scooter rider was killed when a city bus ran over him on Shivaji Road in N.R.Mohalla on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Shabbir  Ahmed Khan (54), a resident of N.R. Mohalla in the city. Shabbir Ahmed Khan was travelling on his Honda Activa on Shivaji Road at about 4.30 pm when…

Chain snatcher arrested
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Chain snatcher arrested

January 25, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: The Udayagiri Police, in a swift action, have arrested the chain snatcher who had allegedly yanked off a gold chain from an elderly woman, within a day of the crime. Fayaz Pasha, a resident of Ghousianagar in the city is the man arrested. Pasha was picked up by Udayagiri Police when he was suspiciously…

Three boys go missing from city hostel
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Three boys go missing from city hostel

January 25, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Three teenage boys in the city have gone missing from a hostel where they were residing at, since Jan. 22. The three boys, Rahul, Chandrashekhar and Srinivas, all aged 15 years, studying at Brindavan School in city, left the hostel at 9.30 am on Jan. 22 morning to go to school and have not…

Suttur Jathra: CM  to deliver valedictory address
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Suttur Jathra: CM to deliver valedictory address

January 25, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Following are the events to be held tomorrow (Jan. 26) as part of the Annual Jathra Mahotsava at Suttur Srikshetra in Nanjangud taluk: 4 am: Karthru Gadduge – Maharudrabhisheka; 6.30 am: Nandigundapura – Peace-Prayer Friendship March. Yoga Demonstration by students of Suttur JSS School; 7.30 am: Shatsthala Dhwajarohana – Sri Shivakumara Swamiji. Message – …

Mridanga Vidwan M.R. Rajappa Memorial Concert from Jan. 27
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Mridanga Vidwan M.R. Rajappa Memorial Concert from Jan. 27

January 25, 2020

Mysuru/Mysore: In memory of Asthana Vidwan of Mysore Palace, Mridanga Vidwan M.R. Rajappa, the 10th Annual M.R. Rajappa Memorial Music Concert has been organised at Jaganmohan Palace auditorium from Jan. 27 to Jan. 29. Vidwan Dr. B.S. Vijayaraghavan will inaugurate the event on Jan. 27 at 5.30 pm. Prof. Bhashyam Swamiji will preside. Dr. Vasundhara…

Retired Bank employees demand pension revision
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Retired Bank employees demand pension revision

January 25, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: At a meeting held at Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha on JLB Road here on Wednesday, retired bank employees discussed in length the disparity in pension and other retirement benefits. The meeting dwelled on issues concerning family pension, health insurance, change in Dearness Allowance payment procedure and a review of pension scheme, among others. The meeting…

The Clean Picture
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The Clean Picture

January 25, 2020

Who will wash your clothes and iron your formals and whites if not these Dhobis? Almost hidden and unnoticed by people, Mysuru has four Dhobi Ghats where families of washer men try to sustain themselves by washing and ironing clothes from dawn to dusk. One can always find them scrubbing and washing clothes and later…

Voters’ Day
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Voters’ Day

January 25, 2020

Today is National Voters’ Day and the Election Commission of India has released advertisements asking voters to take a pledge. And that pledge goes like this: “We, the citizens of India, having abiding faith in democracy, hereby pledge to uphold the democratic traditions of our country and the dignity of free, fair and peaceful elections,…

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